Vulcans and other planes used to practice low-level flying over the Scout camp I went to as a child. It became commonplace during the week for the crews to wave back to us as they went past - I am sure some of them came round for a second go.
The lowest flyers of all were the RNAS Buccaneers. I can't find any film of their participation in the "Red Flag" exercises in Nevada, although I know it exists. If you can find it, it is possibly the best trans-sonic low-level flying you will ever see. > > From: John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2008/04/17 Thu PM 04:51:42 GMT > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: OT - Vulcan Bomber for the airheads > > > I, too, saw Vulcans (amongst other things) at the Farnborough shows. > The most awesome-sounding Vulcan, which also showed up at Farnborough, > was the one used as the flying test bed for the Olympus Two engine. > That had the bomb bay doors removed and the extra engine mounted in > the centre of the aircraft. > > First the Vulcan made a long, slow pass running on the usual four > Olympus One engines. Then the pilot made another pass with all the > main engines off (or, almost certainly, throttled right back), and > just the single Olympus Two powering the aircraft. That was loud. > > Mind you, for sheer noise, it's hard to beat the eventual home of > the Olympus Two - the Concorde (which had *four* of them!). > > > > On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 05:09:28PM +1000, John Coyle wrote: > > I remember watching one of those taking off at the Farnborough Air Show, > > probably in the mid-60's: the sound was awesome, you felt it as much as > > heard it. > > > > > > John Coyle > > Brisbane, Australia > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > Cotty > > Sent: Thursday, 17 April 2008 2:36 AM > > To: pentax list > > Subject: OT - Vulcan Bomber for the airheads > > > > Test flight for the only Vulcan bomber, newly restored for the few air > > heads on the list... > > > > <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7350939.stm> > > > > -- > > > > > > Cheers, > > Cotty > > > > > > ___/\__ > > || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche > > ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com > > _____________________________ > > > > > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow the directions. > > > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > > follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
