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Dixie -> RE: VULCAN flies again! (10/21/2007 3:48:22 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Curty
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ORIGINAL: Dixie
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ORIGINAL: crsutton
In the late sixties, my father too me to an airshow at Dulles airport near Washington DC. The only thing I remember is when the vulcan bomber did a flyby. It came over the filed at treetop height and then just went straight up in the verticle like a rocket. That image was forever imprinted into my brain.....
Has anyone else read Vulcan 607, the book about the first Black Buck mission. There's a short section at the start describing the Vulcans low level tactics, including flying below the level of the Grand Canyon during Red Flag. [X(]
It's good to see she's flying again, just a shame she wasn't ready for Falklands 25 a few months back. I would have loved to have seen her fly past Buck House [:)]
That's right , i distinctly remember them saying on the day that their was a problem....something about its flight safety certificate and flying over London airspace....the powers that be must have had visions of it falling out of the sky.
Although i would have been more concerned about the loss of XH558 that the buildings it would have wiped out[;)]
However, we now have something to beef up our air shows hopefuly for decades to come!
I seem to recall something about the flight safety cerificate as well. There shouldn't be too many problems with the Vulcan flying over London, as she's a multi-engine 'plane though. There are limits on single engined stuff flying over central London.
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