And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Less than ten years after first flight, rendered obsolete by the USN Polaris. Brought back to service in the Falkland war.
The Vulcan is indeed a fantasic aircraft. Watching a takeoff is awe inspiring. She's larger than she looks. The bottom of the wing is over eight feet above the ground.
There was one and maybe two, at McGuire AFB in NJ during the run-up to the Brits taking The Falklands back from the Argentines. I saw one do a demo flight at the air show they used to have around Veterans day. I was accompanied by my hot Italian girlfriend at the time. Good times, good times.
Those Vulcans were so neat looking.
ReplyDeleteLess than ten years after first flight, rendered obsolete by the USN Polaris. Brought back to service in the Falkland war.
ReplyDeleteThe Vulcan is indeed a fantasic aircraft. Watching a takeoff is awe inspiring. She's larger than she looks. The bottom of the wing is over eight feet above the ground.
"Less than ten years after first flight, rendered obsolete by the USN Polaris."
DeleteObsolete?!? Natzsofast:
1) Launch that Polaris.
2) Now let's see you recall it, no harm, no foul.
...
QED
Nuclear Triad FTW.
They used to stop by Offutt AFB every once in a while in the mid-80's. Always tried to be outside when they took off.
ReplyDeleteNot to mention having a starring role in the movie Thunderball.
According to the webpage of the SAC museum, the Vulcan's last flight at Offutt was June 1982.
DeleteAlso, service ceiling of the Vulcan was 55,000. That's higher than I thought. Not bad for a bomber first flown in 1952.
Sacmuseum.org
yep. ole James Bond and all.
ReplyDeleteDespite what they were designed to do, still one of the most beautiful and graceful examples of flying craft every built.
ReplyDeleteAnd used for the testbed for Concorde's engines.
ReplyDeleteOne was star of the show at the 1983 Carswell AFB airshow. I was there.
ReplyDeleteThere was one and maybe two, at McGuire AFB in NJ during the run-up to the Brits taking The Falklands back from the Argentines. I saw one do a demo flight at the air show they used to have around Veterans day. I was accompanied by my hot Italian girlfriend at the time. Good times, good times.
ReplyDeleteA measure of just how far Britain has fallen, all the way to irrelevance and fecklessness.
ReplyDeleteVery true.
DeleteWhich one of those gentlemen was responsible for the tea?
ReplyDeleteKlaus