THE VULCAN LIVES ON! | Vulcan run @ London Southend Airport

[@lukuss_Flies]

First full video on my new channel and I did not expect it to blow up like this! Thanks so much! Subscribe and i'll make sure to get more content out and maybe get a closer look at the Vulcan for you

[@AmbroseB1900]

So wonderful to hear that howl again!

[@lukuss_Flies]

It will never get old

[@ChoppingtonOtter]

Really gives you the tingles.

[@canadianintheukbrian]

I heard that howl 10 years ago when it flew over our town , what a sight what a sound , that howl, it still looks like it could fly today but it would take a small fortune to bring these planes to the modern age though the B-52 I believe is from the same era , , and still doing the job

[@brentsummers7377]

Only 11 years separated the first flight of the Lancaster and the Vulcan. Quite amazing really.

[@lukuss_Flies]

Things progressed real fast

[@ahorton6786]

That’s amazing!!

[@79blustone]

It's actually 15 years apart from their first official flights from development

[@ChrisA-y4k]

I was working at Southend airport and stood at the end of the runway and watched her fly in! I never thought I would see her taxi in 2024, an amazing job by the engineers to keep the airframe looking so good and to keep those fabulous engines running all these years later.

[@lukuss_Flies]

I bet that was a sight to see!

[@neil1150]

@@lukuss_Flies It certainly was, I worked in the little ind estate next to aviation way, I stood out in what was the old potato field (now airport) opposite and watched the complete show, it was fantastic, and no less memorable all these years later. A day never to be forgotten.

[@chrisst8922]

Full marks too to London Southend Airport. I hope they're really proud of her.

[@jfro5867]

Have watched the Vulcan flying many times (Lincolnshire), it’s an awesome plane, and the sound is spine tingling.

[@Chris_L.]

Such a gorgeous aircraft!

[@neilfoster814]

What a wonderful sight! I'm old enough to remember the 8 ship 'Vulcan Scrambles' at RAF Waddington, now that WAS a sight to see. Announcer: "Ladies and gentlemen, on your left, the Avro Vulcan" Vulcan "WooooooOOOOOOOOOO!"

[@chriscwharris]

Loved seeing the Vulcan fly again, shame it's now grounded but pleased to see 426 roar for us!

[@alanh7495]

You can't beat that spooky sounding Olympus howl

[@lukuss_Flies]

Absolutely not!

[@tsd550]

Great effort and workmanship by all involved. Thanks for uploading this for others to see, your video is much appreciated.

[@lukuss_Flies]

Thank you, the restoration team have kept her gleaming for years for us

[@heatherbea]

Loved watching the Vulcans at Finningley when I was kid😢

[@ktreier]

At age 5 I lived right under the approach flight path to Finningly. Loved watching the Vulcans come over.

[@mikeharrington5593]

The Vulcan force's final flourish was an unheralded but spectacular low level formation flypast over the Group HQ at Bawtry Hall.

[@randlerobbertson8792]

Wonderful to see, and of course, hear.❤❤❤❤❤

[@brianingarfill1773]

Many thanks for the great video and commentary, I had no idea that there is a running Vulcan at Southend, how awesome!!!

[@lukuss_Flies]

Thanks, yep she's been doing taxi runs for years and luckily seam to be getting more frequent atleast for me anyway

[@TornadoLuigi]

Really nice video of a stunning aircraft with a nice looking sky in the background.

[@lukuss_Flies]

Silhouette of the vulcan passing the sunset hits different!

[@TornadoLuigi]

@lukuss_Flies There is something special about the shape of the Vulcan. It is my favourite aircraft and I would love to see one flying again. Seeing(and hearing!) one doing a high speed taxi is the next best thing.

[@Psychonaut1974]

Such a beautiful aircraft. When i was young/kid i used to go to every airshow i could here in Sweden, and i've always been fascinated by British aircrafts! They are usually very unique, like the Fairey Gannet, Sea Vixen, Buccaneer and the Lightning for example. Very nice video! :) 👍😃✈

[@alannewman85]

I do just love the sound of those jets!!!!

[@paulsotheron710]

Excellent. A fantastic aircraft. Way ahead of its time.

