Vulcan interior
 

Anybody got any decent photos of the interior of the Vulcan - instrument panel, rear crew positions etc?

I need some decent shots to add to my book project if anybody has an odd snap laying around. Thanks folks!

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http://www.vulcanxm605.20m.com/interior.htm

Try the Thunder and Lightning site under vulcans

Try these I will also try to send you ones I took from the one at Newark.

Tim, have you thought to take your own? Then you would have bona fide, copyrighted, latest etc.

Did you know about the Dutch lady who has assembled an entire NBS Mk 1? It works too. It is not set out in the right positions but very impressive.

Vulcan Rear Cabin
 

Somewhere I have the other half to:


Also I may have front cockpit views, just got to locate them.

This is the cockpit panel of XL360 at the Midland Air Museum, Coventry. Can get you any and all interiors you want - hi-res available. PM me.


http://www.canberra.plus.com/pics/vulc01.jpg


Hope this helps. :ok:

Spent A very enjoyable Coronation Day visit to the Midland Aviation Museum and the Vulcan was open. May I suggest a visit if your in the area and check before hand if its open...

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....990bca4955.jpg


https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....1e3a605821.jpg

It always surprises me how little visibility there was from the Vulcan. How did the pilots see out of the thing, especially at low level.

Absolutely no problem with the seat in it’s normal high position.
( on my first roller landing - on the round out everything disappeared - my instructor, Al Dow ,croaked - try putting the seat up!)

A great deal more forward vis. than you would imagine, actually. (Apart from the odd time when the so-called anti-flash screens were used!). The main problem was side and rear vis (or lack). If you had been used to a "proper" canopy it was a bit disconcerting!

I imagine forward visibility at low level was key 😳.

That brings it all back. What you don't get is the smell!

Climb into XM 612 at Norwich airport museum, still smells the same

Smell of hot electronics, avgas?
Cheese sandwiches eaten while looking at B-52s?

Avgas?

Farts and pee….

What did the pilots do with their other hand? Or is that why the other crew faced the back?

And puke.

Regrettably Tim died a good few years ago. The big ‘C’. Good friend gone.

And no use of E/O in the Vulcan, for the low level bombing mission. I was thinking that it was the 70s, that the SAC B-52G fleet getting the Westinghouse AN/AVQ-22 Steerable TV System but guess with the imminent demise and retirement of the Vulcan, no point in putting fancy avionics or targeting systems in.

cheers

We managed quite well without, thank you!

Having flown on a B-52G trip during EX. GIANT VOICE 79 from Barksdale, my conclusion was that our crew co-operation (long before the airlines invented something similar) was worth far more than anything else!

Not like Slim Pickens and the crew in Dr Strangelove then?

Sorry. Washing my mouth out with Jet-A1.

Don't swallow the FS11.


It makes your eyes water.

Asking the volunteer about toilet facilities for a 20+ hour flight to Oz / Stanley you could see it was not equipped for female flight crew...the hanging points for bags .😄

Am in The Broads in September so hope to pop into Norfolk museum and compare and contrast ..

A fluorescent starter?

I was on both Valiants and Victors for c 13 years and I never saw anyone 'puke' but I do recall twice (both of them pilots) having to ...ahem... evacuate their bowels in the ration tin, one in the UK and one from Masirah to Gan.Even with the heat turned off on the visual bomb aimers position - it would freeze eventually- but it was masks on for the rest of the sortie !

Crew chiefs sometimes did on Rangers.

One Nav Radar (no names) would puke everytime doing a 2J attack. This was a low popup to 2,500 ft. He would continue his bombing patter puking into his mask.

Another Plotter was also prone to air sickness but usually managed to hold it.

My skipper also puked on one flight before take-off.

One plotter I flew with would puke rock steady at FL410 over the Atlantic.

I remember in 1969 finding 200 cigarettes wrapped in black bodge tape in the rear crew area, I have to be honest I made no attempt to find the owner.

It was, I believe, known as "travelling first class".