I Was collecting geologic samples in Kansas about 1980 when one of these flew over about the altitude. However, I didn’t hear it coming! Guess there was some kind of joint exercise going on.
thank you for sharing this with us- I've just visited solway aircraft museum where they have a Vulcan as a static display - was trying to imagine how they would sound in fight until I found this - awesome 👏
' come on american air force company can make many more new better airplanes vulcans bombers... vulcan is a good team with B-1 / B-2 / B-52 / F-111 / F-117 together
How loud is that thing? Watch to the end of the clip when the Vulcan is 1 - 2? miles downrange: it accelerates into a right-hand climbing turn and the NOISE is AMAZING, EVEN AT THAT RANGE...
It certainly was me😁 put it this way as you can imagine no camera microphone is ever going to do that fantastic sound any sort of justice! It was a fantastic experience having the chance to see and hear the Vulcan display over the years..so sad, it's now grounded.
We lived on the flight path to RAF Waddington, you can't imagine the noise of a squadron scramble at 2 in the morning, you had to go around picking up the things that had fallen off the walls and shelves. 😲
My mum was at Boscombe Down in the 50s when the V-bombers, lLightning and Kestrel were being developed- apparently they used to come in on a Monday morning asking the question “are we still ahead of the Americans?”. Given what was coming out of the US at the time and the different requirements and approaches taken a direct comparison isn’t possible but definitely a great time for warplane development all round.
When I was a kid I saw 3 of these amazing planes "scramble" at the RAF Finningley airshow. Still remember the sight, the noise and ground shaking to this day.
Hey Mark Gough, do you have an email address at which we could contact you regarding this video? We would be interested to discuss a license to use this video if this is generally possible? (i.e. via email) :) Cheers, Felix
Wow. I watched the Vulcan at the Leicester air show over 30 years ago I’m 65 now. The ground shook and the car alarms went off. It had the bomb doors open and with full afterburners it gently climbed and disappeared.
I live in a little village 5 miles north of Scunthorpe in the north east of England. Our first house was sited on an escarpment some 150 feet above and overlooking the River Trent and its flood plain to the west. From 1978 onwards, Vulcans flew over our house several times a week at low level from the west. As they crossed the low lying flood plain we were looking at them head on and as they neared the escarpment we could see the smoke from the engines increase dramatically as they pulled up to clear the escarpment and pass over at very low altitude. Usually there were several aircraft in line astern but fairly well separated so when we heard the first one pass over we just walked out of our front door and were treated to our own flypast. What a glorious sound!
I was moored up in my little dinghy, in the middle of the Amur, on the runway centreline for this day. Was awesome, free and zero traffic on the way out. Air shows are not the same without the Vulcan.
