Vulcan Bomber :D

[6./ZG26_Emil]

I found this on youtube and it brought back some amazing childhood memories for me. I live not far from BAE Woodford which has sadly now closed down but they used to build many Avro aircraft including the Lancaster, Shackleton, the Vulcan and the ill fated Nimrod AEW3. I hafve great memories and the two aircraft I loved seeing were the Vulcan bomber and the BAE Lightening. Anyone else have anything similar that brings back great airshow memories?

 

 

[Dutch]

Well as you know, my memories are similar to yours mate. If I could find a clip of a lightning going through the sound barrier vertically upwards, I'd post it. Nice 'howl' clip btw.

[6./ZG26_Emil]

Check this out

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx28jWfr80w

[DD_Arthur]

Well as you know, my memories are similar to yours mate. If I could find a clip of a lightning going through the sound barrier vertically upwards, I'd post it. Nice 'howl' clip btw.

 

Lol, Dutch. That is exactly my memories of airshows in the mid-late 'sixties.  I think it was at North Weald but I can't be sure. I was about four years old.  Rows and rows of Austin Cambridges, Ford Zephyrs, Triumph shooting brakes lined up on the grass along the roped off runway. Picnic baskets, camping stoves.

 

They'd time it so the crowd would all be watching a display team from the Belgian airforce disappearing into the distance when a Lightning would come roaring in along the display line at about 50' off the deck, pull up vertically and go to afterburner!  The noise!!  I can't find anything much from those years but this gives a bit of an idea;

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTr2UvLqfkQ

[HagarTheHorrible]

Stood at the end of Kinloss runway as a boy to watch a Vulcan come in to land. The end of the runway is very close to the road and the Vulcan didn't land, he just did a touch and go. I won't make that mistake again, I was absolutely deafened by the roar of his engines going to full power as he climbed away.

[Revvin]

I used to love wandering around the Vulcan they had at RAF St Athan when I worked there many years ago as a civilian contractor, for a combat flight sim fan it was fantastic to be able to wander around the maintenance hangers looking at planes in various states of undress and listening to them crank up the engines on the maintenance ramps

[Dutch]

a Lightning would come roaring in along the display line at about 50' off the deck, pull up vertically and go to afterburner!  The noise!!  I can't find anything much from those years but this gives a bit of an idea;

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTr2UvLqfkQ

 

That's exactly it Arthur! My memories like Emil's, are also from the Woodford airshow. It was a yearly family outing, with picnic. I have fond memories of swatting all the flies away from my boiled eggs. Not such fond memories of the Gent's though. It was just a huge uncovered trench with a trough. As a four or five year old, I wouldn't go for fear of falling in.

 

There was a bit of a tragedy one year, when a chap was killed demonstrating an autogyro. Back in those days, the Harrier was allowed to hover around 20feet from the crowdline too. Now that was noisy!

Edited October 4, 2013 by Dutch

[SYN_Blackrat]

I remember lots of airshows as a youngster, but the most memorable and I think as I had just finished my O levels exams at school and felt as free as a bird, little did I know.... we live not far from Greenham Common I distinctly remember the 1979 show with the lightening and Vulcan stealing it for me.

 

 

 

[ATAG_Slipstream]

Theres a Vulcan parked at my local airfield.They do fast taxi runs in it sometimes and you can hear it miles away! :-)