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There was a Daily Mail* campaign to help raise funds to keep it in the air.
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I used to refuel them, they used to pop over to Germany in the eighties when I was out there, because they weren't one of our own aircraft they would sent to the VAS (visiting aircraft section ) to be refuelled, they were something else tbh, and we always used to sit and watch them go if they were on a quick turn round. They were part of the V force of nuclear bombers alongside the Victor and the Valiant, the Valiant is the forgotten one but the victor later became an air tanker and possibly refuelled the Vulcan on the falklands raid, dunno about that tbh.
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Where we work is a small collection of villages, one of them is called Sywell, they have an Aerodrome, the vulcan did a fly by one day, we heard it coming downwards and was like wtf, then was saw it pull up and head off towards the South. Was a beautiful sight.
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Well, seeing as it brought me to tears, I've just made my contribution to the Vulcan to the Sky group and will continue to when I can. Anything that can rouse that much emotion and hold so many fantastic memories of my childhood and how me and my dad would spend hours getting sunburned at airshows is worth the effort and and a little dent in the wallet IMO.
Dads book was lost a few years back when his luggage was swapped at Heathrow, so I think I just decided upon his fathers day pressie.....along with a framed painting of a Lightning. Not the Buell Lightning I want, but the English Electric Lightning. ANother awsome and beautiful in a sheer raw power kind of way military plane. It's up there in my top 5...... http://www.space-travellers.com/home...ightning_1.jpg |
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TSR-2
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As I used to go to the industrial estate behind BAE Warton, the lightnings on test would take off, clear the fence and full reheat up. I know a test pilot was once rumoured to have got in trouble for doing it as soon as he felt the undercarriage lift and is suppossed to have hit the runway with his tail. Must be bollox but a good pub story.
The noise and brown trousers when one is suddenly 50ft above your head and gunning it out. Now all I get are those damm typhoons disturbing my sleep. I probably saw the TSR 2 as kid, but would not have known as it did a couple of flights out of Warton |
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I have heard a tale about a lightning pilot encountering an "odd, black, delta shaped" aircraft which when the pilot closed with opened the taps and left the lightning as if it was stood still. Of course everyone at the time thought the pilot had been to the pub on the way home as the lightning was the hottest thing in the air... but it later turned out to be the still-secret SR71.
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talking of gorgeous planes...
me and a friend were chatting last week about the noise the Spitfire makes, and how wonderfully sexy and distinctive it is. i think at one point i even downloaded a sound clip of the spit and played it extremely loudly though the stereo!! our other halves looked at us as if we were a bit bonkers and how could we get that excited by it. im extremely pleased to see ladies of the .org on here expressing their passion and love for planes, restored my faith in the fairer sex ;) |
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