Avro Vulcan Bomber - Barrel Roll

Short clip of the vulcan barrel rolling
over woodford airfield.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• avro
• vulcan
• bomber
• barrel
• roll
• woodford

[tkey]

Falk rolled the Vulcan on returning to Avro's Woodford base after a previous Farnborough appearance - that time he did it so low and so loud that he smashed all the skylight windows in the assembly building!

Thats what was being discussed in this short clip.

[Woodyf650]

@tkey nothing to do with what you commented, but was that vulcan crashing or was it just very manouverable that day because i am not sure if they could do rolls:-)

[tkey]

@Woodyf650 ... this from wikipedia.

Avro test pilot, Wing Commander (retired) Roly Falk, demonstrated the aircraft's high performance in the second production Vulcan, XA890, by performing an upward barrel-roll immediately after takeoff at the 1955 SBAC Farnborough Airshow.[3] The roll was performed while gently climbing so that positive g was maintained and stresses reduced.

[tkey]

This clip was taken as she was returning from a display at Farnborough and Falk once again performed a roll over Woodford airfield (smashing all the windows in the assembly building in the process!)

[rockinroy555]

Farnborough surely...

[tkey]

no woodford,cheshire . honest

[LordFlasheart575]

B52s fall out the sky if rolled past 45 degrees because theyre a hunk of shit.

[SAHBfan]

I saw Vulcans displayed at airshows years ago & they used to chuck them around like acrobatic biplanes;-)

There are 2 reasons why you don't see this now. Firstly, with old aircraft want to be very gentle on the airframe to preserve it, but secondly the rules were much more lax in the 1970s. There a helluva lot of red tape governing airshows, now. Many manouvers that were once big crowd pleasers are no longer allowed. Very high speed passes, sonic booms & flying over the crowds are all out.

[MrMoss2001]

What are the odd's that when xh558 runs out of hours, on the last flight, who ever is piloting that day will roll her? :-D

Please please please please!!!!!!!

[GotecskeXD]

DO A BARELL ROLL

[fyrep0w3r]

Do a barrel roll!

Oh, he actually did!

[Jackaky]

was this from vulcons victors and cuba?

[ToonandBBfan]

The Vulcan was extremely agile for its size.

Amazing plane

[raynkar]

@CharleyFarley1040

I think you might get on well with one of my friends.

He talks of how 'we' killed millions of jews.......Now maybe you are happy to be part of that, as it's his choice of word for humanity, but personally I've never killed one, and prefer him to use the correct words, to avoid me getting in a pickle lol

I found your initial 'pickle' comment funny though, and hope you are treating this as light heartedly as I am :)

[raynkar]

@CharleyFarley1040

Hi, and thanks for the reply. No pickle at all here, just a reference to your use of 'our'. Perhaps if you meant British, then British would have been a better choice of word.

I'm also sure you may well have read the original USAAF (not USAF then, and I noted you never said 'their') claim, and probably understood it in its proper context.It's also possible you are VERY aware that the USAAF had far more accuracy than the RAF as a general rule. You probably also know why.

[CharleyFarley1040]

@raynkar 'our' Lancaster, as in British. If you read my post carefully, you will note that at no point do i rubbish any brave efforts, i comment on US claims to have a 'wonder' bombsight. My Father was aircrew in Bomber Command WW2. Can i suggest you read posts twice prior to posting replies. Then you won't get in such a pickle unnecessarily.

[raynkar]

@CharleyFarley1040

Hi Charley. An interesting comment there! When you talk of 'our Lancaster' am I to understand you were in the RAF at that time, and saw actual combat, or perhaps you are in the RAF now, or are you just talking out of your a**e, and have no combat experience at all, but are still still happy to rubbish the efforts of brave men?

Once I had been in combat myself, I learned to value EVERYONES efforts as they all helped :)

Just my own thoughts.

[CharleyFarley1040]

B17, your main bomber in European theatre , 1 ton of bombs to our Lancester 2.5 tons ! Game , Set and Match. Plus your much vaunted bombsight, once the more qualified RAF got hold of it, was evaluated and laughed off the planet ! It was deemed to not been much inproved since thw 1920's. Sad. Thats the best you could achieve. As as to your claims of ! putting a bomb in a pickle barrel from 20,000 feet, " Get real !!!'s