Paging the planeisti

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_7340000/newsid
_7347300?redirect=7347397.stm&news=1&bbwm=1&nbwm=1&nbram=1&bbram=1


Second Vulcan test flight results in a mayday...

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, mike. buckley

For a false APU fire indication.

It failed safe, no worries[1], no real drama. Pilot came across very
well in the interview, I thought.

[1] Albeit a few airborne arseholes shutting with a bang...

 

Precautionary landing. A **** sight better than pitching it into the weeds
doing a low pass at Denham IMNSHO.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, mike. buckley

For those interested, this:

http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=284250&page=49

Includes a *stunning* shot of the Vulcan on touchdown disappearing into
the heat haze.

Flash Gordon, or what?

 

"Sorry, but you must register or login to view this page. "

Hack it over to YouTube, would you, mate?
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Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ

It's a still:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/82487826@N00/2413932963/

 

That is rather wonderful.

<goes in search of youtube vulcan clips>
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Champ

ZX10R | GPz750turbo | GSX-R 600 racer
My advice as your attorney is to buy a motorcycle
To email me, neal at my domain should work.

 

Round this neck of the woods, it's a wallpaper.

 

Awesome! One of my most abiding youth memories is having my innards
shaken by the noise of a Vulcan on take-off at an airshow at RAF
Waddington, then doing a low-pass fly-by and then hitting the gas to
climb to **** knows where in a minute or so.

That was before the noise abatement fascists started complaining about
aircraft noise scaring cattle in the peaceful Lincolnshire countryside.....

 

I am 10 miles from Humberside Airport where they used to do air shows,
and had a Vulcan display. Even at that distance, the roar was pretty
impressive as it lofted over the Humber.

 

About the only thing I remember from airshows as a kid was seeing an
SR-71 at Mildenhall some time around 1984. That and seeing the space
shuttle at Stansted, anyway.

 

Farnborough 1975 - SR71 & C5A Galaxy on static display, Concorde &
Harriers flying[1][2].

Eh?

<fx:googles>

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stuart166axe/2311179764/

I had the Airfix kit of that!

[1] Plus a touch & go "landing" for Concorde due to the length of the
runway.
[2] Seeing a plane hover and go backwards was pretty amazing for an
11-year old.

 

The SR-71 was flying at this one - I'm guessing 1983 or 1984. All I saw
in 1975 was the inside of an ovary.

Heh. I was expecting that response from somebody.

 

God I feel old.

I worked on the P1127, the forerunner of the Harrier, and then Harriers, Sea
Harriers and Matadors (Sea Harriers for the Spanish Navy), plus Sea Hunters
and Hawks until 1979 when I moved on to the AEW Nimrod program.

There's a tank museum up by Cromer with a Harrier out front that was saved
from the scrapyard, that I remember signing-off for it's original flight
test at Dunsfold - now the Stig's playground.

 

Check this one out...
Watch it till the end.

 

BBC News 24 covering 3rd test flight live around 13:30 today.

 

Awesome! One of my most abiding youth memories is having my innards
shaken by the noise of a Vulcan on take-off at an airshow at RAF
Waddington, then doing a low-pass fly-by and then hitting the gas to
climb to **** knows where in a minute or so.

That was before the noise abatement fascists started complaining about
aircraft noise scaring cattle in the peaceful Lincolnshire
countryside.....[/QUOTE]

I was there at a display for foreign military.

Lightnings burning holes through the upper cloud layer.
Vulcans taking off doing Immelmann turns and landing again.
Awesome.

 

Muckleburgh Collection?

 

That's the one.