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18th Oct 07 at 11:49

Know theres a few people intrested in this on here

http://vbc01.verifiedalarms.co.uk/temp/Cam6/plane620071018122716536alm.jpg

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1288877,00.html

[Edited on 18-10-2007 by jr]

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18th Oct 07 at 11:51

That is such a plane

Did you know they flew a couple non stop from here to Ascension Island in the mid atlantic and then on to the Falklands. Re-fuelling was done in the air by around 12 Victor tankers. Vulcan 607 was the plane that did the damage.

Yes, I am a sad aviation buff

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18th Oct 07 at 11:56

and XM597 was the back up plane on black buck 1, which got damaged

xm607 is now or was gate guardian at waddington, and 597 went to sunderland ? iirc

so am i........

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18th Oct 07 at 11:58

http://www.corsasport.co.uk/board/viewthread.php?tid=389784

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18th Oct 07 at 11:59

mine has pictures

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18th Oct 07 at 12:00

i cant see your pictures im at work and blocks nearly everything!

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18th Oct 07 at 12:01

[quote=dougc]Shes back

[Edited on 18-10-2007 by jr]

Dean_W

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18th Oct 07 at 12:02

quote:
Originally posted by jr
and XM597 was the back up plane on black buck 1, which got damaged

xm607 is now or was gate guardian at waddington, and 597 went to sunderland ? iirc

so am i........

Have you read the book JR, Vulcan 607? Very good read about the black buck missions.

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18th Oct 07 at 12:03

i have it, havent read it, that was me just remembering stuff ive read previously

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18th Oct 07 at 12:11

ryzer

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18th Oct 07 at 12:13

quote:

Have you read the book JR, Vulcan 607? Very good read about the black buck missions.

Im reading this atm, very very good book.

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18th Oct 07 at 12:26

I have a model of one, Always liked them, been up to one at the aircraft museum, glad to see that its back in the sky

And here it is our local vulcan bomber.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=whickham&sll=54.221321,-4.701241&sspn=0.008844,0.020084&ie=UTF8&ll=54.924169,-1.468166&spn=0.001087,0.002511&t=h&z=19&om=1

[Edited on 18-10-2007 by Linch]

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18th Oct 07 at 12:42

Coventry's Finest

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18th Oct 07 at 13:21

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/ondemand/leicester/realmedia/2007/vulcan_bomber?bgc=C0C0C0&nbram=1&lang=en&bbram=1&ms3=4&size=16x9

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18th Oct 07 at 13:22

I am sure there used to be one at Blackpool airport

Someone correct me if i am wrong.

Dean_W

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18th Oct 07 at 13:25

Yes there did. It got scrapped.

Iain M

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18th Oct 07 at 13:27

I thought so. Just looked on the google earth thing and couldn't find it. Now i know why

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18th Oct 07 at 13:27

Butler

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18th Oct 07 at 13:56

Awesome! One of my favourite planes. Has anyone read the book on the vulcan? Saw it in HMV the other day and nearly bought it.

Dean_W

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18th Oct 07 at 14:04

Which book Butler?

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18th Oct 07 at 14:23

as dean said

theres loads butler

Butler

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18th Oct 07 at 14:28

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vulcan-607-Rowland-White/dp/0552152293/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/202-7449218-1505410?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192717658&sr=8-1

Looks interesting, im not much of a reader though.

Dean_W

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18th Oct 07 at 14:35

Read that. Good book.

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18th Oct 07 at 14:35

ah yes thats the one dean was talking about

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18th Oct 07 at 14:53

Oh yeah! Sorry didnt read all the thread.

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