[@petersp63]

Remember seeing and Hearing! these Beauties in the Sky as a Kid! love to see them fly again!

[@IS-L]

Having served at Scamton, it’s a sound thrives with me. She was on 27 when I saw her last.

[@lukuss_Flies]

Amazing to hear!

[@andrewnewby1918]

Love The Vulcan howl. Great displays at RAF Mildenhall the Vulcan was always a highlight 😊

[@RokoWoju]

sadly this will never happen

[@mipamat5804]

In 1968 I was working in RAF Luqa (Malta) when a flight of these beast performed a QRF take-off, the noise was breath taking! This was followed in the early 70's in Germany at the Krefeld 600 year celebrations when one of the Vulcans performed a couple of gentle fly-passes, then pilot stood her on her tail under full max power and went near vertical. These are two never-to-be-forgoten scenes even after 55 years.

[@mike130557]

Boeing still maintains the B52 aircraft, still manufacturing replacement parts, and still has engineers trained to work on these dinosaurs. The Vulcan, retired from service, decades ago, any parts would be old stock, if they can be found at all, and the people who know how to maintain these aircraft are either retired or dead. To get this Vulcan back into the sky would take a complete nut and bolt dismantling and rebuild. Any parts not now available would need to be re-manufactured, which would incur an astronomical cost.

[@lukuss_Flies]

Would be worth it though no? 😄

[@tectorama]

Even if an absolute fortune was spent getting her in perfect flying condition XL426 wouldn't get permission to fly.

[@waynesmith1273]

WHY wouldn't this jet be given permission to fly if she was airworthy ?​@@tectorama

[@stevecurd3944]

beautiful,great work by all the team,i loved watching Vulcan & Victor displays at Mildenhall Airfete's back in the 70's & 80's & that beautiful howl through the engine air intakes WOW

[@pauldesmond5910]

Took my two lads to see the iconic Vulcan at Farnborough about 20 years ago. Turned out to be a good move as they both now fly the Typhoon out of Lossiemouth.

[@lukuss_Flies]

Incredible

[@NeilT3485]

I used to guard these at Scampton and Waddington. I live near Southend. Thanks for sharing

[@lukuss_Flies]

Very welcome

[@Deepthought-42]

Sad they can keep B52s in service but we can’t keep a Vulcan flying. There should be government funding for this.

[@lukuss_Flies]

So true.. but that's America VS UK for you. Americans and their military and government. Our government don't care

[@owencarlstrand1945]

@@lukuss_FliesBut B52s are operational so keeping them going is a whole different ballgame from keeping one or two preserved aircraft flying. For a start Boeing keeps the whole support infrastructure going because it’s economically viable.

[@classicraceruk1337]

B52’s are still in service with the US. The Vulcan is not in service. It’s pretty simple.

[@markstewart7559]

Avro Vulcans have run out of flying hours on their airframe so can’t licence or insure them to fly, as I understand it.

[@Olleetheowl]

@@classicraceruk1337so…no historical preservation then. Do you want to scrap the B.B.M.F?

[@colinmiller8361]

Saw a Vulcan fly at the Culdrose air show in Cornwall late 70's early 80's. Never will forget how mobile she was when flying. At one point in the display she flew directly over our house with the bomb doors open. What a sound. Was going to say noise but it isn't, it's a sound that should be heard for as long as possible.

[@edwardhammond5582]

I saw a Vulcan during its world tour when I was a little kid. It has been my privilege to see and hear her flying 5 times since.

[@wcatfn7928]

Love this aircraft. I was a teenager 40-something years ago when I first saw two of these, in formation, that were touring the UK and passed very low (or were they just SO big?) over our school on approach for a quick stop at Liverpool airport. The sight was breathtaking, they were HUGE! but so graceful and accompanied by a howl from the engines that just sounds awesome. Their participation in the falklands was a bit of a contrivance as, with less drama, the Harriers in theatre could have achieved the same or better airfield denial operations, however the _message_ they sent was loud and clear - 'From the UK; you are touchable!'.

[@surreyboy84]

Saw the Vulcan flying a couple of times at Farnborough & Eastbourne.

[@tace44]

Great footage of a beautiful aircraft! thanks for posting!

