The first time that I ever heard the now infamous Vulcan Howl was at en air show in Yorkshire. The Vulcan was coming in low from my front left crossing to the right. I started to run towards the front as I did not want to miss the sound of the engines. The pilot obviously opened the throttles as I was greeted by this strange howl which stopped me I my tracks. I genuinely thought there was going to be an air crash. The noise haunted me for years until I came across it on you tube .....
I remember in the 80’s during Abbotsford (BC Canada) international airshow. We were sitting on a small hill a short distance from the airport when a Vulcan flew over. I never forgot the crazy howl and the apocalyptic levels of noise. That was the heyday of airshows in Canada with so many cool aircraft flying but the Vulcan really stole the show for me that year. Now we have portable screens instead of SSTs and space tourism. Who else out there feels ripped off?
when I was younger ,lived not far from RAF FININIGLEY,,,now Robin Hood .once a week 3 Vulcans did a 3 minute scramble ,the windows in our house use to vibrate like hell,,and if you where outside,,you could feel the rumble in your chest ,,
Great clip. Brings back memories when the British Air Force was still in Malta before 1979, used to live under the approch to the airfield and really had fun as a boy, looking at a the aircraft landing or taking off like the Vulcan's, Victor's, Nomrod's, Canberra's, Bucaneer's and all the rest.........Sadly in Oct 1975 a Vulcan expolded over a village killing 5 of the 7 men crew and one on the ground. Agian Great clip.
I was on holiday in Malta and saw a Vulcan take off from RAF Luqa. It looked like it was climbing vertically with the classic shape silhouetted against the sky. A bit too far to hear but beautiful in its own right.
Remember one of her final flights at wellesbourne saluting her sister, XM655. She came down the runway low, and went into a spiral climb at close to max power, the noise was deafening. At the top the throttles were closed and every car alarm in the area was going off. Really is such a shame that it wont be ever heard like that again.
Iconic sounds I have heard in person.., 1. Ted Nugent 1980 ( hibernation tapped me out). 2. Nitromethane dragster & funny Cars. 3. Supersonic F-18. 4. My Daughter’s first pathetic wail. All awesome in their own way.., I guess I will have to turn up my headphones for” the Vulcan Howl” from now on!
What an awesome symphony of Mechanical Music.... she just looks like the Bring'er of Death as she swoops in like a Condor with a Fresh kill' ... That Howl just Just reaches into you and grips like a vice ..
Dad! Take some photos on my phone please, or on yours. No! I refuse! I’ve told you before David, I only want to see it with my eyes remember? I’m only gonna get to see it a few more times in my life so I’m gonna make sure I get a good view of it. X-D
had a vulcan at london ont. air show back in the 80's did a touch and go and took out dozens of runway lights and the microphones of a local broadcast station, bloody great noise!!
Time stamp 1:2 “Dad take some photos on the phone” “No! I’ve told you before................ I want to see it with my own eyes............” best comment ever I wish some people would think like this at concerts; I actually witnessed people trying to film at a 3D Kraftwerk concert with mobiles, all they’d get would be a blur
I first saw this beautiful aircraft at the'80 Airshow at RAF Mendenhal(misp). Very capable and even today wouldn't look out of place. Stationed at RAF Lakenheth, '78-'80. Provided fire coverage when Italian demo team lost a pilot and aircraft. Sorry for misspelling Mendenhal.
This is the most impressive power climb of a Vulcan ever caught on camera!!!….i love Britain and I love being British it’s a shame we just don’t build shit like that anymore 😭😪💔💔💔
2:48 seconds in - I would love to see H.G.Wells time machine appear in the background and for him to see the Vulcan about to howl and blast off up into the sky as his inspiration for the Martian war machines and their great "Ulla!" cries.
This is by far not the best vulcan footage. I was privileged enough to see its last ever flight in 2015 Eastbourne Air show at Beachy Head . That is the best vulcan footage.
The 'Tin Triangle' has without doubt, got to be, one of finest aeroplanes ever built ,it was also the bomber together with 11 Victor tankers, that made id longest ever raid when vulcan 607 bombed the runway at port Stanley in the Falklands, a round trip of some 8000 miles
Yes correct. I was on the beach of Lido di Jesolo near Venice when it was on the return journey from the Falklands and it made a slow pass along the beach. Such an awesome sight!
Beautiful plane, majestic on the ground and in the air. It has always been my favorite. I'm in the process of building an rc version. However, your title and caption are merely "CLICKBAIT ". I've seen and heard better. The flyover, at Transpo 72 was amazing and earthshaking!
To think, the Uk owned, designed and built this in the 1950’s. Today, we just about assemble parts for foreign owned companies, and can barely design and build a nut and bolt on our own. Allowing these high tech industries to mostly die, does anyone really think the political parties in charge of the UK since then have done the country well, or taken it backwards. Does anyone think they will do any better in the next 70 years?
That sound at 2:48. THIS is what people are referring to whenever they mention the Vulcan's howl? I just thought that the term "howl" was thrown around because of how monstrously loud the plane is. I didn't know the term referred to a very specific sound (it reminds me of a loud horn you'd hear sounding the end-times). In any case, what is it about this plane's design that gives it such a noise, and why do you not see/hear anything similar on more modern planes? Thanks for any answers, in advance.
It's pretty much how she takes in so much air intake pressure, screams into in the engines and what not. It's effectively the noise created when one blows across a bottle to make the whooooosh noise, just on a much larger scale
I’ve been Vulcan’d twice, both times VERY low. When it’s facing you it’s all orchestral whistles and T-Rex howls, when it’s flying away from you it’s all deep bassy jet buffeting like a Saturn V.
