Avro Vulcan

( I think Stevie has lost a post here )

It as an excellent day really and not what i had expected. I had just spent a week in south london helping my son decorate his house, and planned to meander my way back ( since I was on my own ) and visit Salisbury Hall and the Mosquitos ( see also the Horsa thread) and then Shuttleworth for lunch etc.

When I got to Old Warden and checked my phone I started seeing chat about the vulcan and waddington, and checking my satnav, i could see it was achievable to get there in time, so off I went. There seemed to be an excess of police when I arrived, probably remembering previous occasions of chaos but they could see it was relatively low key

Of course since the practice was using the standard airshow crowd and display lines parallel to the runway we had some superb views at the WAVE as it went overhead. It was an extended display and I managed to get some video too. Quite outstanding !

kevin

According to wikipedia ( not always a good idea) Ottowa was one of several suggested ( in the same vein as Canberra)

"After its Farnborough appearance, the future name of the Avro 698 was a subject of speculation; Avro had strongly recommended the name Ottawa, in honour of the company's connection with Avro Canada. Weekly magazine Flight suggested Albion after rejecting Avenger, Apollo and Assegai. The Chief of the Air Staff preferred a V-class of bombers, the Air Council announced the following month that the 698 would be called Vulcan after the Roman god of fire and destruction"

I seriously doubt, having previously named the Valiant and Victor, that any name not beginning with V would have been acceptable

kevin

I chose to be at Metheringham on the perimiter track for the Vulcan and Lancaster day, 21st August














I dont think the canadians liked being too close to that big nasty Vulcan

kevin

stevie wrote:

It seems like we weren't too far away from each other at Metheringham as well as at the WAVE then Kevin -

Now '558's flying days are now sadly over, let's not forget another Vulcan that is very much in need of support - XM655 -

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Always an excellent day out, let's just hope this years isn't the last ever.

Steve

Where you here at Wellesborne in June 2010 as well Stevie?

Embedded Youtube video below if this works....
Link to video here

kevin