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Vulcan, one of the three V-bombers operated by RAF.
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHKbFv2M3qk&feature=PlayList&p=0C779664BF2D5D57&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=2]YouTube - Avro Vulcan XH558 Fast Taxiing at Leuchars Airshow 2008[/url]
Not sure if you included the curved delta wing shape fo the V-bombers in your comments clutch.
But these guys did a pretty good job even AFTER they had been disbanded and laid up for disposal :)
Vulcans even flew and bombed Stanley airport and radar installations.
non-stop flight from Ascension took 5 in-air refuelling hops wchich in themselves needed the tankers to refuel themselves !!
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Black_Buck]Operation Black Buck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url]
You've not lived till you hear 4 Olympus engines on full burn and that whine pierces your skull :)
and re the comment on the Thuds. Weren't the vast majority lost doing radar suppression raids for the other squadrons ?
Being last in and out and deliberately trying to get radar installations to turn on and light up for the missile counter measure makes for a very risky business :)
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[QUOTE=Matra et Alpine;875499]Vulcan, one of the three V-bombers operated by RAF.
[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHKbFv2M3qk&feature=PlayList&p=0C779664BF2D5D57&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=2]YouTube - Avro Vulcan XH558 Fast Taxiing at Leuchars Airshow 2008[/url]
Not sure if you included the curved delta wing shape fo the V-bombers in your comments clutch.
But these guys did a pretty good job even AFTER they had been disbanded and laid up for disposal :)
Vulcans even flew and bombed Stanley airport and radar installations.
non-stop flight from Ascension took 5 in-air refuelling hops wchich in themselves needed the tankers to refuel themselves !!
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Black_Buck]Operation Black Buck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url]
You've not lived till you hear 4 Olympus engines on full burn and that whine pierces your skull :)
and re the comment on the Thuds. Weren't the vast majority lost doing radar suppression raids for the other squadrons ?
Being last in and out and deliberately trying to get radar installations to turn on and light up for the missile counter measure makes for a very risky business :)[/QUOTE]
the curved wings have different characteristics so far as i can tell (don't know to what extent each design changes though), but in any case for a bomber all the negatives the delta wings have for a fighter, are positives :)
yeah, the thuds came under even heavier fire as wild weasels, but the nature of their bombing runs from the beginning was already dangerous enough that the US actually experienced a shortage of combat ready F-105's.
they also got 27 gun kills, nicknamed 'the last gunfighter' of the air force :)
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Had me go dig out some old files and links -- enjoy.
Was lucky to see the only flying Vulcan last year and sadly they need LOTS of money to keep it flying ( so if you really woudl like one day to see it then drop them some cash :) [url=http://www.vulcantothesky.org/]Vulcan to the Sky Trust - Avro Vulcan Bomber XH558 - Vulcan To The Sky Trust[/url] )
Anyway re V-bomber hamdling ... watch from 30s onwards :)
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPuTgcrA2Zs[/url]
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ending with the remnants of an airframe after an engine fire on the ground :(
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[QUOTE=Matra et Alpine;875582]vulcans everywhere :)[/QUOTE]
Ahhh, they be bombin mah falls!
Interested in what the occasion was for that flight...
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Not sure.
Most likely a "marketing trip" to showcase it in Canada.
They operated out of Goose Bay in the 60s.
The other option is may have been taken during the early competitions/exercises between RAF and USAF.
'fraid I don't know.
EDIT: Actually it has a Blue Steel air to ground nuclear missile underslung, so I'm guessing it was a test flight used for PR purposes :)
EDIT2: OK, got the better of me and did a wee google for it :) Of course, round the world training flights were regularly flown ! Nice painting .....
[quote]The Lone Ranger
Designed in 1945 and first flown in 1952, the Avro Vulcan was a new and radical design which incorporated many advances developed during WWII. "Lone Ranger" was the R.A.F.'s code name for special training flights routinely flown around the globe, which is why the Vulcan is depicted here making a public appearance over Niagara Falls.[/quote]
[IMG]http://www.riveting-images.com/John_Young_s_Aviation_Art/John_Young_-_WWII_Prints/John_Young_-_Military_Jets/y-vlcn.jpg[/IMG]
[url]http://www.riveting-images.com/John_Young_s_Aviation_Art/John_Young_-_WWII_Prints/John_Young_-_Military_Jets/john_young_-_military_jets.html[/url]
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EDIT2: OK, got the better of me and did a wee google for it :) Of course, round the world training flights were regularly flown ! Nice painting .....
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Ahh i see. Nice sleuthing :p
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The bomb bay and a shot of the Duxford Vulcan.
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Doesn't the B-52 also use downward ejection?
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yeah the elecontrics guys in the bottom part of the cockpit go down, the rest up
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[QUOTE=ruim20;875846]Doesn't the B-52 also use downward ejection?[/QUOTE]
pretty sure the B-52 has no ejection capability.