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- numerous times i was lucky enough to see the "spirit of the sky" Vulcan bomber xh558 take off and sometimes land, if i had realised at the time it was going to come to an end i would have seen more as you don't realise how spectacular she was till you don't see her fly no more.
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The Vulcan is one of the greatest and coolest aircraft ever built and operated.
A close second to Concorde.
It’s amazing the technology is immediately post-war.
WWII that is. Like the Porsche 911, a great design is an instant classic and never seems out of date
For looks I think the Victor just won but that's purely my opinion
Also one of the coolest looking planes stuck on the edge of an airport under tarpualins for years
She was a big bird and flew very well and did her job fantasticy and my favourite plane of all times the howl is unforgettable sound nd so sad not 1 flys anymore in 2022 oh and don't forget when they landed at my airport on the fake nuke runs who's planes did the job lol
Like most people commenting here, I had the extreme privilege of seeing XH558 flying at airshows and it was worth the entrance fee alone. She always put on a fantastic show and even now after her final flight, she still brings tears to my eyes watching these videos
Why for christ's sake? It was nothing more than the feeble chest-beating of what remained of the British empire, if they had put half as much effort and resources into the infrastructure of the country we would all be the better for it!
I remember one airshow I was at hearing the news XH558 wasn't able to attend due to technical issues.....was gutted!
On the short list of the most beautiful aircraft ever built and when you factor in when it was designed and first built, truly remarkable.
I remember when the British Grand Prix used to be held at Brands hatch.. A Vulcan flew over low and slow before igniting her afterburners up.. The ground shook so much, something i will never forget..
I thought it didn’t have afterburners?
No afterburners on Vulcan. If it did it would have been a Concorde…
Why would it need afterburner ?
It was subsonic.
@@michellebrown4903 My Mistake …. No After burners.. incredibly loud mind when she opened up…
At my RAF basic recruit training passout parade at RAF Swinderby in 1984, as the parade was coming to its conclusion we were stood to attention and being addressed by the station commander. As we watched we noticed the assembled families on the viewing platforms all looking distracted, pointing behind us and looking away from the podium where he was speaking..... this was shortly followed by a low whistling noise, barely audible at first but very quickly rising, then to our shock and awe from behind us a Vulcan escorted by two Harriers passed directly overhead at low level, and within a second or two of doing so, all three pulled up into a near vertical climb, and I have NEVER experienced or should I say FELT noise like it !!! The very air around me sounded like it was being torn asunder like a roll of linoleum, my teeth & eyeballs rattled in my head and I could literally feel my internal organs quaking with the intensity of the sound... My words fail miserably to convey the utter earthquaking raw power of that monster, indescribably incredible.
Always loved the Vulcan coming overseas to Toronto for the yearly air show at the CNE. Great memories...
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I was born and lived at the 'Eagle and Child' Auckley, a couple of miles from RAF Finningley - I never missed the 'At Home Day' airshows, with the truly amazing four plane Vulcan scrambles. They were parked on an angle to the runway and when the Red Alert siren was sounded the aircrew would run to their planes, you could hear and feel the 'boom' of the rapid starters as the mighty engines wound up to an ever increasing volume - just when you thought it couldn't get any louder or the ground shake any more......if did!!! Then moving off one by one for the most spectacular take off - from siren to take off in two minutes! Looking around at the surrounding crowd everyone smiling, some with tears in their eyes, talking, but impossible to hear. The Vulcan - our mighty, yet friendly protector!
WHEN WE MOVED TO AUCKLEY 15 YEARS AGO WE USED TO EAT AT THE EAGLE AND CHILD, OUR FAVOURITE PLACE UNTILL THEY DID A REVAMP ABOUT 6 YEARS AGO AND UP WENT THE PRICES AND OUT WENT THE GOOD CHEAP MEALS...I BET THEM 4 VULCAN SCRAMBLES WERE SOMETHING YOU NEVER FORGET PITY YOU NEVER HAD YOUR PHONE ON YOU AND TOOK VIDEO LOL...
As Homer Simpson would say, "Hmmm, Finningley." I was only there once as an Air Cadet, but
@@angusclark8330 I must have missed that episode I never heard him say Finningly
@@wanlover477 I had to look it up on a map. The destination we were given was Doncaster, and that was it. Sorry.
Ha how wonderful. It was known to we trainee aircrew as the 'Bird and Bastard'. Supped there many a time while doing my training at 6 ANS. I went to Victors though, much more futuristic looking than the Vulcan!
I have seen this plane (the vulcan) at a few shows it is sad we will never see it fly again!!!!!! pure heaven!
