Vulcan XH558 was really put through its paces on the Sunday of Waddington, I've never heard noise like that on a low flypast since the return to flight. Great display 👍
In the sixites we had all the good looking aircraft. The beautiful little Folland Gnat, the muscular looking Buccaneer, the sleek Hunter, the all business super quick Lighting, and then the 'V' bombers, Valiant, Victor & Vulcan. All British with the exception of the shark nose Phantom of the Royal Navy.
Sexiest bomber every built! Still remember the first time I saw the Vulcan as a kid doing a low level turn at an airshow in Ft. Worth, TX. No other bomber was the same after that!!
Thank you bobsurgranny for this upload. I'm off to Norwich Airport a bit later today, this grand old beauty is visiting briefly for what is likely to be the last time. XH558, I'll miss you so much.
I remember as an air cadet with 481sdn we went to raf gaydon air display in the 1970s, at the time it was still an operating base , 4 Vulcans took off on a quick scramble , the floor shook and we were all deaf for 5 mins , but what an experience !!!
I remember seeing a Vulcan at an airshow in the '70s - came over us from behind and then climbed as steeply as it could - one of the loudest things I've ever heard, the ground shook.
I remember seeing one at Farnborough in 64 -terrifying noise , Lightening was quite a shock too- you don't realise the power of that noise till you experience it , it seems to go straight through your body ! Awesome , as they say ...............Wales UK PS .I liked the white ones .
1:00 in ,Have you noticed how she seems to have a squared-off nacelle on the stbd. side just at the exhausts , where the pt. ones are separate ?? Wales UK
Unfortunately no need for nuclear-capable bombers like this when you have ICMB's. As for the conventional bombing role, well, that can be handled much better by smaller aircraft.
@@thelwulfeoforlic6482 Unfortunately good looking vehicles don't win wars. All then end up doing is requiring excessive maintenance and wasting taxpayers money. Not to mention being out-dated and easily defeated.
Oscar Muffin - please read what I said! Are you suggesting that we send “The City Of Lincoln” into a war zone, she’s 75 years old? Of course not in your words she’d “be easily defeated”, BUT the RAF spend time and money keeping her airworthy; unfortunately the ‘Air Historical Branch’ don’t have the resources to keep XH558 flying, if merely for the pure poetry she is in both sound as well as vision.
bobsurgranny, Please, PLEASE, LANDINGS!!! How come that in this video YOU FILMED THE TAKE OFF FROM THE THRESHOLD (THANK YOU FOR THAT), and you DON´T CAPTURED THE LANDING TO THE TOUCHDOWN?
Yeah it was, I thought it was much better than the Saturday display, I mean just listen at 1:02. Not often they use the power on a low flypast like that!
+archie_4220 I would say noise levels from the two would be about the same. But different sort of noise, the Tornado is just brute roar power and the Typhoon is more of howling sucky noise when approaching, then thunderous as it goes by.
