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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

28th Jan 2004, 08:53

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Ah Yes, 50+Ray. Converting from Co to Capt. I...

Ah Yes, 50+Ray. Converting from Co to Capt. I remember a certain doofus who was so nervous on his first left seat ride he hit the wrong start button. Number 4 instead of number 1 or whatever it used...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

23rd Jan 2004, 08:00

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Reference the overweight landing. Of course, the...

Reference the overweight landing. Of course, the Vulcan had no fuel-dumping system. After getting airborne with a gear retraction problem we had to burn down to landing weight. We had the gear down...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

11th Jan 2004, 08:12

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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FJJP. I sat in the 707 in the hanger at...

FJJP. I sat in the 707 in the hanger at Finningly (I think) several times. There was also a two seat delta (of the same series?) in the same hanger. I was impressed by how basic the...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

11th Jan 2004, 03:20

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Strange things happened. As a new arrival in the...

Strange things happened. As a new arrival in the Mess at Cottesmore I was assigned the upper room at the end of one of the wings. It did not take long to find out (exactly one night) that my room was...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

11th Jan 2004, 02:13

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Posted By BOING

For the benefit of those who did not have the...

For the benefit of those who did not have the luck (?) to fly the Vulcan we need to document the unusual (bizarre?) crew accomodation.

Perhaps one of our historians can answer a question for me....

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

1st Jan 2004, 11:57

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Posted By BOING

Just to change the direction of the thread a...

Just to change the direction of the thread a little and lighten the content does anybody have any Goose Bay stories.

Melville Radar. I remember, hauling kegs of beer for the radar station at...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

31st Dec 2003, 11:25

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Blacksheep, towards the end of QRA things got a...

Blacksheep, towards the end of QRA things got a bit crazy for the aircrew as well.

We had one target, an important "red" city that was scheduled to be hit by missiles before our arrival. Since the...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

29th Dec 2003, 03:44

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Stacey was the Station Commander. Certainly an...

Stacey was the Station Commander. Certainly an impressive looking individual. Never had any "social" interaction with him. I remember he used to drive a white painted Land Rover as his service...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

29th Dec 2003, 03:22

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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Just realised there is something wrong with the...

Just realised there is something wrong with the dates here. Some of the Cottesmore Vulcans left for Akrotiri, with a Scramble take-off, on the 19th of March 1969. I was in XM572 (my favourite...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

29th Dec 2003, 02:40

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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August 1969 was a busy time - or was there some...

August 1969 was a busy time - or was there some connection between these events we never saw at the time. Sometime around the 26th of August 1969 an exercise was initiated for the Cyprus based...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

27th Dec 2003, 09:55

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Did You Fly The Vulcan?? (Merged)

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There was at least one live one loaded on a...

There was at least one live one loaded on a non-QRA aircraft. I touched it. During an exercise "somewhere in the middle of England" (actually about 4 miles from Oakham), we went to our aircraft one...

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