I'm a Yank, ex B-52G and RC-135X mechanic (engineer) For me, the white Vulcans are some of the most beautiful military aircraft ever build...

As an Air Cadet (1280 SQ) I watched a flight of Vulcans take off from the side of the runway at RAF Scampton. Much impressed, a sunny day and watching them grow in the heat haze as they accelerated down the runway, they rotated at about where we where sitting on the grass a little way back from the side of the runway. What a sight what a noise. I think there was five in the flight.

I find it mind boggling that avro went from the Lancaster to the Vulcan in only a few years

When I was in junior school - late 70's early 80's - a Vulcan was flying around Sunderland airfield with a view to landing when it retired. The crew must have caught sight of the school on its lunch break with all the kids running around and decided to treat us to an impromptu display. I will NEVER forget that day as this giant bat thundered and howled it's way around the sky - the pilot flinging it about with utter abandon, skill and grace. You could actually feel the noise in your chest as it ratlled all the windows in the school. Utterly magnificent. My favorite ircraft to this day and I remember later hearing of the attack on Stanley airfield and thought - wow it was terrifying just flying around, imagine it dropping bombs as well

Love the Vulcan. I think it has to be one of, if not the, coolest looking aircraft ever built.

@guaporeturns9472

Жыл бұрын

🤔

@pcka12

Жыл бұрын

The Handley Page has an amazing shape too & was apparently faster!

@guaporeturns9472

Жыл бұрын

@@pcka12 F-5 gotta be one of the most “right” looking airplanes ever built… absolutely stunning

@pcka12

Жыл бұрын

@@guaporeturns9472 I have always liked the F5, I built a plastic kit model of it years ago, very curvaceous!

@SuperEdge67

Жыл бұрын

B-58 Hustler was a good looking aircraft.

Incredible to think that 41 years ago….Operation Blackbuck took place, the fact that several missions were flown from Ascension all the way down to the Falklands…..and back seems almost too incredible, chapeaux to those very brave crews and an also huge nod of respect to all those Victor tanker planes all doing their refuelling packets on the way down and back…..doubt we could even consider something like this now…..it was I guess a show of, look what we can do Junta, we can arrive on your doorstep…..glad that silly ness is past….what a plane, first saw one at Akrotiri in the 60s , as a kid on Ladies Mile beach in Cyprus, seeing these giants just look like something out of TV21, my favourite comic back then….again Chapeaux to all our military, both home and allies….thank you for your service.

Somewhere there’s a photo of a group of Air Cadets who washed that aircraft. We had a team photo on the top of the wing :)

Always loved the V-aircraft. Certainly amongst the most beautiful aircraft ever designed.

This guy makes flying this beast of an aircraft easy,he must have a tremendous aptitude for his flying as the interview is makes clear.

thank you all for what you do, this is important history

@Aircrewinterview

Жыл бұрын

Cheers

I was fortunate to spend a few years in England in the late 70's - early 80's and was able to see the Vulcan displayed at various airshows. From a watching perspective it remains my favourite with a nice blend of size, noise and power.

Saw the Vulcan in New Zealand at my primary school in the countryside. Approximately 30 pupils from 5years old to 12. It was a very beautiful apparition and very graceful. I was about 6 years old. Around 1960.

Absolutely incredible video. It's a shame the RAF and SAR left Chivenor. I miss the air days and the regular Hawk training flights

I live about a mile from the avro museum, if you're ever one here again let me know and I'll buy you a coffee 😁

@Aircrewinterview

Жыл бұрын

Will do. Cheers!

Iv been looking forward to some Vulcan content

Yet another interesting character with memorable insights into one of the most iconic aircraft of the RAF. Really enjoyed it. And the unofficial world record for playing bagpipes and didgeridoo at altitude, that was hilarious. Too bad it probably isn't in the Guinness Book - yet. Can't wait for part 2!

Would definitely recommend a visit to the avro heritage museum, trevor held a presentation on the vulcan during our visit which was very interesting and entertaining. For a small museum you can easily spend the best part of a day there.

It's such a unique and wonderful looking aircraft. Great interview!

Fantastic interview. And a most enigmatic subject in the form of the Vulcan. That Avro 730 sort of reminds me of a non-stealthy A-12 Avenger II.

