If you think the Vulcan's engines where loud, you should have heard the testbed Vulcan that had a Concorde prototype engine bolted to it's bomb bay. That was loud.
As a kid, I remember a Vulcan flying directly over me at just a couple of hundred feet. It took forever for its shadow to pass over me, and it's engine noise rattled my teeth. It was frighteningly beautiful. It was still an active service nuclear bomber at the time, I think.
I live 2 minutes from where the Vulacn is kept, and its awesome when it used to fly over our village it even set off car alarms, when I got married in 2014 the pilot must have seen a weddind going on as we came out of the village church as he circled twice right above us and he came down real low.
They officially retired the Vulcan's in 1982. I remember the ceremony at Offutt AFB. The plane that flew the final demonstration, XM-577 ( I think) was donated to the Aerospace Museum, City of Bellevue, Nebraska. The museum has since been relocated near Ashland, Nebraska, near Interstate 80.
The Vulcan at its time was a bloody marvel of engineering, during training exercises with the Americans it played the role of Soviet High Altitude Bombers, Ran circles around the Yanks and Dropped simulated nukes on the US twice
You should still be proud of what the UK can and has accomplished. Here is the US things suck too and nothing we make inspires passion anymore. That doesn’t take away how incredible the U-2 , SR-71, etc were. Same to be said in the UK.
And it's incredible to think that at the same time we developed the Vulcan we also built the other two V bombers, the Valiant and the Victor. Now we can't even fill potholes properly!
My grandad helped design that plane for Avro, worked on the electrics, knew the test pilots, last plane he worked on after being there from the 30s to 70s also built Lancaster's in the war.
After flying Mustangs in the Korean War for the RAAF, my old man did the Test Pilot's course in England and flew all 3 of the V Bombers. He loved the Vulcan. I could watch that video over & over again.
You want to try seeing a fleet scramble. I was lucky enough to witness that in 1980 as a new RAF recruit on secondment to Waddington. Seeing around 30 Vulcans take off one after the other is something I'll never forget. You think you feel one, this was on a whole different level!
My Grandfather was a 30 year veteran of the USAF he used to do the same thing to fishermen out on the lakes in mostly B52s. He actually got a lot closer, he used get in trouble because people would be able to see him waving at them, that’s how close he got! Great man! He’s struggling with his memory, but he definitely remembers his time in the service. Edit: Ok, since there seems to be some question about the authenticity of this story, I thought I’d give a little background. I didn’t actually hear about this story from my grandfather, my grandparents got a divorce before I was around and they both remarried. So one time I was out on a lake with my grandmother and her husband when a cropduster or something, I don’t remember for sure, flew over us really low. This caused her husband to begin talking about how one time he was out on a lake when a b52 flew over him low enough for him to see the pilot waving at him. My grandmother acted surprised by this and asked him if this lake was near Wichita, Yes, then she asked if it happened approximately x number of years ago, yes. Then my grandmother went on to tell the story I gave above, speculating that it was my grandfather that her husband had seen.
DILLAN Kadri tbh the only few ways that Americans make me pissed is Americans writing their own version of Scottish history with brave heart and claiming they won both world wars when Britain really save their arse and they never entered till 3 years late
For those of you that have never seen this live, its like a combination of roaring thunder plus an earthquake when one of these flies low & slow overhead, quite unbelievable
I saw an f22 put full ab and go vertical, that was 2 turbofans and it still sounded like the sky was tearing itself apart. I can only imagine 4 turbofans
im old and grey now ! and i remember these flying over head when i was ten ! wow that " VULCAN HOWL" stay with me forever , i do remember tho being in the Air Cadets in Nottm at an air show in the 50s , and seeing one crash on the airfield . all on board were killed . terrible memory for a 14 yr old .
I remember as a young man in Belfast I went to a display at RAF Aldergrove, a Vulcan came screaming low over the runway! Never to be forgotten! I’m now 82. Thanks for this. Cheers from Oz.
Remembering my gran's brother - Ted Smith - who worked for AV Roe on their Lancasters and after the war was a member of the team that developed the Vulcan
When Britain was still Great in producing amazing airplanes ! One of the most distinct shapes of the cold war, a fearsome shape to the old CCCP. Thanks for this upload. Cheers.
For a time, the Soviet high command didn't posses an effective deterrent to the V-force. I'd call that a resounding success and a big middle finger to all despot dictators.
The Eurofighter Typhoon is still one of the most advanced military jets. We didn't just stop making good planes, we've just realised that we can make better ones that cost way more than budgeted when working with the US.
@@trespire Neither did the US. The Vulcan's effectively slipped through US air defence in drills 2 years running, both of which had it been a live scenario, the US would have been nuked, one being on New York City.
Had the privilege as a young lad getting on board one of these which was on display in Blackpool. Fell in love with it instantly and have carried a love and respect for the RAF ever since 🇬🇧🇬🇧
I was stunned by one of those that roared over my grandma`s house when i played as a kid in the garden. It appeared roaring above the neighbours apple trees and was just gigantic and send a warm gust of wind in my face shortly after it had passed directly over me. It was just a few seconds but i will never forget that.
@@Bartonovich52 They sound amazing..The Olympus is a very similar engine, same weight, size and thrust. They could almost swap between the two. The Olympus though went on to be developed into a monster powerhouse for Concorde of course eventually with double the power of the J79. I think the Vulcan howl was due to intake characteristics and aerodynamics of the aircraft external to the engine. The J79 just howled, and that makes it the king of howling. I guess all the other aircraft using it were the same. The big four engined Hustler must have been awesome. PS. Nothing wrong with VHS audio, as long as it doesn't use the admittedly crappy linear mono head it is capable of (near) CD quality audio.