How do you begin to describe this, you have to be there, the sound just goes right through your body.undoubtably the best aircraft sound ever
I WAS ONCE STOOD 750-1000 YARDS AWAY BEHING THE HANGERS AND BUILDINGS AS NEVER GOT THERE IN TIME TO SEE IT TAKE OFF..SLIGHT DOWNWIND TO IT I WAS AND THE SOUND VIBRATED THROUGH THE AIR LIKE A SCI-FI MOVIE AND THE "EARTH REALLY MOVED FOR ME" IT WAS LIKE A 30 SECOND EARTHQUAKE TREMOR...ONE OF TH MOST EXCITING AND MEMORABLE FEW MINUTES IN MY LIFE..SOUNDS SAD BUT IF YOU WAS THERE YOU WOULD AGREE..
It's interesting reading your comments because I've noticed that many people who have personally seen a Vulcan in flight are overwhelmed by the sheer sound of the craft.
Something I would loved to have witnessed.
@@Anglo_Saxon1 I ONLY LIVE A MILE FROM ROBIN HOOD AIRPORT WHICH WAS PERHAPS A 15 MINUTE WALK FROM ME YET I ONLY WENT TO SEE HALF ITS TAKE-OFFS AND LESS THEN HALF ITS LANDINGS..HOW YOU MISS THINGS WHEN THEY STOP, MANY OF ITS LANDINGS TOWARDS THE END WERE NOT APPROACH AND LAND THEY WERE APPROACH AND "PRETEND TO LAND" THEN THRUSTERS ON AND OFF AGAIN AND A BIT OF SHOWBOATING, THE LAST LANDING IT SHOWBOATED FOR WHAT SEEMED AN AGE AS DID HALF A DOZEN APPROACH'S..OF COURSE I MISSED THAT ONE YET MY MATE WHO JUST LANDED AT ROBIN HOOD FROM HIS HOLIDAYS WHO DIDN'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT THE VULCAN CAUGHT IT ALL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A beautiful aircraft, always pleasing to see fly.
1974, as a kid, I can still feel the shock inside me when the Vulcan flew by at Pain Field air show it was flying realistate
Got double wing drop from one taking off in Scotland many years ago.
I was working on the RAF's kids schools roof.
Brilliant memories,of every fighter jet and other stuff could see me and acknowledged I was working in the rain with a full on yellow waterproof shite..
Every single plane acknowledged me when the piolets found out why I was working in the pissing down rain.🙃🇦🇺
Saw the Vulcan many times at Biggin Hill many times. She was the main attraction at each display.
I worked with a lady who's husband was crew chief on 558 . amazing plane , I saw it fly at Cosford and several times at Farnborough back in the day , thank you for bringing the feeling back .!
Thank you very much for what are kind and important comments..to know something I've done has brought back good memories to someone is as good as it gets for me...I had a look at your videos (just a glance I will take time later and watch a few' I noticed you have the 104f starfighter which is a coincidence as only a couple of days ago someone mentioned it and I told them one had been for sale 5 months ago...had been airshow thing and masses of spares to go with it...wonder if anyone bought it...there isn't anything you can't read about on Google....
@@wanlover477 I'd never get it in the garage-and hate to leave it parked on the lawn .still faster than modern "fast jets !"
@@fredtedstedman it certainly looks like a speed mechant in it's silver colours I saw...and ahead of it's time in design ' would not be amiss in a star wars..
Was certainly a truly massive leap in technology and complexity from the Avro Lancaster that was produced by the same design office and factory just a handful of years earlier. Even if the bomb aiming “computer” was borrowed from the later Lancasters.
@@FlintstoneR1 Er, if you're dropping A- or H- bombs, a bomb sight is a wee bit irrelevant, isn't it?
This makes me appreciate modern jet technology even more. A loud and impressive machine.
Thank you so much for this, I first saw it fly back in the 60s but never had the chance to video it, but I do so remember the distinctive sound. You brought back memories.
When I passed out in the raf they had a vulcan drop down behind the hangers then open it up just above us, the sound was unbelievable. Certainly made our pass-out unforgettable.
The RAF used to have these based in Cypress when my dad was posted there between 1970-1973 along with the Electric lighting. I was 11 years old in 1970 you never forget that sound
An amazing aircraft with an incredible silhouette and the sound..... I remember seeing it at airshows as a child it the sound shook me to the core. Still have an emotional attachment to this aircraft to this day. Great footage. Thanks for the upload.
i just love those v birds , MUCH cooler than b-52 s , but that BUFF is still working .
