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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

26th Aug 2004, 19:37

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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allan907 1 GSU were far too grand for me. ...

allan907

1 GSU were far too grand for me. I was merely a Boss! Rgds ;)

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

23rd Aug 2004, 17:17

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Pontius Nav Please give him my best regards...

Pontius Nav

Please give him my best regards when next you see him, and ask him to pass them on to the rest of the crew if he is still in contact. Being a relative newboy, I probably ousted the...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

21st Aug 2004, 17:28

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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I flew a check ride with Frank Bonfield's crew at...

I flew a check ride with Frank Bonfield's crew at Waddo on 2 October 1967. We did a practice double engine failure after take-off, 4 Type 5 attacks (whatever they were!), a Type 2J, some fighter...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

11th Jun 2004, 13:36

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Pontius Nav The "hairiest" Vulcan diversion...

Pontius Nav

The "hairiest" Vulcan diversion I ever heard of was a Mk 1 of, I think, the "squadron with a hole in the middle". It was during an Adex that was the central feature of Exercise...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

19th Apr 2004, 17:41

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Posted By Flatus Veteranus

Libyan LLs

Pontius Nav

In my day we used to fly the Libyan routes during rangers to Luqa. They often finished with a practise bomb on the El Adem range. They had, if I remember, some radar markers out...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

5th Apr 2004, 20:25

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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301 cf 201

I believe that when I arrived at Waddo the SOP was to take off in 301-engined aircraft with the EGT limiter in the CRUISE position to save engine life. With a 3,000 yard runway there was never any...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

29th Mar 2004, 18:31

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Iron Bombs

Pontius Navigator

I do not recall seeing the range orders you mention or I might have been a bit more cautious - one did not get the chance to drop thousand pounder HE bombs very often, rather...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

25th Mar 2004, 09:08

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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I wonder why your Dad did that? Perhaps he had...

I wonder why your Dad did that? Perhaps he had farted? :O

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

24th Mar 2004, 18:05

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Pontius Nav The only profiles we flew in my...

Pontius Nav

The only profiles we flew in my time (68/69) were the laydown (2F) and the pop-up to 2500 ft for conventional unretarded iron bombs. The latter got me in the dwang down at Darwin...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

17th Mar 2004, 17:41

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Flatiron "Bootsie" was indeed a formidable...

Flatiron

"Bootsie" was indeed a formidable character! He had a phobia about his crews sitting around in the crew room doing sod-all (as he saw it). Not gifted with a great memory for names, he...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

22nd Feb 2004, 18:10

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Posted By Flatus Veteranus

Auto ILS

BEagle

In my day "Break-off" was 250 ft for manual ILS and PAR, 200 ft for auto ILS. I believe that, when the chips were down, most crews flew manual and swore they picked up the lights at 250ft....

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

22nd Feb 2004, 04:23

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Auto ILS

I seem to remember that we did autopilot-coupled ILS approaches down to 200 ft in the 1960s. I don't think it was as effective as a well-flown manual ILS, and the autothrottle function, when fitted...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

24th Jan 2004, 02:05

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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I heard they experimented (before my time!) with...

I heard they experimented (before my time!) with making rear-crew members aircraft captains in the V-Farce. Did this work? If so, why was it discontinued? Can anyone shed any light?

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

24th Jan 2004, 00:41

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Single-engined Vulcan

I have received a private message from someone "who ought to know" that the incident happened on 2 Jan 69 in XM 608. 608 was ex-Coningsby, ex-Cottesmore and transferred to Waddo in Feb 68. My...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

23rd Jan 2004, 02:15

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Single-engined Vulcan

I wonder if anyone can remember the episode at Waddo in (probably) around 1968 when a Mk 2 Vulcan lost three engines consecutively on climb-out?

I believe it happened late one afternoon or in the...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

1st Jan 2004, 04:20

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Apart from the rear crew escape system, the only...

Apart from the rear crew escape system, the only other significant problem with the Vulcan was the configuration of the engine intakes. If you lost one engine due to mechanical failure, there was a...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

25th Dec 2003, 05:03

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Posted By Flatus Veteranus

EDOM (I think!)

"Who is this that cometh from Edom with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save."...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

24th Dec 2003, 19:20

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Exercie EDOM

Memories crowd in; confused, perhaps, but still very real.

Playing “Hunt the Pi$$er” in the QRA mess at Waddo on one snowy Christmas Eve at Waddo in the late’60s, listening to the carols from...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

24th Dec 2003, 00:54

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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I "saw" the Oct 69 panic from a desk at Strike...

I "saw" the Oct 69 panic from a desk at Strike Command, having handed over 50 a few months earlier. If you think there was chaos at Waddo, you should have seen the shambles at Strike!
There was no...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

14th Dec 2003, 01:38

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Posted By Flatus Veteranus

Chris Lumb

I flew a Captain's Acceptance Check with Chris in XM 605 on 9 Apr 69 on 50 Sqn at Waddo. We went low level at Entry Point 24 (on the old round-Britain LL route) and frightened Wainfleet with 6 x 25...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

12th Dec 2003, 02:32

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Posted By Flatus Veteranus

That's super news BEags. I thought the Heritage...

That's super news BEags. I thought the Heritage Lottery Fund was far too PC to support anything so "nuclear" as the Vulcan. I wholly agree with you about displays. Conservation should be the name...

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