Yessssss! Now it's good news about the Vulcan..

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Taadaa!!!

Oh wait... something's missing....

Hang on a moment...

Aaaah - it was behind me...

 

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There she is!

 

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I'll just go talk to ConcordeLady instead.

Think my Dad was chatting her up yesterday via email.

More are uploading...slowly...

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Right...Here we go then.

A few people... *apparently 5000 turned up*

A Subtle hint

Opening...

She's in there....somewhere...

 

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Here she comes

Aaaand she's out

 

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Best of British

The people responsible.

A visitor

The boss

 

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Looking good

Nice.

 

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Friends of the Vulcan?
"When we grow up we want to be....."

It's a monkey...

It's a bit empty

 

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Going back inside

Back inside

 

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Not the Vulcan but just a deserving to fly...

Hadley Page Victor K2 - Teasin' Tina

Hawker-Siddley Buccaneer

 

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And finally...

A tribute to Sir Frank Whittle - without him the Vulcan would not be possible.

The Sir Frank Whittle tribute

 

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Awesome pics. She looks a beaut, Teasin' Tina looks bad ass also. Does she still do fast taxi runs?

Yup.

Next one is in May apparently though.

Wow great pictures. Saw a Vulcan at Duxford ages back... not sure if there is still one there on display?

Kind of...

It's in the new 'Airspace' hanger which only has very limited access at the moment.

Should be fully open next year though.

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Awesome pics!

. Love the secong owl .

They were hand reared and very tame.

The second one apparently does that when he's happy - it's his smile. *he'd just been fed a chick so that makes sence *

The first one was remarkably friendly. Gave it a stroke and it tried to climb onto my hand... Lucky the handler had hold of the strops to heep it on his glove.

Weren't scared at all of anything that was going on - including all the people around.

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That's been up for half an hour and no one's gone for it so I suppose I have to...

YA RLY!

You have no idea how tempting it was...

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Yeah - was very nice to see her again.

It was also very appropriate - Roy Chadwick designed both the Avro Lancaster and the Avro 698 *which later became the Vulcan*

I knew the Lancaster was going to fly over - but was expecting only 1 pass.

Everyone was very surprised by it - there was a lot of moise going on and them the Lanc went over with it's 4 Merlins making their wonderful noise.

Then a minute later - she flew over again...

...and then again....

...and again...

Beautiful.

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Try this for a bit of video.

http://www.itvlocal.tv/

Select News and Weather on the top right.
Then choose - Meridian Tonight - South East - 31/08/2006

Just past half way though there's a lovely bit about the roll-out.

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Flibster - all I'm getting for your pics are red crosses. I'd love to see the pics, are they online anywhere else please?

What URL are you using to access OcUK?

Could be that it's blocked from my site.

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No worries - I guess you've changed something... anyway, all working now

Thanks.

Nope nothing changed here.

Wonder if the web host is having a little wibble...

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Video of roll-out now available thanks to someone on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1ZlT3oJGQc&NR

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Heh! Nice video, shame about the band.

You mean the local RAF band?

They were pretty good tbh. Their rendition of Star Wars once the Vulcan was out of the hanger was very good.

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