Vulcan Flyover

Housey · 15 Jun 2015 at 14:48

With a couple of events this weekend to the west of me, I had the pleasure of getting a double flypast from the Vulcan, once on its way to the cholmondeley pageant of power and then on its way back from the cosford airshow. I know a few of you like this sort of stuff, so here is a crap photo of the first pass and then a second one from the bottom of my garden on its way home from cosford.

On its way to cholmodeley, terrible picture from a potato

So it takes me 45 mins to drive to cosford, this was 3 minutes after it finished its routine, which I was watching online!

godinman · 15 Jun 2015 at 15:05

I'm lucky enough to live about 3 miles from Welshpool airport so we had a bit of food and drink and walked to a nearby field whenever we heard loud noises, had the vulcan turn directly above ours heads after each run over the Airfield. So, neeerrrr.

Housey · 15 Jun 2015 at 15:06

I went into air spotter overload, like a 5 year old with some new lego

whiskycycle · 15 Jun 2015 at 15:19

Trying to sort out going to Carlisle or Sunderland on the 27th, depending on family fun.

Azza · 15 Jun 2015 at 15:39

A friend was at the Cholmondeley Arms at the weekend and took this.

Housey · 15 Jun 2015 at 15:46

It's such a majestic aircraft and I have been lucky enough to see them a few times at airshows when they were still operational and pulling even more impressive moves. Never fails to impress and the Vulcan howl is probably only bettered by the Starfighter.

Pete19s · 15 Jun 2015 at 15:47

Saw her at Clacton last year & I'll try catch a decent spot as she comes this way on her Salute to the V-Force tour at the end of the month. With a bit of luck I'll be able to make it to RIAT. Fantastic bit of kit & a credit to those who got her back in the air. Ended up at Solway Aviation Museum last week & got the guided tour of XJ823 while there, quite how they spent countless hours in there I have no idea!

Avro Vulcan, XH558 by Pete Kent, on Flickr

Motospeed Cannonball 2015 by Pete Kent, on Flickr

Housey · 15 Jun 2015 at 15:50

They have one at Coventry airport and around 10 years ago I got the full guided tour, read over an hour sitting in the right seat with a former pilot who was there on an open day telling me about his time flying them. Fantastic experience.

Pete19s · 15 Jun 2015 at 16:11

Didn't quite get as good a tour as that, in there for about half an hour but with 6 of us in there on a hot old afternoon that was about as long as was comfortable. Very toasty

Did smell well good though. Proper historic musk going on. It's still like a living thing too. The instruments etc still come to life when the wind picks up & they hook her electrics up from time to time.

Those dirty great Olympus engines <3

Avro Vulcan, XH558 by Pete Kent, on Flickr

Cosimo · 15 Jun 2015 at 16:13

A reminder:

RoboCod said:
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For those that are interested, the last appearances of the Vulcan are listed.

http://www.vulcantothesky.org/appearances.html

Last time this will fly again.

Housey · 15 Jun 2015 at 16:27

Pete19s said:
Didn't quite get as good a tour as that, in there for about half an hour but with 6 of us in there on a hot old afternoon that was about as long as was comfortable. Very toasty Did smell well good though. Proper historic musk going on. It's still like a living thing too. The instruments etc still come to life when the wind picks up & they hook her electrics up from time to time.

I managed to get into the cockpit of one of the Lightnings at Brunters roughly 15 minutes after it had done a fast taxi run a few years back, it was still toasty and smelling of aviation. I also offered to run my old GT3 alongside the Lightnings on one of their open days, suggesting we charge a few quid and put it towards the fund for the jets. For various reasons I never fully understood we could not make it happen, but they did it before with the hunter and a CSL.

It would have been ace, what possible could go wrong

GhostWKD · 15 Jun 2015 at 16:35

I remember driving along in my S2000 with the top down (why bother having a convertible otherwise lol) and the Vulcan flew directly over me. Something spine tingling about looking directly up at the undercarriage of a bomber whilst bombing along at 60.

Apologies for the pun

Cosimo · 15 Jun 2015 at 16:40

DXP55 · 15 Jun 2015 at 18:17

I sat outside all Sunday hoping to see this - we are on landing run to Shawbury - also only 15 miles from Cholmondeley and it never came near us - Did see Red Arrows on their way to Welshpool though .

Dave

Housey · 15 Jun 2015 at 18:21

I found the flight plan via Twitter and luckily my house sits under the Vulcans intersection point going and coming.

Witor · 15 Jun 2015 at 19:21

Wonder what happened to the Vulcan we had at Gibraltars runway crossing for years...beautiful aircraft.

Orionaut · 15 Jun 2015 at 21:40

The Vulcan is undoubtedly a thing of beauty. But my favourite V-Bomber is the Victor!

She just looks just so damned evil!

She looks more like some sort of demonic creature escaped from the very bowels of Hell than a mere machine built by the hand of man!

An awesome looking aircraft (In the true sense of the word!) Especially when coming straight at you!

arctine · 15 Jun 2015 at 22:01

Work at Waddington so I am lucky enough to see one everyday....Obviously not flying though.

It was nice when one landed here with two Lancasters last year.

russell664 · 15 Jun 2015 at 22:05

That Aircraft is just <3

almoststew1990 · 15 Jun 2015 at 22:07

I saw one a good few years ago at some smallish air show in the south. My god the noise it makes literally sounds like it is ripping a whole in the sky!