Vulcan XH558 at Thirlmere and Dunmail Raise, 10 October 2015
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- This weekend marks the end of flying for the Avro Vulcan XH558 with 2 major tour routes - this being part of the northern tour.
Seen here the Vulcan flies over Thirlmere, passing me at Dunmail Raise, then on towards Windermere and Bowness-on-Windermere.
The Vulcan, and the spitfire are 2 of the most iconic planes ever to be built
Don't forget the lovely Lancaster. Another iconic aircraft. ❤
Great Brititish engineering at its best 👌 🇬🇧
I had the pleasure of being treated as a VIP at the Biggin Hill airshow some many years ago where one of these fantastic aircraft came down the runway and went vertically into the air just in front of our tent. The heat and the blast from the exhaust jets was just like standing in front of a furnace and the noise was so loud you honestly could not hear yourself think. I wouldn't have missed the experience for the world.
From the U.S. with our history of amazing aircraft and bombers the Vulcan is still in my number one spot. A true beauty and beast, I hope they keep her flying for years.
@dennislions1Rolls Royce wouldn’t give up the details for the engines and the main spar of the aircraft is past its expiration.
Every time I watch this it brings a lump to my throat. I'm sure I'm not alone.
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Why? A lump of metal designed to drop a nuclear bomb on humanity. People get attached to strange things.
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When I was boy living in the US in the 70's, we went for a holiday to England and Scotland. We drove by an air base and saw Vulcans taking off and landing as we drove past. What a sight for a 8 year old boy! My dad also has a nice photo of one flying in Malaysia when he was based at Butterworth, Penang.
cool story 👌
The Vulcan used to do this at Elvington near York, but it could've been somewhere else. That's where Richard Hammond had his first big crash, the one in the dragster.
I saw one once at the RAF St. Mawgan air day in 1986 and it was awesome. It was like looking up at a pre-historic animal. Beautifully majestic.
The sound of it resonating throughout the valley is probably indescribable,those who could have, never survived the tornado/earthquake ensemble to be able to. Love when it banks left and vanishes behind the hill. You see it for seconds, hear it for mins. upon mins.
Astonishing aeroplane. Every time I saw one display flying I had to suppress the immensely uncool urge to salute like Captain Mainwaring and then burst into tears through sheer excitement. Love how gage Vulcan managed to pull off the 'disappearing from certain angles' trick decades before the B2. Great piece of footage. Nice one. Thank you.
Loved being stationed at RAF Upper Heyford in late 70's. Had a couple of Vulcans do flybys, but the thing that impressed me most was at the Tiger Meet 77 at RAF Greenham Common. The Vulcan did loops during its air display, not 1, not 2 but several. Will never forget that.
Julian T, many thanks for sharing your great footage. That PLANE, that SOUND, and the rolling hills too, just fantastic, I wish I was there & I wish this awesome beast would live forever!!!!
BIG, BIG Thanks to those who flew & maintained them, back in the day!!!👍👍👍👍👍
She was the Spirit of Great Britain by name, and some of that spirit died when she stopped flying.
I saw her many times, and Vulcans were part of my youth. By far the most impressive aircraft I've seen and heard.
I never get tired of seeing the MIGHTY VULCAN she is a graceful aircraft well missed in our skies
I used to watch this beautiful jet "practicing" for the years displays over Elvington airfield. It was always magical. Such a loss to those who have never experienced the "V" bombers. Fantastic plane, unforgettable memories.
Superbly shot from a perfect advantage point, great sound, held steady 10 out of 10
One of the best vulcan videos !!!! The way it disappears around the hill at the end was fantastic. So graceful 🖒🖒🖒🖒🖒🖒
What a truly iconic piece of engineering the Vulcan was. Thanks for putting this up
That was spectacular, she really was 'The Queen of the Skies." Spent 18 months at R.A.F. Marham and it made my day every time a Vulcan came in for a couple or three approaches.
A big lumbering, elegant, wonderful beauty of an aircraft. Britain should be very proud. What an amazing bird.
As a boy I remember being on holiday in the Yorkshire Dales. We heard some aircraft and watched as a pair of USAF A10s flew through the valley below us. I was really excited to be able to look down on a flying aircraft.... for about five minutes until a Vulcan followed them through and made them look like models!
