Avro Vulcan: The Bomber with the Terrifying Howl

[@GeneCaralde119workshop]

Still one of the most beautiful aircraft ever built by mankind

[@tenkloosterherman]

I prefer Concorde.

[@Carvetii]

whoopee for you @@tenkloosterherman

[@tenkloosterherman]

Only second to Concorde. The Victor came close.

[@Kroylin]

@@tenkloosterherman Concorde doesn't even have a howl it sounds like a regular jet engine

[@usernamesreprise4068]

Another one being the Hawker Hunter.

[@stevehill4615]

The howl from Vulcans is spine tingling, once heard never forgotten.

[@davefloyd9443]

Amazingly there were only 8 years between the maiden flights of The Lancaster and The Vulcan. What an era for aircraft development?

[@davidbarrass5210]

18 yrs

[@davefloyd9443]

@davidbarrass5210 Had to go check. We can split the difference in our errors. It was actually 11.5 years, between the prototype maiden flights.

[@SirReginaldBlomfield1234]

18yrs my arse. Vulcan first flew in 1952. 🖕

[@josemoreno3334]

I got to see one fly at an air show at Edwards AFB, California back in 1981. I remember that howl sound it made. What a bomber.👍

[@thefreedomguyuk]

Most beautiful machine ever built. Singing the most enchanting song. The song of FREEDOM !!

[@peterbackhouse8650]

If heard in anger it could also be called the dirge of destruction.

[@davidmok108]

May this channel grow more and more! Excellent content as always Cheers from Malaysia

[@Steve-AldFb]

The Vulcan is still one of my favourite aircrafts where technology was leaping massive amounts in a short period of time and that distictive howl sounded like it meant business, which often it's payload meant quite that! The other aircraft which I love is from across the pond and I saw it in my early teens with my late father in a town near where I live. I saw it at the Farnborough air show here in the UK, again another amazing machine. I remember security being tight with the windows of the aircraft being covered.

[@brianwillson9567]

Delta wings need supersonic speeds? Tell that to Avros, Rolls Royce and the RAF that the Vulcan was supersonic. The sperrin part of the V force? The clue is in the S of sperrin. Mr Handley Page would be most displeased that you should dismiss his Victor from the V bomber trinity.

[@paulqueripel3493]

And that they showed the Victor as an Avro design. I don't think Avro ever looked at crescent wings.

[@peterbackhouse8650]

Pilots say it usad to handle like a fighter plane!

[@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935]

The video maker does not bother with long established information.

[@brianwillson9567]

@@peterbackhouse8650 yes, a control STICK not a wheel or yoke.

[@djpalindrome]

I just discovered this channel. I really like your concise to the point approach, absence of obvious factual errors, and lack of AI narration mispronouncing every other word

[@stephengrimmer35]

There are only so many who have seen the likes of the Vulcan, the English Electric, the F104 and the SR71 fly. Soon those memories will be lost, like tears in the rain.

[@glaslynx123]

1980s was on my motorbike speeding along cliff top road in North Wales, Thought my engine was about to explode then it went dark . Out of the corner of my eye a Vulcan dropped from above went down just below road level and howled out to sea ! Could do Victor next always thought it was most sinister/sci fi of the 4

[@brianwillson9567]

Most wonderful plane ever built. But only the B2 with the series 200 Olympus engines howled.

[@tenkloosterherman]

Some of them. Luckily 558 did.

[@kevinfairclough4619]

For me it was Windermere air show, uk circa 2008. I arrived just in time mid-afternoon at Bowness to see one of these incredible machines fly seemingly straight towards us, low and slow, then go full thrust for a near vertical climb right over our heads. Never will I forget that experience

[@usernamesreprise4068]

At the start of the video you referred to Lancasters as having Merlin "double X's, this a misnomer as subsequent Merlin marks were identified in Roman numerals - and the "double X" was actually a Merlin twenty.

[@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935]

-You are mixing up Merlin engines and Spitfire fighters.- There was the Spitfire 21 and the Merlin XX.

