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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2015 22:30:56 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2015 23:26:20 GMT
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Post by ************** on Mar 2, 2015 23:50:50 GMT
This is great too. Winged armageddon, thank goodness it never delivered the payload it was designed for.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2015 0:57:23 GMT
Yawn ...scratches arse ....lets dogs out for a piss....  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2015 9:39:45 GMT
Yawn ...scratches arse ....lets dogs out for a piss.... Each to their own form of entertainment  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2015 9:46:08 GMT
This is great too. Winged armageddon, thank goodness it never delivered the payload it was designed for. That's a marvelous video ( although I've seen it before ) ....Wonderful aircraft , but you have to see it in the " flesh" as it were to really appreciate how awe inspiring it is . |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2015 11:51:56 GMT
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Post by basingstokie on Mar 3, 2015 20:39:53 GMT
I used to be the audit manager For Vulcan to the Sky Trust who own the Vulcan. Saw it real close up - awesome girl. Also saw her at Bournemouth air show last year - fantastic - catch her while you still can |
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Post by farnborostokie63 on Mar 3, 2015 21:04:39 GMT
I recommend an under wing tour when she's on the ground the size and beauty of her is amazing, there is a good chance that 2015 will be her last display year. I'm lucky as I live about a mile from the end of the runway at Farnborough so every time she's been at the show she flies really low over our house, unfortunately no show this year as its every two years
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2015 21:29:56 GMT
I recommend an under wing tour when she's on the ground the size and beauty of her is amazing, there is a good chance that 2015 will be her last display year. I'm lucky as I live about a mile from the end of the runway at Farnborough so every time she's been at the show she flies really low over our house, unfortunately no show this year as its every two years We had a Vulcan (XL 391 ) here at Blackpool for almost 25 years , she was one of the detachment of aircraft deployed to Ascension Island during the Falklands campaign , I believe if there had been need of another operation in that campaign she was the aircraft that would have flown it . I spent many hours around her including siting in the cockpit several times for a nominal fee of 50p ! In truth it was heartbreaking to see it rotting away , and a few years ago it was broken up for scrap, although the cockpit section has been preserved I believe |
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Post by lawrieleslie on Mar 3, 2015 22:34:45 GMT
IMO the success of the Vulcan Operation Blackbuck missions during the Falklands War have been very underestimated. 7 missions were planned and 5 completed over a six week period. 3 missions were against Port Stanley Airfied and 2 against Argie radar installations. The physical damage done was not that great but the phycological effect on the soldiers on the ground was immense. Also it woke the Argies up to the possibility of a mainland bombing raid which kept some of their airforce at their bases on protection duty instead of striking at the British Task Force. The logistics of getting a Vulcan on task over the Falklands was nothing less than magnificent with 11 Victor Tankers needed for inflight refuelling to get one Vulcan from Ascension to The Falklands and back. It was, at the time, the longest ever bombing mission only surpassed by the Americans during Gulf War 1. As an ex-matelot I take no shame in doffing by cap to those Crab Fat boys who completed the Blackbuck Raids.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 3, 2015 23:19:09 GMT
IMO the success of the Vulcan Operation Blackbuck missions during the Falklands War have been very underestimated. 7 missions were planned and 5 completed over a six week period. 3 missions were against Port Stanley Airfied and 2 against Argie radar installations. The physical damage done was not that great but the phycological effect on the soldiers on the ground was immense. Also it woke the Argies up to the possibility of a mainland bombing raid which kept some of their airforce at their bases on protection duty instead of striking at the British Task Force. The logistics of getting a Vulcan on task over the Falklands was nothing less than magnificent with 11 Victor Tankers needed for inflight refuelling to get one Vulcan from Ascension to The Falklands and back. It was, at the time, the longest ever bombing mission only surpassed by the Americans during Gulf War 1. As an ex-matelot I take no shame in doffing by cap to those Crab Fat boys who completed the Blackbuck Raids. I agree with that entirely Lawrie......I think the psychological damage was immense as you say, they really were worried about a Vulcan attack on Puento Arenas as far as I can ascertain .....whether that would have been feasible as it was on the Argentine mainland is another matter , politically perhaps it could not have been justified ....but that proved immaterial as the SAS eliminated the threat of the Exocets by destroying several Super Etendards on the ground in a clandestine operation . |
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Post by farnborostokie63 on Mar 4, 2015 8:39:08 GMT
get the book Vulcan 607 by Rowland White its a brilliant read, it gives you the background to the falklands war as well as the first Black Buck mission. Martin Withers who flew the first mission is a really nice bloke, still flies in XH558.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2015 9:34:46 GMT
get the book Vulcan 607 by Rowland White its a brilliant read, it gives you the background to the falklands war as well as the first Black Buck mission. Martin Withers who flew the first mission is a really nice bloke, still flies in XH558. Got it mate ......also Phoenix Squadron by the same author tells the story of HMS Ark Royal's deployment to British Honduras in 1977 in reply to the threat of action from Guatemala at the time . |
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