Vulcan to the Sky prosjektet lever videre - VTTS video

XH558 Farnborough 2010 - Foto: Per Gram

Sjekk de utrolige dårlige arbeidsforholdene i cockpit i denne videoen tatt på Duxford Air Show i 2014, året før XH558 ble satt på bakken, igjen: https://tinyurl.com/2p8njnhr 

Why Vulcan to the Sky and XH558 matter to Doncaster - Steve Liddle XH558 was the Royal Air Force's last flying Vulcan, retired in 1992 and returned to the air by VTST in 2007. Until her final grounding in 2015, she was seen and enjoyed by millions.

Vulcan Monthly Newsletter 28 January 2022

From 2011 onwards, XH558 operated from Doncaster Sheffield Airport - her former home base of RAF Finningley. With her massive profile, she helped to raise awareness of a lightly used but very high potential regional airport. The long runway was built specifically for Vulcan ops by the RAF

Her beauty was an incidental benefit of her design, for a global one in which Doncaster played a part. In October 1962, it is generally considered that nuclear war was closer than ever before or since. These 4 Vulcans are at Finningley around this time, ready to launch on QRA.

 

 

When the V-Force was at its most important and entirely shouldering the UK nuclear deterrent in the 1960s, all Vulcan aircrew trained at Finningley. Doncaster played a vital role in the safety and security of the UK. In this 1965 image of Finningley,

The V-bombers - Vulcan, Valiant and Victor