General Chat

Lots of lovely replies, sorry if the original post assumed it was a "man thing". That was tongue in cheek.

However, if you can spare a couple of quid towards that £150k, all the better.

See Brian, us women do care. LOL

Helen

*clips Brian round the ear*

Waddya mean - I'll have you know I have a T-shirt from when they had the original campaign to save the Vulcan from being grounded! AND I received a Vulcan DVD for Christmas!

Seriously, I do hope this lovely lady stays in the skies; it's beautiful, and my favourite aircraft.
Glenys x (brought up with aircraft, lol)

Brian

I worked on the Vulcan, early 80's, also the Hunter & Jet Provost, mid 80's it was the hawk, single/twin seaters. So it's not just men who are interested

Kim

There is a vulcan near the road side at RAF Waddington air field on display all year round. It dosen't fly but it's still a beautiful sight when I drive past

This is something that does interest some of us ladies, you only have to go to any airshow and look at the Vulcan to the sky stand and see the amount of ladies who are interested.
This year will be our 3rd visit to Fairford and it's an absolutely fantastic event to see, The 1st year we only went for the Sunday and were dissapointed that we didn't see everything. So last year we went for both days and camped on the campsite that is on the hill, behind the hangers and had a wonderful time. This year our 2 daughters are coming with us (they are 24 and 20) and can't wait to see the displays.

Helen

hubby had heard that it was only going to be at 3 airshows this year , Duxford, Waddington and Fairford. Guess who's going to Fairford again this year? I can't wait to see it up in the air again. The sound that it makes is so distinctive. I was lucky enough to see it several times at the Halfpenny Green airshows during the 70's.

Helen

Waddington 5-6th July 2008, will have to try and get home to Lincoln for that.

nudge again for the evening shift

yes Keith, thats the one.......

Bob

Is that the one from Bruntingthorpe? XH558? Glad they have got it flying again, they were a mganificant sight.

20 odd years ago we lived in Conningsby, lincolnshire, almost at the end of the runway at R.A.F conningsby, and saw this beautiful plane take off and land several times, it was durring the falklands war,
She was a beauty,
on sundays durring the summer, they flew the battle of britain memorial flight over our heads, Glorious days, and a wonderful sight
xxLynnxx

im sure they have a Vulcan at coventry airpot aircraft museum,

I was disappointed it didn't seem to make the national news at 6 pm, but there was some good coverage on East Midlands Today at 6.30. (Some pictures on the BBC website.)

The people who have put so much into the refurbishment should be congratulated. They have worked extremely hard to get the Vulcan back in the air.

It's not just a man thing!

Lots of ladies are interested Brian ;-)

Sam:
Yes, it is the big delta.
Amazing sight at low speed, as the speed drops the nose comes up just like Concorde (also delta) until it seems to be at a 45 degree angle almost sitting on its tail.

They,ve usually got them at RAF.Cosford on display.Non Airworthy though **M**.

We used to have them fly regularly overhead when we were stationed in Cyprus, 34 years ago.

They hold a couple of particular memories for us, and my younger son was so captivated by it, he was drawn into the aerospace industry as a career. They were like something out of the future when they they flew over.

Love

Daff xxx

Is that the one with big delta wings?

We were watching about it on the news this morning, that particular one was located at East Midlands airport some years ago, my boys have happy memories of it.

Hev x

your right i dont know much,

but my lad will be interested...so

thank you

lynn x