Paging the Vulcan bomber lovers

One of the most touching threads I have ever read.

Damn, I seem to have some of that dust in my eye.

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=259414

[G]

Incredible what a story and amazing the outcome from the original post

[Wideboy]

superb aircraft IMO, along with the TSR-2

[Ratty]

Great story.

All the Vulcans were built at our factory and we are surrounded by pictures of them on the office walls. We still have XM603 on site but she's on her last legs and due to be cut up soon Retired folk have been working on her for years but couldn't keep up with the corrosion. Bit like owning a K3.

Ratty

When I was a mini-Lozzo I lived in Singapore, where my dad was stationed at RAF Changi with 19 Signals Regt. He took me into work one day to watch the Vulcans flying into one of the local airfields, can't remember which one. I'll never forget that day, watching the planes fly in overhead from the end of the runway sitting on the roof of a Landie, and being shown around one as well - it was enormous, with the smell of hot oil and a kind of melting plastic. Someone ushered me to the front of the plane and I sat in one of the pilot's seats. It really left an impression on me.

Originally Posted by Ratty

Great story.

All the Vulcans were built at our factory and we are surrounded by pictures of them on the office walls. We still have XM603 on site

It was XM604 that crashed at Cottesmore, which is where my ex's new bloke is.

I'm sure my Grandad had 'something' to do with the development of the Vulcan, perhaps a test flight engineer after serving in WW2 in the dambusters. I'm getting the feeling that in some raf base there is a statue of a vulcan with his name by it but I can't tell where I've seen it or if it was a lancaster instead. Considering he flew the lancasters in WW2 it would make more sense that it be one of them but my dad always had a vulcan model on his desk which makes me think otherwise. Google doesn't come up with much.

What a great thread and shows the beauty of the web to bring people together to organise something fitting as that.

I was always fascinated by the Vulcan as a kid after being taken to see a decommisioned one at the Air museum in Washington. Remember walking around the flight deck amazed at the amount of buttons. Should have stuck to trying to gain a place as a pilot with the RAF. Had opportunity to go to Cranwell for flying scholarship at 15 but failed at interview. Aptitude was right up there. Probably ONLY thing I regret in my life so far.

[northwind]

What a brilliant story... I used to go to the Leuchars airshow every year and the highlight for me was always the Vulcan flyby, that's the sort of thing you'll never forget, so loud you couldn't hear it, you felt it in every bone... Incredible thing, I was always half waiting for physics to catch up with it. "Don't be stupid, you can't fly!"

[Lissa]

A very moving thread.

I remember watching Vulcans fly as a wee nipper and thinking they were the most beautiful thing in the sky. We go to the Airfield Cafe at Wellesbourne fairly often and it's lovely to see the Vulcan there when we go past.