[@Juraberg]

Great! The legend lives on. What a charismatic plane. 😎

[@odysseusreturns9133]

I thought we heard the last of that magical sound, that characteristic howl of those Rolls Royce Olympus engines when the last flying Vulcan was grounded a few years ago. I'm so glad that this example will continue to thrill us with her unique song.

[@aethellstan]

one of the greatest planes ever built.

[@nigelwells1643]

Thanks for the video. Great to see it active again. I hope there are plans to make one of them airworthy again.

[@malcolmstockbridge2569]

XH558 was still airworthy but its the running costs that are the problem so unlikely any will fly again. I believe basic costs about 7 years ago were over a million a year, airshows dont produce enough income for it.

[@mariebaxter473]

Once seen never forgotten , Dad was in the RAF , so got to see it overhead a couple of times as a kid.

[@lukuss_Flies]

Nice

[@joereedsmith1531]

Thanks very much I will watch The Dambusters right now! Subbed.

[@ivorbexon4030]

The Vulcan was the iconic British Aircraft ahead of its time. 558 last flight came within 1/4 of a mile of me, it was beautiful to see tears in my eyes.

[@kranson8514]

Such a shame not to seeing the vulcan fly, remembering many airshows and as one of the highlights. Their take off into a quick climb, filling everyone there with the immense raw and vibration of its engines. Then only when it had climbed far enough away, you were consumed by a hundred or so car alarms that had been set off Hilarious . I remember the last time I saw it fly, just happened to be on an activity gift day. climbing a twenty plus foot outdoor wall being abruptly told by the instructor to pay attention to the wall, and not point at the Vulcan passing roughly a thousand feet near us. It just deserves our attention hopefully always will. Great video even the arty sunsets silhouettes👍

[@robertp.wainman4094]

I remember 'Vulcan Scrambles' at RAF Finningley 'At Home Day' airshows - on the Red Alert siren aircrews would run to the planes which were rapid started and within two minutes four mighty Vulcans were airborne........I've never heard or felt anything so loud!

[@Design_no]

As an Aussie I was lucky enough to be at Fairford in 2015.

[@SuperBarnaby12]

So was i. It was a memorable sight I will never forget..

[@OllieTattersall]

A number of years ago I got to go in the cockpit of XL426 on an open day at Southend. It's always been said it was cramped, but you just don't realise just how cramped until you step inside. Amazing how the crews undertook the Black Buck missions in these. Also recall being told to press a button on a "pen" on the end of a hose. Was then told that would have released a nuclear bomb. Humbling stuff.

[@lukuss_Flies]

Stuff like that is so spooky... closest I've been is a walk around it a couple times

[@fredtedstedman]

this is pretty nice to see her taxying so close ! I was lucky enough to see 588 fly at Cosford . ( also Farnborough when I was a kid saw Vulcans and Victors fly !)

[@BaronFlyingClub]

I do enjoy flying my Vulcan in VR now and then.

[@LisaViner]

Best plane ever she should be so proud of what she has done for us in the past ❤❤ I love the Vulcan ❤

[@CauliflowerMcPugg]

I started my flying lessons at the club where the Vulcan lives back in the late 90s. I then moved to NZ in 99, so it's very pleasing to she is still alive and well all these years later. 🇳🇿

[@lukuss_Flies]

My dad did the same so it was always nice sitting in the club house bar staring at it parked up whilst he was out doing circuits

[@JTV84]

my daughter was born in 2015 and i made sure she saw and heard a vulcan even if she doesn't remember it. we watched XH558 take off from finningley. it was about 1000ft up by the end of the runway. june 28th 2015.

[@Grandabadeen]

Such a great sound

[@stuarthayward458]

Great video. I was there and thoroughly enjoyed seeing her first run of the year. Sadly, I couldn't make the last one. Great to look back on this though.

[@barryporteous4904]

Nice sunset shots!

