Avro Vulcan Bomber XH558 Take-Off. £6m Refit.

At last..airborne!! 18/10/07
The Avro Vulcan is a delta wing subsonic bomber that was operated by the Royal Air Force from 1953 until 1984. The Vulcan was part of the RAF's V bomber force, which fulfilled the role of nuclear deterrence against the Soviet Union during the Cold War. It was also used in a conventional bombing role during the Falklands conflict with Argentina. One example, XH558 was recently restored for use in display flights and commemoration of the jets' role in the Falklands Conflict.
The Vulcan bomber was featured in the 1965 James Bond movie Thunderball. Agents of SPECTRE hijacked a Vulcan B.1a bomber to use its two nuclear bombs for a ransom plot against the U.S. and Britain. In the novel, the bomber is known as the (fictional) Villiers Vindicator.
Parts from two scrapped Vulcan bombers were used to make the set of the spaceship Nostromo from Ridley Scott's 1979 film Alien.

Comparable aircraft:-
Handley Page Victor
Vickers Valiant
B-47 Stratojet
Tu-16
External links:-
Avro Vulcan Information
Vulcan to the Sky and Company heading restoration to flight of Vulcan XH558 at Bruntingthorpe UK.
Vulcans in Camera
Vulcan history
Vulcan Restoration Trust
Aircraft.co.za - Avro Vulcan
Aerospaceweb.org - Information regarding the Avro Vulcan.
Experimental testbed
A Vulcan was used as a testbed for the afterburning Olympus 320 for the TSR-2, the planned Concorde engine, the Rolls-Royce/Snecma Olympus 593 and the Rolls-Royce Conway turbofan.[citation needed] While testing the Bristol Olympus for the TSR-2, the engine disintegrated, setting the Vulcan on fire and also the fire tender in attendance. The crew escaped unhurt.[citation needed]

In testing the Olympus, one engine was fitted to the bomb bay of a Vulcan.[citation needed] High level flight testing was carried out with the Olympus engine helping the Vulcan fly faster than with its original engines.[citation needed] The Vulcan was hung on wires in a hangar to allow access to the engine in the bomb bay.[citation needed]

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[literatura08]

It's not a flying wing...

[TheCatholicknight]

i saw him today, at the air force days in volkel ( netherlands ) beautifull machine! great sound! good english engineering!

[charade993]

Money well spent! Saw her fly at Leuchars '11. She's a real beauty.

[digireedoo]

Oh good grief, jerk69 is here too. He (or it) has the military knowledge of a typical swamp dweller. Believe nothing he (or it) says.

[jers59]

@LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH Dieppe now that was brillant operation,, Omaha was taking quickly D day is the most over played battle in WW2 by the afternoon you could have picnic on beach, Now Iwo jima a real battle, troops were being killed on beach 30 days after the landing

[jers59]

@LOUISVART look at photos of british soccer hooligans

[jers59]

@LOUISVART Father BAR man 104th division, Hurtgen forest, uncle m18 tank destroyer normandy to germany, uncle tail gunner B24, father cousin KIA tail gunner on helldiver, dive bomber flying from USS Essex.another cousin from Ireland KIA  on HMS Glorious, another uncle flying B17,s

[jers59]

@LOUISVART Wrong again the krauts learned about liquid fuel rockets by plagerizing Robert Goddard and Gagarin violated the rules by bailing out of his capsule before it landed

[LOUISVART]

@jers59

if it wasnt for the german scientists during ww2

you wouldnt have any technology to get into space

by the way

the russians had the first man in space

[LOUISVART]

@jers59

where do you get your history from anyway? nazi probaganda?

the reason both sides received losses in market garden was not because of incompetant generals on any side

it was due to bad communication and co ordination on the attacks

did anyone in your family fight in world war 2??

if they could see some of the stuff people post about dissing the brits they would be disgusted

america and the UK are allies

so why are there little keyboard warriors slagging everyone off online?

[LOUISVART]

@jers59 what is it with americans thinking the entire british race has bad teeth?

we have very good dental health. what other country do you know that puts calcium in the tap water???.

your probably wondering where the term limey came from.

the royal navy started giving their crews limes to eat to help protect them against diseases like scurvy and also cept up morale

[awuma]

@transdrole The might be called the same, but surely very different. I don't think the Vulcan had afterburners, and it was subsonic (dunno whether it ever broke the sound barrier in a dive; I think the Victor did, if I remember correctly). The engines in the Concorde were much more powerful.