Wonderful Vulcan bomber .......

[Ann]

I saw the Vulcan bomber today fly almost over us, I think it was going back to base from the Bournemouth air show. The video is an old one from YouTube as I sadly didn't have my camera with me today :(
What a great aircraft it is ....... hope it keeps getting the funding to keep it flying.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VECwLl06ik0

[Ann]

Gosh - now we are more excited than ever :)))Just seen it again, two days running, how lucky is that? The Vulcan has just flown directly over our garden, the lowest I have ever seen any aircraft go over - it was just amazing. On the way home from the Bournemouth air show I would think. Yesterday I had a view of it from a distance but today it was like our own personal flypast, luckily hubby was home to see it too, we were like two big kids jumping up and down on our lawn shouting "O WOW - best we've ever seen it" and of course it flies so slow we had a long view too. Of course Ann didn't have her camera to hand :(
Sqad - we've spoken before about Wooodhall Spa, you were really lucky listening to the speaker, bet that was very interesting.
Em - I agree with you that it is most preferable to seeing aircraft flying than on the ground to look round in a hangar or at a show.
Its made our day (a flypast for our 44th wedding anniversary next Friday!!!)

[Ann]

Now a Spitfire has just gone over too ...................

[josaphine32]

I saw it last night coming over long crendon (buckinghamshire) It was very loud but going very very slow, I didn't know what it was till i read this post,

[Zeuhl]

The Vulcan flew almost overhead here yesterday about 4.00 pm

It was following the coast eastwards heading for the Shoreham Air Show which is just a few miles away.

A magnificent looking aircraft and not as loud as I thought it might be.

[Ann]

The Spitfire is doing a flypast 4.30pm at Burghley House in Rutland.

[albaqwerty]

Ann, I would just like to thank you for posting that link.
Air Shows with 'real' aircraft are wonderful to see and hear.
I was dragged to a few in my younger years but grew to appreciate them.

[Ann]

Always a pleasure albaqwerty to post videos and posts about our favourite subjects, we love aircraft in this house and race to the back door if we hear one coming!

[hellywelly4]

When we lived in Oakham in 1966/8 the Vulcans used to fly over our house when they were doing what I think they called 'circuits and bumps', taking off and landing. They were based at Cottesmore. Unfortunately one of them went in in the summer of 1968 and all the station had to go arm in arm all across the fields to find whatever they could. It upset my husband for a long time.
There is something wonderful about them, and I know my husband would have got involved with the group that rebuilt this one if he had been able.

[craft1948]

I remember as a child in the late 50's being taken to an airshow by my parents. My father had been a rear gunner in the RAF during the war and was fascinated by planes. I was bored silly until the Vulcan flew over, I just thought...................wow.