[@lukuss_Flies]

Thanks, it's now my desktop background

[@philelliott3683]

Such a beauty…. Love that howl❤❤❤

[@gregorydobson4307]

Great video footage, i remember seeing the last vulcan at finingley and after that the vulcan return to the sky for maybe a couple of years. Mis these aircraft massively, you cant keep them all going as its all down to the airframe unfortunately 😢

[@spiritualdeath101]

They used to fly low [1,000ft ish] over my home in the late 70s when I was a kid. We were north of Biggin and they'd loiter over us before their flypast. They didn't shatter any windows but it must have been close. It is Concorde-loud. Which is absolutely deafening. I'd like to see the B1-B - it must be similar. At the time, Motorhead was popular, serene, gentle music - compared to the Vulcan.

[@ExtinctAirplane]

Thats awesome, never thought id see a vulcan move again 😅

[@Steve-Cross]

How much would it take to get her flying again? Definitely one of the most beautiful aircraft to take to the skies. Power and grace in one package. 👍

[@lukuss_Flies]

A few more seconds of power and a slight pull back on the stick

[@malcolmstockbridge2569]

If you mean cost....XH558 in its last few years cost over a million pounds per year just to keep it airworthy....the real problem was the loss of people skills, nobody trains for these things anymore obviously.

[@Steve-Cross]

@ I am pretty sure people don’t train to work on even older aircraft, but keep them flying. I’m sure airframe Fitters could work on anything. The hydraulics and engines are basically the same on most modern aircraft. I would think it’s the parts that are difficult to find. It is the same with the remaining Concords. They were all serviceable and airworthy, when they made their last flight. Many of them had been fully overhauled, to put them back into service, after the Paris disaster. Yet we don’t have a single flying example. That is tragic. 😢

[@RichardS-qh8mi]

Honestly thought I was seeing things😳 - bloody magnificent!😁

[@lukuss_Flies]

Always a great site

[@krislake9790]

Thank you!

[@javidjames3319]

A good video 👍 In the 60s as a 6 yr old from our back garden at Finningly ( the runway was behind ) I could watch these landing and taking off all day . The downside to this however was circuits at night doing touch and go the metal windows frames would shake the glass . Happy days .

[@lukuss_Flies]

I envy that you had a house like that 😅

[@steverees9482]

558 I new well as I worked at bruntingthorp when it was stationed there and seen her many times in the air also got a display of are own over Ross few years back

[@alannewman85]

That surely has to be the absolute Mother of all restoration efforts! Where do you get parts? Who signs off on it? Who’s current in flying it? Who insures it?? Well done all.

[@paulgardener5525]

Good to see and hear once again.😁

[@lukuss_Flies]

Always a welcome sound

[@davyroberts6019]

The government never back the military look at the homeless, BBMC is nothing to do with the gov, great to see these butiyful birds again thanks to the man who vidio it brings back memories...

[@cheekiex]

Beautiful aircraft

[@lukuss_Flies]

One of the best

[@crs9796]

British humans designed and built that fabulous aircraft.. and it can fly..... I mess up beans on toast....

[@victorhodgson8767]

It was THE ultimate crowd puller / pleaser at any airshow, The engines howl , and steep takeoff with a halfroll. 😳. Sadly missed.

[@lukuss_Flies]

Farnborough airshow 😌

[@victorhodgson8767]

@ indeed has, but essentially ANY airshow, I was fortunate to watch it a number of times at Leuchars Battle of Britain air display.

[@peanuts2105]

That intake sound generated by the intake panels vibrating harmonics

[@johnnymac26]

Brilliant footage mate my fave great work big like and sub

[@lukuss_Flies]

Thanks a lot!

[@MrPlanetthanet]

It must be so tempting to pull back that stick on the fast run

[@Yorkshiremadmick]

Love this Plane Awesome ❤

[@lukuss_Flies]

Likewise! Thanks

[@DerekLangdon-w9e]

@@lukuss_Flies Orgasmic wasn’t it….Accelerate a couple of hundred yards down the runway, then brake hard! …..I wonder if they will show anything else as exciting as this? Maybe an English electric lighting powering up it’s engines….Or, to cap it all a Sopwith Camel doing it’s customary rock n’ roll while gunning its engine.

[@lewiskemp5893]

I have always loved this plane since I saw it in a James Bond film

[@philbedford8979]

Just heard today that Doncaster/Sheffield airport could be saved,this is the home of 558 so hopefully we'll see her taxiing again soon!

[@lukuss_Flies]

Hopefully!

[@PeterClark-h3t]

How much would a composite Vulcan cost with off the shelf commercial jets?

