air tattoo

[genf_stfc]

anyone know what time the vulcan should be going over ? i imagine i'll hear it anyway, but i can't go and it would be a shame to not stick my head out of the window at the right time and miss it.

[Reg Smeeton]

anyone know what time the vulcan should be going over ? i imagine i'll hear it anyway, but i can't go and it would be a shame to not stick my head out of the window at the right time and miss it.

Where I live on the edge of OT hill, I can hear planes at Fairford, it must be 20km away.

This morning on rising I thought Air Tattoo....it's always either that or the B-52's have arrived to bomb the crap out of the innocent people of some despotic Middle Eastern state.

[SwindonTartanArmy]

anyone know what time the vulcan should be going over ? i imagine i'll hear it anyway, but i can't go and it would be a shame to not stick my head out of the window at the right time and miss it.

about 3pm apparantly.

[Reg Smeeton]

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[BANGKOK RED]

Sexy bit of kit that.

[Reg Smeeton]

Sexy bit of kit that.

Airfix kit...

[leefer]

Was playing golf at South Cerney a few years back...the show was on and that black plane(phantom?) went straight over our heads..not a plane expert at all but it was brilliant.

[ron dodgers]

don't get a buccaneer in your ear - fucking noisy beast

[Leggett]

my uncle was a navigator in Vulcans through the 60s and 70s.

i once saw two stealth bombers flying out of fairford one sunday afternoon, it scared me shitless as they usually fly in and out at night, and with an F18 escort. it was at the time when georgia and russia were kicking off, i thought world war 3 was gonna start. yaaaaaaay.

[Reg Smeeton]

my uncle was a navigator in Vulcans through the 60s and 70s.

i once saw two stealth bombers flying out of fairford one sunday afternoon, it scared me shitless as they usually fly in and out at night, and with an F18 escort. it was at the time when georgia and russia were kicking off, i thought world war 3 was gonna start. yaaaaaaay.

Hearing the B-52's always chills me to the bone, knowing that innocent people will be slaughtered by a visitor from a field just down the road.

[genf_stfc]

i remember being woken up by all the tankers the night they bombed tripoli

[Phil_S]

The vulcan is very quiet when it's not on full thrust. It has so much lift it can almost float along. I'm going tomorrow so hope to see it.
PS last time I saw it it came in real slow & quiet then just put the nose straight up & opened up. louder than Coincoirde & managed to set off all the car alarms which was brilliant

[Bennett]

it was only "floored" for one burst today.

on the whole i was unimpressed by comparsion to the air tattoo's of my youth, it seemed a lot more low key and they had the same planes flying...just different nationalities.

[Batch]

Yes not as much variety this year, heard a lot of comments like that. Too many bloody Hawkes. Also what happened to the Sea Vixon?

The Vulcan display is a watered down version of what it once was, which is a shame but also understandable. The issue is once the engines are gone they are gone. No more available. They have a finite life, so they nurse here around a bit more to conserve "engine cycles". Should last another 8 years or so.

She was up a bit after 3 today, and displayed just after 4. The pilot was Martin Withers, the pilot who first took the Vulcan '607 to Stanley to bomb the runway in the Falklands conflict.

The Vulcan is sheduled to display between 3-4 tomorrow. Not sure if she is going to take of and go into display straight away or whether she'll take off display a bit later like today.

[Samdy Gray]

Only a slightly relted topic, this event caused traffic carnage yesterday. Cars were queued back down lane 1 of the M4 up to Commonhead and all the way down the A419. Just ask Fred. He's really not bitter about it