What’s It Like To Fly the Vulcan? | Trevor Jackson (In-Person Part 1)

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Former RAF Avro Vulcan pilot, Trevor Jackson shares how he got posted to Vulcans, the role of the aircraft, his training, and flying on exercises all topped off with some great stories.
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@Yosemite-George-61 Год назад

I'm a Yank, ex B-52G and RC-135X mechanic (engineer) For me, the white Vulcans are some of the most beautiful military aircraft ever build...

@mafmaf6417 Год назад

Love the Vulcan. I think it has to be one of, if not the, coolest looking aircraft ever built.

@guaporeturns9472 Год назад

🤔

@pcka12 Год назад

The Handley Page has an amazing shape too & was apparently faster!

@guaporeturns9472 Год назад

@@pcka12 F-5 gotta be one of the most “right” looking airplanes ever built… absolutely stunning

@pcka12 Год назад

@@guaporeturns9472 I have always liked the F5, I built a plastic kit model of it years ago, very curvaceous!

@SuperEdge67 Год назад

B-58 Hustler was a good looking aircraft.

@skyhigh1278 Год назад

I find it mind boggling that avro went from the Lancaster to the Vulcan in only a few years

@anthonywilson4873 Год назад

As an Air Cadet (1280 SQ) I watched a flight of Vulcans take off from the side of the runway at RAF Scampton. Much impressed, a sunny day and watching them grow in the heat haze as they accelerated down the runway, they rotated at about where we where sitting on the grass a little way back from the side of the runway. What a sight what a noise. I think there was five in the flight.

@grantgates2931 Год назад

When I was in junior school - late 70's early 80's - a Vulcan was flying around Sunderland airfield with a view to landing when it retired. The crew must have caught sight of the school on its lunch break with all the kids running around and decided to treat us to an impromptu display. I will NEVER forget that day as this giant bat thundered and howled it's way around the sky - the pilot flinging it about with utter abandon, skill and grace. You could actually feel the noise in your chest as it ratlled all the windows in the school. Utterly magnificent. My favorite ircraft to this day and I remember later hearing of the attack on Stanley airfield and thought - wow it was terrifying just flying around, imagine it dropping bombs as well

@brianmarshall1637 7 месяцев назад

This guy makes flying this beast of an aircraft easy,he must have a tremendous aptitude for his flying as the interview is makes clear.

@Roverswelsh Год назад

Somewhere there’s a photo of a group of Air Cadets who washed that aircraft. We had a team photo on the top of the wing :)

@crystaldbj 8 месяцев назад

Always loved the V-aircraft. Certainly amongst the most beautiful aircraft ever designed.

@karlhoward2737 7 месяцев назад

Incredible to think that 41 years ago….Operation Blackbuck took place, the fact that several missions were flown from Ascension all the way down to the Falklands…..and back seems almost too incredible, chapeaux to those very brave crews and an also huge nod of respect to all those Victor tanker planes all doing their refuelling packets on the way down and back…..doubt we could even consider something like this now…..it was I guess a show of, look what we can do Junta, we can arrive on your doorstep…..glad that silly ness is past….what a plane, first saw one at Akrotiri in the 60s , as a kid on Ladies Mile beach in Cyprus, seeing these giants just look like something out of TV21, my favourite comic back then….again Chapeaux to all our military, both home and allies….thank you for your service.

@hb9108 9 месяцев назад

Would definitely recommend a visit to the avro heritage museum, trevor held a presentation on the vulcan during our visit which was very interesting and entertaining. For a small museum you can easily spend the best part of a day there.

@bwfvc7770 Год назад

Saw the Vulcan in New Zealand at my primary school in the countryside. Approximately 30 pupils from 5years old to 12. It was a very beautiful apparition and very graceful. I was about 6 years old. Around 1960.

@terrybrown8539 Год назад

I was fortunate to spend a few years in England in the late 70's - early 80's and was able to see the Vulcan displayed at various airshows. From a watching perspective it remains my favourite with a nice blend of size, noise and power.

@annebynon 7 месяцев назад

These interviews are so good, a living history and testament to the RAF and the aircraft. Thanks for posting.

@Aircrewinterview 7 месяцев назад

Thank you

@AW-Services Год назад

Absolutely incredible video. It's a shame the RAF and SAR left Chivenor. I miss the air days and the regular Hawk training flights

@1985_Honda_CRX_Si Год назад

thank you all for what you do, this is important history

@Aircrewinterview Год назад

Cheers

@Medge2sc Год назад

Iv been looking forward to some Vulcan content

@bigglestintin6875 Год назад

I live about a mile from the avro museum, if you're ever one here again let me know and I'll buy you a coffee 😁

@Aircrewinterview Год назад

Will do. Cheers!

@Pincer88 Год назад

Yet another interesting character with memorable insights into one of the most iconic aircraft of the RAF. Really enjoyed it. And the unofficial world record for playing bagpipes and didgeridoo at altitude, that was hilarious. Too bad it probably isn't in the Guinness Book - yet. Can't wait for part 2!

