Geoff wrote: > On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:39:56 +0000 > Sid Boyce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <snip> > >> I hope one day I shall see the Vulcan fly out. On >> my birthday about 4 years ago my daughters took me to buy >> me a present related to flying and I was also served >> another treat of seeing the Vulcan taxi, speed down >> runway 18, lift the nose, then settle back down. It's >> being maintained daily and they say it will fly out one >> day > > As I think I wrote here once before, as a boy I had the good > fortune to be taken to Battle of Britain Day display at RAF > Finningley, which included a squadron scramble of (as I > recall), four Vulcans. One of the sights and sounds of a > lifetime. > > Geoff > > I am surprised you have any hearing left, one on its own is incredibly noisy. During the Cuban Missile crisis they used to take off from RAF Waddington and were at amazing heights by the time they were over the Noth Sea coast, those "coal burners" are swift. One of my ex-colleagues and one of our flight examiners who both flew as navigators in them tell of hair raising rides 250 feet at 250 Kts on a turbulent day. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Licensed Private Pilot Emeritus IBM/Amdahl Mainframes and Sun/Fujitsu Servers Tech Support Specialist, Cricket Coach Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux used for all Computing Tasks
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