kdubya Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 that electric or just a model? like I said it flys like a baby 4 out runner motors fitted KW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kes Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 I was lucky to see a Vulcan take off on full reheat at Farnborough in the 60's. A truly amazing spectacle and the noise was astounding. Went to Oulton Park today for an outing and was pleased to see a lone spitfire doing barrel rolls and victory rolls close to the race track - now that is also a special sound. Once seen- never forgotten. My neighbour used to make parts for aircraft for the Ministry of Defence during the war. He is/was a specialist on Merlin engines - he's 91. Soon all that expertise will be history. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowmonster Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 My late dad use to watch them as they took of and landed at finningley I think most local folk used stand and watch them, I remember a day watching one doing circuits round the airfield and coming in touching the wheels down and straight back up. God knows how many laps he did but I'm glad I never had to pay the fuel bill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeon controller Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 I'd love to watch an English Electric Lightning taking off just once more like i used to in my youth. As a youth I would go to the air shows at RAF Gaydon which was a Vulcan base with a three mile runway. I remember Lightnings coming in at ground height and then a vertical climb on full reheat . Some things will stay in my mind till I die, MAGIC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truflex Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 Better they pump money into the Vulcan than the likes of funding an Indian space rocket. Then again sending Indians to Mars isn't such a bad idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fse10 Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 There use to be one at southend airport not been past there for a few years so not sure if still there. Remember one year at the southend air show one flew over my mums house could not of been more then 300 foot up you couold see the wings move as it banked round & the noise blooming awsome. My nan use to live across from the end of southends runway the redarrows came across the top of her house to land so low i could see the pilots. . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowmonster Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 As a youth I would go to the air shows at RAF Gaydon which was a Vulcan base with a three mile runway. I remember Lightnings coming in at ground height and then a vertical climb on full reheat . Some things will stay in my mind till I die, MAGIC. I know exactly where you're coming from was shooting a night flight on the eden estuary years ago and the yanks were doing the same in f15s I think at Lucas air force base. The old lass at the digs we were stopping in wasn't very happy when our gear stunk the place out with av gas as we were right on the end of the runway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beretta28g Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 (edited) I was lucky to see a Vulcan take off on full reheat at Farnborough in the 60's Were Vulcans ever fitted with Reheat, thats a new one on me, which Variant? I know about the 201, 202, 301 Edited August 26, 2013 by Beretta28g Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike737 Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 In the 1950's I was at primary school in Sunderland, and Vulcans used to fly so low over the school playground that we kids would jump up to try and touch them! (We were only 6 or 7...) You could see the rivets on the skin they were so close. They were a fantastic sight, that I will never forget. Shame to lose them, as with Concord... Still get to see a Spitfire now and again, flies from the local airfield (Breighton)! Don't know if the primary school still exists either? Was called Quarry View; there is a member on here who is somewhere near to where it was, but can't remember who... (It's my age... ) Mike. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keg Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 I thought Thunder City had closed after a crash? Agree about the EE Lightning, Lanc and the Vulcan, both superb examples of their respective generations, cold war and WWII. Good suggestion as a PW charity but as KW says not sure how long it can continue with parts etc being in short supply. Let's keep it going as long as we can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasper3 Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 they where all down here the weekend superb show http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/Wow-Dawlish-Air-delights-holiday-crowds/story-19708367-detail/story.html#axzz2d6VCWuDW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunnerbob Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 kdubya, that is a cracking aircraft you have there, just a tiny bit envious.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrowningDJC Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 Saw the Vulcan at an air show in Kent month or so ago, was brilliant to watch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HandleBar Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 Here we go father a picture of your Vulcan from Yesterday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vampire Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 The vulcan was over wattisham air field on saturday,doing laps,what a noise when it banks into a turn,hadnt seen one since i was a teenager and i could of thrown a stone and hit that one it was so low. Think it was off to clacton on sea ! I missed the lancaster and spitfire :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kdubya Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 earlier this month at elvington best of both worlds for me? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keg Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 bloomin eck!, what a model and what a sight! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullet1747 Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 Went to a air model show about ten years back use to make them my self ,while we were watching four guys was prepping a Lancaster it looked amazing the detail was out of this world, as they got it flying it turned and nose dived bang it hit the floor the whole place fell silent the guys just cryed they said some one had used the same waves as them to bring it down ,never did find out if it was true or an excuse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aris Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 (edited) A pic a Facebook friend took yesterday: I was at the Flying Legends air show last month. Unbelievable vintage aircraft there. I mean where else do you see spitfires flying in formation together? Edited August 26, 2013 by aris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petethegeek Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 Go to South Africa, you can book a ride in one. The under and over engine configuration has been banned from flying in this country! I thought Thunder City had closed after a crash? Closed down after a damning official report following the fatal crash of an English Electric Lightning during an air display. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ack-ack Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 (edited) Go to South Africa, you can book a ride in one. The under and over engine configuration has been banned from flying in this country!I was not aware of that, i thought it was just because the lightning was complicated beast that hadnt aged well. What other kites are banned from flying in the uk? The starfighter must be surely? Wouldnt get me up in one of them!!! Edit- the vulcan so gives me the 'orn. It rattled my guts out as a young cadet when i was "guarding" the runway at an airshow. Made me feel very insignificant. It sat on its own thrust and walked up the strip on its tail before shooting skywards at a ridiculous elevation. Edited August 26, 2013 by ack-ack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 I was lucky to see a Vulcan take off on full reheat at Farnborough in the 60's. A truly amazing spectacle and the noise was astounding. Went to Oulton Park today for an outing and was pleased to see a lone spitfire doing barrel rolls and victory rolls close to the race track - now that is also a special sound. Once seen- never forgotten. My neighbour used to make parts for aircraft for the Ministry of Defence during the war. He is/was a specialist on Merlin engines - he's 91. Soon all that expertise will be history. Really Vulcan engines NEVER had reheat or afterburners fitted to them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ack-ack Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 Really Vulcan engines NEVER had reheat or afterburners fitted to them! My mates one did, his dad fitted it. Thats a true story that is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 Go to South Africa, you can book a ride in one. The under and over engine configuration has been banned from flying in this country! Grounded after the crash of one of the two seaters some while ago, during the investigation in to the causes it was found that a massive amount of maintainence had not been carried out. As for your assumption that it was the unusual engine configuration that stopped them being flown in the UK, That's pure bumkum! The authorities regard it as a complex airframe and without engineering support from the manufaturers it would never be allowed to fly in British airspace. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted August 26, 2013 Report Share Posted August 26, 2013 Interesting, I thought they were banned as they had nuclear capabilities Where do these ideas come from? The Lightning was a high speed interceptor armed with two air to air missiles and two 30mm cannon in later versions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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