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

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the only one flying - in fact, it was the first Mark 2 Vulcan flying (erm, 1959?); the last one flying before it was withdrawn from service (1992); and the first, and so far only, one back (2007).