I have stood very close to XH558 as it powered up, I have never felt my internal organs vibrate before, never mind the ground and everything else, it is an awesome experience
Used to love watching the Vulcan at Biggin Hill, Kent in the 80's.
I grew up in Newark upon Trent
15 miles from
RAF VBG command
Waddington
Scampton
Syston
Vulcans QRA 4 minute scramble exercises
so the sky's above us were always a airshow
especially with the Red Arrows based also at Scampton
Vulcan bomber, British engineering at its best.
The Rolls-Royce Merlin was the soundtrack of WW2, the Rolls-Royce Olympus was the soundtrack of the Cold War.
Heard this on many occasions as my time as an Aircraft Mechanic Propulsion at RAF Scampton , Olympus 300 series engines , stood under many aircraft after engine changes, there is no experience like standing under a Vulcan when they open the engines up to their maximum in testing. As a sooty, that`s what engine mechs were called I loved it . but the down side it was a bitch to work on every thing was from underneath, still miss the bugger .
I was a sooty or sumpy or paraffino at Waddington. Everything as you said. My lasting memory was the end of a Tactical Evaluation (TacEval) exercise that we had once a year which ended with the "Survival Scramble". 4 aircraft off QRA with rapid starts (Sequential, unfortunately as they had stopped doing mass rapids by then) followed by all the remaining serviceable Vulcans on the station at 30 second intervals. Truly awesome.
My Dad was at 617 Sqn as a 'fairy' Rad. Mechy. He wasn't that keen on it, preferred the fighter jets.
The best aircraft ever ...saw it many times woodford air show back in The day ..my god the power ..noise ..the pilots must have loved this to fly ..what a plane
That ripping canvas sound
One of my memories of the Vulcan was at the European Grand Prix, 1980-something, held at Brands Hatch, soon after the Falklands war. They had an airshow before the race, including a Vulcan. It flew over at low level with bomb doors open, revealing the massive space inside. No howl on that occasion as I recall.
I was lucky enough to see the Vulcan do an airshow demonstration during the 1990 Air Fete, 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain at RAF Mildenhall. To date, it's truly the most impressive demonstration I've ever seen.
I was sat at computer around 1pm and suddenly what is unmistakably i heard the roar of what is Vulcan xh558's engines roar to full throttle ..ah i thought its another engine test/run day for people to go pay a few quid and watch, normally as iv'e heard it very often as i live a mile from the airport and sound really travels well round here, so well we often hear the lions roar at the Yorkshire Wildlife park at mealtimes which is about a mile the opposite direction, now usually they seem to get half a dozen maybe or 8 engine burn-outs (probably not the right phrase) but this lasted about 40 minutes and there must have been at least 20 times an engine was brought up to full throttle...perhaps its the end of their engine life so using up all they could on a final performance or maybe they have not been started up for longer then normal so extra testing needed..or they just do more now to en-rich the experience, whatever it was the farmers will be well pleased as makes for a great bird-scarer, nesting birds not so happy though...but for all us Vulcan enthusiasts it was a welcome sound...
I used to watch them doing circuits at Scampton during my basic training at RAF Swinderby. Damm we had an Air Force in those days. Imagine a QRA Scramble of a squadron of those getting airborne.
Then you realised in a couple of minutes you had better find the factor 50,0000 sun cream,especially in the late 50's early 60's
This paragraph from the latest update from "Vulcan to the sky trust" could be exciting and cause a photo frenzy...
"The VTST is currently exploring a number of options for a new home for Vulcan XH558 ranging from investigating the possibility of a short ferry flight to enable the aircraft to get to a new location intact or to dismantle and move and rebuild her in a dedicated permanent home."
Cool low fly bus !That has to be one of the Coolest planes.
Miss seeing and hearing XH558 flying over, saw her at several airshows and whenever was flying over Sussex I always tried to get there.
Love it. Goose bumps.
yes even on the days i cycled a mile to get to my vantage point..with everyone else lol...i had them goose bumps in anticipation..
@@wanlover477 good! Think
In the CCF Cadets in the early 60s we lay on the grass near the runway (Norfolk?) while a squadron of six took off. We were liteally bouncing off the ground. Never to be forgotten. We also got to get up inside, talk about cramped.
Etched in my mind watching the Vulcan land at Lossiemouth when still with the RAF the plane not me! Just majestic!
So advanced and yet a classic
Saw one in a flyover in Dayton in the 70's, didn't even have to use the long lens!
That final Howl was a Cracker . One of the Best ever .
