Wise indeed! It was an utter joy to see XH558 back where she belongs. I've made sure every class I taught today knew what was going on - all were truly impressed.
All we need to see now is a high speed rose with a pink background...
...apart, of course, from a lot more displays from that remarkable aircraft.
Hospitals all over the country ( A & E ) are reporting chaotic scenes tonight as admissions of aviation enthusiasts has swelled to alarming
numbers. Many, if not all , are suffering breathing difficulties caused by the ingestion of hats.
A reporter paid what, £60,000 plus per year cannot remember five letters and numbers in the right configuration then whinges on that the money could have been better spent on hospitals etc... He should be ashamed of himself and should have stuck to the story, (correct me if I am wrong) the return to the air of a true British Icon, regardless of his personal political views.
I thought that this was a news report not a PPB for the Lazy party!
Beagle I have to agree with your comments totaly. Truly wise as previously mentioned!
All in all, well done to all those involved. I was starting to think this was becoming a bit of a white elephant...
Unless this was just a large model of the RAF's latest UAV!!
I think the fact that I am on nights and was asleep when she must have flown within eyesight of my house, is somesort of punishment for not donating another 20 quid until today.
Wise words from you earlier, and I second (or third etc.) them. To me this triumph of wills and effort over hardship/dis-belief really sums up what I see as British spirit. And definitely not, the new wave of sniping at the government, or British people at every opportunity.
As for me. I'm very excited, and I haven't even watched a clip of the flight yet, such is the power of the Vulcan!
Very well done to everybody involved.
Barnstormer1968
A reporter paid what, £60,000 plus per year cannot remember five letters and numbers in the right configuration then whinges on that the money could have been better spent on hospitals etc... He should be ashamed of himself and should have stuck to the story, (correct me if I am wrong) the return to the air of a true British Icon, regardless of his personal political views.
Bit harsh. Never made a mistake in a presentation???
This is what gets me about the aviation community. Sky News make a decision to commit resources including an OB and a correspondent to a story that you are passionate about and what do you do? Moan and carp. They were reasonable questions.
I have only ever seen a vulcan fly once before at the farnborough airshow years ago, 92' I think it was........ Awsome then, awsome now. Can't wait to see it in action next year
Never thought I'd see the day. Never so happy to be wrong.
My abiding memory from all the airshows I've ever been at was one time in the mid 80's being knocked flat by a Vulcan coming in low over the sea and leaving high in the sky. Haven't been back since; i'll be there next time.
R
(Oh, from Wikipedia: A rose is a flowering shrub of the genus Rosa, and the flower of this shrub. There are more than a hundred species of wild roses, all from the northern hemisphere and mostly from temperate regions. The species form a group of generally prickly shrubs or climbers, and sometimes trailing plants, reaching 2–5 metres tall, rarely reaching as high as 20 metres by climbing over other plants. )
Gulp! Bloody Hell! That mouldy old titfer was hard to swallow!
Isn't she magnificent?
Let's keep our fingers crossed that the ultimate in non-PC flying machinery can find a sponsor to keep her up there.
"Jumping Jack Flash" just came up on my iScream which immediately brought to mind the image of a certain Waddington Crew Chief from the late sixties, as he twitched into the jet efflux while doing the PFCU checks and gracefully bounced away, head over heels across the grass. We wrote new words for that song afterwards...
Great news .... just read of this in the online Torygraph. Well done to all involved.
Sadly I will just have to accept that it will never be flown down here for an appearance at Avalon, for example. I think convincing the Domestic Sunray that another trip to the UK just to see an aeroplane might be beyond my means.
So....
Can someone PLEASE record a quality movie of the aircraft in all phases of flight. No silly twit chatting in the background; no 'muzak' playing; no jerky, handheld camera work, out of focus, featuring more of the back of spotters' heads and anoraks than of the aircraft ... etc etc. Just give us XH 558 NOISE in high fidelity, and crisp footage.
Please?
Quote:
Originally Posted by BEagle
2. England to win the rugby World Cup.
Well maybe, but FOR GOD's SAKE SCORE SOME TRIES!!!!
Can someone PLEASE record a quality movie of the aircraft in all phases of flight. No silly twit chatting in the background; no 'muzak' playing; no jerky, handheld camera work, out of focus, featuring more of the back of spotters' heads and anoraks than of the aircraft ... etc etc. Just give us XH 558 NOISE in high fidelity, and crisp footage.
Please?
Buy the "Vulcan Restoration Pt3" DVD from TVOC!!!! Available shortly, no doubt. The "limited edition box set" with all 3 parts won't be far behind either, I'll bet.
On a vaguely related note:
It's just our luck that the Discovery Wings channel recently died a death. Hours and hours of repeated bolox with no thought or effort, so inevitably they pull the plug - presumably the advertisers refused to spend any more money on a channel where everyone sees the same crap on a weekly rotation. Since when did steam trains have wings? Just imagine what imaginative programming such as in-depth studies of the whole cold war, including the vulcan returning to flight, etc etc would have done for the channel's popularity. Too late now. Feckwits.
This is what gets me about the aviation community. Sky News make a decision to commit resources including an OB and a correspondent to a story that you are passionate about and what do you do? Moan and carp. They were reasonable questions.
Doing an OB when no one else is does not give you license to do a sloppy job of it. The Sky camera man was crap, and the reporter seemed ill-prepared and rather flustered.
As for his questions, I agree that it was reasonable to ask about the use of lottery money - but I thought that the fact he asked twice when the question was answered the first time suggested that he didn't know what else to talk about. That smacks of poor preparation.
Too late now. Feckwits.
Linear Mode