Just occasionally youtube recommends gets it right. I remember seeing (and feeling) the Vulcan at air shows in the eighties. I'm sure the engines did something to interrupt the rhythm of my heart.
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I was there that day and it was a ripper. The three V's were my favourite aircrafts as a kid, and the story of pilots on the end of the runway in cold war situations always gave me chills! Fantastic bit of kit - will never forget it
I WAS in the USAF in OMAHA, (offutt afb) and we had a british detachment there...they all were VULCAN BOMBERS...loved those planes!!! the guys from Britain were awesome!!
Awesome aircraft, my pops flew B-52 during Vietnam, he said that the British pilots used to do an aileron roll right after takeoff, bad-ass for a bomber!
18tangles I used to work on them,the only time it did a barrel roll was very early on,Role Falk was the pilot at the time & he got a bollocking for that. There is a video of it on TH-cam. Regards.
My dad used to work on the Vulcans as ground crew with the nuclear kit at RAF Finningley, he saw several occasions of the pilots putting them through their paces. He said he dropped his cigarette one time because not long after take off the pilot brought the vulcan along the runway, with the landing gear up so close to the ground it clipped the antenna on their fire engine, then proceeded to climb at almost 90 degrees to the floor and disappeared in seconds, came round again, couple of barrel rolls, landed and apparently this one pilot used to get out, speak to the ground crew and would say something like "Not bad... I suppose it'll do" laugh and go for a drink.
When I was about 12 yrs old, I was fishing the local gravel pit, a place called Stargate pond. It was a very sunny day, and you could barely see the float for the glare off the water. Anyway, there had been a few passenger aircraft go over but then, there was a roaring, howling, almost a screeching sound, as a Vulcan bomber climbed out from Newcastle Airport, and headed due south, right over Blaydon. The sound was unmistakable, and I'd seen and heard Vulcans go over quite a few times, but what made this one so memorable was that, as she flew on her way, the reflection from the pond I was fishing, flashed almost a perfect white square on the undersides of the Vulcan! It was a split second thing, really, but I can still see it in my minds eye, some 50 years later. A truly beautiful and majestic aircraft.
If called upon it was designed to deliver a 17000lb Mach 3+ Blue Steal missile with a 1.1 Megaton thermonuclear bomb. Given recent events I can see the importance of the deterrence.
I do miss XH558. Literally obsessed. Would drive miles up and down the uk just to see her fly past like this. What a beautiful old gal. Our skies aren't the same. That howl. The tell tale exhaust from afar as she would approach when at shows. Such a crowd puller. The almighty Avro Vulcan B2 XH558
I was on the beach watching that day. Martin Withers at the controls too (as in Sq. Ldr Withers who Captained Vulcan XM607 to Stanley in '82 and dropped 21 x 1000lb iron-bombs on Port Stanley airport runway). The first of the Black-Buck raids; Withers also went on to Captain one more Black-Buck raid during the conflict.
I saw a Vulcan bomber at the 2012 farnborough air show, it was so loud on the fly by that I couldn't hear anything for about 15 seconds and my ears were ringing for a day or two afterwards. Incredible machines!
Decades ago, my Army father and I were attending an Armed Forces Day event at the Sandia Air Base in New Mexico. As the announcer spoke about the Air Forces new plane, all eyes were on an aircraft taking off on a far runway. The surprise was when ther new B-58 supersonic bomber flew over from behind and broke the sound barrier just over the crowds heads! What a show!
I was lucky enough to see one of it's final fly-bys. The noise set off nearly every car and house alarm in the street. I've been to quite a few airshows, but nothing compares to the vulcan for me.
Yes, in a nation that produces rolls Royce cars and jet engines, 18 of the 22 f1 cars on the grid, has held the land speed record for the last 2 decades, has the best aerobatics team on the earth, has the most advanced aircraft carriers, is home to Aston martin and Morgan among a whole host of other things, we will never see an engineering accomplishment again?
I saw one live a few times - it was all white and at certain angles it looked like a UFO. It was a scary looking powerful aeroplane which could fly quite slow if the pilot wanted to. It could then come back at very high speed and shoot up into the clouds. I'll never forget it.
The loudest noise I have every experienced was a Vulcan taking off from RAF St Mawgan in Cornwall when I was a child in the early 1970's. Awesome machine made when the UK was a world leader in aviation.
I remember seeing one at an airshow as a kid. They were retiring them I think as it flew by with the bomb bay doors open with "goodbye" painted inside. As it pulled away the pilot must have opened the throttles as it sounded like the air was being torn apart!! Amazing !!!
I was a youngster growing up in Weston Super Mare in the 1970’s. I felt the awesome power of the Vulcan bomber on numerous occasions during air shows. Sometimes, when it circled out in the bay, it felt like it blotted out the sun like an eclipse for a moment - such a huge presence! The scream of its engines are totally unforgettable. Wonderful memories! Thanks for posting 👍🏻
I saw a Vulcan bomber do a fly by at Barksdale AFB in the spring of 1979. It was really quite spectacular to see that plane fly. I guess all good things eventually come to an end.
Such a beautiful machine to deliver such a deadly payload. I remember being at Cranfield air show one year when the Vulcan did a vertical climb on full afterburner. The ground literally shook and I doubt I’ll ever hear anything so loud again.
