And they say dragons aren’t real…..

@Gazza_Roo_Too

9 ай бұрын

love this comment

What you DON'T get with this video is the _feeling_ - of the earth flexing, underneath all that power. It could take off and leave every single car alarm in the airshow car park blaring (rather like Concorde).

The music of my childhood! I've lived in Farnborough all my 67 years, and the hairs on the back of my neck still rise at the sight and sound of the Vulcan and the Lightning.

@Gazza_Roo_Too

Жыл бұрын

Incredible aircraft and some good memories

@soppdrake

Жыл бұрын

The view from the roadside at the far end of the runway! I saw a couple of Vampires take off together a long time ago, and they flew into a flock of birds, some of which fell to the ground atound me.

@oildrag

10 ай бұрын

Yes I lived in Pontail area !! You could watch them fly all the time white and camouflage including the olipus engine trials on the fuselage ! As for the Lightning’s I could feel the heat of the afterburners, also the lightning landing speed was incredibly high !! Oh happy days

Can't believe that this was the next design that Avro produced immediately after the Lancaster. Vulcans flew for decades. Awesome aircraft.

@planekrazy1795

Жыл бұрын

Not quite there was the Lincoln and the Shackleton after the Lancaster, but yes it was a great leap forward.

@andypandy9013

Жыл бұрын

​@@planekrazy1795 And the Lancastrian and the York 😊

@stevetheduck1425

Жыл бұрын

- and the Lincolnian, and the three Avro 707 delta research planes. - and the Avro Tudor airliner. Marks one to four.

@jameswroe2403

Жыл бұрын

Same designer though, Roy Chadwick.

@MrDaiseymay

Жыл бұрын

It has to be said, the wing shape was first created by the German Horten bros, in the 1930's. Because of the ban on powered Aircraft development in (pre Hitler times) the Hortens became world leader's in Glider design. After many tests with wing design, they came up with the DELTA shape. Later they designed many futuristic planes, which luckily stayed on the design board.

Best display aircraft, ever, bar none. Fast, noisy, big, agile, and ominous - she had everything. Who here is old enough to remember her looming out of the valley from below the end of the runway at Biggin Hill and frightening the you-know-what out of the traffic on the road there?

@andybricky1927

Жыл бұрын

You want to try sitting on a roof with them going over your head!

@particlejim

Жыл бұрын

I know the exact spot you're talking about, the runway, the road, a single row of houses and then that steep drop into the valley The Vulcan was a magnificent beast, somehow both the loudest and yet also quietest bird in the sky... She would be totally silent as you see her creeping up towards you, then all of a sudden she's on you and it's the sound of the entire sky being ripped apart and the earth beneath you collapsing in on itself, a gloriously apocalyptic thunder that sets off every single car alarm for miles around Watching her sneak along the valley then suddenly rise up above that row of houses was always an unreal spectacle RIP old girl

@johnf991

Жыл бұрын

@@particlejim A great description - thanks. It seemed to me that Martin Withers (often the pilot) had a volume control which he cranked up from 0 to 11 at just the right time for maximum effect! In reality, of course, he was maintaining height while in a tight and low bank, but as he was a couple of ,miles away in the turn the sound arrived 10 seconds after the related manoeuvre, so it always looked and sounded freakish! Bt who will veer forget the howl?!

@geoffbentley8774

10 ай бұрын

On the Vulcans first ever flight,the test pilot did a barrel roll.

Iconic aircraft… one of my all-time favourites

Just visually , one of the most Intimidating looking Aircraft ever built . A Heavy Bomber that actually had Aerobatic ability . Gorgeous Plane .

@Gazza_Roo_Too

Жыл бұрын

100 %

I was on the construction of Doncaster airport where XH558 was based & whenever she took off for a flight the work stopped to watch in awe! 😂

@Gazza_Roo_Too

9 ай бұрын

can't be helped to stop and stare

I’m so happy to hear these comments Roy flew this wonderful aircraft from Scamton 617 squadron and I’m still so proud of him and his crew.If only children could enjoy such a wonderful life nowadays.

@Gazza_Roo_Too

3 ай бұрын

Sounds like you have a few stories to tell ?