@davidsmith8997 Год назад

It's such a unique and wonderful looking aircraft. Great interview!

@bobthebomb1596 Год назад

Around 75/76 I attended a "Families day" at Woodford and was told that the white Vulcan (which was on display then) had an airworthy wing spar.

@thefrecklepuny Год назад

Fantastic interview. And a most enigmatic subject in the form of the Vulcan. That Avro 730 sort of reminds me of a non-stealthy A-12 Avenger II.

@mikewysko2268 Год назад

Always pleased to hear about the Vulcan.

@richardfenner6096 Год назад

The first Vulcan I ever saw was when I was 8 in what is now Malawi, but then was Nyasaland. In the early 60s,, when the Emergency erupted, my mother was still employed with Central African Airways. The old British "Show of Force" included a Vulcan low flying over Lilongwe, which was then a grass strip but is now the capital of Malawi...and where I grew up. The Locals thought it was a ghost - the a/c were painted all-white at the time - so those who were outside, tried to get inside, just when the jet noise hit. Those inside promptly tried to get outside. Luckily, I was up in the control tower with my Mum, so it was funnier than Hell! 🙂

@Seminal_Ideas Год назад

Another interesting interview with a fascinating character. Woodford, the birthplace of so many iconic Avro aeroplanes. The beautiful Vulcan sitting there in the background resplendent in it's white anti-flash colour scheme. I remember the unique howl of the Olympus turbojets as it displayed at air shows. My favourite colour scheme was the high gloss green/grey of the mid sixties with high visibility roundels. It really complimented those graceful lines. Thanks again for your channel.

@KRGruner Год назад

What an Iconic aircraft! Automatic like! But great interview, just fascinating.

@Aircrewinterview Год назад

Cheers Karl.

@phil6878 5 месяцев назад

Awesome machine

@sicknote1558 Год назад

What an amazing interview really interesting thanks 👌👏

@shaunmcclory8117 Год назад

I've been fascinated with the Avro vulcan since i found out my dads cousin was a vulcan pilot (Frank Waters aka 'sassy') aparently they always knew their target in a nuclear event which if i remember rightly was a naval base i think in Poland? I got to see inside one of these beasts and was just in awe, such an amazing aircraft

@Medge2sc Год назад

Very enjoyable, I’ll look forward to part 2

@jamescunningham3891 Год назад

Absolutely fantastic interview!!! Thank you.

@bill8784 Год назад

Beautiful aircraft.

@bobharrison7693 Месяц назад

Trevor, did you ever fly a Vulcan out of Edwards AFB circa 1970? I was out on a "nav" flight in an RF-8G and happened on a Vulcan! I flew wing on him until the gear (excuse me, "undercarriage") came down and I realized we were on a long final to Edwards. I beat a hasty retreat. No cameras installed in the Crusader.

@lukemchale-jones3041 Год назад

My dad was an electrician on both the Vulcan and later the Nimrod. Ever the practical joker, one of his favourite stories concerns opening the bomb bay doors whilst various technicians were working in there and laughing at them as they tumbled out - whilst on the ground of course wouldn't be quite as funny if were in the air, but even still, it's quite a height to fall out from! The ground crew got their own back on him eventually though. But he loved that plane and we were all thrilled to be able to see it flying at Fairford and Farnborough a few years back.

@johnnunn8688 3 месяца назад

Glad your dad didn’t get charged with manslaughter. 👍

@lukemchale-jones3041 3 месяца назад

@johnnunn8688 Having seen the height of the bay from the ground for myself, I tend to agree! Yeah, as you can imagine, they didn't really see the funny side of it, and he earned himself lashes in the shower with a wet towel for it. He says it was worth it...

@radboogie Год назад

Excellent! How high up were they when they played the bagpipes?

@johnnunn8688 3 месяца назад

Can’t believe he wasn’t asked that 🤷‍♂️.

@proudsnowtiger Год назад

It would be good to hear about the exercises when Vulcans ran successful simulated buclear attacks on US cities...

@tomrinehart3022 Год назад

Great interview! Thank you for your service!

@timhancock6626 Год назад

I've always wanted to ask a V bomber pilot about a mass fly past of Victors and Vulcans that I witnessed from my school cricket field roughly fifteen miles West of Wittering in summer 1968 or might have been summer 69. The aircraft were flying in Vics of three I think from south to north quite close to Wittering. I've often wondered what the occasion was and whether it was the stand down from the nuclear role in 69. That is a total guess, but it was a lot of V bombers and it could easily have been July. One of my co fielders on the cricket pitch did say " I do hope thats not World War Three starting " I wonder if Trevor might remember this event as large fly pasts can't have been that common

@matthewlilley574 Год назад

Perhaps Investiture of Charles, Prince of Wales? 1 July, 1969

@Nick-bp7jf Год назад

I would have loved to know the altitude they were at for the bagpipe playing. Was he reluctant to state it?

