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Old 5th Sep 2013, 14:46
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walbut
 
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Ah the good old days.

I remember one of the most impressive, and eerie moments from the Finningley airshow used to be the Vulcan scamble. A few minutes silence followed by the message coming over the tannoy, 'This is the bomber controller, B flight Finningley, scramble, scramble, scramble.' Then 16 Olympus engines started simultaneously and 4 Vulcans thundered off down the runway to disappear off into the blue (or more often grey). Wonderful, just thank god it never happend for real.

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