Gone but never forgotten
The pilots used my Grandfathers farm house as a visual nav-aid when lining-up to Otterburn Range while flying nap of the earth........ as a 6yr old it was as if the whole sky darkened and was cracking open when the Vulcan appeared........ Great days. Also, the sound of Jaguars, Phantoms and lots of German F104 Starfighters I'll never forget.
You lucky sod! lol
@@georgebuller1914 Yep, fantastic variety of aircraft in the 70's & 80's. One night I'll never forget, it was fairly late, 9ish, and this sound, heavy rumble, getting louder and louder and then the house started to shake.......My father and I ran outside and passing about 100ft above the house was a Norwegian C130, then another and another, and another and another........ 15 in total. It was one of the most impressive sights I've seen. I think the exercise was called "Ardent Ground", but don't quote me on that.
One of the greatest sights in aviation. Thanks for the fantastic footage Julian.
As a little kid in the 50s these used to fly over my house in Leavesden at rooftop level. Awesome. You could see every nut and bolt. To me they looked like spaceships from a comic. Also saw the flames from engines being tested at the aerodrome.
What a bird!! I had the pleasure of seeing her at the Southport air show escorted by the Red Arrows, on her final pass over us, she howled!! I had tears in my eyes and a smile on my face. Thanks for a great vid. Much love mate.
Excellent made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Brought back memories of flying down there in the Hawk, Jaguar and then the Hercules.
The old Lady of the skies. One of my favourite planes ever. ❤️
That howl and plane is iconic! noise unforgettable! You had to be there to really appreciate this......
So much love for this old bird. It was a very sad day indeed when she was grounded. Thanks for a great vid.
I have commented on this video before, the video in which the camera is mounted on the underside of the Vulcan, and then one through the bomb bay doors, showing the landscapes along the bombers route, and this one, are two of my favourite videos. Not just of the Vulcan, or military aircraft, 2 of my favourite videos of anything, anywhere, anytime. Mr. Thurgood, you sticking with the shot, till the Vulcan banks out of site, was the ultimate ending to the life of the Vulcan.
Your recording, is a perfect reflection of one's life. We all seem to come from nowhere, the years go by with lots of noise, and we return to nowhere, hoping we had a positive affect on the lives we touched. I know that's over the top deep, but if this video is looked at from a philosophical point of view, its nothing short of a masterpiece.
.....and I thank you for that.
Thanks for this philosophical thought Paul which I agree with. Since this was an important historical event and I had just on chance to capture it - I really tried hard to capture this as best I could. Part of this - just as she flies overhead and away - were included in a UK TV program on the Last Flight of the Vulcan.
An amazing aircraft. I was fortunate and lucky enough to handle this beauty at Leuchars airshow. A great testament to all who restored, flew and maintained her.
Just the most fantastic sight & sound, thank you for the video sir.
My goosebumps have goosebumps.
If this happened in the 50's and you didn't know what it was you could be forgiven for thinking the martians were coming!!! Absolutely awesome! So sad she no longer flies but at least we enjoyed the privilege of seeing this magnificent aeroplane. Thankyou very much for sharing.
With the scream of a banshee, and a blotting out of the Sun she disappears into history.
Thank you to all who maintained and flew these aircraft back in the day.
I live near Doncaster and saw these quite regularly, even parked up at finingly air base.
What a machine
@Dave Ad nice!
That's a great memory to have
@Dave Ad it's odly like a death in the family.
So sad knowing it's not going to be around again. But will give you a smile from the memories
Gareth Hutchings absolutely spot on mate 👍🏻 fantastic
@Dave Ad I lived in Derby, as a kid in the late 70's. I was from Chadd and went Cherrytree infant and junior school. It was a sunny day,(back when sunny days were very warm) dinner time, outside on the school field and that magnificent jet flew over, and went vertical up an over. I would've been about 7 I think. It scared me shitless with noise of those engines. Everytime I saw afterwards it used to give me goosebumps. Never ever forget that day, AWESOME
I remember air displays at biggin hill and the Vulcan would set the car alarms off, a real show stealer. Beautiful in sight and sound.❤️
In 2015 I got amazing photos of XH558 as she climbed away from the Bournemouth Air Festival and over the Poole Harbour, then the Purbecks, for the last time. Thank you for this footage.
Simply magnificent...no more words needed.
