Sorry about the late Post but I've just returned from a long weekend away. Very sad news about one of my childhood heroes.
Not wishing to detract from the spirit of the obituary, I regret that the drafting journo could have been more factually correct. The only Vulcan I can recall being lost in the circumstances described,
Taking off from Avro's Woodford aerodrome, near Stockport in July 1957 Harrison lost all control at 200ft, due to a total electrical failure, with no hope of being able to land safely. One of his crew, Bob Hodgson, now 88, described to me how Harrison skilfully nursed the aircraft up to 16,000ft to provide them with time to escape, before ejecting himself. The Vulcan then crashed harmlessly on a Yorkshire farm. "We owe our lives," said Hodgson, "entirely to his skill and knowledge of the aircraft."
, was XA891. That was July 1959, though, and surely the interviewed crew member would have been Bob Pogson.