I remember seeing the Avro Vulcan and the sound was amazing the whole plane was just out of this world now it's gone and only seen at airshows such a shame
This plane is scary. Looks it, sounds like it. The Brits have always made awesome planes (Spirfires, Hurricanes, Lancaster’s, Harriers). This is another one. It looked ahead of its time. -An admiring American
We certainly have, it is a shame, our home grown aircraft design and building capability is all but gone. Now it is international corporations. I would also put the De Havilland Mosquito " The Wooden Wonder" in that list too.
Because of our small landmass we had to think of different ways for our offensive capabilities to be effective. We tended to make the knife 'sharper' instead of 'longer' if you know what I mean.
A masterpiece of engineering by the great Roy Chadwick. i find it hard to believe that there is only 11 years between the first Lancaster and the first Vulcan. Great aircraft designed by a great man.
I was privileged to see a Vulcan when my father took my younger brothers and me to an airshow at McGuire AFB in New Jersey in the late-ish 1960s. I'd remember if we'd seen her fly but it seems I can just recall the aircraft on static display. We did see a Harrier go straight up (the pilot gave us a salute) then transition to level flight. That was a thrill.
As a kid I lived at both Finningley and Waddington and as such Vulcans doing circuits and bumps were an almost daily sight. Once a month at Waddington there would be a full squadron scramble and anything from 8 to 12 Vulcans would take off one after another, the noise was something very special.
I'M FROM NEWARK UPON TRENT. YES YES YES IT WAS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC.. folks whom comment on the Vulcan videos, saying 'they saw "one" or "two" and how special it was'. makes me feel ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE to have seen THEM BIRDS AS MANY OFTEN ESPECIALLY THE *nuclear warning 4 minute scramble exercises* as you have perfectly described. We, my Vulcan 🖖 friend , have both witnessed events ???!! what very few folks have not?!, and ??!! aren't even awaire happened??!!! the very 1st stage of the UK'S MILITARY *NUCLEAR* AIR DEFENCE, being physically *LAUNCHED*. right THERE in front off us. THEM VULCANS HOWLING straight up out FROM WADDINGTON and "EAST" .. ?????!!!!!!! FOLKS HAVE NOOOOOO IDEAL WHAT A *MURDER* of VULCANS really sounds like. * very SPECIAL* ohhhh yes my friend, very very SPECIAL *presence* indeed .. UUUUUFFFFFFFFFF. ITS LIKE BEING LIQUIDISEREDDDDD 😠😣🤢🤢🤢🤢🥴🥴😝🤪😜😜😱😱😱😱😱🧟♂️🧟♀️🧟🧟♂️🧟♀️🧟♀️🧟♂️😄😁😁😁😆😃😃😃😃😃🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 (we actually didn't even need the nuclear bomb) the VULCAN ALONE STOPPED WW3. by just it's presence☠. TRUE??? 🤔😑😲😃🤩🥰🤣 did you think about it?! every time they did that SCRAMBLE exercise, YOU'D NEVER KNOW???!! IF???!!! EVERY SCRAMBLE WAS JUST ANOTHER EXERCISE???! OR???!! IS THIS SCRAMBLE, FOR *REAL*????!!!!!! is this WW3?! are they actually going to Russia????!!! the next few hours after those massive scrambles was a bit "tense" 😬. so the birds quickly retuning back to their airbases, was very reassuring indeed 🤔🙄😳😀🤣 But yes .... IT WAS AN ABSOLUTELY VULCANS *JACKPOT* FOR FOLKS AROUND THE *EASTERN & BOMBER COMMAND VBG SECTOR'S* 🍉🔔🍇 🛬🛩🛫 💰🍒🍓
I remember seeing 4 doing simulated QRA's at Scampton and Waddo, 16 Olympus engines ripping the sky open, still my number 1 aircraft moment all these years later
As a kid growing up in Lincolnshire, we got treated most days in our playground by the glorious sound of Vulcans flying overhead. Glorious. (family is from Liverpool, but for a brief snatch we lived in North Hykeham). I'm not really an aircraft buff. I just effin LOVE Vulcans. Everything. That gorgeous from every angle shape of theirs. My very first crush (My mate John Harris elder sister) and Vulcans are irreplaceable and from those Lincolnshire years. We'd go to open days at Waddington, Scampton. I sat in a VULCAN cockpit. I'm 63 now and when I grow up, I want to be a VULCAN pilot. We'd stand in the playground as the magnificent beasts of the air flew overhead. Then with dufflecoats hood up, fastened at the neck, arms holding our unbuttoned "wings" we'd cruise across the playground. Our howl was more then a tad lacking tbf. Cottage pie, jam roly poly & custard, jumpers for goalposts Vulcan Howl......... isn't it ?