Concorde was really pretty too... I got to see G-BOAE as a teen (several flybys, two landings and a takeoff) when they did a tour of the USA. My cousins even flew on it for that short tour flight of about an hour zipping around the edge of Lake Superior (subsonic the whole time). My dad didn't want to chip in for that. :D
As a kid, in the 80s, I went to RAF Waddington's airshow and saw a squadron of Vulcans being scrambled. I have never heard a noise like it before or since.
Saw the same Vulcan scramble at RAF Finingley many years ago and I can still hear and feel the noise, then watching it shoot down the runway then go vertical, great memory
Yep same here as kids we were allowed to sit on the grass over the barricade's and the ground rumbled when vulcan scramble took off,also english electric lightning scramble was another sight to see and hear, will never see such a spectacular take off again.
I have an old die cast model. Wing span about 8". One of the wings has slight bend at the tip where the aileron would be. As a kid, I'd take it to the lake and found out if laid it level at the waters surface and let go, the model would glide in a tight circle around me until it landed on bottom. I spent hours 'flying' this plain under the water. It worked perfectly.
I remember when I was 5 or 6 me and my parents went to an airshow, I was in one of those portable toilets and I started to hear a very ominous rumbling noise, then I started to feel it and before I knew it everything was shaking, I thought there was an earthquake but as soon as I came out and went to see my parents they told me "you missed the Vulcan!" Still glad to have experienced it somewhat.
Can you imagine being the pilot and powering up on full throttle as you complete your pass over the crowd. The Vulcan is earth shatteringly loud and there is something about the Olympus 301's under full power that stops you in your tracks and makes you look to the skies and proud to be British. Its no wonder the Argentine's moved their planes back to Buenos Aires after hearing and literally feeling the ground shake under the power of those awesome 301's passing overhead as Martin Withers turned 180 degrees to head home under full throttle to Ascension after bombing Stanley airstrip. The sound alone must have been enough to scare the living daylights out of the Argentine's.
Yep stunning. First saw one of these fly over my house when i was 7 in 1977 something you never forget. Also go to shows with these and the sound goes right through you just like with old B-52's. Amazing feeling.(:-)
As a kid I lived at RAF Catterick. I saw on of the last Vulcans land there. It was going to the RAF Fire Fighting School to get torched. I was lucky, Dad was in the RAF, so I was actually stood on the airfield watching it land. The runway was too short so they had to close the A1 so she could touch down right at the start of the runway. She had to go round twice. An absolutely amazing sight to see as a kid.
Saw one of its last appearances at Farnborough. Fly over with payload doors open, then fly by escorted by Red arrows... stunning & lump in throat moment
I lived near Manston Airport. They had air shows every two years. The Vulcan took off and landed. Made three passes over the crowd. The sound was terrifying and stupendous all at the same time. I would not have liked to have been at the receiving end of that. A beautiful graceful aircraft. Shame to see its gone.
The Argentineans stood no chance. The trouble is, even though I'm a proud Brit, I think we were completely in the wrong. It was just a rotten stunt by that evil witch, Maggie Thatcher, to gain her some popularity, with the resultant loss of many lives, mostly young Argentinian soldiers and sailors. It would be like the Russians invading the Isle Of White and claiming it was THEIRS.
@@petermclelland278 They are now retired - your request us 30 years too late. Suggest they stop attacking Israel and maybe talk and they may get somewhere.
On the day of its last flight, it flew around the uk. That very same day we were moving house, whilst around the back of the house i heard this unmistakeable sound , it flew right over our house as low as this and down the valley...awe inspiring
Sadly we used to make cool stuff! We have lost the majority of our highly trained technicians and engineers when we once ruled the world in engineering :(
They used to fly over our house in pairs in the seventies. You could feel the ground shake.scared me to death if you didn't see them coming. Remember the air shows at RAF CHURCH FENTON great days...
@oldsongsnew....yeah it was awesome, they were in their camo livery on the the top and a sandy colour underneath....wish I was back in those days again....all the best to you...
Standing underneath the wings in Hendon museum is surprising, the wingspan is colossal. Still an amazing plane after 60 years. The vulcan could do anything whatever the height.
Jeremy Frey The Vulcan Bomber should be used for the US Army ' hi JF... that would be nice but... american have alot of good B-1 lancers bombers planes plus great B-2 spirit planes and double great B-52 stratofortresses planes
many years ago when i was around 12 i was walking home on a bright sunny day when a shadow came over the top of me from behind i looked up then woosh it was a vulcan.never forget that feeling of it flying over me.
You cant understand just how loud those things are until you've heard it yourself. It literally shakes your bones
If you think the Vulcan's engines where loud, you should have heard the testbed Vulcan that had a Concorde prototype engine bolted to it's bomb bay. That was loud.
They literally rattle your insides! Wunderful aircraft!!!
I managed to see the vulcan on its last flight. Magnificent aircraft
I lived at RAF Finningly when they were based there, right under the flight path
Yep, I remember being a 12YO at Farnham Air Show hearing one. That and the F-22 made such a sound.
And for those 24 seconds, every person on that beach was 10 years old, mouth agape, and thinking how cool it would be to be the pilot.
More like “fuck that guy, I enjoyed the ability to hear”
And, weeks later, they cursed him and the tinnitus his low-level pass had bestowed upon them.
No, all of them were frightened. Feeling their guts get stiffen thinking thank God this is not a real situation
A nice thought but doubt it
@@gujwdhufjijjpo9740 I was waiting for the howl. That was the G rated version of a low pass.
20 feet with the taps open would be sweet.