Even today, it looks like an alien spacecraft. Especially in such a rural environment.
Remarkable aircraft and I always think the same as you - it's like something Dan Dare would pilot in 1950!
I was about to comment and found yours still at the top! I love how it looks so convincingly like a flying saucer at 1:30 or so :-)
Also, how it shows one of the lesser reasons it's no longer flying: the clean-burn efficiency of those Olympus engines ;-)
@@Dranok1 But even now, if they released that as a brand new aircraft, it really wouldn't look out of place. It's a beautiful thing.
@@theeaselrider4032 true -- compare with Concorde, the supersonic swan that used to tear apart the sky directly over my house throughout summer months :-( The only reason that isn't flying today is because of BA bean-counters' jealousy. (Well, realistically perhaps not today but certainly for another several years.) Serious offers were made to take it off their hands but they chose to decommission it the instant in touched down deliberately to ensure no-one could ever fly it again. Criminal waste of a cultural legacy, they could have kept one flying to display alongside the Vulcan! Oh well, we romantics can't have everything we wish for...
So stunning in that Lakes District landscape.
What a sight, what a sound.
I'll remember the 3 times she flew over me at shows the rest of my days, truly awesome
What a tremendous effort in her restoration and a beautiful aircraft. Those turbojets belch black smoke like the ole U.S. B-52's did. Great job Brits!
F-4 Phantoms, same soot trail.
B52's are still smoking away....
Restored at Bruntingthorpe aerodrome with a lot of the funding from local people including me
Beautiful. One of the loveliest aircraft ever built. I envy those who witnessed this historic flight by such an iconic aircraft
I almost think having seen it a few times is almost worse :(
It's one of the very few aircraft you'd miss flying.
Give anything to see it again!
I might seem odd , but I really like the look of the HP Victor :-)
That may be one of the coolest things I've ever seen. You Brits made some damn fine aircraft. That these gorgeous things were retired and scrapped while our boring old B-52 is projected to serve into the 2030s is frankly a crime.
Autofox1, The B-52 is still one of the most feared planes in the world.
Russia, China and others in thee east all fear the B-52, remarkable piece of machinery. I love that plane.
@@forestranger5408 Not saying it's a bad plane, by any stretch. I am saying that if I had to pick a plane to LOOK at from now until 2030, it would be the Vulcan and not the B-52.
@@autofox1744 totally agree mate, would love to see her flying again
@@autofox1744 From 01:31 on she was doing what she was designed for - low level approach to defeat Russian radar. She could also fly over the top of any fighters they had. These were what worried Kruschev during the Cuba crisis as we had many of them on the end of runways fuelled and tooled with crews in and could be airborne in less than 2 minutes.
Its worth reading up on Operation Sky Shield of 1960 and 1961 where 8 Vulcans (four from Scotland and four from Bermuda) defeated the entire US air defence system and (in theory) could have nuked the Eastern Seaboard. Instead they turned up unannounced at as US Air Force base .... A combination of flying in low at sea level and then climbing fast up to 56,000 feet above the B-52s at 40,000 feet and using their advanced Electronic Counter Measures. And being able to out manoeuvre fighters of the day.
A stunning aircraft first sketched by the designer of the Lancaster during the last months of WWII.
@Alan Whiteside Blimey mate. Wounded pride much....
This is impressive on camera, i can only imagine how impressive it was in person.
*My Daughter-in Law thought it was something out of Star Wars. Amazing !*
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How can anyone give that a thumbs down???? People are funny 😄 nice job for following her all the way up the valley 👍🏻
It looked like an alien craft, as it flew down the valley & banked to the left, out of sight....
FANTASTIC👍👍👍👍👍
I wandered lonely as a cloud but very very loud !!!
My dad use to work on the radar's of these magnificent Vulcan aircraft and I can still remember the practice scrambles from RAF Finningly. As a young child of seven I didn't fully understand the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 but I was probably more conscious about it than most seven year old 'civilian' children. I remember my dad and my godfather too - he was an RAF Police Dog Handler - both 'disappeared', for the whole thing and so did most of the planes as they went to their dispersal airfields
STUNNING. I am going to put myself at risk here by saying this is the most beautiful bomber ever.
I think there's one or two might agree.
I agree Gary.
Of course she is!!