YES YES YES , EXACTLY TRUE AND SPOT ON MY CHILDHOOD IN NEWARK , IS TO THE BACKING SOUNDTRACK OF THE VULCANS. ( you know what, by 84, I was 12, I didn't realise that the Vulcans were being decommissioned. HOWEVER, *EVERYONE* LIVING AROUND IN THOSE VBG AREAS KNEW IMMEDIATELY, SOMETHING HAD HAPPENED TO THEM BIRDS???!! WE "FELT", SOMETHING HAD HAPPENED. *THE SECOND*, THEM HOWLS, WENT SILENT IN THEM SKYS. EVERONE, WAS LIKE, ' oh??!! I haven't seen or Heard the Vulcan today'!!?? . and that was like just, ten minutes after they'd literally been "grounded" And oh my.. the skys felt so empty and them BIRDS WERE MISSED AND LIKE YOUR FAMILY.. BECAUSE TO US THEY WERE OUR FAMILY. THE SOUND OF NEWARK SKYS WAS THE VULCAN
Only the Typhoon can match it's awesome sound. But it doesn't have the Vulcan's magnificent, frightening presence to go with its volume. We have lost a true icon from the skies. We should support the Vulcan as it is now, or future generations will never know how fantastic our aviation industry once was. VTTS should get better funding to keep XH 558 at least doing fast taxi runs, keeping The Vulcan Howl in people's memories.
Thanks for all your videos. You are obviously another Vulcan fanatic! I am now 68 years old and live in Rio. When I was a kid, my father was a high-echelon executive within the British electronics arms industry and I gained entry with him into the first day of various Farnborough Air Shows. He was then involved with the British 'Blue Steel' nuclear missile project. These 'first days' were never open to the public because only on this day the exibiting companies were allowed to undertake extremely risky demonstrations of their aircraft and equipment, never permitted during public days. I thus witnessed, in the late 1950's, a takeoff of the Vulcan that was being used to test the advanced prototype Bristol/RR Olympus 320 turbine, slung beneath her belly. Vulcan B.1 XA894 flew with five Olympus engines, the standard four Mk.101s, plus a reheated Olympus 320 destined for the BAC TSR-2 in an underslung nacelle. She had just started to raise her nose wheel from the runway when she just stood on her tail and took off VERTICALLY. I can't tell you how many thousands of fellow witnesses drew their breath expecting imminent disaster. Nobody could EVER imagine that this monstrous aircraft could climb vertically from almost a runway standstill stall. The ground shook, our vision blurred and we covered our ears. Then we observed this massive shape emerging from the heat haze and just accelerating into the blue void. Nobody who witnessed this could ever forget it. How was it possible? How many other heavy bombers with a 25 ton load capacity could loop or make barrel rolls? She could out-manoeovre attacking fighters. Just her grace and looks can kill. RIP
FANTASTIC I'm from NEWARK UPON TRENT SO EVERYDAY was a FREE private MILITARY AIR SHOW IN OUR SKYS VULCANS EVERYDAY WHHHHHOOOOOOOOOPPPPPPPPP WHOOOOOOOOPPPPP AND EVERY WEEK the *FULL 8 VULCAN GROUP EMERGENCY SCRAMBLE TAKE OFF PRACTICE* right above my home town. that's hearing the FULL SOUND OF THE VULCANS *HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOÒOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL. imagine what that did to ya .. it seriously felt like you molecules were melting.
