Originally Posted by The Oberon:7590840
The first Victor / Vulcan Blackbuck launch from Ascension, awesome. The noise, the dust and the lights. Some of the dust is still hanging about every time I think about it.
It made 12 years of Micks and Mickey Finns seem worth it.
As groundcrew it was the Vulcan landing after the first raid knowing that all I had been taught had been put into practice.
And for the take offs what a noise that was.unable to forget that in a hurry.