Discussion
AlexS said:
Unfortunately she didn't do the way point turn between the Severn Bridges and instead flew straight from Portishead towards Cardiff. Several hundred people watching from Black Rock got to see a very small shape South of the 2nd crossing.
I thought she returned to the Severn bridges on the way back from Wales? A deviation from the planned route but looks to be videos on youtube of it.Hoping they got some photos with the clifton suspension bridge like this Concorde classic:
Last minute decision to go and watch her at Newark.
Drove part way then cycled the rest to avoid getting stuck in traffic.
She came over the trees low and did 2 circuits with a nice half roll (?) part way through.
Perfect weather and good crowds there.
Was pretty emotional TBH.
Glad I made the effort to go.
Drove part way then cycled the rest to avoid getting stuck in traffic.
She came over the trees low and did 2 circuits with a nice half roll (?) part way through.
Perfect weather and good crowds there.
Was pretty emotional TBH.
Glad I made the effort to go.
Edited by GreatGranny on Monday 12th October 09:57
PAUL500 said:
Sat in a country lane between Cardiff airport and St Athan waiting for it to come in low and slow from the east like its last visit, (and as per its listed flight plan) and it came over the bloody hedge the other way! by the time I realised she was heading off into the distance.
How come so many changes from the planned routes? atc asking them to change due to arriving early? thank god they were replaced by cruise missiles if they cannot even follow a map!
It then ended up flying right over my house, which is miles off the route advertised, I may as well have watched from the garden, my dad who stayed home instead to watch the F1 said he could even see the pilots it was that low, just my luck.
They did it that way to defeat the Soviet air defences....no, wait......that was when they were operational...... How come so many changes from the planned routes? atc asking them to change due to arriving early? thank god they were replaced by cruise missiles if they cannot even follow a map!
It then ended up flying right over my house, which is miles off the route advertised, I may as well have watched from the garden, my dad who stayed home instead to watch the F1 said he could even see the pilots it was that low, just my luck.
MartG said:
They did it that way to defeat the Soviet air defences....no, wait......that was when they were operational......
My abiding memory of Vulcans remains watching then skim up the valley from Lytchett bay at a few hundred feet, back then it wasn't even considered anything very remarkable.Yertis said:
My abiding memory of Vulcans remains watching then skim up the valley from Lytchett bay at a few hundred feet, back then it wasn't even considered anything very remarkable.
Sounds like my first exposure to Vulcans, and probably why they've had a lasting impression on me for the past 45odd years since.Late 60's, and several family holidays at a Caravan site in Ulwell village, near Swanage, and this then young boy would be whooping in delight as you'd hear that Olympus howl shake the ground, just before the regular site of a Vulcan appearing from behind the hill of the caravan park at low level on it's climb out to sea from Poole harbour behind.
That was the memory that I had in my mind when at Farnborough yesterday and watched 558 cruise off into the distance for the very last time.
I was a bit concerned about how close to the straight-line route it would actually follow, so I figured I'd go somewhere local and if it wasn't on the line, then at least I hadn't gone far, sat in loads of traffic, and so on. So I parked near a bridge and walked along the canal towpath. The biggest issue was that there's quite a lot of tree and tall hedge cover along the north side of the canal, but I found a bridge near a lock.
Back to Saturday afternoon, got there in plenty of time as there's not much parking. As I waited, a few other people turned up until there was about twenty of us on the bridge, and probably another dozen on the edge of a nearby reservoir, with some flags and so on. Suddenly someone shouts "there it is!", it's approaching virtually exactly where the straight line map suggested it would be, quite low, and very quiet.
So, an hour on Friday searching out a reasonable location, then a couple of hours on Saturday afternoon getting there, for about twenty seconds. Worth it? Definitely.
Back to Saturday afternoon, got there in plenty of time as there's not much parking. As I waited, a few other people turned up until there was about twenty of us on the bridge, and probably another dozen on the edge of a nearby reservoir, with some flags and so on. Suddenly someone shouts "there it is!", it's approaching virtually exactly where the straight line map suggested it would be, quite low, and very quiet.
So, an hour on Friday searching out a reasonable location, then a couple of hours on Saturday afternoon getting there, for about twenty seconds. Worth it? Definitely.
aeropilot said:
That was the memory that I had in my mind when at Farnborough yesterday and watched 558 cruise off into the distance for the very last time.
Sadly where I was yesterday on the Hogsback wasn't where it eventually went even the flight plan had it going directly overhead However still firmly engrained in my memory is seeing at Farnborough in the late 50s and 60s when it opened up and flew what seemed to be vertically upwards can at 90 degrees to the runway and I thought the ground was going to swallow me up such was the noise. 
HoHoHo said:
Gretchen said:
HoHoHo said:
Gretchen said:
There's still a few flights later this month.
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BiL was on standby last year with his plane for use as a camera ship when both Lancs were touring. He'd have been flying alongside the Vulcan... So imagine something similar perhaps...
Nigel_O said:
Gretchen said:
Slightly off topic, but the Lancaster's engine is repaired and she's out of the hangar for a 2pm take off...
Apparently it flew today - wouldn't it be brilliant if the Vulcan's final flight was accompanied by the Lanc?I'd travel anywhere in the country to see that
Smollet said:
Sadly where I was yesterday on the Hogsback wasn't where it eventually went even the flight plan had it going directly overhead However still firmly engrained in my memory is seeing at Farnborough in the late 50s and 60s when it opened up and flew what seemed to be vertically upwards can at 90 degrees to the runway and I thought the ground was going to swallow me up such was the noise.
I was in the field behind the Hogs Back Cafe - Not directly overhead, but close enough for some nice shots.
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