In 1976 we were coming home from Lincoln on the A15 in my brother's Reliant van, and as we approached Scampton we saw 5 Vulcan's Taking off, doing a couple of twirls and landing again. At that time there was a left turn just past the main entrance to Scampton. We went down that little road to the end of a runway, parked up & sat on the van roof with our legs hanging over windscreen. We watched all 5 for ages, what an awesome sight. Then 4 landed & taxied away . We were wondering where the 5th one went to when all of a sudden a dark silent shadow over came us, we looked up & there it was about as high as a house, dark silent & terrifying as he wound up the engines to land. The van was shaking, we were both holding our rattling ribs, the noise of those engines were unbelievable as he landed on the runway directly in front of us. God bless that pilot as he gave us a memory we will never forget.
No coincidence that the engines in this aircraft mated to the most fantastic delta wing were also in Concorde and its beautiful delta wing. Both legends and both sadly missed.
Extremely agile for its size as people have already stated British aviation at its finest!! Our contribution to the jet age was bigger then most people realise
This beautiful plane reduced me to tears every time I saw it. The most magnificent piece of engineering ever. We will never see the like of it ever again. I watched it at Doncaster on it's final flight, again through my tears. I have sat in the cockpit of a Vulcan. Absolutely awesome.🥰
I think from the aesthetics point, it is beautiful to look at especially with its oversized delta wings. I remembered the pilot did a couple of low passes over my runway at my request when i was a young air traffic controller. It was facinatingly awesome.
Very nostalgic seeing this. Remembering many great air shows and the guarantee that a Vulcan pass would set-off every car alarm in the car parks. The Rumble From Hell!!! EPIC!!!🤣👏👍
Never ceases to amaze me how they plant XH558 so gently back on the tarmac. Minimal stress on the aircraft and maximum stress on the pilot. Legendary pilots, Kev and Martin.
If you've seen it for real, then you know. You just know. No other plane sounds like it. It's a mixture of an other worldy howl and the roar of the jet engines. I got goosebumps watching this on a mountain in the lake district as it circled over Keswick then the pilot opened it up to climb over the mountain I was on and the thing just screamed as it went overhead. My friends back down in the town said the sky sounded like it was cracking apart. It's a feeling more than anything else. I think just the sight and sound of this thing, would have been enough to make anyone surrender.
James Burvill saw it only once! Never knew what I was in for! I actually shed a tear of joy while it rocked my world in front of me! I’ll never forget the raw power of it as the howl grew and blasted past me! Just one tear if absolute AWE
I've been fortunate enough to see her fly on many occasions, and your description is so spot-on that it gave me goosebumps, She is missed for sure, there's nothing like her graceful lines and her howl, not to mention her illustrious history, 🍻
@@ushoys Until they took over the US and Britain? I don't know about the US but they sure as hell haven't taken over Britain and never will. A base just down the road from me has had a load of F35 lightnings delivered recently and we have two US bases close by (lakenheath and mildenhall) and regularly see F15 training displays overhead. When I lived up north the typhoons and hawks were out every day of the week flying through the lake District, good luck to any russians trying it on because we (the UK) are armed to the teeth with the most advanced weaponry available
as a child going to air shows i always remember the roar and howl of the vulcan followed by the sound of every after market car alarm going off in the car parks.epic plane and a real shame it is no longer flying i actualy had the pleasure of seeing it flying not long before being grounded doing some circuits of robin hood airport whilst i was at work nearby.that is 1 video i have backed up on several hard drives
Je suis toujours en admiration devant cet avion que je trouve magnifique... Ses décollages et atterrissages sont majestueux et de toute beauté. Sa forme particulière en fait, pour moi, la plus belle aérodynamique visuelle, sans compter sa prestance en vol.
The most stunning aircraft I have ever seen. I remember as a small boy standing on Porlock hillls watching these great leviathans sweeping over the bay the noise was absolutely fantastic long live the RAF
I saw this plane at an air show when I was about 9 or 10. This thing is LOUD. The Argentine airmen at Port Stanley must have thought they had died and gone to hell when this came over.
@Roborav Says the guy insulting me lol. And we weren't the ones that attacked you idiot we were the ones defending. Defence isn't war mongering. And I'm still alive.
Having watched planes since a nipper in WW2, and the Sunderland at Rochester. The Vulcan is the most magnificent plane the British have designed and built. As the testbed for Concorde's engines at Farnborough, it blew the crowd away.
I've always thought the Vulcan was one of the most beautiful of the big military aircraft in the world. I saw one of these in person and it totally blew me away.
