Title: Fairford 2009
Description: Royal International Air Tattoo
Billybigbananas - July 20, 2009 08:44 PM (GMT)
Billybigbananas - July 20, 2009 08:47 PM (GMT)
Billybigbananas - July 20, 2009 08:53 PM (GMT)
Billybigbananas - July 20, 2009 08:59 PM (GMT)
Fritter - July 20, 2009 09:22 PM (GMT)
Great stuff BBB - my mate Pete has taken some good ones at Farnborough etc.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pawoodhead/se...57606244583304/ Howard - July 20, 2009 09:38 PM (GMT)
Great pictures. Nice to see the Vulcan back in the air, after it didn't quite make it at Waddington. One hell of a plane.
EAgas1 - July 21, 2009 07:30 AM (GMT)
Great photos BBB.
Thanks to the M25 we had a 5 hour drive back on Sunday and i still had wet feet and trousers when i got home!!
Got some great footage of the Vulcan on take off, just before the heavens opened again!! will post it up when i get a moment
Hawkwind - July 27, 2009 01:21 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (EAgas1 @ Jul 21 2009, 08:30 AM) |
Great photos BBB.
Thanks to the M25 we had a 5 hour drive back on Sunday and i still had wet feet and trousers when i got home!!
Got some great footage of the Vulcan on take off, just before the heavens opened again!! will post it up when i get a moment |
B) A little bump to remind you about your Vulcan :wub: footage...
Billybigbananas - July 27, 2009 09:18 PM (GMT)
If you dig vulcans you should love these pics....
Windemere Fritter - July 27, 2009 10:13 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Billybigbananas @ Jul 28 2009, 09:18 AM) |
If you dig vulcans you should love these pics....
Windemere |
Holy shit those are fantastic, the one of it over the village with the jet streams actually makes me a bit weepy.
Hawkwind - July 27, 2009 11:01 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Billybigbananas @ Jul 27 2009, 10:18 PM) |
If you dig vulcans you should love these pics....
Windemere |
Thanks for the link BBB
It's so beautiful but it was designed to drop something that could wipe out a city or worse...
Apparently if the call had come to drop bombs on the USSR the Vulcan crews new that there wouldn't have been enough fuel to get them home. A sobering thought... :mellow:
EAgas1 - July 28, 2009 10:20 AM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Hawkwind @ Jul 28 2009, 01:21 AM) |
| QUOTE (EAgas1 @ Jul 21 2009, 08:30 AM) | Great photos BBB.
Thanks to the M25 we had a 5 hour drive back on Sunday and i still had wet feet and trousers when i got home!!
Got some great footage of the Vulcan on take off, just before the heavens opened again!! will post it up when i get a moment |
B) A little bump to remind you about your Vulcan :wub: footage...
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Yeah, sorry having a few technical issues, the other pictures are fantastic so dont hold your breath for my footage...........
Billybigbananas - July 28, 2009 09:48 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Hawkwind @ Jul 28 2009, 12:01 AM) |
Apparently if the call had come to drop bombs on the USSR the Vulcan crews new that there wouldn't have been enough fuel to get them home. A sobering thought... :mellow: |
Even more soberingly, there probably wouldn't have been any home left to go back to...
Fritter - September 21, 2009 11:04 AM (GMT)
I was down at my folks' this weekend, outside Chichester. Our dad warned me that the Goodwood Revival (a festival of vintage cars, bi-planes, and twats dressed up like the Hello, We're Cockneys in The Fast Show) was on so I should take a different route than usual.
Anyway, on Saturday afternoon we were having a cuppa out in the garden when there was this huge unearthly roar and the restored Vulcan flew right over us, about 200-300 feet. It was unbelievable and brilliant, although my brother said that where he went to school there was a Vulcan base nearby during the time when they were in the air 24 hours to repel the Red Menace and it got pretty tiresome :)
As my brother and I were driving back yesterday afternoon, we heard the same roar again and bugger me if the thing didn't do another couple of passes across our route - awesome is the only word I can think of.
