The last Vulcan airshow display. XH558 R.I.P. (with Tower/Vulcan communication) 

I cry because I couldn't see her flying while it was possible !

It never happened for me. I never got to see her fly.

I saw it fly and I'll tell you how it is. Brilliant. Really and strongly brilliant. When I heard it was retiring, I cried to bits. So when I last saw it come over Farnborough and RIAT, I smiled for all it gave me. R.I.P Vulcan..

Same display, same smile, different camera angle: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-h1hgSHbnjr8.html I was there to witness this final air display and so glad that i did. The howl is so loud that you literally feel it through your whole body.

Very well put sir. Per Ardua Ad Astra.

So true! I'm old enough to remember the Vulcan scrambles at Finningley 'At Home' days, when the crew ran to the four waiting planes, which were rapid started and airborne in two minutes. Such a phenomenal machine able to leave everyone with a mixture of smiles and tears! You felt safe with the Vulcan.

You must have long arms lol

+Juan Iparraguirre you'll be able to hear the howl at Robin Hood Airport near Doncaster, she's still allowed to do fast taxis :) she's just not allowed to fly anymore :(

@@WezzRail Last one this Sunday, unfortunately.

Yea i saw that good on him its the last display accidentaly went slightly over lol

Must be the same but of dust 😅 I've got it to

Eye dust pandemic, both mine affected! 🥺

OMG that's disgusting!

Happens every time I see this formation done.

The vulcan dident have reheat just dry thrust = static thrust

You couldn't be more right I bet Roles Royce never once thought of saying you know what I don't think we can support the Battle of Britain memorial flight air craft there far to complicated and we simply don't know how to maintain or keep an eye on them any more it's a load of b's like you said they just don't want to get a bad rep if something were to go wrong but they don't need something to go wrong they've already do that on there own heads to make thing better they should go you know what any other company that is willing to look after the old girl then here you go have the documents an knowledge of how to maintain her and just keep her going they could easily do that but I am finding it so unbelievably hard as to why won't they just do it

+ValiantXD818 If she was owned by the RAF, the companies would be forced to maintain her. The MOD can legally force them to.

+King Curry Absolutely right KC and so well put. The VTTS people at air shows have been highly professional and have never shown fustration/anger in their commentary about these 3 companies but it is clear to us watching what they have done and its a major PR blunder for all of them.

+King Curry I will quote another comment here. Clearly you do not have an understanding of aircraft manufacture . I am an aircraft enthusiast and have been involved with the Vulcan since I first was re acquainted with it at Bruntingthorpe where it was still in pieces being re assembled.. Now after 40 years at the sharp end of the car industry I now work at Rolls-Royce and am constantly amazed at the legislation , the paperwork, the restrictions ,the exacting standards , the number of commitees and approvals required by legislation to make one very minor change to even the simplest part .We have been blessed by eeking out a further 8 years of flight , the companies you denigrate have bent over backwards and at great cost to themselves have been a part of it, but like all things eventually things must come to an end and you bitching about it does help one iota. QUOTE The heart often rules the head hence the bunkum that is written, Anyone who has a basic knowledge of avaiation manufacture would realise that 'anyone can make components if they had the drawings' is just plain nonsense - the components are designed and made to a specfiication by authorized companies using materials from authorised suppliers signed off by the Civil Aviation Authority or as it was AID inspectorate. It is possible that other conmpanies could make some components, where are the rigs to realign the airframe once she has been dismantled. look how much work was needed on a stressed leading edge replacenment. Three companies bent over backwards to extend the life of the airframe well past the design fatigue limits and look at the thanks they get, maybe other companies will not bother with that attitude. As for expertise, many years ago working on a replica we had burn etching on stainless steel bolts and could not figure out was going on, until a very old hand in his own words from string, dope and hope days said the arcing is from the static in the spruce wing structure onto the exposed surface of the bolts. That knowledge was in the books but not current it took and old hand to point it out with a 'you mean you did not know that?' Truth is the material specs, machinery the current expertise is fading. Relating older airframes or modern airframes is also a nonsense the former less sophisticated and the latter designed with redunancy and fatigue failure paths. During the 'three day week' we had a contract to supply a rather complex replacement bolt (4 per airframe) with locking slots etc. The company tried every steel supplier in the UK to get 2.5 inch bar stock in S96 steel. The company was authorized to look to Germany who could supply an authorized spec - it was an eye opener , they had the stock flown into London the very next day and we started work. The CAA and other agenices are staffed by some of the worlds leading experts with a knowledge base going back almost a century and make decisions based on that, not some 'expert' with a keyboard suggesting it is a conspiracy - she is and old girl who was allowed to dance once more , be grateful you saw it.