The fact the raf escorted and refuelled this beast all the way there with no radio contact at certain a point, then to do the mission then to play ‘Vangelis chariots of fire’ over the radio so they really know what’s just gone down... legends at the highest order ...
Truly an otherworldly aircraft. From its frankly bizarre shape almost how one would imagine a spaceship, to its near silent approach building to a hellhound roar once it got overhead, the Vulcan was certainly missed at Farnborough last year. At least we'll always have the memories, and brilliant videos like this one.
The howl is just spine-tingling, especially in person. Even at idle, it has a distinctive high-pitched whine unlike any other plane I've ever experienced.
Absolutely stunning iconic aircraft, saw it several times at airshows and stood in amazment as the ground shook to the sound of those rolls Royce Olympus engines!! Unforgettable!!
I was at the very last F! Grand Prix at Brands Hatch in 1986, and all sots of aircraft were flying past. Then, as me and my brother were walking about a shadow and noise covered us. We looked up at the right time to see the mighty Vulcan pull up almost vertically. The noise made the ground we were standing on shake. It was magic! No shortage of spares or fuel back then!!! Wonderful memories.
Xh558 such an amazing plane with it's delta style wing and the howl it gives of its a sound you don't hear from modem day jets nowadays . The absolute power from the 4 Olympus jet engines must not be forgotten
I remember seeing a Vulcan at RAF Leeming in 1994. Slow pass, high AOA, full power climb. Loudest thing I ever heard. Both hands over my ears and it was still the loudest thing I'd ever experienced. Mind blowing.
A great aircraft! Fortunate to visit one at Eglin AFB in 1960. it was there for an airshow, at that time painted anti flash white, as its mission then was high altitude nuclear delivery. Remember how high it stood on its gear, and how affable the crew seemed as they answered questions. Like the Victor, it was full of curves, so different from our angular B-52s.
Outstanding footage of an outstanding aircraft, those Vulcan Howl recordings are haunting, I miss her, I actually cried with a stranger and we hugged the last time I saw her fly, we knew that that was it, it was an emotional moment. 🍻
NOTHING compares to the howl of the Vulcan. You don't hear it, you FEEL it, right through your body. I've seen and heard it up close, and it's MAGNIFICENT! Even the thrumming "heart-beat" of the Lancaster (which I love) can match it.
Epic it's well missed. Was amused at the security guard at the start. Slyly filming it so it still looks like he's doing his job. Nobody could resist filming this beast 😁
As a youngster I lived about 12 miles away from A V Roe, Woodford and with wind in right direction we could hear the engines being tested. We used to cycle over and go down a little lane which took us near the runway. Also remember seeing the Fairy delta aircraft being developed. Great days.
I love this aircraft so much, as a young child I used to get so scared by it's "howl"..... I would give anything to hear that "howl" again and feel the ground vibrate underneath my feet just one more time as it passes over me...... a truly amazing aircraft that literally worked of just strings and pulleys! Thank you for sharing this video!
I remember seeing one at an Air show when I was around 10 years old , we were in an old Austin Mini with static seatbelts . Such was the power and noise of the Vulcan it rattled the seat belt buckles whilst they were hung up in their clips , against the inside of the car !
This plane was an amazing, so sad it will never fly again. On its last flight over uk it was planned to fly over my home town but cancelled at the last minute! I was so gutted 😢
I remember seeing one of these at the Cosford air show back in the 90’s and the size and noise of the thing sent shivers down my spine. Incredible aircraft.
Imagine the reaction of the spectators when 14 Vulcans scrambled in pairs. 14 kites airborne in under five minutes. That was in 1969 at RAF Wildenrath in Germany.
I saw that event too. It was at the 1969 Flugshau at RAF Wildenrath, where no fewer than 14 Vulcans staged a scramble. 14 in the air in under 3 minutes! It was terrifying. And very loud.
they could literally.... Disappear and go slient.. right in front of you.. THEN ..SUDDENLY. A GINORMOUS HELL APPEARS COMING HOWLING AND SCREAMING AT YA. I'm from. Newark right next door to Waddington so saw them every day .
