Vulcan XH558 Last Flight

[wellinghall]

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[lalwendeboggart.livejournal.com]

It goes without saying you'll have heard of the Vulcan to the Skies Project? I hope they manage to pull it off, I'd love to see one of these in flight!

There's a fantastic little art studio in Lincoln on Steep Hill which specialises in aircraft subjects - I bought a nice print there of a Vulcan in flight over Lincoln cathedral.

I missed out - I used to work in a school on the old Finningley base and it was very distracting having all those planes flying past every few minutes, but the Captain says he saw Vulcans in flight there when he was younger and the noise was deafening. I'm quite jealous.

[malaheed.livejournal.com]

I remember in my teen years driving up into Scotland with my parents and brother. On the Cheviots we stopped just after crossing the border in a lay by. A group of people were looking down into the valley and we got out to have a look as well. 10 seconds later a Vulcan went directly over head, continuing to hug the contour hill as it flew further up. The car nearly bounced off the ground from the vibration and almost everyone ducked as the plane we very very low.

[mechtild.livejournal.com]

Hello, Wellinghall! I just had a note that you friended "Mechlinda". I would have emailed you, but you don't have one. Anyway, I wanted you to know I am pleased, but that Mechlinda is just my practice journal, where I try to learn new formats and post drafts if the entry is a complicated one, just to check them.

My "real" LJ is "Mechtild".

http://mechtild.livejournal.com/profile

(This is just so you won't wonder why there's almost never an update in "Mechlinda", lol.)

~ Mechtild

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Thanks for letting me know! I've now friended the "other" you ...

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I have supported the VTST project for a while, but I am getting increasingly p*ssed off by their poorproject management and worse communication. I've been in that shop a couple of time - one of many good shops on Steep Hill.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

As a kid, they used to come over us in mock attacks on Belvoir Castle - very low, with the Terrain Following Radar on. And, as I later found out, the windows blacked out!

[mrkinch.livejournal.com]

Wow! Oh, man, goosebumps! Both the vid and your story.

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure my father worked on the Vulcans. He was working for Vickers (who became part of BAe) up to the very early '70s. I know for certain that he did work on the In-flight Refueing project; on Victors, I think.

[mechtild.livejournal.com]

You are welcome!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

I'm jealous!

[sigisgrim.livejournal.com]

Of me, or of my father?

If it's of me then you've got nothing to be jealous of as I know no more than I've posted, other than the very basics of the mechanics of inflight refueling.

If it's of my father then you'd better like worms and soil, 'cause he's dead and buried! :-(

[sim02468.livejournal.com]

We still get the air force doing low flying round here, especially in Waltham, its not particually pleasant to get a jet flying only a couple of hundred feet above your house when your trying to relax/study!

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

Yep - my parents now live in Branston. Not as much as we used to 30 years ago, though - provosts, jet provosts, gnats, hawks, tornadoes, vulcans, shackletons ...