Anyone guess? Crap pic cos it had gone before I could frame it....
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Looks like a Vulcan to me. I used to see them flying over my house as a kid in Norfolk.
Always reminds me of what Port Stanley airfield and Mr Spock's mum have in common.Comment
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One of the most beautiful planes ever."I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
- Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...Comment
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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....Originally posted by cojak View Post
Totally outclassed the lumbering B-52's which are still in service I think.....Comment
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Pterodactyl. Bloody time slips!What happens in General, stays in General.You know what they say about assumptions!Comment
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SPECTRE stole one in the 1960s and ditched it in the ocean, near the Bahamas....
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Yep, tested NORAD.Originally posted by stek View Post
The story goes that the Yanks rang up and said "When are you sending your Vulcan?" We responded with "It's just arrived back home, you're dead!"
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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.Originally posted by Churchill View PostYep, tested NORAD.
The story goes that the Yanks rang up and said "When are you sending your Vulcan?" We responded with "It's just arrived back home, you're dead!"
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!But I discovered nothing else but depraved, excessive superstition. Pliny the youngerComment
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