As a kid, I remember a Vulcan flying directly over me at just a couple of hundred feet. It took forever for its shadow to pass over me, and it's engine noise rattled my teeth. It was frighteningly beautiful. It was still an active service nuclear bomber at the time, I think.
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I realeze it a GTA bomber in real life
You see a volatol in the air 😩
I live 2 minutes from where the Vulacn is kept, and its awesome when it used to fly over our village it even set off car alarms, when I got married in 2014 the pilot must have seen a weddind going on as we came out of the village church as he circled twice right above us and he came down real low.
CB ALN The Vulcan never fails to make that day live long in the memory
and you said "God Save The Queen"
R/thathappened
CB ALN not Wellesbourne is it?
They officially retired the Vulcan's in 1982. I remember the ceremony at Offutt AFB. The plane that flew the final demonstration, XM-577 ( I think) was donated to the Aerospace Museum, City of Bellevue, Nebraska. The museum has since been relocated near Ashland, Nebraska, near Interstate 80.
And a reminder of an aviation and engineering industry that everyone in this country could have been proud of!
Always 🇬🇧💪🇬🇧💪
The Vulcan at its time was a bloody marvel of engineering, during training exercises with the Americans it played the role of Soviet High Altitude Bombers, Ran circles around the Yanks and Dropped simulated nukes on the US twice
You should still be proud of what the UK can and has accomplished. Here is the US things suck too and nothing we make inspires passion anymore. That doesn’t take away how incredible the U-2 , SR-71, etc were. Same to be said in the UK.
And it's incredible to think that at the same time we developed the Vulcan we also built the other two V bombers, the Valiant and the Victor. Now we can't even fill potholes properly!
A absolutely Stunningly beautiful aircraft with a sound you'll never forget.
It’s hard to forget the last sound you heard before going deaf
Unless you're the ENEMY !!
All I heard was loud noise.
That's the Sound of Freedom!
Will be missed...😢
My grandad helped design that plane for Avro, worked on the electrics, knew the test pilots, last plane he worked on after being there from the 30s to 70s also built Lancaster's in the war.
Is he still with us? My relations are buried next to someone who helped with design to in Woodford cemetery.
After flying Mustangs in the Korean War for the RAAF, my old man did the Test Pilot's course in England and flew all 3 of the V Bombers. He loved the Vulcan. I could watch that video over & over again.
Under-rated post.
@David Gee I pay my highest respect to your grandad. Men like him helped secure our freedom.
@Poseidon yeah such a great logic
You don't simply hear a Vulcan when it does a low pass, you feel it!!!
Very true
You want to try seeing a fleet scramble. I was lucky enough to witness that in 1980 as a new RAF recruit on secondment to Waddington. Seeing around 30 Vulcans take off one after the other is something I'll never forget. You think you feel one, this was on a whole different level!
Its like a phil lesh bass drop bomb
That is one of the sleekest planes ever produced. Such nice lines on it.
Kevin Stroup ehhhhh what have you seen other planes
B-2 much sleeker
i would fuck it
And a complete pain in the ass to fly
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this takes "let's cruise the beach and see some chicks in bikini" to a whole new level
This was probably part of an air show. They do one at Clacton every year.
This is the UK, no "chicks in bikini" lol
@@mammothfire haha
@@mammothfire worse. It's Weston-super-Mare!
@@englishalan222 it is mate. Weston-super-Mare, near Bristol.
All for free as well.
I worked with a team of engineers in the RAF to change one of those monstrous engines a couple years back, an amazing plane
dont lie nerd
My Grandfather was a 30 year veteran of the USAF he used to do the same thing to fishermen out on the lakes in mostly B52s. He actually got a lot closer, he used get in trouble because people would be able to see him waving at them, that’s how close he got! Great man! He’s struggling with his memory, but he definitely remembers his time in the service.
Edit: Ok, since there seems to be some question about the authenticity of this story, I thought I’d give a little background. I didn’t actually hear about this story from my grandfather, my grandparents got a divorce before I was around and they both remarried. So one time I was out on a lake with my grandmother and her husband when a cropduster or something, I don’t remember for sure, flew over us really low. This caused her husband to begin talking about how one time he was out on a lake when a b52 flew over him low enough for him to see the pilot waving at him. My grandmother acted surprised by this and asked him if this lake was near Wichita, Yes, then she asked if it happened approximately x number of years ago, yes. Then my grandmother went on to tell the story I gave above, speculating that it was my grandfather that her husband had seen.
Who cares! And noone gives a fuck America will never be a great nation you clown the world hates Americans, fact!!!
DILLAN Kadri tbh the only few ways that Americans make me pissed is Americans writing their own version of Scottish history with brave heart and claiming they won both world wars when Britain really save their arse and they never entered till 3 years late
Doesn't matter, still won. BACK TO BACK WORLD WAR CHAMPS
DILLAN Kadri That’s your opinion
Euan Comrie "britain saved their arse" I admit we didnt do much foghting but without American cargo you would've been fucked
Bathers: finally a quiet day on the beach to relax and get some sun...
Vulcan: allow me to introduce myself.
Yes i like that one, Johnathon.
*Jonathan* These words, in the same order, are in the first sentence of the Rolling Stones' Sympathy for the Devil.
fuck the quiet day: that's a Vulcan!
For what shall likely be the last time.
HAHAHAHAHA quality mate....👍🏻😂
Simply one of the most beautiful things to ever take to the skies.
A record that will not be surpassed until your mum takes to the skies
For those of you that have never seen this live, its like a combination of roaring thunder plus an earthquake when one of these flies low & slow overhead, quite unbelievable
@@ItsWaterCooled Just like Tu-95 flyby. You can barely see it, but glass is shaking.