[@josephmarkey9096]

The only jet to get even louder when its far away!

[@DesmondsDonders]

Cannot beat that howl

[@Don_ECHOguy]

That is an awesome aircraft with great ability for it's time and also back in the day it was almost criminal that Canada could not even save one of it's Avro Arrow's for this type of display.

[@meertenwelleman4600]

Enjoyed it nevertheless! Thanks.

[@8008312]

Great video. Last saw XL426 at RAF Gan Maldive Islands 1972.

[@lukuss_Flies]

Wow

[@20121961]

Fabulous! Such a shame it can't be allowed to fly again.

[@cheekiex]

Great video thank you

[@lukuss_Flies]

Thank you

[@tomkelly6216]

That beauty needs to fly!

[@lukuss_Flies]

She definitely wants to

[@chrismitchell3283]

When Britain still knew how to build great aircraft.. and were allowed to.

[@lukuss_Flies]

Imagine the EU emissions regulations nowadays with a vulcan... they cry over a car

[@RcScaleTales]

Great video

[@lukuss_Flies]

Thanks

[@XLbullyZeus]

Why did they withdraw this plane from service so early? Such an iconic machine and that howl is unreal especially through earphones with reduced background noise my god

[@fallinginthed33p]

0:09 Nothing like a howl to start a video. Hopefully she can take to the skies again one day.

[@bobmartin7399]

The Dambusters operated from RAF Scampton during WW2, not Marham.

[@lukuss_Flies]

Ahh thank you! From all the stuff I've read it said Marham unless I just got mixed up with Marham for the Vulcan

[@bobmartin7399]

@@lukuss_Flies Marham never saw Vulcans; when I was stationed there in the early sixties there were 3 Valiant squadrons.

[@davewilson7565]

What a plane awesome

[@thestrum71]

"I am Olympus and it's too late for you now... "

[@miketaylor1916]

I wouldn’t be able to throttle back. Id just give it the beans 😂

[@chrislampard7170]

Very evocarive, thanks. What was the actual date of this run ?

[@lukuss_Flies]

Sometime last summer, can't recall the exact date

[@Lets_Go_Brandon2024]

Was this the Vulcan that overran the runway a few years ago??

[@lukuss_Flies]

No that was XM655 at Wellesbourne Mountford airfield up near Stratford upon Avon

[@Lets_Go_Brandon2024]

@lukuss_Flies - Ah ok, thanks. Hopefully that one gets repaired too

[@bettyourcampervan]

Class 👍

[@minigun1949]

A stunning & bwautiful aircraft, & British to the core A*****

[@theloneranger2101]

I really wonder just how much it would cost to get this Magnificent Aircraft airworthy again? This Vulcan needs to fly again, where it was meant to be!

[@lukuss_Flies]

10s of millions I bet

[@malcolmstockbridge2569]

@@lukuss_Flies XH558 cost over a million a year just to keep it airworthy without other running costs, the biggest issue was the loss of people skills over time.

[@djphilmanns]

So it’s fully operational. I’m guessing it’s just red tape that forbids it from being flown again?

[@malcolmstockbridge2569]

Massive difference between runway and in the air, its not airworthy as far as I know....but yes, red tape too:)

[@peterbackhouse8650]

Being old enough to see them flying whilst in service (XH558) first flew in the year I was born, 1960. And also working at RAF Finningley while it was been flown to shows for it's last few years (XH558) To me it's now akin to a wild animal that was king of it's jungle, thats now been caged as an exhibit and only allowed to howl. 😠

[@buckshot4569]

Awesome 👍

[@leeludlowart237]

I remember when I was a kid I heard this horrible howling sound so loud and cried with fear. My dad picked me up and showed me the sky and said look it’s just a plane. I was terrified. But I miss seeing them flying over. Yet I saw a Lancaster Bomber fly over just a couple of years ago. It was an awesome sight for me but why can’t we keep the Vulcans or any of the v bombers in the air.

[@lackof548]

I’ve just lit up a big spliff.

[@Bonzman]

We live jut over a mile from London Southend Airport and when the vulcan has a taxi run we can hear that unnerving howl.

[@lukuss_Flies]

Amazing