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Old 23rd Jun 2017, 19:53
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Bigears
 
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A A Gruntpuddock,
As related to me quite recently by the then Tower controller, (who was delighted to finally find someone to verify his story about the crowd-overflying -I was there in the crowd), the Vulcan was slow and got caught out by an on-crowd breeze. They briefly considered evacuating the Tower as it was heading straight towards them at low altitude (but where would you go?- a beast that size is going to get you, regardless ).

I'll always remember it- blotting out the daylight as it went directly overhead while the engines wound up to full chat- unplanned but utterly brilliant!!
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