I saw an f22 put full ab and go vertical, that was 2 turbofans and it still sounded like the sky was tearing itself apart. I can only imagine 4 turbofans
Yes TH-cam, this is exactly the video I wanted to watch at 1am
On full volume.
🤣🤣🤣
@@tooyoungtobeold8756 I wear hearing protection watching chainsaw videos.
Worked well at 2 am too
1:36 AM to be exact :)
Proud to say that my Dad was her first main pilot in RAF service. XH558 is a very special aircraft to me
You can hear the distant little boy's voice at the end shouting "Wow!!" He'll remember it when he's old & grey ;)
I still do agter seeing, experiencing it in the sixties as a kid.
im old and grey now ! and i remember these flying over head when i was ten ! wow that " VULCAN HOWL" stay with me forever , i do remember tho being in the Air Cadets in Nottm at an air show in the 50s , and seeing one crash on the airfield . all on board were killed . terrible memory for a 14 yr old .
Pretty spectacular that
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What are you, an alien?
+john jay Completely agree.
Found the American.
+john jay JA FUßING SURE, MAYBE WE COULD DO ANOTHER 9/11 IF WE HAVE TIME?
I remember as a young man in Belfast I went to a display at RAF Aldergrove, a Vulcan came screaming low over the runway! Never to be forgotten! I’m now 82. Thanks for this. Cheers from Oz.
That was in sneak mode, because the last time I saw one at an airshow, it took a week for my ears to get back to normal.
Video doesnt do this justice! Same as you saw one at Blackpool airshow and when it flew by the ground was literally shaking. Awesome sound.
I remember seeing a Vulcan at an air show 40 years ago. The engines were beyond sound. Sub bass. You really felt it. And it was a thing of beauty.
Wondering if it was at the Kissimmee Florida airshow. It took out chunks of runway on rotation. Pilot: Opps.. sorry about that chief!
40 years ago ?.......OK
@ why question that? I saw one at RNAS Yeovilton air show in the early 80s
The video just can't capture the feeling of the sound passing through your body
@@Epiphany-818 agreed 100%
To me one of the most beautiful looking planes ever built by man ...
Well they weren't built by aliens
@@kevinmissons9183 🗿
Remembering my gran's brother - Ted Smith - who worked for AV Roe on their Lancasters and after the war was a member of the team that developed the Vulcan
I've ALWAYS admired the old Vulcan. Unique aircraft, without any close rival Designs.
When Britain was still Great in producing amazing airplanes ! One of the most distinct shapes of the cold war, a fearsome shape to the old CCCP.
Thanks for this upload.
Cheers.
For a time, the Soviet high command didn't posses an effective deterrent to the V-force. I'd call that a resounding success and a big middle finger to all despot dictators.
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In Britain it's Aeroplanes, not 'airplanes'.
The Eurofighter Typhoon is still one of the most advanced military jets. We didn't just stop making good planes, we've just realised that we can make better ones that cost way more than budgeted when working with the US.
@@trespire Neither did the US. The Vulcan's effectively slipped through US air defence in drills 2 years running, both of which had it been a live scenario, the US would have been nuked, one being on New York City.
Had the privilege as a young lad getting on board one of these which was on display in Blackpool. Fell in love with it instantly and have carried a love and respect for the RAF ever since 🇬🇧🇬🇧
I was stunned by one of those that roared over my grandma`s house when i played as a kid in the garden.
It appeared roaring above the neighbours apple trees and was just gigantic and send a warm gust of wind
in my face shortly after it had passed directly over me. It was just a few seconds but i will never forget that.
You forgot to put "best howl" in the title lol
TAOFLEDERMAUS because there was no howl sadly.
Nothing compared to an F-104.
Even on crappy VHS.
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OMG I would have been frozen it was so cool..and the pilot tilted his wing to the people below...way cool
@@Bartonovich52 They sound amazing..The Olympus is a very similar engine, same weight, size and thrust. They could almost swap between the two. The Olympus though went on to be developed into a monster powerhouse for Concorde of course eventually with double the power of the J79.
I think the Vulcan howl was due to intake characteristics and aerodynamics of the aircraft external to the engine. The J79 just howled, and that makes it the king of howling.
I guess all the other aircraft using it were the same. The big four engined Hustler must have been awesome.
PS. Nothing wrong with VHS audio, as long as it doesn't use the admittedly crappy linear mono head it is capable of (near) CD quality audio.
Just occasionally youtube recommends gets it right. I remember seeing (and feeling) the Vulcan at air shows in the eighties. I'm sure the engines did something to interrupt the rhythm of my heart.
The most amazing jet aircraft ever built,and half my family were involved in it at AVRO Woodford in Cheshire. Would love to see one fly again.
When British engineers built a world class aero plane.
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They built world class and world beating planes from 1914 to 1970s
@@kthog3348 Lmao wtf
They still have something to do with every western modern aircraft built. Great engineers, mechanics, etc.
The absolute pinnacle of British engineering.
I was there that day and it was a ripper. The three V's were my favourite aircrafts as a kid, and the story of pilots on the end of the runway in cold war situations always gave me chills! Fantastic bit of kit - will never forget it
Oh Tom, what is the location of that Vulcan Bomber?
I WAS in the USAF in OMAHA, (offutt afb) and we had a british detachment there...they all were VULCAN BOMBERS...loved those planes!!! the guys from Britain were awesome!!
