Avro Vulcan

Do we know why the police helicopter just had to be "tasked" over North Weald a few minutes before 558 arrived to just a few moments until after she left?
Seemed odd to me to have it hover so close to a very large aircraft that is known to turn tightly or pull up steeply.
It must have been tasked by the police as I doubt it would have gone down well if the crew had gone on a Jolly.

If I was cynical I could think that it was put there to get in the way.........................

Nice photos by the way.

Sights that could only ever have happened at Old Warden (4th October) -


AVRO sisters -

......& last Tuesday at Sywell during a corporate day with lucky competition winners flying in the Spitfire & Blades team alongside XH558 (Im obviously not mad that I didn't win!!!) -


Steve

Nice one mate. Love the comet one!

How come Stevie, even though I was stood next to you at the time, and photographing the same objects, your pictures always come out better than mine!

I wonder if the will be doing a flypast at any Naval Establishments!!!!??

As usual...looking for one thing and find something totally unrelated.

Two booklets about tin triangles. One is a BAe Manchester Division celebration of 25 years of the Vulcan in service and the other 11 years later XM603 having been preserved for 10 years

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canberra;165486 wrote:

I wonder if the will be doing a flypast at any Naval Establishments!!!!??

Not sure about the point of the question, but she overflew a number of naval establishments both active, closed and transfered to other services.

If youve ever read Sharkey Wards book youd know what Im on about. If you havent, then basically he and quite a few other members of the Royal Navy are very anti to the Vulcan raids on the Falklands.

canberra;165526 wrote:

If youve ever read Sharkey Wards book youd know what Im on about. If you havent, then basically he and quite a few other members of the Royal Navy are very anti to the Vulcan raids on the Falklands.

Ah! Now I understand, your original comment was a bit obscure without that reference! They certainly felt they could have done a more cost effective job with the SHARs. And anyway, the Navy would have done a better job anyway purely because they are the more professional service

And now I know your having a laugh!!!!