Another interesting interview with a fascinating character. Woodford, the birthplace of so many iconic Avro aeroplanes. The beautiful Vulcan sitting there in the background resplendent in it's white anti-flash colour scheme. I remember the unique howl of the Olympus turbojets as it displayed at air shows. My favourite colour scheme was the high gloss green/grey of the mid sixties with high visibility roundels. It really complimented those graceful lines. Thanks again for your channel.

These interviews are so good, a living history and testament to the RAF and the aircraft. Thanks for posting.

@Aircrewinterview

9 ай бұрын

Thank you

Around 75/76 I attended a "Families day" at Woodford and was told that the white Vulcan (which was on display then) had an airworthy wing spar.

Always pleased to hear about the Vulcan.

What an Iconic aircraft! Automatic like! But great interview, just fascinating.

@Aircrewinterview

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Karl.

The first Vulcan I ever saw was when I was 8 in what is now Malawi, but then was Nyasaland. In the early 60s,, when the Emergency erupted, my mother was still employed with Central African Airways. The old British "Show of Force" included a Vulcan low flying over Lilongwe, which was then a grass strip but is now the capital of Malawi...and where I grew up. The Locals thought it was a ghost - the a/c were painted all-white at the time - so those who were outside, tried to get inside, just when the jet noise hit. Those inside promptly tried to get outside. Luckily, I was up in the control tower with my Mum, so it was funnier than Hell! 🙂

What an amazing interview really interesting thanks 👌👏

Very enjoyable, I’ll look forward to part 2

I've been fascinated with the Avro vulcan since i found out my dads cousin was a vulcan pilot (Frank Waters aka 'sassy') aparently they always knew their target in a nuclear event which if i remember rightly was a naval base i think in Poland? I got to see inside one of these beasts and was just in awe, such an amazing aircraft

Great interview! Thank you for your service!

Beautiful aircraft.

Absolutely fantastic interview!!! Thank you.

My dad was an electrician on both the Vulcan and later the Nimrod. Ever the practical joker, one of his favourite stories concerns opening the bomb bay doors whilst various technicians were working in there and laughing at them as they tumbled out - whilst on the ground of course wouldn't be quite as funny if were in the air, but even still, it's quite a height to fall out from! The ground crew got their own back on him eventually though. But he loved that plane and we were all thrilled to be able to see it flying at Fairford and Farnborough a few years back.

@johnnunn8688

4 ай бұрын

Glad your dad didn’t get charged with manslaughter. 👍

@lukemchale-jones3041

4 ай бұрын

@johnnunn8688 Having seen the height of the bay from the ground for myself, I tend to agree! Yeah, as you can imagine, they didn't really see the funny side of it, and he earned himself lashes in the shower with a wet towel for it. He says it was worth it...

Awesome machine

Trevor, did you ever fly a Vulcan out of Edwards AFB circa 1970? I was out on a "nav" flight in an RF-8G and happened on a Vulcan! I flew wing on him until the gear (excuse me, "undercarriage") came down and I realized we were on a long final to Edwards. I beat a hasty retreat. No cameras installed in the Crusader.

I've always wanted to ask a V bomber pilot about a mass fly past of Victors and Vulcans that I witnessed from my school cricket field roughly fifteen miles West of Wittering in summer 1968 or might have been summer 69. The aircraft were flying in Vics of three I think from south to north quite close to Wittering. I've often wondered what the occasion was and whether it was the stand down from the nuclear role in 69. That is a total guess, but it was a lot of V bombers and it could easily have been July. One of my co fielders on the cricket pitch did say " I do hope thats not World War Three starting " I wonder if Trevor might remember this event as large fly pasts can't have been that common

@matthewlilley574

Жыл бұрын

Perhaps Investiture of Charles, Prince of Wales? 1 July, 1969

It would be good to hear about the exercises when Vulcans ran successful simulated buclear attacks on US cities...

Any Vulcan crew remember flying over the Nimitz and being intercepted by a F14? The incident is on another KZread video.

Excellent! How high up were they when they played the bagpipes?

@johnnunn8688

4 ай бұрын

Can’t believe he wasn’t asked that 🤷‍♂️.