I grew up in West Omaha in the 70s and 80s. One of the approach patterns went over our neighborhood. I would see Vulcan bombers quite often.
jeff zimmerman ...Yeah Britain, and The USA........brothers.....and sisters.....✌🏻🇬🇧🇺🇸...
Thanks for that..from England
Awesome aircraft, my pops flew B-52 during Vietnam, he said that the British pilots used to do an aileron roll right after takeoff, bad-ass for a bomber!
18tangles Which unit was that then?
18tangles I used to work on them,the only time it did a barrel roll was very early on,Role Falk was the pilot at the time & he got a bollocking for that. There is a video of it on TH-cam.
Regards.
john jay Jesus old man I hope you go back in time to the Falklands and stand on a runway in Port Stanley
john jay shut the fuck up, you troglodyte.
My dad used to work on the Vulcans as ground crew with the nuclear kit at RAF Finningley, he saw several occasions of the pilots putting them through their paces. He said he dropped his cigarette one time because not long after take off the pilot brought the vulcan along the runway, with the landing gear up so close to the ground it clipped the antenna on their fire engine, then proceeded to climb at almost 90 degrees to the floor and disappeared in seconds, came round again, couple of barrel rolls, landed and apparently this one pilot used to get out, speak to the ground crew and would say something like "Not bad... I suppose it'll do" laugh and go for a drink.
When I was about 12 yrs old, I was fishing the local gravel pit, a place called Stargate pond. It was a very sunny day, and you could barely see the float for the glare off the water.
Anyway, there had been a few passenger aircraft go over but then, there was a roaring, howling, almost a screeching sound, as a Vulcan bomber climbed out from Newcastle Airport, and headed due south, right over Blaydon. The sound was unmistakable, and I'd seen and heard Vulcans go over quite a few times, but what made this one so memorable was that, as she flew on her way, the reflection from the pond I was fishing, flashed almost a perfect white square on the undersides of the Vulcan! It was a split second thing, really, but I can still see it in my minds eye, some 50 years later.
A truly beautiful and majestic aircraft.
One of the best looking planes ever made in my eyes. Old school stunner what a nice pilot to do that.
one of the best but the best looking delta wing ever was the CF- 105 . ARROW
This aircraft was built in late 1951 and it had its first flight on 30th august 1952..
yes 1952.. unbelievable
If called upon it was designed to deliver a 17000lb Mach 3+ Blue Steal missile with a 1.1 Megaton thermonuclear bomb. Given recent events I can see the importance of the deterrence.
Hearing the Vulcan Howl in person is truly a life altering experience.
That Sound is Awesome coming in low like that.
George Henshaw i c bm
Imagine what the argies thought of the sound ???
I do miss XH558. Literally obsessed. Would drive miles up and down the uk just to see her fly past like this. What a beautiful old gal. Our skies aren't the same. That howl. The tell tale exhaust from afar as she would approach when at shows. Such a crowd puller. The almighty Avro Vulcan B2 XH558
I was on the beach watching that day. Martin Withers at the controls too (as in Sq. Ldr Withers who Captained Vulcan XM607 to Stanley in '82 and dropped 21 x 1000lb iron-bombs on Port Stanley airport runway). The first of the Black-Buck raids; Withers also went on to Captain one more Black-Buck raid during the conflict.
“Switch on the underwater landing lights.”
Thank you. I wasn’t the only one.
Me and Count Lippe that is
Shaken, not stirred
Wait what’s the reference?
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@@karelpgbr James Bond thunder ball
I remember being at an air show decades ago when a Vulcan flew over head. No video can capture how noisy these beasts are.
And in those days they were allowed to fly low directly over the top of the crowd ... I remember it well!
pardon?
I saw a Vulcan bomber at the 2012 farnborough air show, it was so loud on the fly by that I couldn't hear anything for about 15 seconds and my ears were ringing for a day or two afterwards. Incredible machines!
@@MrAdopado Amazing wasn't it.... They will be stopping planes coming in to airports soon.... FFS
@@leylandeasdale1075 Medical martial law is upon us...
Decades ago, my Army father and I were attending an Armed Forces Day event at the Sandia Air Base in New Mexico. As the announcer spoke about the Air Forces new plane, all eyes were on an aircraft taking off on a far runway. The surprise was when ther new B-58 supersonic bomber flew over from behind and broke the sound barrier just over the crowds heads! What a show!
Im in the USA i wo3love to see and hear that roar! I hear its deafening!
Love that bomber!
Positive vibes from iowa USA
when us brits engineered things back in the day...thet where serious players in the theatre of war. budget cuts and shit put that to bed. very sad
@@kyleatherton88 - and a lack of foreign buyers for British aircraft
I was lucky enough to see one of it's final fly-bys. The noise set off nearly every car and house alarm in the street.
I've been to quite a few airshows, but nothing compares to the vulcan for me.
@@PelonMusk lol i meant at an airshow silly.
Next best is the spitfire.
An icon that never can be forgotten. What a lucky moment for those beachgoers. To see a symbol of unforgettable engineering and might
Remember the days at RAF Scampton when you had Sixteen of them talking off. I will never forget that . The Vulcan was awesome.
From a time when we were a great engineering and manufacturing country, never to be seen again.
People were looking up at that and then trying to go home in their BL car with Lucas electrics that wouldn’t start.
@@calvinnickel9995 Lucas/Lex parts made in Japan.
The military industrial complex has nothing to do with the engineering/manufacturing base of the United States.
@@aiyhamghey the Avro Vulcan jet was an RAF jet built in the UK...what has the US got to do with this?