Cool plane and a Vulcan crash landed not far from me.. cheers from down under 👍🇳🇿
The BUFF has had umpteen gazillion $!!! put into keeping it flying. The Vulcan, like every other aspect of UK defence, was treated almost as if it was a matter of national shame. By whom? By the very civil service who each and every one swore allegiance to the crown, the sovereign and the people ruled under the crown. It seems that the upper strata of the allegedly civil service swore a different oath, possibly in secret, wearing fake KGB uniforms and medals, like the ones Kim Philby got. Cheap at twice his price.
the Vulcan and the B52 must be the most menacing looking aircraft ever made.
I was gate guard at the 1990 (50th anniversary of Battle of Britain) airshow at boscombe down.
I was stood on the runway gates for the spitfire display.
A Vulcan came in and ran its rear wheels down (front wheel up), and at full burn halfway along runway took off again.
It's my most single spine tingling, deafening and scary time of my life.
Only 8 years after the falklands epic too ............ when Britain was great..........
3:12 i love that flyover
I remember hiking across fields at yeovilton to catch the vulcan howl on take off on my new gopro camera. It was one of the best spine tingling howls ive ever heard.
I was excited to get back home to watch it again..... the sound failed to record ANYTHING.
ive never wasted a penny on gopro crap since then.
I live to the west of Sheffield and we had the occasional flight of the Vulcan over our house, including the Olympus fitted test craft. Height approx. 1200ft amsl, the land is 1000ft amsl. made the windows rattle and very load only 200ft away.. A recent deceased neighbour was a co-pilot on these machines moving from Shackleton's in the late 50's.On some of those shots it looked black o'r Bills mothers.
What a magnificent bird.
I've seen the Vulcan at about 200 feet above my house at North Weald Airbase.... the air fights to get out of the way!!
I remember watching a vulcanised do a flypast at jurby airshow in the isle of man many years ago just awsum
Sound is better than the image !
Wonderful. The sound of my youth.Oh, that and English Electric Lightnings taking off from Leuchars. By the living Christ...
Красивая птица !!!
waddinton, scampton, finninngly and binbrook...................who could ask for more in the 60's........70's...............etc................just loved it........uk
Was those places you were stationed or just where you saw it fly from ?
My first encounter at the 1978 Chicago lake shore display. Sadly it crashed shortly after.
I Used To See Them Everyday When I Lived In Linconshire late 60s
Nice. Was this recent footage?
I thought all the Vulvan aircraft had been grounded to high-speed taxiing only since the 2010s? Good to see them flying again.
october 28 2015 was last flight, i took all these up to 2015 from around 2010
That is the sound of death coming.
I remember back in the 1960 onward they use to fly over were I used to live regular
Now Norman Greenbaum's gonna want his cut!
Greatest thing the Soviets didn't need radar, Vulcan very low radar signature, you hear that howl and you knew we are going to be nuked. The Victor was even noisier.
The best plane I've ever seen in real life
THE BEST PLANE I'VE EVER SEEN FLYING IN REAL LIFE
saw 1 do touch and go at Farnborough on ONE concorde engine
It just breaks your heart doesn't it that this fantastic aircraft is no longer airworthy 😢
Breaks my heart to see it stuck under a tarp for the last few years undoing all the millions of pounds of work on her
Thanks to MoD cheeseparing and chiselers from both side of the floor. Remember, the Falklands would have been sunk if John Nott's budget proposals had gone through.
Can't finance accommodating the world's ever-plentiful human detritus in the UK's best hotels AND keep one solitary Vulcan flying mate ..... where would be the sense in that???😏
@@gregtaylor6146 Ain't that the truth 😒
@@gregtaylor6146 Sadly, that's how every UK government has seen it since 1945. The V bombers are far from alone in this. Nor has almost every regiment in the Army, every ship in the Navy and every concern that stumbles on the way. The philosophy seems to be, After You!
Truly wonderful aircraft, but not one Vulcan howl, and I've heard it first hand as a Vulcan buzzed the Tower at Swansea airport
My house used to shake when they scrambled back in the day. Sadly missed
best ever take off for me was riat 2015 whe the rumenator was flying hear
wonder how these could carry with their mission in the falklands. You can hear them coming from 20 miles away
i live a mile away from robin hood airport where it was based and as they take off into the wind we only heard them in one direction of take off depending which way the wind was that day.......or if that was not enough maybe as they approached the falklands they put some silencers on their exhausts 😊
The actual bomb runs on Port Stanley airport during the Falklands conflict were at a height of several thousand feet. At those heights the plane has been and gone before you hear it, like an airliner flying over at height, leaving vapour trails. For the first Black Buck raid the defenders were taken by surprise. The bombs hitting the ground were the first many knew what was happening, although it was reported that the Argentine defenders had switched on their (British Made) radar defence systems at the last moment, almost as the bombs were already falling. For subsequent bombing raids, the radar controlled anti aircraft missile systems were switched on earlier and aircraft were aware of having being picked up by the defender radar. Deploying defensive counter measures in a (successful) attempt to confuse the ground radar systems. At least two of the subsequent missions were specifically tasked to destroy those very same ground based, radar controlled anti-aircraft systems, using US made air to ground missiles mounted under the wings of the Vulcans. Those were mostly unsuccessful though. For the interested there is a very good book available called “Vulcan 607” by Rowland White, that describes the Black Buck missions in some detail, whilst remaining a highly readable narrative.
