The Vulcan - RAF's Top 10 Warplanes | Forces TV

[@FelixIsMyName]

I remember seeing 558 flying over my home after an airshow some years ago. By a stroke of good luck I was in my garden as she flew over. Stunning aircraft.

[@thomaspickard4138]

Iv got a big model of the Vulcan a very special aircraft! If u was ever lucky enough to see and hear one in the flesh u never forget that howl! 😍

[@vdotme]

It still looks amazing nearly 70 after design...........

[@morriganravenchild6613]

You Brits certainly built some lovely aircraft - this one is one of the most impressive.

[@jreg2007]

i grew up in the same village the factory was in at Woodford aerodrome. many memories of those days

[@simonyip5978]

Vulcan, Valiant and the Victor bombers are works of art.

[@orsonwelles5549]

I feel very lucky to have seen this aircraft fly on numerous occasions very low directly over head at full power. I wish I will and the future generations will get to see it fly again one day...

[@Idahoguy10157]

In 1978 I was a Vulcan flying at an air show in Guam. Beautiful sight!

[@clayp.e30_v86]

You never forget that howl of Vulcan and the feeling of immense power you got through your body and senses as she flew over throttles open! Such a beautiful majestic aircraft that I personally miss on the air show circuit ☹ impressive girl. But as they say "don't cry because it ended, smile because it happened"

[@AnastaziaValvaine]

gosh.. i love this cold war planes, speccialy the "Vulcan" 💝 1952? unbelievable modern for its time.

[@robcraighill6315]

What a special sight it was and from the same man that conceived the Lancaster

[@roo1234]

My dad was a Navigator Radar on Vulcans in the 1980s and was involved in the Falkland’s Raid.

[@retronacious]

Respect for him!

[@roo1234]

Scarydrago My Dad says thank you!

[@aniruddhamulay2932]

Respect!!!

[@oscardom__]

Respect

[@keithscarlett4242]

Knew your dad, as an NBS engineer we had to debrief the Navigators after each sortie.

[@jasonunwin5422]

I LOVE the Vulcan bombers. I have seen that Vulcan that is on display. One made an emergency landing at Pueblo Memorial Airport (KPUB) in Pueblo, Colorado in the late '70s.

[@vrsmartin2981]

Not only stunning looking but second only to a merlin powered aircraft for sound. Real shame they can't keep one flying.

[@jhkk1269]

I saw xh558 fly in 2011. Truly a privilege to witness.

[@trevortrevortsr2]

The jet wash off one of these in a climb hit my old MK3 Cortina and bottomed out the suspension - it was like being squatted - great for setting off car alarms in a car park - not so funny when you have a car full of kids driving along near a runway : )

[@BoyzInTheHoo]

I feel privileged to have seen her with my own eyes fly at two airshows in recent years. What a magnificent beast with raw power. I kept thinking if the Americans could justify upgrading and maintaining the equally impressive B52 why we couldn't do the same with Vulcan. Such a shame.

[@BoyzInTheHoo]

@flip inheck I think the guys flying those upgraded and refurbished B-52s, which are used by the US primarily a visual and psychological deterrent, would beg to differ. I get all the various logical justifications but it's just a shame we gave ours up. I like how we rolled them out for the Falklands (the last hurrah).

[@BoyzInTheHoo]

@flip inheck all fair points and more one of wishful thinking I guess. They were however iconic machines and legendary in their own right. No contesting that...

[@Weeeui]

Its really SAD that all British projects cancelled and destroyed in favour of American analogs.

[@hans2406]

The demise of the British aircraft industry, so very sorry, given over to US pressure.

[@sharky09000]

Looks & sounds beautiful.

[@scottlewisparsons9551]

I think they used a Vulcan as a test bed for the Concord engines. Am I correct?

[@timorvet1]

Yes

[@scottlewisparsons9551]

Thank you. Some one I worked with while I was living in London told me that in about 1979, I wasn’t too sure of my memory!

[@timorvet1]

@@scottlewisparsons9551 The aircraft in question was Vulcan B.I XA903 which was the test bed for the Olympus from 1966 until 1971, then it was test bed for the RB.199 engine for the Tornado. It was retired in 1974 as the last B.I still flying but wasn't preserved, only the nose section being saved.

[@scottlewisparsons9551]

@@timorvet1 thank you for letting me know. Vulcans have always been one of my favourite planes. When I was five years old one flew very low over my school. My five year old brain told me that it was at fifty feet. Very big and loud. Years later my mother told me she was looking down on it from our house, so it couldn’t have been very high! Later, on return from visiting Australia and New Zealand it crashed at London airport, I still remember hearing that on the bbc news with my father. Later, in 1959 at the opening of Wellington Airport another Vulcan almost crashed, you can see footage of this on utube, it flew to Ohakia airforce base to land and was repaired over several months before returning to the UK.

[@yorkshirebaz4743]

Doncaster, YORKSHIRE The home of the VULCAN!

[@danielpalmer2185]

Lincolnshire was the real home of the Vulcan. Bomber county

[@scarecrow108productions7]

@@danielpalmer2185 yep, Lincolnshire...specifically at RAF Waddington.

[@grahamfisher5436]

I grew up the road from Waddington and Scampton Vulcan bliss

[@towgod3096]

The Vulcan was NEVER obsolete, there were too many people who had a supersonic agenda.

