Vulcan's up!

[fatkat]

I was lucky at waddo  and saw it on the thursday  fly in and do its party peices ....   

[malc41]

Oh well at least somebody saw it fly :-(

[fatkat]

wonderful sight !

[malc41]

Got him at last in the most unusual place. Heard a noise outside and looked up. There was the Vulcan 2000ft flying straight in front of my house!!

[GlynH]

Vulcan banked over Banbury @ 14:39 and then flew off due NE.

She is due to display at Whitehaven today....thought Whitehaven was NW?

Maybe due to do a flypast somewhere en-route...hope everything is OK...

Regards,
-=Glyn=-

[malc41]

Glyn

What time was that?

[GlynH]

Hi Malc,

See edited post above - @ 14:39 give or take a few minutes...

Kind regards,
-=Glyn=-

[malc41]

Glyn

Thanks for that. She flew up the River Trent heading North towards Brough so as you say maybe doing a fly past somewhere else?

[GlynH]

Vulcan just this minute came back flying direclty above the road I live in...great sight to see...

Don't you just hate digital cameras with no optical viewfinders...can't even see what's in the LCD in anything that vaguely resembles sunlight...

I don't know about point & shoot...more like point & pray it's in the frame somewhere. :-(

Regards,
-=Glyn=-

[charlie]

logged 16.20
start Alt 1850ft  finish Alt 38975ft

location Huntingdon Cambs

[malc41]

See the old bird can still climb like a good un ;-)

[charlie]

oh yes

[GlynH]

See the old bird can still climb like a good un ;-)

You're not kidding Malc,

Did you see the YouTube link I posted earlier in this thread showing the Sunday take-off at RIAT?

I'm amazed they can get away with that on the old bird...:-)

Regards,
-=Glyn=-

[Fenris]

See the old bird can still climb like a good un ;-)

Somewhere there's a famous conversation between a Vulcan and a USAF base in the States. It consists of an initial height clearance request, which takes a little while to be granted, followed by:

"Sorry, past that already!"

"Cleared to flight level 300"

"Past that too"

"Cleared to flight level 400"

"Past that as well"

[GlynH]

Hi Fenris,

That sounds suspiciously like one of those classic urban myths - there was a supposed similar exchange between an American aircraft carrier and a lighthouse;

http://maritimeaccident.wordpress.com/2008/03/15/americas-spy-boss-gets-suckered-by-fictional-lighthouse/

Searching around for Vulcan urban myths I came across this;

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jan/06/spaceexploration.military

Must be true...it's on the Internet! :-)

My favourite one really is a true story taken from the incredible book by Brian Shul called Sled Driver;

http://www.fromtheinside.us/thinking/Groundspeed_Check.htm

Kind regards,
-=Glyn=-