alcazar

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Loudest I ever heard was a six Vulcan scamble one year at Finningley.......

Myles

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That's some terrific noise. I heard a sixth of that a couple of years ago when the Vulcan had been repaired at Brize. The Heritage guys were in the ATC Tower to get a few flypasts, and the pilot didnt disappoint. The last pass buzzed the tower, I was stood below and was totally in awe of it.

I don't like planes normally, they take me to horrible places in the main.

IWatkins

4 x 4 take off of tombs ****s your ears up. For the Queen though, for her 50th, so is cool.

When I was at Whatashame, a fully armed, full fueled, QRA jet could lift off at 3 a.m. And I'd sleep through it. But a mincing C130 landing at 3 a.m. would make me shoot awake. Go figure.

Leslie

Can you remember the year that happened? We normally only scrambled 4 of them to get airborne inside 2 minutes. I was No4 on the last ever public Vulcan scramble at Finningley and turned back in from behind the crowd to do the air display after the first three had departed.

Les

Daz89

when we were laying up out in afghan, the yank pilots used to blast past at low level to wake us up! ****** lol

^Qwerty^

I went to school in Goole and we used to get formations of Vulcans flying over now and again. Not sure if that was associated with scrambles, but it was noisy all the same We just get the sole survior these days. On the thread in general, I'll never forget going to Coningsby and watching Lightnings do their party trick before they were replaced with the Tornado. Love fast jets, fast cars, fast bikes, fast boats, basically anything with an excessive abudance of power, hell I'd even go as far as saying some of the locomotives used by English, Welsh and Scottish are pretty impressive too.

Flyinspanner

Yeah, Northolt currently has Typhoons stationed for the summer for interceptions if needed during jubilee/Olympics.
Those are v noisy during take off.........though must admit I did love it!
Other favourites....
Phantoms @ Mount Pleasant Airport.....
Hunters @ RAF Brawdy
VC10s are also a joy to hear at close quarters ..crackles!
And my old baby....Concorde, music to my ears, albeit loud music

Matt2732

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Ref the original video Lightning XS904 (I think?), my grandad is one of the founding members of the lightning preservation group. I can remember getting the day off school to go see the day they took delivery of their second aircraft, the one in the video.

I also got to see XH588, the last flying vulcan at the time when it came to Bruntingthorpe. Had some great times there when I was knee high to a grasshopper, must take the kids along to of the L.P.G open days sometime, was great to see the video.

Thanks for putting it up! Brought back some great memories!

Leslie

I flew the Vulcan for just about 12 years and would not have missed it for anything.

Les

Matt2732

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I must get along to an air show and xh558 in the sky. Unique sight, they just don't make em like that these days!

Leslie

You would find the Vulcan with the 300 series engines hard to beat then. Its all one big wing in the first place with incredibly powerful and effective flying controls. They were light as well-you fly it with a single handed control column and at display fuel weight it had almost as much thrust as the weight of the aircraft. Thats why it would go vertical off the runway. Easy to fly inverted at the top of a vertical wing over.

It was the best "hooligan" machine going believe me!

Les

mickeymouse

thats not loud...

i remember being underneath/behind several FULLY loaded, FULL afterburn B-52`s and B-1B as they took of for bombing missions for kosovo and iraq. never forget that, was an amazing sight and needless to say VERY loud