I received the following from Rod Liddiard, a great Broadway Supporter.
Subject: Once in a lifetime
The subject title says it all
Subject: Once in a lifetime
Wonderful footage provided by
Flt Lt Tim Dunlop of the BBMF (Lancaster Captain), from last Thursday when the
2 Lancasters formated for the first (and probably the last) time with Vulcan
XH588 over Lincoln enroute to RAF Marham. There were reports of up to 4 miles
of standing traffic on the A15.
(The 3 shadows on the ground
are amazing and the noise is wonderful)
My personal favourite ever airshow memory was, of all places, at Staverton (Gloucester.Cheltenham Airport). The last airshow there in the 70's featured a Vulcan that did a series of near vertical climbs with the afterburners on, and then cut them, drifted back down and repeated the exercise. What a sight , what a sound.... Bill
6 comments:
Bill...The Vulcans make a unique sound known as the "howl" but they don't have 'afterburners'.
Awesome aircraft tho !!
Andy
Andy,
Quite right it was a later derivative of the engine with an after burner that was developed for Concorde I think. Just keeping you on your toes!
Bill
Olympus engines. No afterburners (reheat)on the Vulcan.
Shadows on the ground? surely you mean 'aluminium overcast'!!
I'm surprised it stayed in the air, the propellers weren't turning at all hardly....
Everybody is right.
There were 2 differnt Vulcans flying test beds with a a fith engine under the bomb bay.
The first was the Olympus 320 variant for the TSR2 and the second the Olympus 593 for Concorde both test engines had reheat
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