Originally Posted by
Bigears
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!!
I was there too, it went right over the top of where I was standing.