@@FlintstoneR1 Gosh Henry there was much there i was totally unaware of, i did not know there had been follow up bombing missions you only hear about the vulcan one, i even attended talks around the vulcan when it had a roof over its head in hanger 3 and no mention was made of any following bombing runs..I am also surprised at the failure of ground to air missiles as expected they would be locked on and direct hits or have i watched too many movies lol...I'm not a big reader but i may be tempted to get a copy of that book you mention , does it talk about the modifications to the vulcan they had to do first for the in flight refuelling ? etc...thanks for the info you gave
When flying low there and gone in a second
WHAT NO STEALTH MODE SWITCH
ain't she gorgeous.......just simply gorgeous all the right curves in the right places
THE HOUNDS OF HELL.
It doesn’t look dated even by today’s aircraft
Remember the Avro Halifax WWII, Avro Lancaster WWII, Vulcan Avro xh558 howling take off with enthusiast large Canon, Niko cameras.
It’s loud but not as loud as the weapon it was designed to carry
A beautifully designed plane, but with those engines she sure wouldn't classify as a 'stealth bomber' would she?
Some nasty accidents with this type. The rear crew had to jump out using assister cushions, while the two front seaters had ejection seats. One crashed at Heathrow in the late fifties, makes unpleasent reading. I believe they had a stink in the house of commons about crew escape, rather the lack of it.
Only problem was, Russia could hear it coming….😂
Russia wouldn't see it leaving though. Russia would be no more.
Just the sound of that approaching would have scared the shit out of them long before the brilliant white flash killed them!
I thought Britain retired the Vulcan in 2015?
It's old footage of the 558
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2:32 Can really hear her
I do wish people would realise that you shouldn't be using autofocus on video shots such as this. Practice with manual and watch your technique improve. If you have to use AF lock it onto the subject.
Howl I know if that's really a VULCAN?
the avro arrow in another form, beautiful plane , the avro set the standard that many planes are built on today. sad that politics killed it.
SO DID THAT BLOKE WHO STARTED THE REBUILD AND RESTORATION AS HE TOOK £100000 IN WAGES...SOME CHARITY !!
why the ''empire'' planes were so ugly compared to american planes of the same era. same with cars.
A lame duck it was. Ready to be shot out of the sky by the Russians. But that was the best kept secret...
Say it ain't so bro.
@@LandersWorkshop Nice design though... 🙂
Just scrap it, or put it in a museum. It’s an old plane. They are noisy, fuel inefficient and bad for the environment. These fly pasts cost a fortune in fuel and maintenance. They contributed very little operationally, even when they were part of the RAF. Their one operational run, during the Falklands achieved virtually nothing, except a PR boost for the RAF. The runway at Stanley, their intended target, was mostly missed and what little damage done was so poor, the Argentines were flying supplies up to the day before the surrender!
It looks good in the air, but that’s it. Put it in a ground exhibition and spend the money on something useful.
but apart from that you loved em right
@@wanlover477 Can’t say I did. More of a Lighting man, in the day.
@@snoopy-XV208 I’ll have you know Snoopy I flew over 200 combat missions in a Lightning! All over the globe. I fought against Russians, East Germans, Chinese, Vietnamese and many others I can’t remember. They were exciting times my friend. I think of those 200 missions I may have ejected on only maybe a dozen. I fired hundreds of missiles and my aircraft was also fitted with a forward facing cannon, for when the missiles ran out! I shot down at least two enemy on every mission. I can’t for the life of me remember the true number because I was only 10 at the time and it wasn’t important! I did fly other aircraft. A Spitfire, Hurricane and a Mosquito! Great days! 😉😂
These shots of the vulcon are from the end of the Farnborough runway it is a short walk for me and my dog along the Basingstoke canal as I walk there regularly.
these 7 video clips are all ones i took at various positions around robin hood airport
Greatest aircraft built, was lucky enough to see one fly
That howl, nothing like it