@user-eh8zm7qj2r

Ай бұрын

⁠@@Gazza_Roo_TooSo lovely to hear from you about Roy. I was so very proud of him,one of our grandchildren was very keen to follow him into the life we had.they were as proud as I am.People who I bump into everyday will talk for ages. I will always love the life. I made a friend who also loved the idea and he worked with helicopters.and wished he could have met Roy. I’m sad to say that he died a few weeks ago,(no doubt he too will be lucky enough to do just that) You can see the conversation between them,all Vulcans and helicopters. I know . I must stop now. I will talk for ever.best wishes Fran 2:48

From the late 60's till the early 80's RAF Vulcan bombers would visit the Abbotsford airshow in British Columbia, Canada. I as a kid attended many of those shows and the Vulcan was one of the most impressive displays ever. Yes, arguably the loudest jet I ever heard at these airshows, with maybe the USAF SR-71 visits and displays giving it a run for the money. The airshow announcers called the Vulcan the Aluminium Overcast. 😎👍

@Gazza_Roo_Too

Жыл бұрын

Love the story, incredible memories - Aluminium Overcast 😁👍

The fact that this type of plane managed to "bomb" america , twice, during hightened air defense times is just sooo fantastic? And the fact it was covered up for so long ?* chefs kiss*

One of the coolest bombers ever made.....

Cor! Even watching this now, that supernatural howl makes the hairs on my arms stand up! We had a Royal Navy Air Station near us when I was a kid, long gone now, today just a small provincial civilian airfield, anyhow, they used to have an airshow every summer in the 1970s. There were all sorts providing the display...Westland Wasp and Wessex helicopters; Blackburn Buccaneers; McDonnell Douglas Phantoms; Sea Harriers and so on, but I particularly remember the Vulcan flying over our house and the magnificent presence it held over everyone with its large black 'bat' silhouette as it carried out its show manoeuvres. A really impressive and intimidating aircraft when seen in the flesh.

Quite simply, this plane needs to be rebuilt to exactly the original specifications. It is unique in its breathtakingly beautiful sight and sound.

@Gazza_Roo_Too

9 ай бұрын

somebody has to pay for that and that's exactly why it doesn't fly anymore - too expensive to maintain

I believe i am becoming addicted to the 'Howl'.

@Gazza_Roo_Too

Ай бұрын

you and me both

The Aircraft is quite amazing ,the Howling sound is amazing,what a Wonder this bomber is ! Love it 🤩👍🇨🇵

And the truly sad thing is no one will ever hear that sound again

@user-ul2tt4dn9k

4 ай бұрын

Only on KZread 😢

Had the privilege of seeing the vulcan fly whilst on annual camp with the ROC in the mid 80s at RAF Waddington. Rather sad as we new it was the end of an era.

I have stood beneath the one at Hendon. Until you get that close it is hard to appreciate how utterly huge that aircraft is. My jaw was bouncing off the floor for a good 10 minutes. An absolute beauty and another legend in a long line of them................

@marksims3904

11 ай бұрын

You lucky sod. Just an incredible aircraft, and the howl as she is taking off could shatter mountains, I hope you gave her a kiss and thanked her as you left.

@user-ul2tt4dn9k

4 ай бұрын

We have one of these magnificent aircraft at our local aircraft museum XL314. I have some awesome childhood memories of sitting in the pilot seat. Unfortunately time and the Britsh weather have not been kind to her but she still gives you chills when you stand next to her. 😮

British engineering at its finest. Love this beauty along with the EE Lightning. Just imagine what it would have been like if the Vulcan had afterburners!! Also nice to see an earlier version of the Red Arrows, the Folland Gnat.

She's the best commentary in the world ❤❤❤❤

Seen her many times but at Fairford at the end of the display she took off with a short roll as per the display but instead of doing the wing over she just kept climbing at the same steep angle as the display till out of sight. Marvellous. 👍

Vulcan and Red Arrows. A Folland Gnat painted as a Red Arrow, another as a Central Flying School plane, and another one painted as the precursor to the Red Arrows, the Yellowjacks.

Wings and wheels a few years back got to see her taxi and then a seeing an Aston vulcan underneath her. Spent the day showing my car whilst chatting to the dude next to me who used to fly her. Special day great memories as all the great bombers she’s mahoosive up close and personal but still looks stylish.

