Vulcan Bomber
27 August 2006, 09:04 PM
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Vulcan Bomber
These people are desperate to continue their project.
http://www.vulcan558club.com/
If you email a pledge you will only have to honour it if they raise the full amount.
I can remember a Vulcan at an air show in the 70s. It touched down on the runway and then blasted upwards at an angle of 45 degrees when the pilot opened the throttles. Awesome.
http://www.vulcan558club.com/
If you email a pledge you will only have to honour it if they raise the full amount.
I can remember a Vulcan at an air show in the 70s. It touched down on the runway and then blasted upwards at an angle of 45 degrees when the pilot opened the throttles. Awesome.
27 August 2006, 09:38 PM
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Would love to see it fly again. But they need a lot of money in the next 4 days. I've pledged some. But I think they need Branson to pay the rest in exchange for a Virgin logo on the tail 
27 August 2006, 09:42 PM
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I know it's not a Scoob.
However, it's one hell of a bit of kit. The Olympus engines in the Vulcan were used on Concorde ( which is another bit of British superb engineering to no longer exist).
I was privelleged to be close to them when I was in the RAF and, the Argentinians were privelleged to be bombed by them, by a Vulcan that flew thousands of miles via in flight refuelling, to do so.
Good luck to the British Vulcan lot for trying to keep this great bit of British Aviation History alive.
Alan MaC
However, it's one hell of a bit of kit. The Olympus engines in the Vulcan were used on Concorde ( which is another bit of British superb engineering to no longer exist).
I was privelleged to be close to them when I was in the RAF and, the Argentinians were privelleged to be bombed by them, by a Vulcan that flew thousands of miles via in flight refuelling, to do so.
Good luck to the British Vulcan lot for trying to keep this great bit of British Aviation History alive.
Alan MaC
27 August 2006, 09:50 PM
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Saw 558 at Fairford many moons ago. They're an awesome bit of kit and seeing one go vertical is fairly spectacular, not to mention deafening! Was within a few metres of one when it landed (on the second attempt) some years ago at a small airfield in Warwickshire, and I'll take that experience to my grave. They're incredible, but don't take too kindly to being left out in the snow... without weights on the front they tip!
Anyway, I'm going to pledge a few quid and hope others do too! If you want to get an idea about the Vulcan, they have one on static display you can stand under at the RAF museum in Hendon. Go see, it's free entry and a great day out for the family.
Steve
Anyway, I'm going to pledge a few quid and hope others do too! If you want to get an idea about the Vulcan, they have one on static display you can stand under at the RAF museum in Hendon. Go see, it's free entry and a great day out for the family.
Steve
27 August 2006, 10:39 PM
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I was privelleged to be close to them when I was in the RAF and, the Argentinians were privelleged to be bombed by them, by a Vulcan that flew thousands of miles via in flight refuelling, to do so.
The F117A Nighthawk missions flown from from Holloman, NM, in the second Gulf war probably exceeded this latter record.
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