I would have loved to know the altitude they were at for the bagpipe playing. Was he reluctant to state it?

How high was the cat-strangling ‘music’ being played? I must have missed that bit.

At Red flag the Americans made it very difficult for the RAF to win the Bombing competition so the Vulcan Pilots organized "picnics in the dessert", where the cars strategically parked up with raised bonnets, enabling the Vulcans to get position fixes to target .

I wonder if he was aware of the Vulcan participation in Excercise Sky shield

I wish he had told us what altitude he had flown at.

@guaporeturns9472

Жыл бұрын

Wish in one hand ..

How high they got can't be a secret or jeopardising his career now so you need to find out this crucial information. How can the world carry on in any semblance of normality knowing that there is a bagpipe playing altitude record - but not knowing what it is!

If only the Vulcan had received the financial and political support for ongoing development. Imagine Vulcans still flying alongside BUFFs.

Wonder how it would handle with controlable canards .

The Vulcan caused a lot of panic in The Kremlin!

Trevor never revealed how high they managed to fly the Vulcan.

Would he not have started initial training in the Chipmunk, then JP?

You can use the radar of a miitary airplane to receive radio and listen to music? That's totally insane!

@mikep2099

Жыл бұрын

The radar doesn’t pick up radio, the radio does that! When he said the ‘radar’ picked up the BBC he was probably referring to the Navigator, radar crew member operating the radio.

@notmenotme614

Жыл бұрын

The radar would be operating in a completely different frequency band that’s way outside of radio, so it would be unable to tune to radio frequencies. The radar would be around 3 GHz while radio would be around 30 MHz. Then you’d have problems with FM or AM. The radar system processed the return signal into a cathode ray tube display. Radar would have no audio processing.

@GorgeDawes

5 ай бұрын

Most likely they were using the Automatic Direction Finding equipment to listen to music. This is a very basic radio aid which is still (just about) in use today. It simply gives you a bearing towards a radio transmitter called a Non-Directional Beacon. These work in the LW/MW frequency range so you can receive a signal from pretty much any AM radio station using it. During my flying training I used to listen to football commentary on BBC Radio 5Live if I was doing a cross-country flight on a Saturday.

My grandad was crew on the first flight ever….beat that….Hadwen Denham

So what altitude did they reach??

How high did you fly

realy great interview ! So where is (heaving sex) part 2 ?

Mk 3 Vulcan ................... errrrrrrrr Concorde ? 😎

he`s said its like nuking america twice, while they cant find there butt, with both hands :)

He couldnt say how the Vulcan was viewed by other countries. They basically went to Australia. Yet, the US is insular.

But HOW HIGH???? 😊

Great interview, but…. a fighter pilot would have told us how high he got the Vulcan. 😑

Definitely the worst cockpit of all Cold War era strategic jet bombers. Imagine trying to visually assess battle/accidental damage to the aircraft...bloody disaster! Really now, how difficult would it have been to design and produce a better cockpit? Even the bloody Lancaster had a better one!!! 🙄

@20chocsaday

3 ай бұрын

As a schoolchild I got to see a mock-up of the inside of the rear crew space. Then they closed the door. Three adults squeezed together hunched over instruments for several hours. It actually turned me off the idea of joining the RAF.

The B-52 is STILL in use. Vulcan, let us start counting and see if you return in 10 hours. On "Americans are insular", so were the Brits when they ruled the world. Lol.

@THE-BUNKEN-DRUM

Жыл бұрын

We weren't/aren't that insular. We couldn't be, even if we wanted to. As we've conquered & colonised most countries around the world & the only reason the B52 is still in service is because of funding. If we had bothered to upgrade the Vulcan. It would be a damn site more capable than a B52.

@nrao8977

Жыл бұрын

@@THE-BUNKEN-DRUM England WAS insular when she ruled the world - the seas actually. On funding, England - sadly - is nothing today without the US. The US actually makes others pay for the B-52 by printing dollars. As I said a lot to unpack. There is no way you could have upgraded the Vulcan. England by then was nothing.

@guaporeturns9472

Жыл бұрын

so?

@20chocsaday

3 ай бұрын

I think he meant that they sourced their own planes ONLY from their own country. At that time several European countries looked at each other's aircraft types as well as American types.