Look what I saw over Leeds tonight!

[Sysman]

[Churchill]

They also caused quite a few nasty ends for the groundcrew, mainly people getting stuck in the closing bomb bay doors. There was little H&S in the RAF back in those days.

My fave story story is how they used to 'hide' a pair of Bucs under the wings, when on exercise at Nellis, so just one big blob would appear on the radar; surprised the intercepting fighters a little!

All sorts of trickery used to go on whilst on flying exercises with the yanks. Back in the 90s I was on F3s (groundcrew) on exercise in Alaska. The scenario was that our F3s were to attack Tornado GR1s which were protected by yank F18s. The yanks had trouble though discriminatiing GR1s against F3s; so they decided if it had external fuel tanks fitted it was a GR1 as that was the standard config. Three days before the end of the exercise we were all orded to help the armourers fit external tanks to our F3s. To that end they breezed through the yank defences and 'shot' down the bomber package. The yanks didn't see the funny side though and accused us of cheating!

We have a couple of pilots and Navs at current client Co as sme's they're good eggs. Lots of funny dits to liven their presentations!

[quackhandle]

One of the most beautiful planes ever.

Oh yes. Saw it last year at CarFest North, what a sound.

qh

[Sausage Surprise]

We've got one in Sunderland at the Airport Museum.
Always remember seeing one on fire in the sky in the early 70's over Durham. It crashed at Wingate IIRC.

Just googled it and I did RC

http://northeasthistorytour.blogspot...r-wingate.html

[BrilloPad]

And I thought it was off to start WW3.

[stek]

Showed my pic to some Yanks last night online, they said it was a US drone. Fecking thick aren't they?

[Flashman]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yry2LnaNeXc

Off to drop 'a bucket of instant sunshine' on ISIS?

If only...

[OwlHoot]

And I think, the only plane to successfully bomb and destroy New York under the noses of the US defences. War games of course, I read it in Vulcan 607, about Operation Black Buck, great plane, great book, great story....

Totally outclassed the lumbering B-52's which are still in service I think.....

and on current plans B-52s will be in service until about 2050, almost a century after they were first rolled out.

That must be a record for military equipment in modern times - HMS Victory was a flash in the pan by comparison, only about 60 years in service (1765 to 1825).

Mind you, the Brown Bess musket was in service from 1722 until 1838.

[DodgyAgent]

and on current plans B-52s will be in service until about 2050, almost a century after they were first rolled out.

That must be a record for military equipment in modern times - HMS Victory was a flash in the pan by comparison, only about 60 years in service (1765 to 1825).

Mind you, the Brown Bess musket was in service from 1722 until 1838.

Hope so B-52 shot drink recipes

[greenlake]

The Last of the Vulcans Retires After 55 Years of Service