Yes, in a nation that produces rolls Royce cars and jet engines, 18 of the 22 f1 cars on the grid, has held the land speed record for the last 2 decades, has the best aerobatics team on the earth, has the most advanced aircraft carriers, is home to Aston martin and Morgan among a whole host of other things, we will never see an engineering accomplishment again?
After all these years, like something from another planet.
I saw one live a few times - it was all white and at certain angles
it looked like a UFO.
It was a scary looking powerful aeroplane which could fly quite slow
if the pilot wanted to. It could then come back at very high speed
and shoot up into the clouds.
I'll never forget it.
Just brilliant!
The loudest noise I have every experienced was a Vulcan taking off from RAF St Mawgan in Cornwall when I was a child in the early 1970's. Awesome machine made when the UK was a world leader in aviation.
Nothing can beat that feeling you have when you hear that howl
What an elegant looking plane..curvy and sleek!
I remember seeing one at an airshow as a kid. They were retiring them I think as it flew by with the bomb bay doors open with "goodbye" painted inside. As it pulled away the pilot must have opened the throttles as it sounded like the air was being torn apart!! Amazing !!!
I was a youngster growing up in Weston Super Mare in the 1970’s. I felt the awesome power of the Vulcan bomber on numerous occasions during air shows. Sometimes, when it circled out in the bay, it felt like it blotted out the sun like an eclipse for a moment - such a huge presence!
The scream of its engines are totally unforgettable. Wonderful memories! Thanks for posting 👍🏻
I saw a Vulcan bomber do a fly by at Barksdale AFB in the spring of 1979. It was really quite spectacular to see that plane fly. I guess all good things eventually come to an end.
Such a beautiful machine to deliver such a deadly payload. I remember being at Cranfield air show one year when the Vulcan did a vertical climb on full afterburner. The ground literally shook and I doubt I’ll ever hear anything so loud again.
Vulcans never had afterburners
@@joshjack6127 well on full power then. Doesn’t change my original point.
Great and wonderfully kind pilots, Making a free Show for the people
Magnificent! I've seen one of these flying over me in the 1960s, and there's nothing like it.
Honestly the most majestic plane to ever take to the skies. Such a pity it's gone
It could have done a roll.
Na that would be the B-2
Concorde was really pretty too... I got to see G-BOAE as a teen (several flybys, two landings and a takeoff) when they did a tour of the USA.
My cousins even flew on it for that short tour flight of about an hour zipping around the edge of Lake Superior (subsonic the whole time). My dad didn't want to chip in for that. :D
Never seen/heard a Vulcan, but this must be a very special moment to those who enjoy the pure sound of aviation... amazing plane 👏👏👏
As a kid, in the 80s, I went to RAF Waddington's airshow and saw a squadron of Vulcans being scrambled. I have never heard a noise like it before or since.
Saw the same Vulcan scramble at RAF Finingley many years ago and I can still hear and feel the noise, then watching it shoot down the runway then go vertical, great memory
Yep same here as kids we were allowed to sit on the grass over the barricade's and the ground rumbled when vulcan scramble took off,also english electric lightning scramble was another sight to see and hear, will never see such a spectacular take off again.
Such a huge shame this isn't flying anymore, was an amazing sight and sound to behold!
Just ten years from the Avro Lancaster to the Avro Vulcan. Incredible!
From the cockpit: "This is Major Derval. Please turn on the underwater landing lights"
007 much?
Probably too much ;-)
David Campagna erm... No
David Campagna The Best Bond film ever!!!
@@trevorfuson715 Agreed. I watch it yearly and I think I've just come back around to that yearly watch. Thanks gents
I have an old die cast model. Wing span about 8". One of the wings has slight bend at the tip where the aileron would be. As a kid, I'd take it to the lake and found out if laid it level at the waters surface and let go, the model would glide in a tight circle around me until it landed on bottom. I spent hours 'flying' this plain under the water. It worked perfectly.
I remember when I was 5 or 6 me and my parents went to an airshow, I was in one of those portable toilets and I started to hear a very ominous rumbling noise, then I started to feel it and before I knew it everything was shaking, I thought there was an earthquake but as soon as I came out and went to see my parents they told me "you missed the Vulcan!" Still glad to have experienced it somewhat.
Can you imagine being the pilot and powering up on full throttle as you complete your pass over the crowd. The Vulcan is earth shatteringly loud and there is something about the Olympus 301's under full power that stops you in your tracks and makes you look to the skies and proud to be British. Its no wonder the Argentine's moved their planes back to Buenos Aires after hearing and literally feeling the ground shake under the power of those awesome 301's passing overhead as Martin Withers turned 180 degrees to head home under full throttle to Ascension after bombing Stanley airstrip. The sound alone must have been enough to scare the living daylights out of the Argentine's.
Yep stunning.
First saw one of these fly over my house when i was 7 in 1977 something you never forget.
Also go to shows with these and the sound goes right through you just like with old B-52's.
Amazing feeling.(:-)
As a kid I lived at RAF Catterick. I saw on of the last Vulcans land there. It was going to the RAF Fire Fighting School to get torched. I was lucky, Dad was in the RAF, so I was actually stood on the airfield watching it land. The runway was too short so they had to close the A1 so she could touch down right at the start of the runway. She had to go round twice. An absolutely amazing sight to see as a kid.
Saw one of its last appearances at Farnborough. Fly over with payload doors open, then fly by escorted by Red arrows... stunning & lump in throat moment
Star wars again with the roaring Avro Vulcan Bomber with Great Britain and jolly good stuff 👍
The only aircraft to ever impress my wife. lol. Taken her to airshows, and the Vulcan is the only thing that ever made her say "Wow!"
