Vulcan having problems locking its nose wheel Sept 5th at Prestwick. Spitfire comes along to help.

The Vulcan at Eastbourne this weekend. The small boats would have had an interesting experience! Bit like sitting in the middle of the runway at a normal airshow.

Some pretty good piccys here

http://theaviationist.com/2015/08/13/se ... ir-to-air/

Videos of the Vulcan at RIAT Fairford

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-la ... 1718892290

The Armchair Soldier wrote: One of the most incredible things I've witnessed in a long time. It flew low right over the top of my head on its first pass. Just incredible. Online videos really don't do its sound justice.

No amplification system can do it justice. Its the same as Concorde, you feel it as much as hear it.

Quite a good thread on the history etc, http://gizmodo.com/the-last-of-the-vulcans-retires-after-55-years-of-servi-1715162689 I spent my summer holiday at RAF Tengah in Singapore in 1964 (my father was O/C RAF Bukit Gombah the radar station on the island). The normal aircraft there were Hunters and ...

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Suggest don't delete this thread yet!

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It didn't seem to fit the way the Successor topic was evolving.

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Couldn't find another place to put this, as there is no UK general discussion topic. This is on Sputnik today, so there is an angle on it, know nothing about the journalist. The United Kingdom's nuclear weapons Trident program has provoked a lively debate ahead of the British general election, UK jo...

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After the debates last night there was This Week. I nearly fell off the chair when Michael Portillo, an ex Conservative Minister of Defence, said that in his view that as funds were very tight Trident System should not be renewed and the saved money spent on upgrading our conventional forces. I thin...

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