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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

4th Jan 2004, 02:19

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Posted By tony draper

Tiz ok Mr Purdey, I was very suprised meself at...

Tiz ok Mr Purdey, I was very suprised meself at just what information there was on the web re those, err thingies, wouldn't have done in my day, my Lord no.
Anyway Drapes feels fully justifed in...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

3rd Jan 2004, 00:19

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Posted By tony draper

Information on the British Nuclear weaponry of...

Information on the British Nuclear weaponry of that era is freely available on the web Mr Purdey, including cutaway diagrams photographs even maintenence regimes,how to dismantle the pit ect perhaps...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

27th Dec 2003, 17:11

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Posted By tony draper

I remember reading that our V Bomber Force were...

I remember reading that our V Bomber Force were all Nuked up and ready for the off during the Cuban Missile crisis, I remember that week very well, one was sat on top of 32,000 tons of Venuzuala...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

27th Dec 2003, 05:23

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Posted By tony draper

Facinating article Mr Blank thank you.

Facinating article Mr Blank thank you.

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

27th Dec 2003, 01:43

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Posted By tony draper

Has a Vulcan ever dropped a live nuclear weapon...

Has a Vulcan ever dropped a live nuclear weapon ?I believe one was air dropped when we nuked Australia, but I think it was a Canberra that did the biz on that occasion.
There was a interesting...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

20th Dec 2003, 20:53

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Posted By tony draper

I recal they were still testing the Air Raid...

I recal they were still testing the Air Raid sirens round here right up to he seventies I think, there was a one on top of a thing like a telegraph pole not far from whereI lived.
Happy days....

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

20th Dec 2003, 16:06

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Posted By tony draper

Hmmm, indeed, the cold war, I remember that,...

Hmmm, indeed, the cold war, I remember that, leastwise we knew how we were on with Ivan, lot to be said for having a proper enemy.
:rolleyes:

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

12th Dec 2003, 07:07

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Posted By tony draper

Way things are going, you chaps may need to...

Way things are going, you chaps may need to borrow it back.
:(
As a civilian one would love to see it fly again, one did send them a fiver a few years ago.

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