Vulcan

[aircooled68]

Just deleting some files off my phone and found this short vid


Turn up ya speakers, The Vulcan is the Bollocks http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v513/air...nt=MOV00737.mp4

[catsbum]

shiver me tinglys

lovely

[Matlock]

Is that Southport Dave? I was there on the beach - Jesus what a sight and sound!

[geordieguy]

WOW, that brings memories back.

I was at camp with the air training corps at RAF Scampton where they were based during the 70's.

I was on the taxi way once when two took off .......

Fecking amazing noise !!!!! It took the air out of my chest [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/excl.gif[/img]

Good one Dave. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/good.gif[/img]

[bondy]

I remember being in the engine room of a type 42 when one of those engines decided to through a wobbly, oh what a noise as half of it went up the funnel
A Merlin at full chat is the bee's knee's.

[Lagotete]

ah!
And the good old days of the Concorde passing above my house twice a day and setting off car alarms in the street everytime. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wub.gif[/img]

[dmmsta]

I remember being at the last West Malling (Kent) air show when one of them there buggars did a fly by - I think I was about 8!

They look like they're flying SO slowly when they're up close - I remember telling my dad that I thought it was going to fall out the sky.

To coin an ol' phrase - "they don't make 'em like they used to"

[img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif[/img]

[andyj]

I know it's got its certificate to fly again, but you wanna be careful of those old birds maintained by enthusiast groups.

A number of years ago my folks were members of the support group that helped keep a certain PBY/Catalina flying boat in the air. They even won a trip in it once AGM and had a nice jolly over to Le Touquet & back.

Then about 5 years later when promoting the idea of an air festival to the bigwigs on Southampton council it suffered a failure during landing and killed the mayor. They blamed component corrosion.

I stopped by on my way home about half an hour after it happened and watched the furor from the shoreline. Very odd feeling seeing a crashed vehicle you know family members have traveled in.