In the winter if '79/,80 I was in the RAF and got involved in an exercise at RAF Waddington. If you think one Vulcan is impressive you should have seen a whole squadron scramble. It was one of the highlights of my RAF career.
As low as it was over those trees that’s roughly how low this plane came 2 or 3 years ago I can’t remember right in front of my house I thought something sounded different what a beautiful & impressive sight then 1 week later same flight path something topped the Vulcan the Lancaster & I was just in awe. My Uncle John was a rear gunner in a Lancaster too !
Wow! A truly beautiful sight. Thank God it never carried out it's primary mission.
Very true. Thank God that wasn't necessary.
That's the dichotomy, a beautiful plane built for a terrible mission.
I once had the good fortune to see one of these flying quite low, back in 1972. I was walking along Chanterlands Avenue in Hull. I heard an unfamiliar roar of engines and looked up. It was an amazing sight, directly overhead, to see the Delta - Wing Vulcan! I presumed that this rare Aircraft was based at RAF Scampton, or was flying there.
Hey, I lived in Hull back then, I was only 4 that year, I would have loved to have seen it. I lived off Spring Bank then (Hutt St).
I managed to see one close up when I was in the TA's 88-92 we went to Gibraltar, there was one at the end of the runway
The Vulcan.. setting off car alarms since the 80's every chance it got.. particularly at the RAF Waddington airshow when it went vertical on take off
charles UK , I live near cosford and a pilot did that over our football pitch in early 80’s. Me and my mates still talk about it and all get pins and needles remembering the ground shaking 🇬🇧and proud!
I remember the vertical take off well. Hard to believe
for such a large aircraft.
2 amazing things killed off, shame. :(
One came quite low over Leeds in the early 80's and it was very impressive. It seemed to cover the sky it was so big.
Great British engineering at its best 👌 such an amazing sight to behold not forgetting the fantastic roar and iconic howl of those engines 🇬🇧
Wow! What a privilege to have seen her so close up. Thanks for sharing :)
We went to the Blackpool air show a few times when we were little and I distinctly remember being in this things shadow as it came into land at Blackpool airport. Wonderful machine conceived in terrifying times by superb engineers.
One of these vulcans flew over me while I was hiking near Caldbeck in October, 1980; WOW!!! It was a sight I will never forget. GO UK!!!
This is an treat to watch, many thanks for uploading Julian. We will sure miss XH558!
Awesome, I was at the British Grand Prix in 1986 when a Vulcan did a flyover display, the noise was glorious!
The Aluminium Overcast, that's what we used to call them because the Sky turned Dark as they flew overhead and the Howl is unforgettable, kinda reminds me of the last time I was in the United Kingdom in 2012 and I was on a Bus between, I think it was Chesterfield and Mansfield in North Nottinghamshire where we were staying (Name sake of Mansfield Ohio) and I could hear a loud thudding like Thunder of to our right and as a Veteran I recognized it as the Blades of a Chinook and said so looking through the windows of the Bus and everyone on the Bus started looking, it wasn't one though it was a V of Seven Chinook's flying real low in the Sky their Blades thudding away as they approached and passed overhead and disappeared to the left of the Highway 🛣 you could hear them for along time before we saw them and along time after they disappeared, such an amazing sight and sound...
I served in the RAF during the cold war as an Aircraft fitter. Never forget these taking off in a QRA scramble - 4 aircraft together roaring into the sky - never to be repeated ever again. Best deterrent the UK had - now the RAF is a mere shadow of what it used to be............😔
When I was young I used to stand on a wall before the trashold at Luqa with some friends so we could be a little nearer to the beast coming in to land,but paying attention not to throw us down the wall by its vortices,those were the days my friend we thought they never end but they did!
I had the 'pleasure' of being overflown by a Vulcan at extremely low level in open countryside just after take off at a local airfield back in the 1970s. Like this video there wasn't much noise coming towards me but my goodness, it actually physically hurt my body being in the full force of its exhaust. Not just my ears, but my whole body felt like it was being violently shaken with the organs vibrating inside.
It almost makes me cry remembering what England WAS, and what it is now, how far have we fallen
That sound is so bloody amazing!
I'd just watched the Northern tour video and noticed the unusual road arrangement and thought that people there must have got a great view. Nice to see it from the ground as well.