One amazing aircraft, twenty six years ago whilst driving along the main road on the eastern side of Marham airfield a Vulcan pulled up along side me on the other side of the hedge, The crew gave me a wave sat there at 55 miles an hour for a few seconds then banked left and slowly climbed away. He was not just taking off, the runway was some hundreds of yards off to his left, that plane was flying with probably no more than twelve feet of clearance between belly and ground and at such a slow air speed impressive I should say!!!A sight I will never forget, I seriously doubt that there is any modern Jet bomber that could match that. I have seen F15's over Lakenheath slowly screw around almost coming to a standstill just sitting on their thrust at two or three hundred feet, and as impressive as that is you know it's the computers holding it there, No such luxuries on a Vulcan. What is more the Vulcan can do what it does without raining parts all over the country side.

@malcolmsleight9334

Жыл бұрын

Many years ago (40+) at an airshow at Woodford (I think it was), I saw a Vulcan do a vertical climb.

I remember going to an air show in the late 50s and saw Victior Valiant and Vulcan all take off together. When they applied afterburners the noise was deafening.

When I listen to the sounds of an Avro Vulcan, so do all my neighbors!!

@Gazza_Roo_Too

9 ай бұрын

as it should be

My former-RAF husband serviced Vulcans' electonics for years. Computers? That thing's circuits ran on diode valves and those pilots actually flew the craft. We have to remember that the Vulcan first took to the skies in the 1950s and modern fly-by-wire technology had yet to be invented.

*My Daughter in Law saw this Flying over Market Harborough a few years ago and thought it was something out of **_STAR WARS_** !*

@Gazza_Roo_Too

11 ай бұрын

indeed !

The only time I saw the Vulcan fly was on it's final flight in my hometown. Me and my friends were in the park, unaware of what was happening. Suddenly there was a roaring howl and the ground shook. Everyone there turned to see the Vulcan doing a spiral climb a couple of miles away, then silently floating around like a giant fighter. Even that far away, it was crazy how loud it was, and how effortlessly it stayed in the air once the throttle was reduced. I'll never forget it.

@Gazza_Roo_Too

9 ай бұрын

cool memories !

The bomber that thought it was a fighter.

This country needs to get them flying again, its a legend and be government backed, along with the Lanc, Spit and Hurricane

@samuelgarrod8327

11 ай бұрын

😂 Grow up.

@umute1653

10 ай бұрын

Give them the defence budget of china and then maybe theyll do itt

@user-ul2tt4dn9k

4 ай бұрын

Should be still flying for sure. Such an awesome sight at airshows......an, let's not forget that mystical howl, that always sends shivers down your spine. 😮

I live near Portsmouth. I get to see Spitfires daily and The Red Arrows often. Boy, would I love to see a Vulcan. 😍

@Gazza_Roo_Too

11 ай бұрын

we all hope for it's resurrection

Saw this at the Manston air show and it just about set off every car alarm

@Gazza_Roo_Too

Жыл бұрын

and seismic sensors

Because of that beautiful bird we were able to successfully "Nuke" the USA twice 😂😂

@Gazza_Roo_Too

Жыл бұрын

I love that story

I simply cannot understand why we couldn't have continued building the Vulcan. It could have been periodically upgraded and been a great asset to the RAF for years and years. Look at the b52, over 70 years old and still feared by it's enemies.

@MrDaiseymay

Жыл бұрын

NUKE SUB's pulled the Rug from under them. The cost of maintaining them was ENORMOUS. Besides, the company that made many of the Very high tech parts, went bust. Same company who made Concordes stuff too, and same part reason for Concordes demise.

Kent, the best commentary ever

Fantastic 👍

@Gazza_Roo_Too

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 👍

At 0:50 secs when it leeps into the air and does the severe banking turn like a fighter aircraft- truely awesome aircraft! 🙂👍🇬🇧

@Gazza_Roo_Too

11 ай бұрын

absolutely

Magnificent beast!

I was at an air show when 4 of these took off one after another, awesome sound,can’t remember what part of Lincolnshire it was as I was very young.

