I touched the Vulcan world only on two occasions. Did a short stint at St. Athan on Majors in 78 but the other was more fun. Back in 77 I was on TASF in Akrotiri and our wing included the armoury. This year they got tasked with blowing off the legs of the fire dump Vulcan that sat down near Echo. We all went down to sit in the monnie ditch and watch. I am not too sure if it was intentional but instead of blowing the legs through the wings and dropping the rest onto the ground the opposite happened.
The aircraft was blown off the legs and sent into orbit and all the telephone lines etc. underneath were cut by the blast
My lasting memories of that day was watching the nose section flutter to the ground in bits!!!!!!!
Local papers had a field day about this accident involving the local nuc aircraft