My first encounter with a Vulcan was as I drove towards Scampton village and one took off right overhead. I almost shit myself. It was a true WTFWT moment.
julian great footage brought back memories of my time in THE ROYAL AIR FORCE watching vulcans on the ranges at goose bay and spadeadam thanks for posting it and ive been sharing it like mad tc ken
+kenneth wright Thanks Ken - glad you liked it.
Bye old girl,saw you on your southern farewell flight,came right over the top of us,gone,but never forgotten. Especially as I got engaged to my now wife of the flight deck of XM655. Great vid,brings a lump to the trust and a tear to the eye.
I have favourite videos, I'll view once or twice a week, this isn't one of them. This is a "priority" favourite, on the top shelf right beside the video of Raptor's Kawhi Leonard hitting the buzzer beater against the 76er's to advance to the 3rd round in last year's NBA playoffs. I watch that, now, a minimum of once a day. A considerable decline from once or twice every hour, did I mention I'm Canadian? Anyhow this is viewed every day by me, usually at home through my mini Sony speaker, its loud!! Can't imagine how loud it must've been being there as the Vulcan kicks the throttle up a notch as it passes over your head, the howl reverberating off the valley walls, and then continue to hear it well past visual range.
Where it was recorded was almost as a big deal as what was being recorded, simply a very, very cool video.
Thanks Paul - lovely comment - and really glad you like this. It was a historic day - so I had to make an effort to get a good record of that day.
Wonderous sight! Closest to a B-70 anyone will ever approach. Concord? Tu-144? Slick toys! Vulcan was for serious work.
WOW..! HOW BEAUTIFUL SHE LOOKS, AND THE SHEAR POWER..!
Great post! Brought back memories of my dad,thanks
Definitive proof (if it were needed) that Man has never made anything as beautiful as the Lake District.
A Vulcan was used as a flying testbed for the Concorde Olympus engines back in the 60's. My Dad worked at the Rolls Royce engine factory in Bristol (UK) and he managed to get permission to let me see it. They strapped the Olympus under the main fuselage and welded a huge heatsink on the back end of the plane. We spent a good ten minutes looking over (and under) the aircraft but were not allowed inside. The single Concorde engine was as powerful as the four standard Vulcan engines. I also watched the maiden flight of the Concorde 002 prototype from Filton. Happy days!
Can you imagine for just a moment what must have gone through those teenage Argentine soldiers minds when suddenly they saw (and heard) this awesome, almighty aircraft appearing and roaring out of the clouds under full power from over 8,500 miles away to drop its payload onto Stanley airport. They would never have thought such a feat was possible and at that moment they suddenly realized they had bitten off far more than they could chew. Of course none of them would have known that the Vulcan had stopped off over Ascension to reach the Falklands. That didn't matter to them. They had been sent to war not knowing the power of their adversaries.
When there were no restrictions on cost and conservative was a miss spelt word. Truly a chariot of the gods and with the sound effects to reduce a guy to a dribbling mess of insignificance.🙏
Wow! That things emitting almost as much smoke as the a Great Eastern! If Isambard Kingdom Brunel had ever designed a plane it would probably have looked & sounded this. A Vulcan bomber flew over our street around 1965. It seemed to just hang in the air & the noise was absolutely thunderous, I’ll never forget it.
The Vulcan reminds me of the Dragon Riders of Pern series by Ann McCaffrey. I expect to see a dragon jocky strapped on riding the great beast.
Having another look ..... superb piece of filming, doing justice to the Vulcan.Award-winning, I'd say ..... !!
+Ken Standing Thanks Ken. I was pleased with it.
Still living the dream in the city of LINCOLN, approx 2 miles north of me is RAF SCAMPTON, approx 6 miles south of me is RAF WADDINGTON,IN THE 70'S AND 80'S BOTH AIRFIELDS WOULD GIVE YOU A EARLY MORNING OR LATE NIGHT WAKE UP CALL..... WHEN THEY SCRAMBLED THE AWESOME VULCAN!!!!,, TRUST ME EVEN IN THE DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT THESE BEAUTIFUL AIRCRAFT STILL LOOKED STUNNING WITH THEIR VARIOUS LIGHTS ON!!!!, AND DEPENDING ON THE FLIGHT PATH THE INTOXICATING SMELL OF AVIATION FUEL
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Had Hard Times arrived, they would have been taking off from Scampton four at a time to clear the base as quick as possible. I think the aim was to get sixteen aircraft off the ground in four waves of four, each wave taking off as soon as the previous one cleared the runway.
