Avro Vulcan

[wellinghall]

I've just seen an Avro Vulcan - to be precise, XH558 - coming into land at Filton airfield, Bristol. It did a circuit, then landed.

I'm pleased about that :-)

Comments

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

W00t!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

Bet you aren't as pleased about that as you are about England winning at Lords!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Ah, but I expected England to win ...

[the-marquis.livejournal.com]

Really!? With Freddie's knee I had a horrible vision of a mirror of Cardiff what with Clarke's excellent knock (Blowers had wished him a cheery "Good Luck" on Sunday morning! ;-) )

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Well, I was after the first couple of days. Maybe next time we can even do it without the benefit of some dodgy umpiring decisions!

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

I just glimpsed the tag of your post and thought for a split-second that you had seen a Vulcan in the sky... I was a little confuzzled right then.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I did, I did! But only for a given value of "Vulcan" - ie the Avro Vulcan cold war heavy bomber, as depicted in the icon for my original post, and in the icons for the first two comments above!

(Oh, and I like your icon, by the way).

[fallingtowers.livejournal.com]

Yes, both the attribute and the icons made it abundantly clear that you were not talking about Spock's relatives. Obviously, I have simply got a fangirl's one-track mind...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I'll try tagging a future post "mosquito", and see what you think ... ;-)

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

I knew what he meant. (Whether I'd recognise one is a different manner).

/smug

Is this THE Vulcan or a different one? I thought there weren't any flying, apart from possibly that one-and-only, which I was not totally aware had ever eventually gotten airborne in the end??

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, this is THE Vulcan. It did get airborne in the end, and despite continued technical & financial difficulties, they've kept it up there. (Not constantly, you understand!)

It is the only one flying - in fact, it was the first Mark 2 Vulcan flying (erm, 1959?); the last one flying before it was withdrawn from service (1992); and the first, and so far only, one back (2007).

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Lucky b*gger.

Nice to know it is up there, though.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Mm, I know :-) (Mind you, I think I deserve some good fortune, after the last couple of weeks!)

I was completely taken aback to see it. I guess that it is staging here after an appearance at Fairford last weekend, although I don't know where it's on its way to. I have also seen the Red Arrows, and a Spitfire, coming into land here recently, so this does seem to be a regular thing.