"The Spirit of Great Britain". That is so fitting a title. Grounded forever, shackled down, wings clipped, never allowed to reach for the freedom of he skies again. Once proud and world beating, now consigned to the history books. Very much like Britain itself. All future airshows will be a shadow of what they could have been. "The Vulcan Effect" could add thousands to attendance figures, just like the EE Lightning & Concorde. Britain was up there at the top of aviation technology, challenging America with these three wonderful aircraft. Now all we have is a part share in the Typhoon & The RAF has had it's wings clipped so severely. Is our Spirit completely broken??
If at some point in life I get the tremendous luck to be so rich I can afford to build a full size replica with a similar power output, as close to the original as possible, I truly would.
I recommend checking out the British governments 1957 Defence Review. It basically destroyed the British Aerospace industry by cancelling several advanced fighters and bombers that were being planned, and the UK went from being a leader in military aircraft design to an also ran that could no longer invest the money it needed to to keep ahead. In the here and now, the cost of developing a new military aircraft project is so massively expensive, the only way any European country can afford it is to collaborate and share the costs with other countries. Only a superpower like the US can afford to go ahead with a project on it's own...Even then, the F35 Lightning 2 has contributions from other countries..
I can never watch a Vulcan display without a tear or two. There, I’ve said it.....I’m a wuss, I don’t care. She was a truly beautiful bird. Air shows just aren’t the same without her☹️
Everyone thought the Vulcan was dead until we did that 'jolly little hop' to Port Stanley Airport in the Falkland Islands! Look that one up to find out about the most amazing mission in history! Enjoy your retirement old girl xx
@@misterspitfire6564 Well the Falkland's War was an odd one. I worked with a Navy guy who participated in it. Please do not think I have a problem with some of the service personnel as my gripes are with the bureaucrats - as always! Our 2 biggest issues have always been budget constraints and lack of vision. We are an Island which means our primary consideration should be Navy (I was recently working on our new carriers which have significant issues too) and our lack of Navy ships, especially carrier groups, is embarrassing particularly when it comes to defending territories which may not be on the doorstep. There is zero reason (except cash not given to defence) why we should not have Nimitz class carriers (even if they are our own variant - I'm using a known equivalency here for discussion purposes only and not suggesting buying USA platforms for a security perspective obviously) and from them a wide range of aircraft can be launched and landed - the more diverse the airborne platforms = the more diverse the weapons platforms that can be deployed. Air-refuelling a mid range (nuclear capable) platform over a long-haul when not intending to use nukes tells our enemy that we have nothing ballistic that is long-range or scary - why do you think the issue was pushed? We simply do not take defence seriously in this country and this will become clear to all very soon, sadly. My grandfather's team could not get the guidance systems working on our own nuclear launch platform. If the penpushers cared about defending our people they'd have got more folks in and increased the budget, instead they pulled the plug and we now rely on the UN (bad idea with what is going to happen soon) to allow us to access long-range platforms which are not our (independent). One of our Trident subs was dry docked for almost a decade while a company I worked for fluttered about and did no work - still got paid, mind. Look, we're not in good shape at all; we're wide open and countries are looking to capitalise soon. The same goes for the USA. Good luck, friend. I sincerely wish you all the best.
I first saw this airplane in a Comic Book: Dan Cooper. As many other planes of this time. It's really a fascinating Airplane and we can be very happy it never had to drop any nuclear warheads. This Warmachinery is completely insane.
Fantastic video! This is one of the best videos I've seen of the Vulcan. I loved all the different camera angles, particularly the one looking right down the runway.
Remember being in my back garden in the north east, when I seen a reflection in my back window of the Vulcan and then the howl of the jets engines, oh my god, what a sound and truly a wonder of the jet age this plane really is. I never missed a Sunderland air show if this was on. A really big miss and so sad its not around to fly anymore🙁. Nothing else like it really.
