XH558...

[Zippee]

BrettMRC said:

I still remember watching her appear over the a303 and roll on down over the airbase at Yeovilton arrivals day 2015 - the weather and sun were perfect, much better than on air day itself.

My video from the garden:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19rHL-V9ewU

A video of the same run in taken head on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA90LQylEX4

Still hard to believe that was her last air day down here, nothing else quite cuts it.

I'm just glad I got to see her a few times.
My favourite was the small air show at Gransden where at the same show the 2 Lancs also displayed.

[hutchst]

I still remember as a teenager living on the south coast in the 70s hearing the engines, looking up and being disappointed it was only a Vulcan, not Concorde. Fool!!

[Yertis]

hutchst said:

I still remember as a teenager living on the south coast in the 70s hearing the engines, looking up and being disappointed it was only a Vulcan, not Concorde. Fool!!

They were a pretty common sight weren't they. Along with Buccaneers, Harriers, Phantoms and Jags. I've just come back from a stay in Dorset and saw not one fast jet.

[DamienB]

aeropilot said:

Allegedly on one of its last flights............

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-lincolnsh...

No allegedly about it, talk to the CAA.

[Dr Jekyll]

DamienB said:

aeropilot said:

Allegedly on one of its last flights............

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-lincolnsh...

No allegedly about it, talk to the CAA.

CAA said:

No further action will be taken due to insufficient evidence of an offence

[anonymous-user]

It was noted on other forums that Kev Rumens was the pilot when this happened.

[miniman]

Dr Jekyll said:

DamienB said:

aeropilot said:

Allegedly on one of its last flights............

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-lincolnsh...

No allegedly about it, talk to the CAA.

CAA said:

No further action will be taken due to it being awesome

FTFY

[saaby93]

Dr Jekyll said:

DamienB said:

aeropilot said:

Allegedly on one of its last flights............

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-lincolnsh...

No allegedly about it, talk to the CAA.

CAA said:

No further action will be taken due to insufficient evidence of an offence

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https://www.caa.co.uk/uploadedFiles/CAA/Content/St...

[DrDeAtH]

From what I heard.....

558 could perform a barrel roll on her last flight...

However it happened prior to this.

The crew were reprimanded upon landing,.

The CAA did not sanction any further attempts as the roll had already been done without prior authority.

[Huff]

BrettMRC said:

I still remember watching her appear over the a303 and roll on down over the airbase at Yeovilton arrivals day 2015 - the weather and sun were perfect, much better than on air day itself.

Still hard to believe that was her last air day down here, nothing else quite cuts it.

I was on site the day she left Yeovilton that last time - 16July2015. 11.35am
All business stopped -
- and everyone was stood on the airside line watching: you heard it before you saw it, and it was a full-chat rollout, takeoff, and run around 270deg to head home. Car alarms set off from a long way away. An unexpected privilege to watch.

phone pics only, sorry..:

[yellowjack]

Vulcan prototype roll at Farnborough, 1955...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPuTgcrA2Zs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afj19PedlxE

...OK, it's not '558, and it lacks the howl, but it's a Vulcan. Rolled. On film...

[Huff]

PS oblig pic, taken on the Yeovilton July 2015 Air day prior to above:

[saaby93]

yellowjack said:

Vulcan prototype roll at Farnborough, 1955...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPuTgcrA2Zs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afj19PedlxE

...OK, it's not '558, and it lacks the howl, but it's a Vulcan. Rolled. On film...

Must have been incredible back in the day seeing those things straight after normal looking planes
Did the russians end up with a similar looking plane?

[Eric Mc]

Nothing exactly like a Vulcan but they had plenty of odd designs of their own.

I was always impressed with the Tupolev Tu-22 -

[Tony1963]

saaby93 said:

Must have been incredible back in the day seeing those things straight after normal looking planes
Did the russians end up with a similar looking plane?

You need to remember that throughout the 40s and 50s, with the rapid development of aircraft technology due to the Cold War, there were many different designs because it was all new. Although the UK was at the forefront, the US had a huge variety of development aircraft, some very strange indeed. But it was all data, lessons learned, mistakes not to be repeated.

[chunder27]

The Tu22 was a horrendous design, the engines were wo3efully unreliable and very hard to maintain, it was massively heavy and did not last very long.

the Tu26 however, one of my biggest regrets is not going to Cottesmore to see one.

And the tu160, well for me prettier than Bone!

[FourWheelDrift]

China still operates the subsonic Tu-16 Badger, their own built Xian H-6.

[saaby93]

Erm are any of these close to XH558 - a delta wing perhaps?

[FourWheelDrift]

saaby93 said:

Erm are any of these close to XH558 - a delta wing perhaps?

It's a contemporary of the Vulcan. They still fly it, we don't fly ours. Engines in the wing roots though.

[aeropilot]

saaby93 said:

Did the russians end up with a similar looking plane?

If you mean similar to the Vulcan, no.

The Vulcan delta platform was pretty unique in design.

The closest in terms of a delta design, was the USA's B-58 Hustler.