The Vulcan

[Davgooner]

Last flights are next weekend, Northern tour on the Saturday, Southern tour on the Sunday. Routes will be announced tomorrow I think. Though there's some suggestion the police may look to get them cancelled if too many people mob up near Robin Hood.

Pay your respects to this beast.

http://en.mercopress.com/data/cache/noticias/18873/0x0/ba62c8e6886a38854c9c4780a8742beb.jpg

[Magic]

Bombers are boring.

[niko_cee]

It's a cracking plane.

[Davgooner]

Bombers are boring.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNV4yv8N4mA

[Giggles]

My favourite has been the 788. Loads of room, you could nearly get into the overhead bins.

[Magic]

Meh. I'm afraid the MiG-5 propoganda was much more entertaining.

[Davgooner]

You tit. It flew 8,000 miles to land one on the Argies. :cool:

[Benny]

Looks fucking mean, need more planes that sound like the A-10 though.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=An0KoWhhU5Y

[Disco]

The Tin Triangle :drool:

[Lewis]

It was a brilliant plane and everything, but it was basically useless by the time it entered service to the point where it and its cousins actually had a malign influence on defence policy because we couldn't afford to write the programme off.

[Alan Shearer The 2nd]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNV4yv8N4mA

I was away to post that one too. It sounds other-worldly.

[Lewis]

They've been at the back of the cupboard for a million years, but my mother has decided to get her grandad's medals framed in time for Remembrance Day (I don't know). I had them out earlier and he was a Flight Sergeant in Bomber Command, serving from June 1940 to October 1945, and he had the 1939-1945 Star, the Defence Medal, the Italy Star, the France and Germany Star, and the War Medal 1939-45 (although this is missing). It would be interesting to get his service record if I'm ever archiving again.

[Davgooner]

Didn't see it today as it was heading over north-west of Rugby, but fucking heard it. :cool:

[Lewis]

Those engines went into Concorde (and HMS Invincible), which is mental when you consider they were designed in the late-forties when we were still rationing meat.

[Davgooner]

Hmm. Seems it actually went over Dunchurch so if I'd stayed where I was...:moop:

Fuck sake.

[Lee]

Heard what sounded like a military jet earlier which is unusual for here (used to see them quite often in over Leicester as a kid for some reason). I know Bruntingthorpe was on the route and you can hear commercial planes as far away as that so perhaps that was it. The 'Vulcan to the Sky' warehouse/office just around the corner from me. I don't suppose they have a reason to exist now.

[simon]

My Grandad used to be a navigator in Vulcan Bombers. They invited him to go and have one last go in them a few weeks ago (sit in it and travel down the runway, braking at the end) but he declined and seemed quite insulted by it all. Not really sure why, as I'd have thought it would've been quite nice.

[Lewis]

This is the sort of thing that should get government money. Close wherever Fox works down, and start restoring steam trains.

[Lee]

I'm up for that.