an absolutely amazing piece of machinery! thankfully never used for it's intended purpose.

Magnificent aircraft and in my opinion we should have them still in service. Imagine what they could do now with upgrades. The V- FORCE truly struck the fear of God into the old Soviet Union.

No Vulcans flying any more. But governments can find funds for museums to display unmade beds and piles of bricks. Where did our pride go?

Star Trek fans. Prepare for the Vulcan mind meld. PAIN. PAIN. If you are laughing, You're a fan.

It was at this point we needed to become easier to impress.

Lived in Goose Bay Labrador in the early 70's. We would ride our bikes to the runway and watch the Vulcans fly in for refueling, what a fantastic machine.

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Thing of beauty. Classic!!

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I was there, too and what an incredible display. He flew it like he'd nicked it!

Saw one do display at Woodford many years ago. Did low pass with bomb bay doors open. Goosebumps, enthralling, terrifying weapon of war but pure magic at smae time.

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all you can here is the obnoxious commentator !!

Amazing, much better than the loop....but not many views?? Saw 4 of them at Buttermere recently and then lucky enough for a pair to pass twice over Windermere while on a wee hire boat!

How sad is it that the last airworthy Vulcan was grounded some years ago, the generation of today will never see the Vulcan or Concorde in the skies.

How she comes to that conclusion about nimrod is beyond me. Only played at the cenotaph on a cold November morning respecting the Glourious dead

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Like my ex wife, once seen and heard, never forgotten.

Another idiot on the microphone during a Vulcan flypast.

What couldn't this bomber do?

There is a Vulcan at Solway Aviation Museum and for such a big, intimidating plane, the interior is tiny. A crew of five had to work in a space about the same size as a London taxi for 6 hours at a time, and the view for the pilot and co pilot was quite restricted.

I wonder if the British deliberately made this Aircraft so loud to make the Cold War era enemies crap themselves scared in their pants upon it approaching. This Aircraft and the Concorde back in their Prime Day of Service literally shock the Earth in Flight from Miles away. The only ones in existence service today I can think of that shakes the Earth from Miles away are the Space Shuttle, the Russian Tu-160 and B-2 US Bomber. Excellent job restoring it to flight display 2007 to 2015. Although this one was not nearly as loud as the ones out of service that also performed at many air shows in the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s it was still a top aircraft flight display demo of air shows compared to the standard of many more other much more modern aircraft still in service today.

We called it the "Iron Overcast" a beautiful aircraft.

Many years ago my wife and I would spend an evening sat on the cliffs at Bempton and Flamborough watching the seabirds. The Vulcan was very much operational and every evening at dusk one would fly gracefully, low and slow like giant moth out over the North Sea on patrol. I swear to this day that once away from land and out of sight the crew would have a "play". You could hear those engines howl then shut down then howl again as they put the aircraft through its paces. Thank God we all remember the howl and not the effectiveness of the bombs it might have dropped.

The first time, I saw the Vulcan and heard those loud engines. It looked like Rodam from those Japanese movies. June 1976 on take-off from SoCal USA 🇺🇸

Poor birds.

dude rolled 30m bomber like some fighter jet...

And you know why this one isn’t allowed to fly anymore? Don’t believe the insurance guff, it’s because the engines were run beyond RR’s specified limit, got fried, and so RR no longer support it.

It would have been better if the commentator had shut up so we could here the wonderful engines. Always the same at air show's, gobby commentators with loud speakers. Shut up.

it was so good, they named a planet after it :)

If only the Americans never made it their mission in life to destroy the British aircraft industry.

Magnificent.

Looks like the Blackpool event ... my wife and I did a 300 mile round trip to see the last flight of this icon.

My hometown.

I miss the roar of these, we had them based in Lincolnshire and RAF Waddington for years the engine noise was astounding

Poetry in motion. *The* most iconic jet bomber of the 20th century.

I can remember back in 1985, when visiting the RAF St Athan airshow, outside Cardiff. There were two of these incredible bombers, sitting on the side of the runway, in poor condition, and both were for sale, at realistic money. The only problem, was the buyer had to collect their purchase. Im not sure what became of them, but four Rolls Royce Olympus jet engines, drank a lot of fuel, and routine maintenance would have been ridiculously expensive.

In the early 80's, where I live in Canada, there was two guarantees for every airshow, a Vulcan due to our connection to Britain and a pre production B1-B, due to the fact that we are about 150 miles away from a major US air base. The Vulcan was being phased out while the B1-B was being phased in, cool transistion...both were on our side, but our air force had neither of them.

Sexiest plane ever 😍

One of these might have been kept temporarily at Cranfield relatively recently during the 2010s, I can't remember the exact year. I was walking to work in Milton Keynes when I could hear the unmistakeable sound of a jet engines in the distance but had never heard anything howl like that. Only as I'm about to enter the building do I actually see it fly overhead at low altitude and quite low speed. Definitely a result of the Vulcan to the Skies project.

This was filmed at Southport Airshow. You didnt hear the Vulcan scream into its nr vertical climb, you felt it. Magnificent sight, sadly missed now 😔