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Old 26th Jul 2009, 19:52
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Albert Driver
 
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Come on TVOC, give the spectators what they have paid for, displays that make the ground shake and your heart tremble!
I was privileged to see the displays of prototype VX770 at Farnborough and elsewhere which did exactly that and which probably lead to the aircraft's destruction in the Syerston disaster. The Vulcan is a huge flying wing with massive aerodynamic forces on a relatively lightly-built airframe to give the lifting capacity required.

My vote is for it to be flown conservatively. The one certainty is that if it breaks we'll never see another one in the air. We've lost too many irreplaceable vintage aircraft, and not-so-vintage pilots, over the years though over-enthusiastic display flying.
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