...its gone out over Twitter - XH558 is going on a season's end tour of factory sites (contributing to the original Vulcan prototype, first flight 60 years and a month ago)
Birmingham contributed... tyres so we get a visit... take off from Doncaster was reported at 15:00 so I made a mad dash across town to be greeted by
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| 1000+ folks waiting at the N end of our airport runway and a rather confused security man in a Land-rover |
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| The airport goes very quiet - a pause in the scheduled takeoffs and then... "I can hear it coming" |
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| There is it! |
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| Not exactly a Stealth Bomber - but named after the Roman God of Fire and Destruction* |
*according to
Wikipedia at least - I always preferred to think of Vulcan as a blacksmith/forgemaster
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| A big wing waggle for the crowd |
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| and a very low pass |
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| and it is goodbye |
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| and off to Wolverhampton |
Worth every penny of the £15000 in fuel it took for today's tour - in the time it took me to get from one side of 3 to the other XH558 managed 1-2-3 - you can donate
here
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| Twitter feed - ran about 2 minutes behind |
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