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Nicol@ said:
central said:
Fab shots, it has just made me more cross though.How did they sound, or did 558 drown everything out?
slartibartfast said:
558 at Waddington today
http://youtu.be/hsDIoz6Jjuw
Awesome. Especially toward the end of the video, when she taxis in with XM607 in the foreground.http://youtu.be/hsDIoz6Jjuw
yellowjack said:
slartibartfast said:
558 at Waddington today
http://youtu.be/hsDIoz6Jjuw
Awesome. Especially toward the end of the video, when she taxis in with XM607 in the foreground.http://youtu.be/hsDIoz6Jjuw
jmorgan said:
It crossed the A14 yesterday, superb. Clocked it, and pulled over so able to see a Vulcan for the first time in more years than I care to remember and probably the last time was at St Athan air show.
Looking forward to a proper display later this year. Made my day.
[pedant] :cough: St Athan never had an 'Air show' Looking forward to a proper display later this year. Made my day.
[/pedant]It was always known as a "Battle of Britain 'At Home' Day"
But I know what you mean. For many years, as a child, when my family regularly attended the 'show' there, there would always be a Vulcan in the display. And because it was the Vulcan maintenance base, about a dozen lying around the place. Usually one between two hangars up near the Historic Collection hangar, that would be open to get inside the cockpit, with a Blue Steel missile in a cradle nearby. Usually several on the apron on the opposite side of the runway, too.
I recall at least one show where more than one Vulcan (as in, I can't remember if it was three, or four) approached from behind the crowd line, very low and slow, then throttled up as they passed overhead. Then in later years, there was the sadness when we would pass the fire dump/crash training area, and there were always about three airframes in various stages of u/c collapse for RAF fire crew training scenarios.
Many happy visits to the Wales Aircraft Museum at Rhoose back in those days, too. Although as a child I was sheltered from the reality that almost all of those exhibits were stood in the open, slowly rotting to the point where they were cut up for scrap, on site. Including Vulcan XM569, all but the cockpit section scrapped in February 1996.
Sorry, it sounds like I'm putting a downer on this thread....
jmorgan said:
Ah,that's me learned
They had a komet, in a hanger there as well. Remember the buccaneer on supports doing a virtual run. Noisy.
List of the collection they had and where they went - http://ciapoldiescorner.blogspot.co.uk/2009/01/100...They had a komet, in a hanger there as well. Remember the buccaneer on supports doing a virtual run. Noisy.
FourWheelDrift said:
jmorgan said:
Ah,that's me learned
They had a komet, in a hanger there as well. Remember the buccaneer on supports doing a virtual run. Noisy.
List of the collection they had and where they went - http://ciapoldiescorner.blogspot.co.uk/2009/01/100...They had a komet, in a hanger there as well. Remember the buccaneer on supports doing a virtual run. Noisy.
jmorgan said:
FourWheelDrift said:
jmorgan said:
Ah,that's me learned
They had a komet, in a hanger there as well. Remember the buccaneer on supports doing a virtual run. Noisy.
List of the collection they had and where they went - http://ciapoldiescorner.blogspot.co.uk/2009/01/100...They had a komet, in a hanger there as well. Remember the buccaneer on supports doing a virtual run. Noisy.
(Sorry about the earlier pedantry, sometimes I fear I have turned into my dad
)yellowjack said:
My favourites were the red Hunter, WB188, and the Japanese 'Dinah' for some bizarre reason. Watching and listening to the ground runs of those big Axis radial engines was the best bit for me. It's great that most of them can still be seen at either Cosford or Hendon, too. A fantastic collection of genuinely important, sometimes unique aircraft.
(Sorry about the earlier pedantry, sometimes I fear I have turned into my dad )
Me-410 1988 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAcgUPjb16Q(Sorry about the earlier pedantry, sometimes I fear I have turned into my dad
)I fear we have derailed this thread somewhat with talk of St Athan, and it's collection of WWII aircraft...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oaJghobb1M - Two seat FW 190 being run up. Now sat in one of the halls inside Hendon, never to run again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oaJghobb1M - Two seat FW 190 being run up. Now sat in one of the halls inside Hendon, never to run again.
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