[@chrismc410]

I don't see why they couldn't make a supersonic version. The overall airframe design can handle it. It after all, inspired the Concorde.

[@smehmet21]

Great video thank you

[@claesnordstrom8152]

must say that the Avro vulcan was an amazing plane , too bad they didn`t keep them , and that howl , like music💪

[@elizabetharmada5335]

I like it too... beautiful flying manta

[@killerone807]

can't wait for the GR4

[@danieltaggart5180]

Brilliant

[@franfountain7278]

Hopefully by 2020 our forces will be MUCH larger if they put our defense budget up to about 70bil

[@Mike7O7O]

Don't hold your breath. Ageing, growing and obese population equals continuing health service crisis and everything else continues to be chopped.

[@pandadecoy7518]

don't mention the skyrocketing public service costs due to mass immigration

[@marklee6105]

Panda Decoy don’t forget that we have a staff crisis in the NHS coverable by skilled immigrants

[@davidsirett5560]

why does he say only 3 survive? 19 survive around the world. as far as i know the one at Southend airport, Vulcan XL426 is the only one still moving about under her own power (they had it going up the runway today 12 12 2020) .

[@timorvet1]

And the six surviving nose sections as well.

[@barnabyg6808]

My favourite plane ever

[@KevTheImpaler]

Mach 1 at altitude, ooh, I'm scared. It was obsolete for about thirty years. We should have had the TSR2, but Wilson and Healey scrapped it.

[@khaelsayfair1163]

British planes looks amazing also the name feels very pleasant to the ears. Do Brittain still design fighter planes?

[@lachlanchester8142]

I believe the brits were involved in the eurofighter typhoon creation, I believe it was a group of European countries, we don’t on our own anymore and our newest jets, f35b, are American

[@trevortrevortsr2]

Look at the Tempest design concept - the last all Brit fighter was the Lightning

[@sabredivision509]

3:56 good luck with that one

[@henryedge8914]

My grandpa was navigator on one of these

[@MK-rr7cg]

Between the Lancaster, Canberra, Vulcan, Victor and Valiant, the British built the best Bombers.

[@dygi7631]

I am 100% SURE that XM558 will fly again one day :)

[@ianjames1179]

She gave the Argentine's serious underpants problems. The S.A.S. is a much messier story.

[@miscellaneous.7127]

7:46 I can think of more than 3 that are still around.

[@archie_-zv8xc]

Why Not? I can only assume they meant in flyable condition, I’ve seen more than 4 so I can second that.

[@BizzarFish1]

Well as someone who actively works with XM603 at the Avro heritage museum i can second this.

[@miscellaneous.7127]

There are none left in flying condition.

[@GlenCychosz]

Thank you for contributing over 2% to your national defense.

[@timorvet1]

"Only three survive" the narrator says, doesn't he mean around 19 complete airframes, and surviving nose sections?

[@Videogame-Matt]

The Lancaster's son

[@romanoguttadauro9563]

King Charles needs to get his hand in his pocket and get one of these classic British aviation back in the air, the pride of England every time we see her fly it brings a sense of national pride to all our heart. "Come on Charlie" Do England a favour Mate.

[@thelordofcathedrals1921]

RIP

[@gregpineda8660]

The Great Britain's ( And God Save the Queen) or the British Isles's ( And God Save the Queen) or the United Kingdom's ( And God Save the Queen) Royal Air Force's Vulcan Strategic Heavy Bombers looks a bit like the U.S. Air Force's B---1 Strategic Air Command's Heavy Bombers and also the Vulcan Strategic Heavy Bombers also looks like the all---Blessed,all---deadly and all---advanced as well as our legendary Canadian Avro Arrow multi---role fighters/light bombers invented,built and developed by our all---appointed,all---chosen and all---gifted Canadian aeronautical engineers of the 1950's decade.And "Soar High" with our United Kingdom's ( And God Save the Queen) Royal Air Force Strategic Air Command military aviators or fliers!!!

[@TheGalwayFarmer]

3 survive??? erm.......

[@diagorosmelos3187]

Oh my memories of the Vulcan. I remember when i was air hostess on that fateful trip to the Malvinas. They said it would get a bit hairy, so i took extra razors and a bin bag full of Veet. I served canapes and Lambrusco to the crew, and the dozen or so African illegals hiding in the Bomb bay. I thought when they said this trip was life changing, it was for the better, but now i realise the laughter from my agent was a bad omen that this was my employment card they would like to change! However, as things were, it wasn't too bad. By now the crew had found the Illegals and they were all sitting in the bomb bay sharing a few spliffs and talking about there experiences. It freaked me out for a bit who was flying the plane but they said George was at the controls, so i chilled a bit and snorted a line with Withers, off the back of Bongani, (whom i think had died a few hours previously, but i wasn't sure, or cared). The rest seemed a bit hazy, with planes and noise and sudden drugged induced paralyses. But i came out of it due to the scream of the engines as we climbed over the Malvinas for the attack run, (coupled with the scream from me as an erect penis suddenly wedged up my ass from 'Bongani the untruthful',) With this, i knew my time on British Airways xm598 was cumming to a close. As we dropped our payload (and the stowaways) on the cursed Argies, i knew this experienced was the test and improvement of my life that i could learn from, and teach my children and there children, (and maybe there children?) about the lessons of never think you will amount to nothing, as life can throw a curve ball, and you are suddenly written into history for all time!! So.... if anyone's got any spare change.....?