TTN: re your Victor story, Newark Air Museum which is at the old WWII airfield of Winthorpe took delivery of a Vulcan in '83. The pilot, S/L Neil McDougall stopped 60 tons of tin triangle in 700 metres in a snowstorm...can't imagine that getting past the risk assessors these days.
Edit: I fly from Gamston/Retford, not commercially by the way, and am always surprised at the ease at which the bizjets land and slow down before the turn off, around 700 metres (long enough for a Vulcan then!). I'm pretty sure they get off the deck in less distance than I do in an Arrow as well.
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