XH558...

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mad4amanda

2,410 posts

164 months

Saturday 10th October 2015
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Hmmm looking at sunday route " near Gravesend " could this be over Brands Hatch where potentially 80k people will be at BTCC finals?
God I hope so and will be on top the control Tower !

RosscoPCole

3,318 posts

174 months

Saturday 10th October 2015
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cammy33 said:
Has there been times confirmed, particularly East Fortune?
The Museum of Flight website says that the flypast is at 13.55.

CrutyRammers

13,735 posts

198 months

Saturday 10th October 2015
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Arse. Flying right over my house. But I'll be on a plane over the Atlantic frown

DrDeAtH

3,587 posts

232 months

Saturday 10th October 2015
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This weekends tour timings


hornetrider

63,161 posts

205 months

Saturday 10th October 2015
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Riley Blue said:
Thanks for posting, however those maps don't show timings for me on Android, just the waypoint names.

Is anyone able to give me etas for Severn Bridges and St Athan please?

Edit : just seen the above post! Thanks! hehe

Riley Blue

20,953 posts

226 months

Saturday 10th October 2015
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From Vulcan Twitter page https://twitter.com/xh558 : INITIAL PLANNED DEPARTURE SET AT 1300 (1pm local). Await updates on leg times over each location. *Please do not travel to Doncaster*.

Pesty

42,655 posts

256 months

Saturday 10th October 2015
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If I'm in Doncaster I'm not traveling there smile

Smollet

10,562 posts

190 months

Saturday 10th October 2015
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Hope this helps

ianrb

1,532 posts

140 months

Saturday 10th October 2015
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Just seen it. Running about 10 mins behind published times.

Feirny

2,518 posts

147 months

Saturday 10th October 2015
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Pesty said:
If I'm in Doncaster I'm not traveling there smile
I may even cycle there tomorrow.

selnic

466 posts

267 months

Saturday 10th October 2015
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Just missed seeing it as it passed over Heanor Derbyshire, could just hear it in the distance.

fathomfive

9,916 posts

190 months

Saturday 10th October 2015
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I got a few nice shots from almost immediately under the flight path as she passed to the east of Darlington.

Glorious, just glorious.

It felt as though we could reach out and touch her.

Worth the 20 minute hike to some high ground.

I was there with my daughter, parents and two farmers in the middle of nowhere as she came pretty much right at us. Got some good yarns from the farmers harking back to their younger days when RAF Leeming was in full swing too. That and flying crop sprayers in the 70s.

I'll upload the shots tomorrow evening on here.

FourWheelDrift

88,510 posts

284 months

Saturday 10th October 2015
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FYI I downloaded this app yesterday evening to try - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com....

Phone was 100% charged when I went to bed, this morning I woke up and it was down to 23%. Battery useage pointed at that app.

tim0409

4,404 posts

159 months

Saturday 10th October 2015
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Cycled over to East Fortune to see it today at 2pm; it did a couple of sedate passes with a nice bank angle. I only had a phone for pictures so didn't get any decent shots, but here is the static Vulcan -


.Adam.

1,822 posts

263 months

Saturday 10th October 2015
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The app hasn't effected my battery life, but it hasn't worked at all today for me.

ukaskew

10,642 posts

221 months

Saturday 10th October 2015
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Did anyone just view on the flight path?

If so, was it reasonably low, and did it follow the advertised path pretty closely? I was planning on comparing the App tracker with the path (to get an idea if it was worth heading out to the middle of nowhere tomorrow) but the tracker never worked today.

fathomfive

9,916 posts

190 months

Saturday 10th October 2015
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ukaskew said:
Did anyone just view on the flight path?

If so, was it reasonably low, and did it follow the advertised path pretty closely? I was planning on comparing the App tracker with the path (to get an idea if it was worth heading out to the middle of nowhere tomorrow) but the tracker never worked today.
We were pretty much underneath where the path indicated she would be and agreeably low smile

R_U_LOCAL

2,680 posts

208 months

Saturday 10th October 2015
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Couple of pictures from Brockholes Quarry near Samlesbury this afternoon:




Riley Blue

20,953 posts

226 months

Saturday 10th October 2015
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fathomfive said:
ukaskew said:
Did anyone just view on the flight path?


We were pretty much underneath where the path indicated she would be and agreeably low smile
Lucky you, hundreds of people were waiting under the flightpath near Chesterfield but the tour was ended after Heanor so XH558 could join the helicopter photo shoot that was obviously considered more important than the fans - a real slap in the face for those who have supported the project for years.

williamp

19,256 posts

273 months

Saturday 10th October 2015
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Joined hundreds of others at EMA who saw this black dot trailling smoke turn away and head north. Shame