@canberrabi8 Месяц назад

Any Vulcan crew remember flying over the Nimitz and being intercepted by a F14? The incident is on another RU-vid video.

@johnnunn8688 3 месяца назад

How high was the cat-strangling ‘music’ being played? I must have missed that bit.

@pascalcoole2725 Год назад

realy great interview ! So where is (heaving sex) part 2 ?

@mpainter22 Год назад

I wonder if he was aware of the Vulcan participation in Excercise Sky shield

@georgesheffield1580 Год назад

Wonder how it would handle with controlable canards .

@pat8988 Год назад

I wish he had told us what altitude he had flown at.

@guaporeturns9472 Год назад

Wish in one hand ..

@georgesykes394 Год назад

The Vulcan caused a lot of panic in The Kremlin!

@brianwillson9567 Год назад

If only the Vulcan had received the financial and political support for ongoing development. Imagine Vulcans still flying alongside BUFFs.

@mikewain4354 Месяц назад

How high they got can't be a secret or jeopardising his career now so you need to find out this crucial information. How can the world carry on in any semblance of normality knowing that there is a bagpipe playing altitude record - but not knowing what it is!

@johnnunn8688 3 месяца назад

Would he not have started initial training in the Chipmunk, then JP?

@petrairene Год назад

You can use the radar of a miitary airplane to receive radio and listen to music? That's totally insane!

@mikep2099 Год назад

The radar doesn’t pick up radio, the radio does that! When he said the ‘radar’ picked up the BBC he was probably referring to the Navigator, radar crew member operating the radio.

@notmenotme614 Год назад

The radar would be operating in a completely different frequency band that’s way outside of radio, so it would be unable to tune to radio frequencies. The radar would be around 3 GHz while radio would be around 30 MHz. Then you’d have problems with FM or AM. The radar system processed the return signal into a cathode ray tube display. Radar would have no audio processing.

@GorgeDawes 4 месяца назад

Most likely they were using the Automatic Direction Finding equipment to listen to music. This is a very basic radio aid which is still (just about) in use today. It simply gives you a bearing towards a radio transmitter called a Non-Directional Beacon. These work in the LW/MW frequency range so you can receive a signal from pretty much any AM radio station using it. During my flying training I used to listen to football commentary on BBC Radio 5Live if I was doing a cross-country flight on a Saturday.

@daviddenham1511 Год назад

My grandad was crew on the first flight ever….beat that….Hadwen Denham

@gmarshall1026 Год назад

How high did you fly

@sichere 10 месяцев назад

At Red flag the Americans made it very difficult for the RAF to win the Bombing competition so the Vulcan Pilots organized "picnics in the dessert", where the cars strategically parked up with raised bonnets, enabling the Vulcans to get position fixes to target .

@FernandoPartridge Год назад

So what altitude did they reach??

@Scimiter1948 7 месяцев назад

Trevor never revealed how high they managed to fly the Vulcan.

@sichere 10 месяцев назад

Mk 3 Vulcan ................... errrrrrrrr Concorde ? 😎

@markhuckercelticcrossbows7887 3 месяца назад

he`s said its like nuking america twice, while they cant find there butt, with both hands :)

@andrewdavies3584 8 месяцев назад

But HOW HIGH???? 😊

@colin5577 Год назад

Great interview, but…. a fighter pilot would have told us how high he got the Vulcan. 😑

@manuwilson4695 9 месяцев назад

Definitely the worst cockpit of all Cold War era strategic jet bombers. Imagine trying to visually assess battle/accidental damage to the aircraft...bloody disaster! Really now, how difficult would it have been to design and produce a better cockpit? Even the bloody Lancaster had a better one!!! 🙄

@20chocsaday 2 месяца назад

As a schoolchild I got to see a mock-up of the inside of the rear crew space. Then they closed the door. Three adults squeezed together hunched over instruments for several hours. It actually turned me off the idea of joining the RAF.

@nrao8977 Год назад

The B-52 is STILL in use. Vulcan, let us start counting and see if you return in 10 hours. On "Americans are insular", so were the Brits when they ruled the world. Lol.

@THE-BUNKEN-DRUM Год назад

We weren't/aren't that insular. We couldn't be, even if we wanted to. As we've conquered & colonised most countries around the world & the only reason the B52 is still in service is because of funding. If we had bothered to upgrade the Vulcan. It would be a damn site more capable than a B52.

@nrao8977 Год назад

@@THE-BUNKEN-DRUM England WAS insular when she ruled the world - the seas actually. On funding, England - sadly - is nothing today without the US. The US actually makes others pay for the B-52 by printing dollars. As I said a lot to unpack. There is no way you could have upgraded the Vulcan. England by then was nothing.

@guaporeturns9472 Год назад

so?

@20chocsaday 2 месяца назад

I think he meant that they sourced their own planes ONLY from their own country. At that time several European countries looked at each other's aircraft types as well as American types.