I stalked this plane with 6 years of airshows and I can tell you its last flight was a sad one, but loud at that, it must've been a mile or two away from me, but sounded like 3 helicopters where hovering over me.
oh my Vulcan 🖖friend I'm from NEWARK UPON TRENT ohhhhh 🤗😃 living there when them birds were still in service , till 84 👇 RAF Coningsby, RAF Cottesmore, RAF Finningley, RAF Gaydon, RAF Honington, RAF Marham, RAF Scampton, *RAF Waddington*, *RAF Wittering (HQ RAF Bomber Command*) and RAF Wyton - * (a total of 36 bases available for the V bomber force. see what i mean. 😳😳😳🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳😋 plus.. *EVERY WEEK* *WE* *WITNESSED* *THE FULL EAST SECTOR'S* *VULCAN BOMBERS GROUP* *PRACTICE* THE *FULL EMERGENCY* *NUCLEAR ATTACK* * 4 MINUTE *SCRAMBLE* *EXERCISE* imagine seeing that, go over where you live. that's the 1ST 4 minutes STAGE of the .. *UNITED KINGDOMS* *FULL NUCLEAR ATTACT RESPONCE procedure* experience ???!!!your watching????!!!! BEGINNING RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU. imagine THAT "howl" OF 8 going past ya . 8 Vulcans full throttle from a 4 minute in the air SCRAMBLE . 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 I witnessed them every week I have witnessed .... EXACTLY , what happens, IN THE VERY FIRST 4 MINUTES, IN THE EVENT OF A NUCLEAR ATTACK/ THREATS, TOWARDS the UK, and other countries around the world.. ???!!! ( back then), SO BASICALLY """IF""" *WWW111* BEGAN ... THOSES BIRDS WERE THERE TO HEAD STRAIGHT EAST TO RUSSIA and I WATCHED them role play it.OUT . EVERY WEEK Ponder this thought... I WAS 14 KID In 1984. as a kid YOU *NEVER* KNEW??!!!, EVERYSINGLE TIME WE SAW THIS EVENT.. ABOVE OUR HOME TOWN ?????!!!!!!!! """"""""IF"""""""" THIS ""ONE""" WAS *JUST A EXERCISE* or.......... the real thing. as in, IF IT WAS "FOR REAL" ???!! it could be ... 30 minutes later after seeing them Vulcans, suddenly!!!?? scrambling INTO THE SKY "above your home" heading DIRECTLY FULL SPEED EAST.. TOWARD *RUSSIA* IF THE NEXT THING YOU'D possibly "experience", was the "N"""FLASH""" from a Russian nuclear missile.. believe me. that was a very hard thing to deal with, as kids living with those VBG bases.. right next door. HOWEVER, Once WE understood SOMETHING??????!!!!! WE LOCALS LOVED THE VULCANs which was - WE KNEW THEM BIRDS *COMPLETELY* *STOPPED* *EVEN A SINGLE* *THREAT* *HAPPENING* *AGAINST* *'US* them BIRDS were our guardians our protection. and... it was by "understanding" that, is actually what "allowed" you to, live in less fear of death via nuclear attack BECAUSE..- THOSE HOOOOOWOWLING BIRDS.. kept WOLVES at bay and away from "trying to "hurt" other folk 🛫🛫🛫 🛫🛫🛡🇬🇧🌏🛡🛫🛫
As a thirteen year old in the school ATC our group spent a week camped on a Vulcan Base in Yorkshire. I can still remember sitting, with a parachute on, practically beside the runway waiting for a turn in a Chipmunk as a one of these incredible machines took off down that runway. We all jumped up to watch it go by. Someone yelled my name and I turned round to see that my parachute was trailing behind me. I missed my turn in the Chipmunk that day. There was a prize for the best turned out cadet, two hours in a Vulcan. Wasn't my day....:0) Have always loved this aircraft.
in the sixties, i was a young boy living at raf finningley in yorkshire as my late father who was in the air force was on ground crew for these aircraft ... i was always in awe when i saw these magnificent machines overhead
I first saw a vulcan in the early 70's and I have was hooked,miss her like crazy .Never tire of watching this display still makes the hairs on the back of the neck stand up. thanks
The incredible thing is that this plane is from the 50s and 60s and it looks so futuristic It is incredible too how in the 60s, the US had the SR71 Blackbird They dont make planes like those nowadays
Saw one of these many years ago at an air display in Coventry. It took off, banked to the right as it passed by us then turned and went straight up, setting off hundreds of car alarms. Just brilliant!
God Dam this is an awesome piece of British engineering. Sounds phenomenal there is no mistaking the awesome howl of a vulcan. 😊 I'm lucky enough to have sat in the cockpit many times as a child as the local aircraft museum has one of these beauties but sadly time has not been kind to her, which is a terrible shame. 😢
