We were fortunate enough to have a tour inside Avro Vulcan ZM594 at the Newark Air Museum.
The Vulcan was famous for theFalklands War and for conducting Operation Black Buck, the longest bombing raids in history at the time during the Falklands War. The raids, at almost 6,600 nautical miles (12,200 km) and 16 hours for the round trip, were the longest-ranged bombing raids in history at that time. It even involved putting together and rejuvenating the Vulcan from near retirement by finding parts which were used as ashtrays. Also a £5 calculator bought from a market help calculate the long journey. The objective of the Black Buck missions were to attack Port Stanley Airport and its associated defences. Destroying the runway at the Airport would stop the Argentines from using the runway, giving Britain the advantage.
Precision bombing wasn’t actually what the Vulcan was built for. You see, dropping nuclear bombs didn’t need to much pin point accuracy.
The Vulcan made up part of the British V-bombers which took the realm of being the guardian during the Cold War. Designer of the Vulcan Roy Chadwick didn’t live to see to see the Vulcan fly as he was tragically killed in plane crash in 1947
It hosted a crew of 5 and powered by 4 x Bristol Siddeley Olympus 201 or 301 jet engines, giving the Vulcan a max speed of 644 mph with a max range of 4,603 miles.
Avro Vulcan XM594 was flown to the former RAF Winthorpe airfield from RAF Waddington on Monday 7th February 1983. At the time XM594 was the only Vulcan aircraft disposed of by the RAF that was flown into a non-licensed airfield.
RAF Bases that the Vulcan was based: Akritori, Coningsby, Cottesmore, Finningley, Scampton and Waddington
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