+Ben Gnome I am not suggesting it is a "conspiracy" and I have a perfectly good understanding of the issues surrounding the maintenance of classic aircraft. I am a physicist by profession. The fact is that other companies have the expertise to keep her flying for at least another season IF the three companies involved would enter into a working agreement with them. Clearly the expiry of the airframe's integrity would be the end of things, since there are structures in there that can't be rebuilt, but that is not yet date expired (as told to me by a member of the inner circle of the Trust). If Vulcan was in South Africa or the USA, it would still be flying next year for sure.

As a founding member of the VA and VTTS, I can tell you that, sadly, the airframe was coming to the end of its operational life and needed extensive testing for metal fatigue, servicing, and some mandatory modifications to conform to some pre-Shoreham safety standard. These would have been very expensive to do, and even then there was no guarantee that extensive metal fatigue cracks would not have been found once the airframe had been opened up and checked with a fine tooth comb. However, the biggest killer to keeping it flying was Rolls Royce. They had nobody left who knew who to maintain and service Olympus engines, and they were not prepared to train up anyone else who was younger (the last fitters and maintenance specialists were all in the late 60's and 70's when XH558 was grounded) to take their place. In theory Rolls Royce have the blueprints for the Olympus, and they could train up someone else to take the place of the retiring fitters and specialists, but they were not going to - they kept maintenance cover going for 10 years after the Olympus ceased production in 2003 with the retirement of Concorde, and then were pursuaded to so a follow-up further couple of years, but that was that. Engine expertise was no longer available (or had fallen out of know-how, if you like), and the airframe was coming to the end of its recognised life and keeping it going woudl have been difficult and costly, not to mention potentially impossible if severe metal fatigue cracks were found within the airframe, particularly in the main spars which took most of the loads. But yes, it is sad that we will never hear or see it's sight again in the air, and that this country has, basically, forgotten how to make decent aeroplanes.

I wish you could have experienced and enjoyed this amazing beauty in person. I have many memories of her and glad I got to see her fly many many times. RU-vid videos dont do justice.

And Iwish I had seen the Blackbird once 😩

You may want to google 'Operation Skyshield' of 1960 and 1961. In 1960 the USAF ran a massive exercise to prove they could defend the US from air attack. Well 8 Vulcans left two air bases (4 each) and flew in at over 50,000 feet. Long story short: 1 was 'shot down and the other 7 got through and could have nuked the Eastern Seaboard. The USAF could not believe it and so ran the same exercise again but with some 1,800 fighters. Again 8 Vulcans attacked but this time 8 got through. One even decided to land at a US Air Force base unannounced and the first they knew was a radio call for final approach!

@@1chish ...I saw vhe video about that. Was an interesting test.

@@bcshelby4926 The US Government kept the whole event secret for 50 years ....

@@1chish ...I can understand that as we were still in the cold war with Russia and it may have let them know know about possible vulnerabilities.

@@bcshelby4926 That is a very true fact. But there was also the need to keep belief by the population in the US Armed Forces ability to defend the USA.

Yea, its an Island surrounded by water....you thick twat.

Yes. Apologies for the AF. My partner had the big camera so I was relegated to the Samsung note. Certainly not the best video recorder for air displays, but happy to see it's brought a lot of people pleasure regardless.

But the sound is excellent !! Thanks.

Ditto. I was at a clay shoot Sunday and sadly missed it, though a colleague saw her fly past Grafham Water and reported thousands in attendance.

Yes indeed sir you would not only hear it you could feel it through your body, sadly no more.

Thank you Norman for your review and comments, and everyone else for your likes. Sadly I missed the Anson whilst I struggled with my Note4-AKA-Video Recorder defying the recording at the start, though the car alarms going off were hillarious! Such a privilege to witness her last ever airshow, and what a show it was.

Hehehe... Let them try banning it from future airshows. What I would have given to be in that cockpit !

+dieselmupke You should have been in Grantham a bit later...

+dieselmupke Yes ..... saw that too ..... a nice touch! Lovely day for it and at excellent Shuttleworth as well.It's so exciting and impressive when she did those wing-overs. I bet they could have rolled her. Such a great plane to display ..... big and stately in the distance and massive and powerful near too ...... and what a beautiful shape - not so much a plane as a gorgeous great sculptural slab wheeling around the sky.

+Ken Standing What a wonderful description of her: "She howls her glad release from earth to capture the skyShapely and powerful she turns, showing her true purposeOf ancient darkness or new beginningsIn a world which did not know her.."

It didn’t disintegrate because of going too fast it had a flaw in the design which sadly happened at its flyby.

Haha me too 😂

@@nailed2ax_126 the announcers are as bad as the car alarm