@Gazza_Roo_Too

11 ай бұрын

Something none of us will witness, incredible memories for you

Remember it flying over our house in Mansfield being used as a test bed for the Concorde

I gotta say that is one beautiful airplane. I would rather see this in a flyby than a B2, tbh. ☺

@Gazza_Roo_Too

9 ай бұрын

for sure

The nuclear bomber that convinced itself it was a fighter.

@wessexdruid7598

Жыл бұрын

It convinced anyone who tried to shoot it down, certainly.

@user-ul2tt4dn9k

4 ай бұрын

The crazy part is it did actually move like a fighter ha ha an awesome piece of Britsh engineering 🇬🇧

I used to hate these planes. We worked on Hackthorn Hall roof while these were still flying and you could watch the vortex (if that is the right word!) pull the trees 100 yards away and the fumes stank. We were also working on a roof at the end of Scampton runway when these planes left for the last time, the noise was amazing and being on a roof with them flying over us was terrible, I couldn't hear Tony Blackburn! I jest as I think it was later in the day when they flew off but it was a small piece of history. I now look at Vulcan videos with the same enthusiasm as Lancaster vids.

Maybe now people will understand why a 4-year old boy pulled a face at the noise and put his hands over his ears!

How Beautifuls that

The Red Arrows literally look like gnats next to the Vulcan!

@Gazza_Roo_Too

11 ай бұрын

lol, true

It’s tragic that there are no more of these flying.

@Gazza_Roo_Too

11 ай бұрын

national disaster

I feel like i need a cigarette of listening to that :)

@Gazza_Roo_Too

Жыл бұрын

Cigarettes are bad for you, but we'll take the compliment! :)

Go big bird 😊

This aircraft came over a house I was working on many years ago i think it came from the Clacton air show but I may be wrong there was a carpenter who was well into his aircraft and said the flypath home was were we were working gt Yeldham We were in a small valley at the time he said we heard the vulcan and rushed outside it was quite low they open up the engines and the noise it made was extreme to see and hear it I will always remember

@Gazza_Roo_Too

Жыл бұрын

Very cool story

@vickyking3408

11 ай бұрын

The howl set off car alarms at air shows😂

@23970658

11 ай бұрын

😅

Imagine what an awesome sight she would have been flying the Mach loop

@KGardner01010

Жыл бұрын

@@Gazza_Roo_Too - From what I can recall - there is a video (or videos) on YT of it doing that as it began to tour the country before retiring . . . However - it's also quite possible that the squadron also used the loop a few, or many times when doing practice ground level incursion training, too . . .

@user-ul2tt4dn9k

4 ай бұрын

There is a video of that. Think it's part of the final tour. Its really awesome.

Such a beautiful aircraft the 2 most spectacular plane ever built The Vulcan and Concord both British both world beaters then we have the English Electric Lightening has that vertical climb been beaten yet i believe it still stands .

@MrDaiseymay

Жыл бұрын

---AND, THE TSR2. ANOTHER WORLD BEATER, KILLED BY POLITICS

@Gazza_Roo_Too

Жыл бұрын

as many good things

Didn't the B-52 howl too sometimes?

"The bomber that thought it was a fighter" Can't remember who originally said that (not me!!!)

Sounds more like Star Wars than Star Trek.

@Gazza_Roo_Too

11 ай бұрын

the Force is strong in this one

@BvzSA

11 ай бұрын

I was wondering about that. Was the Tie-Fighter's distinct noise a homage to the Vulcan, given that the Empire is portrayed as British?

Do they still show these at airshows? I feel like I saw one when I was a kid at, I want to say Cosford air show? It was a long time ago but I distinctly remember the 4 jets on the back and the delta wing and feeling the boom as it went past if that makes sense lol. I'm no plane enthusiast and havent been to an air show since but it was one of the best days out I've ever had lol.

@whiteyaksha7232

Жыл бұрын

@@Gazza_Roo_TooMan that's a shame, it was early 2000's I went to the air show, 2005 I think. Well if memory serves I saw one and I guess I'll have to hold onto that. Thanks for the Info mate, all the best 👍🏻🇬🇧

@natalo78

Жыл бұрын

@@whiteyaksha7232 I was in a field not far from cosford on that day in 2015 when it last flew. Got an incredible view of it doing a low pass overhead as it left Cosford on its final flight. The howl scared the shit out of me

90% thrust gives it its howl

@Gazza_Roo_Too

6 ай бұрын

Howl on ......

