Inside The Cockpit - Avro Vulcan B.2
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- Опубліковано 15 січ 2020
- The Avro Vulcan might look like it comes straight out of Science fiction but was very much a reality. From the drawing board to the Falklands, let's explore it's story and then hop inside!
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⚜ Sources ⚜
David Fildes, Design and Development, Pen and Sword
David Fildes, The Avro Type 698 Vulcan, Pen and Sword
John Taylor, The Avro Vulcan, Profile Publications Number 162
Tim McLelland, The Avro Vulcan, Crecy Publishing
Robert Jackson, Avro Vulcan
Roger Chesneau and Ray Rimmell, Avro Vulcan B. Mk2/ Mk2K
A.P. 4505B - P.N Vulcan B. Mk2
⚜ Visuals ⚜
Air Historical Branch RAF/MOD
Anthony Noble
Dmgerrand
RAF Museum
Rolf Engesland [Riksarkivet Norway]
Roychadwick[dot]com
SDASM
Mike Freer
V. Taylor
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From the 1st flight of the Lancaster to the 1st flight of the vulcan was 11 years!!
One day in the summer of 1967, I was standing in the front yard of my aunt's house in Virginia. A white Vulcan flew over at low altitude. A Star Trek moment.
Steak & chips for tea, and Bismarck & Mark Felton uploading film about the Vulcan on the same day. Life is good.
I remember going to the RAF Waddington open day in the late 1970s. There was a simulated scramble with four Vulcans taking off simultaneously. It was one of the noisiest things I have ever heard, 16 Olympus turbojets on full power!
When I was young, the RAF sent a Vulcan to an airshow at the Glenview Naval Air Station in the suburbs outside of Chicago. I was with my dad and brothers, and we were looking over the Vulcan on the tarmac - it was one of the most beautiful things I'd ever seen. Those lines! It was like a spaceship. When the crew took her up, I was amazed - and the Vulcan became even more beautiful - a true creature of the air. I never knew anything so big could fly so well and so gracefully - doing things our bombers couldn't even dream of. So impressed by the British pilot. And so powerful - I can still feel the vibrations of the engine noise in my chest 53 years later. Never saw another like her, and will never forget her. Thanks for taking us inside - a real treat.
SAM:
The Vulcan is the coolest plane ever. I live in Chicago and each year we have the Air and Water Show. Planes would fly north from downtown to turn around to head south towards the show. They happened to make the turn around over the park where I played basketball and baseball. One day a Vulcan flew overhead making its turn and it was the loudest low pitch sound I had ever heard. It was flying so low I swear the pilot had brown eyes :-)
During my assignment at Andrews AFB, '67/'68 a Vulcan visited. As a departing show, the crew took off on the left runway, immediately did a 180 and landed on the right runway. Quite impressive!
Awesome (coincidental) timing with Mark Felton just releasing a video on the Vulcan use in the Falkland war! Very neat airplane.
8 of these bombers broke through American airspace in a wargames and some of them successfully reached their target destination. The Yanks were so annoyed about it they invited the RAF back the following year where they did it again. Incredibly underrated aircraft.
As a young teenager I saw one of these at an airshow in the 70s. It looked like a mantta ray as it floated over at a low altitude. So cool, wont forget it!
"Had it not been for the Falklands then the Vulcans would probably not be remembered half as much....." Sean Connery and Tom Jones would beg to differ.
Well, once you started the series, you just keep going
"Somewhat Italian of them......" classic!
As a youngster, seeing the ASO desk at some air show formed in perspex so that everything behind the panel, wiring etc could be seen I was gobsmacked. Who could understand where all that lot went? It inspired me to get an apprenticeship in electronics and a few years later, I was building radars for Tornado aircraft. I've had a lifetime of fun working in manufacturing. I would not change a thing. Thank you to everyone who built the Vulcan, and who lead me into a wonderful career!
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When I was 14 in the early 80s I won a school essay prize about 617 Squadron and my mum wrote to the squadron to tell them and they invited me down to RAF Scampton for the day during which time I got to sit in the cockpit of a Vulcan and even for an average sized young teen I was surprised at how cramped the cockpit was!
I think you miss the point that it was a deterrent. It worked. Not using the Vulcan was somehow the entire point of the V Force.
Chicago Air and Water Show in the late '70's early 80's were blessed with three Royal Air Force Vulcan Bombers. I saw XL-390's last flight in 1978; in 1980, It was XL-443; and in 1981 XM-575 rounded it out. Was fortunate enough to get an inside-outside tour of '575, and the RAF Nimrod that accompanied them. Why they came to Chicago -- I have no idea, but they put on one hell of a show.