She needs to see a B2.
@@pschroeter1 eh, it's no Vulcan!
@@AtheAetheling I think he knows , I think wot he means is that she would be more impressed at a b2 than she was at a Vulcan
I lived near Manston Airport. They had air shows every two years. The Vulcan took off and landed. Made three passes over the crowd. The sound was terrifying and stupendous all at the same time. I would not have liked to have been at the receiving end of that. A beautiful graceful aircraft. Shame to see its gone.
WOW!! The SLOW roll and the sound effects really augments the awesomeness of this aircraft.
Imagine it’s 1982. Your Argentinean. You look out over port Stanley and see this coming towards you
Imagine you're in a building. You don't know it's coming, then EVERYTHING starts shaking with the noise from those engines.
The Argentineans stood no chance. The trouble is, even though I'm a proud Brit, I think we were completely in the wrong. It was just a rotten stunt by that evil witch, Maggie Thatcher, to gain her some popularity, with the resultant loss of many lives, mostly young Argentinian soldiers and sailors. It would be like the Russians invading the Isle Of White and claiming it was THEIRS.
@@bestofluckusa Logic is not your strong point. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.
@@titantic9160 If that's what someone of your intellect thinks, then I consider it a compliment.
@@bestofluckusa Dunning Kruger. Seek help.
Saw one of these at a 1980s Chicago Air and Water Show. It flew close to the shoreline and low. It was crazy loud, exactly like this video.
I just love how this sets off car alarms in a climb
One of the reasons those people were free to go to that beach.
Loan a few to the Palestinians then ?
@@petermclelland278 They are now retired - your request us 30 years too late.
Suggest they stop attacking Israel and maybe talk and they may get somewhere.
@Concrete Head As I said - try talking and working it out- or do you think terrorism is "cool mate?"
You don’t just hear a Vulcan, you feel it.
"Vulcan Bomber stuns beach-goers with a bomb"
😂😂😂😂 my first thought = Oh sheet
That was the show Argentina got
@@BlatentlyFakeName 🤣🤣
Wait...."a bomb" or "A-bomb"? ;)
Hard to believe that this beautiful aircraft was developed in 1956 along with the victor they're two of the best looking aircraft ever built.
First flight ‘52 no?
On the day of its last flight, it flew around the uk. That very same day we were moving house, whilst around the back of the house i heard this unmistakeable sound , it flew right over our house as low as this and down the valley...awe inspiring
The seagull kept up for a few seconds! 😜 Seriously, this is a beautiful jet.
😂😂.yeah..after 2 seconds seagull said "awww heeell nawww"
The Poms sure did make some very cool stuff!
James Smith: british..? WUHAHAAA!!!
Thank you kindly. Aussie, I assume? ;)
Sadly we used to make cool stuff! We have lost the majority of our highly trained technicians and engineers when we once ruled the world in engineering :(
Mick Martin Pomes*
Apologies in advance but we will be keeping the Ashes
The sound of victory and Empire!
They used to fly over our house in pairs in the seventies. You could feel the ground shake.scared me to death if you didn't see them coming. Remember the air shows at RAF CHURCH FENTON great days...
This happened to me in High Wycombe ,when I was a kid. I remember the shaking also.!
@oldsongsnew....yeah it was awesome, they were in their camo livery on the the top and a sandy colour underneath....wish I was back in those days again....all the best to you...
Standing underneath the wings in Hendon museum is surprising, the wingspan is colossal. Still an amazing plane after 60 years. The vulcan could do anything whatever the height.
I miss her so much
Matt D
I miss her so much
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hi MD...
who is her
bestamerica the plane
Bob Jones
bestamerica the plane
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hi BJ...
ohh the plane is a ''[ she ]''...
no no no...
she is a not plane...
plane is a still not she
The Vulcan Bomber should be used for the US Army
Jeremy Frey
The Vulcan Bomber should be used for the US Army
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hi JF...
that would be nice but...
american have alot of good B-1 lancers bombers planes plus great B-2 spirit planes and double great B-52 stratofortresses planes
Awesome, two flew over our campsite when i was a young lad, many years ago. I didn't know tents could rattle......:)
That was probably your skeleton...
@@Happyheretic2308 🤣
I love the seagull at 0.24: "Oi! This is my patch - you bugger o.... oh well, maybe not!"
Need more base on my computer to get the real gut vibrating sound of the Vulcan!
You should search YT for Vulcan howl..... It has to be the best sound of any aircraft every produced!
Seen it a few times at RAF Leuchars air shows, youtube just doesnt do it credit!
Alistair McCann I saw it for the first time there at 7, now at 14 I can't get enough volume in my head phones to get the feeling of her presence
Vulcan: ROAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR!!!! Beach: My ears!!!
Real Ralph i
many years ago when i was around 12 i was walking home on a bright sunny day when a shadow came over the top of me from behind i looked up then woosh it was a vulcan.never forget that feeling of it flying over me.
3 seconds later: BOOM
They recovered the camera from what was left of the beach.
If I wasn’t sooo into cars, I would definitely be into planes.
Saw the Vulcan a good few times over the years. Unforgettable
AGuyAtBeach : What a nice day, clouds, birds..
HisToddler : Bird..Bird
AGuyAtBeach :
People: "Such a nice day here at the beach"
Bomber: "EXCUSE ME I SAID LIVE LONG AND PROSPER"