The nukes arriving a few minutes later would have been a blessed release......
Great clip, thanks for posting. I went misty eyed with memories of them low flying over there in the late 70's, early 80's when camping there. I'm off to say farewell on its southern leg soon.
+Mark “sparkymark68” R - Thanks for the comment Mark.
what a sight, what a sound! Epic!
Saw on display and perform aerial demonstrations in the 70s at a couple air shows at Pease AFB, New Hampshire. Amazing aircraft!
Keith Larochelle I used to see Vulcans at Air Shows in the 1960/70s and once, from near Bedford one clear morning in the early 1970's I saw, and heard one taking off from Scampton, all of 100 miles away! Another time, a few years before that, I was standing on Holyhead Mountain in Wales when THREE Vulcans flew past on final approach to RAF Valley! I finally saw XH558 at East(?) Midlands Airport in 2012. I was there to pick up a (sort of) classic Italian motorcycle - a moto Guzzi from a local dealer..
The Vulcan along with the Spitfire, Huricane and the Lancaster 2 fighters 2 bombers simply the BEST!
Ist Flights: Avro Lancaster 9th Jan 1941 Avro Vulcan 30th August 1952 ……….. 11 years 8 months ...….
Great filming,I particularly like the silhouette against the skyline banking to port.
I saw one of these flying low over Dartmouth N.S. in the early 1970's. I did not know what it was, it was deafening & I wasn't really sure what planet it was from even. The magic of being a snot nosed kid!
Awesome. Thanks. I was watching from a few hundred feet further up the same hill. Your video captured the event superbly.
+Andy McClements Thanks Andy. I wish I could have got higher - but it was a struggle getting to where I did. It would have been good to be level with the plane rather than looking up at it. Still - i am pleased with what I did get.
+Julian Thurgood Hi Julian, actually I think your position was better for a film as it captures the 'delta' shape so well, I saw her from the beam. I love the way you held on, then zoomed closer to capture her banking away out of sight.
+Andy McClements Thanks Andy. I wanted to capture the plane in the landscape - ie the lake and the pass. Lots of people have taken fine closeups - but they could have been taken anywhere.
Lucky you were to be there for that wonder
Great video of a piece of history, I have never heard the howl better than you captured it here.
I saw a Vulcan fly past our house in Petersfield.To this day I am still amazed what I saw.About half a mile across the fields in front of us is an Escarpment of 300 feet.For some inexplicable reason the Vulcan flew towards the West I would say 100 feet above the ground probably a few hundred metres from the slope.I wasn't seeing things.I have tried to get answers but to no avail .It must have been 2014 15 or so
What beautiful and awesome sight and sound! Thank God it was never called upon to carry out it's intended role.
Vulcan were used in the 1982 Falklands War at a range of over 6,000km
As an RAF brat I have fond memories of Vulcans. I remember being in Cyprus when my father was stationed at RAF Akrotiri in the early 60s and watching them doing aerobatics over the sea as my school bus drove along the cliff road from the army base at Episkopi back to Limassol. My ex husband worked on their navigation systems in 1972 at RAF Scampton when we were first married.
+Sunflowers159 Thanks for this comment, and for the memories.
What a beautiful sight to behold!
Greatly missed Aircraft, i know the BBMF gives you goosebumps as they fly by but they dont vibrate your body like a Vulcan
I love how it has natural stealth capabilities, yet it's so loud the Soviets could probably hear it departing RAF Finningley.
I saw this plane at RAF finningley years ago, a sight to behold, but looking at that smoke blowing out ,it makes my old diesel car look like something from the future.
Even today that plane is chuffing Amazing 😍
Amazing aircraft.....one flew over my house few summers ago, wow what a sound
I had one fly over us @ 250 feet or less, in the dark up the Whitburn Main Street West Lothian. 3 days later, a UFO investigator flatmate asked me how to get to Whitburn. I asked him if he was investigating the UFO reported in the news papers and he said yes. I told him it was an RAF Vulcan flying up the mains street, because it had its anti collision light flashing and the Delta Wing obscured the sky ! Fantastic.
Absolute beast of a machine!