[@usernamesreprise4068]

@@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935 Please explain to me exactly what I was mixing up ? Spitfire 21's were Griffon powered, the Mk1 Lancaster very briefly used Mk XX's but moved almost immediately to the Mk21 and Mk22's, Mk3 Lancasters used the Mk 28's and Mk38's. the first Merlin used in a Spitfire1a was the 1030 hp Mk 2 all further Mk's up to the Mk19 used the latest Merlin versions availabe up to and including the 1670 hp Packard built Merlin 266.all Mks from then on using Griffons.

[@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935]

@@usernamesreprise4068 Merlin III in the majority of Spitfire Mk Is, Griffons in the Mk XII, XIV, XVIII and the XIX (19) Spitfires and the XV and XVII Sea Spitfires/Seafires. The Merlin XX can indeed be spoken as ‘twenty’. There was a non production Spitfire Mk XX so I fully retract my ‘mixing up’ comment. Did someone say the Spitfire 21 was not Griffon powered? Happy New Year.

[@zsoltbocsi7546]

Such an amazing video

[@tenkloosterherman]

The "howl" was not a design feature All Avro bombers were hand-built and so no two ones were the same. Some had the "howl", fortunately.

[@peterbackhouse8650]

Apparently the howl was down to the air intakes & speed of air being sucked in under power when accelerating.

[@drtimsmith]

Just about the loudest noise I've ever heard... made my ears ring... A pity we can't make a new version with upgraded avionics and engines.

[@AngryVikingBiker]

The Vulcan Bomber will always be my favourite hands down.

[@Tamburello_1994]

Saw one of these crash near Chicago back in 1978 (XL-390)

[@johnf991]

Interesting archive footage I've never seen before, but please explain the curious omission of any reference to the Handley-Page Victor which, with the Valiant and Vulcan, was the third British V-bomber!!!! The Victor is shown as a tanker without being named and its crescent wing as an alleged Avro design exercise!!! Why??........ Eh???

[@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935]

This video is ridiculous.

[@Radio478]

Brilliant

[@1joshjosh1]

Very interesting video

[@peterbackhouse8650]

I had an uncle who refuelled the vulcans based at RAF finningley during the 1960's & 70's.

[@davedear929]

As a teenager I remember seeing 4 vulcans get airborne in 4 minutes at RAF Gaydon. What a sight what a noise..sadly a spectacle never to be experienced again.. the last year XH558 flew I managed to see it on 5 occasions. My dad was an aero engine tester at Rolls Royce the Olympus was one of the engines he worked on. Many thanks.

[@caribman10]

You need to see a Vulcan near a B-52 to see how small it is by comparison.

[@tenkloosterherman]

And a carefully kept secret by the US is that the Vulcan "Nuked"the US twice. It was quite embarrassing for the USAF to see a Vulcan landing at a US airbase after a simulated attack, not once but twice.

[@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935]

The Victor was the most advanced of the three, it had an early form of area ruling for lower transsonic drag.

[@scratch1924]

I have many memories of seeing the Vulcan's as i have always lived pretty close to one of our RAF bases.. The last time i actually saw one fly was a few years back at Fairford Air Show.. I think that was at the time meant to have been it's last flight, but i believe it has flown since. Was always my favourite plane, and that howl is truly amazing.. I sure do miss hearing it..

[@silverfox9303]

Not wishing to be pedantic but the Sperrin was very quickly abandoned, the other V Bomber was the HP Victor, sadly impeded by politicians

[@tenkloosterherman]

The Victor was the better weightlifter and thus the better tanker. The Vulcan was the better bomber. It Nuked the US twice in simulated attacks.

[@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe]

The RAF still knows its way around the Camouflage.

[@charliespareacc]

Only vulcans with olympus 201 engines have the howl as they have a different intake length and shape compared to the later olympus 301 engined vulcans.

[@lenkautsugi5747]

Video of mirage 2000 will be nice

[@aghosh5285]

Please cover some sukhoi planes.

[@vaporedskies]

@Aghosh5285 We will start working on it!

[@sghdegccf6382]

❤❤

[@kevinslater7401]

Stop talking ffs, we know!

[@James-nl6fu]

All weapons are conventional that's why the Vulcun was built by a country that doesn't exist anymore