air show vulcan rolls at farnborough

air show vulcan rolls at farnborough

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• airshow
• vulcan
• farnborough
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[fairclought7]

What a bomber, vulcan, victor and valiant were all truly awesome bombers. And all were british designed and built.

[almagill]

Amazing to see her roll while still climbing :)

[lakeakero]

No wonder they called the pilot - "Barrel Roly Falks".

[LukelearMissile]

@ValiantXD818 If XH558 had been a little younger, I might have agreed with you, but I think she's a little too old for things like that. She's not got much left of her airframe life, which is why they don't roll her these days. Besides, you wouldn't have actually seen much, being so far below on the ground!

[ValiantXD818]

@LukelearMissile i dont see y they dont do it at riat they have the f-15's there its a perfect oportunity to do it

[Sqdrn1]

I respect the response- but even as a Vulcan fan and of sufficient age to have seen the massed ballistuic climb of lightnings at Farnborough, I must emphasise the reality that the vulcan brief was a high altitude delivery system - aerobatics and the fighter manoeoverability shown at farnborough was in fact meaningless and an aircratf that could do such actions alien to role suggests compromise or even flaw. Such was later born out in the structural problems of operation at low level.

[shackvan]

@Sqdrn1 Proves the planes manoeuvrability which was key to its survival, as interceptors at the time of its creation had to get close and get behind their target to launch missiles or make a gun attack, and those giant wings on Vulcan meant at 60,000ft it still had enough lift to out-turn pretty much any fighter on the planet. B-52 is still in service because its a cheap and reliable bomb truck, you don't need a smart bomber when you have smart weapons.

[LukelearMissile]

"And for my next trick..."

This roll goes to show just how surprisingly manoeuvrable the Vulcan really is. It's actually said that at altitude a Vulcan would be capable of out-dogfighting an F-15 Eagle. Now, THAT, I'd like to see!

[george385]

Is was designed to outmanuver interceptors at altitude and to utilise ECM to avoid destruction. It did both very well indeed.

In a NORAD exercise in 1960 (Sky Shield I) eight Vulcan's successfully penetrated the US Air Defences - and 7 out of the 8 Vulcan's returned home unscathed.

[Sqdrn1]

Saw it do it in Farnborough 64 -and WOW! BUT can't help feeling it irrelevant to purpose... OK B52 cannot do this but why would it need such requirement? The B52 is very good at being well... a bomber! Maybe part of the reason it is still in service today. Did being able to roll make a vulcan a better bomber? No. Did the delta design make bad vis from the cockpit - appalling - contributing to crashes. Yes. Did it also shorten life when changed to low level use - Yes. Love it but not perfect!

[eatthisvr6]

rolling it is impressive enough but check out that roll rate!!!! no wonder the fighters lost in high altitude dogfights lol

[LIVERPOOLSCOTTISH]

@almagill Indeed! Try that in a B-52 & you will make a very expensive and large fiery hole in the ground!! lol What an awesome machine, right up there alongside Concorde & the Spitfire!