Was walking through farmland in Woburn Sands when I suddenly heard the Vulcan howl followed by a very low flypast straight over head!
No idea what she could have been doing, her display season is officially over so it will only be private displays/movements from now on.
Maybe it is to do with the fact that the chairman or chief pilot (or other high ranking member of VTTS, can't remember who) is local to the area. You'll see him driving around in his Jag with num plate "RAF 1", which you also see behind the tent at airshows!
According to a social website, they were up flying with the Blades and possbily a Spitfire at Sywell for raffle prize winners - used Cranfield for practise display... Wish I was back down in Bedfordshire now and again, and this is one of those times!!! You can follow XH558 on this well known social website = @XH558
Last edited by Soldeed; 19th Sep 2012 at 14:29.
Reason: Shouldn't mention website
My wife went blackberrying in the Cranfield area this afternoon, and had great delight in telling me when she got home how fantastic the aircraft looked and sounded!!!
Pity I didn't know in advance - maybe there's a moral here somewhere...
Remember seeing XH558 at Cranfield circa 1991 for its advertised last ever public flying display, with "Farewell" written inside its bomb bay. Glad neither ended up being true
Fantastic. Never get tired of that sound and the ground shaking 