@OllyO-gt8pg

6 ай бұрын

@@Gazza_Roo_Too it works on Microsoft flight SIM anyway lol

@Gazza_Roo_Too

6 ай бұрын

😄😄😄@@OllyO-gt8pg

@user-ul2tt4dn9k

4 ай бұрын

It works on the real thing to ha ha only the later model tho something to do with modified air intakes an the rate that this gorgeous aircraft sucks in air for those olympus engines when the throttles are at 90% or more. There's a video on here that explains it.

There were secret plans drawn up for a conversion kit for Concorde to convert it to a nuclear bomber if the need arose. I don't know if it was found feasible or not but I wouldn't be surprised if in a warehouse somewhere is some forgotten rusting prototype hardware. Although it would have been defenceless, the fact it was so efficient that it could maintain mach 2 for very long periods and at good altitude meant some fighters of the time, whilst faster would struggle to catch up before they had to give up as they could not sustain such speeds for long. A missile while fast enough would have to be fired pretty close before it ran out of burn. Wouldn't it have been amazing to see the Vulcan replaced with a full military spec Concorde?

@levitated-pit

Жыл бұрын

@@Gazza_Roo_Too in 1979 as i was doing my air tech course (army reme) one of my civilian instructors (who worked on the british nuke program) told us about this, then quickly changed the subect.

@allenjenkins7947

Жыл бұрын

The Soviets had a similar plan for a militarised Tu-144 to carry up to three air-launched solid fuelled ballistic missiles. Nothing much came of that plan either.

Scared women and children regularly 😂 stunning landing at Farnborough

Vulcans stealth, etc DASH 10 etc

The Germans needed to stick a speaker on the front of the Junker JU87 (stuka) to get the same howling effect....... 😂😂😂😂.....

@Gazza_Roo_Too

Жыл бұрын

some sort of ram siren I believe

Rodan lives!

@Gazza_Roo_Too

9 ай бұрын

😁

Avros built the Vulcan to vaporise Russian cities from ten miles up but ‘accidentally’ built the worlds best low level display aircraft EVER. Not all Vulcans howled. Those with 200 series Olympus engines, like XH558, howl, but 4 Olympus, of any mark, at full chat sound awesome.

@Gazza_Roo_Too

Жыл бұрын

agreed

@user-ul2tt4dn9k

4 ай бұрын

Yeah I heard the howl was something to do with the air intakes being modified on the later model. Totally unplaned but so totally awesome 👌

I was in vulcans

@Gazza_Roo_Too

3 ай бұрын

Care to share some stories?

I wonder if there is ever an air show anywhere that doesn’t have a constant, inane, boring drivel over the p.a. telling everyone the “bleeding obvious” about what everyone is there to enjoy. mmmm….. come the revolution….. mmmm

@Gazza_Roo_Too

Жыл бұрын

Oh, I totally feel you! It's like they think we've all gathered at the air show just to hear Captain Obvious narrate the obvious! I mean, who needs a play-by-play commentary when we have our eagle eyes and amazing ability to recognize airplanes? Maybe we should organize a "Silent Air Show Revolution," where everyone attends in complete silence, communicating only through exaggerated facial expressions and wild gesticulations. Just imagine the chaos and confusion! 😄

I know everything lol

Up, 100 tonnes

@Gazza_Roo_Too

Жыл бұрын

yep

AVRO ENGLISH ELECTRIC

The howl will is better heard if the unnecessary non-stop commentary over high wattage PA systems is eliminated. Sadly EVERY airshow will be spoilt by these people on a microphone desperate to tell us how well-informed they are. Attendees of military airshows ARE ALREADY well informed.

@Gazza_Roo_Too

Ай бұрын

Agreed, very irritating and unnecessary but part and parcel of the air show routine unfortunately.

Sounds almost like a B-52D on a water-burning takeoff. The Buff is louder.

@wessexdruid7598

Жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/i42DydWgnr2elNo.html Louder, faster, steeper - and so much cleaner. The Vulcan, that is..

I have learnt to hate that commentators voice with his patronising tone and out of date commentary.

@Gazza_Roo_Too

11 ай бұрын

story of life, to appreciate the good you have to put up with it