Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)
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Gainesy
Where is 823 resident?
Where is 823 resident?
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tbosher, private messages, like wot I sent you. Look at the Wecolme, tbosher, box, upper right corner and you will see Private Messages.
These are not entirely private as the administrators can read them, but that is true of any email.
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Gainesy, well,, that will be good old Spadadam ranges up in those thar hills....... As a nipper I used to stand in my primary school playing field and watch the smoke rise, listen to the roar and feel the ground tremble as they tested the blue streak rocket motors...... and I was even a couple of miles further away than the hills in that image show. I finally got to see one in real life when I visited the National Space Center in Leicester just down the road from me now, 
well worth a visit.
As for Photos, well NEVER take anything in them as defactor these days as everthing could have changed LOL here is the image you saw after I cleaned it up somewhat to declutter the background, as you can see there are some other hills that simply do not exist and the fuel farm has now dissapeared too, simple to do really.
well worth a visit.As for Photos, well NEVER take anything in them as defactor these days as everthing could have changed LOL here is the image you saw after I cleaned it up somewhat to declutter the background, as you can see there are some other hills that simply do not exist and the fuel farm has now dissapeared too, simple to do really.
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OK, so I've posted this link (to Andy Leitch's Vulcans In Camera site) before, but since we're on the subject of 823, here it is again. Taken at Scampton F-dispersal, sometime in 1981.
Vulcans in Camera - Avro Vulcan B2 MRR XJ823 and 35 Squadron at RAF Scampton.
Vulcans in Camera - Avro Vulcan B2 MRR XJ823 and 35 Squadron at RAF Scampton.
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Stumbled across this, 1964. Interesting read.
1964 | 0386 | Flight Archive
PS. Ref top picture - First V-bomber clad in camouflage is this Victor B.2 of 139 (Jamaica) Sqn, landing at Wittering with its limpet-like Blue Steel underneath.
'Bit late with the gear Hoskins!'
PPS. On second thoughts - did the Victor's gear really trail like that?
1964 | 0386 | Flight Archive
PS. Ref top picture - First V-bomber clad in camouflage is this Victor B.2 of 139 (Jamaica) Sqn, landing at Wittering with its limpet-like Blue Steel underneath.
'Bit late with the gear Hoskins!'
PPS. On second thoughts - did the Victor's gear really trail like that?
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The Victor wheels went into the undercarriage bay upside down and were rotated on t/o to the position you see in the photo by a piston. If the wheels did not tipple into the tipple hooks the u/c would not retract. Therefore on lowering the wheels remained in the rotated position until the rear wheels touched the ground and your expert Victor pilot would gently ease the beast onto four wheels a side. (except in a cross-wind when you were less subtle)
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I heard that the USAF were most impressed how such large undercarriages as the Vulcan and Victor could be made to fold neatly into such small wheel wells, the Victor especially, in contrast the the B47 which, I think, had a rather larger undercart.
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It most definatley was the 35 Sqn emblem. Ian was a good friend from Waddington day's, when he was a Flt Cdr on 101 Sqn, and I were a Nav Rad on 50 Sqn.
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Yep,'tis indeed the 35 'skyhook'!
Junor was OC35 just as I was leaving 35 - he gained rather a reputation for pinching many of the all-too-rare overseas trips. "Democracy is a fine thing, but we're not having it whilst I'm the Boss", was his comment......
Junor was OC35 just as I was leaving 35 - he gained rather a reputation for pinching many of the all-too-rare overseas trips. "Democracy is a fine thing, but we're not having it whilst I'm the Boss", was his comment......
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Thanks for that. I thought that the 35 Squadron emblem was a winged horses head ! Perhaps I'm thinking of the squadron badge which is obviously a different thing.
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The 'skyhook' was the informal squadron emblem, whereas the winged horse's head was the official squadron badge:
http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/.../35sqncrst.gif
Scampton's finest Vulcan squadron disbanded on 28 February 1982. Knowing that the only Vulcan bombing threat they could possibly then face was posed merely by the inferior Waddington mob, Argentina knew it was therefore safe to invade the Islas Malvinas a few weeks later.....
http://www.raf.mod.uk/bombercommand/.../35sqncrst.gif
Scampton's finest Vulcan squadron disbanded on 28 February 1982. Knowing that the only Vulcan bombing threat they could possibly then face was posed merely by the inferior Waddington mob, Argentina knew it was therefore safe to invade the Islas Malvinas a few weeks later.....
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Any objective analysis of bombing results at RAF Scampton for the two years before 35 Sqn's disbandment can lead only to the conclusion that the premier bombing squadron on that station, by a considerable margin, was 617 Sqn.