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37558
The British Rail Class 37 is a diesel-electric locomotive that was built by English Electric at the Vulcan Foundry. T...
26 January 2024
XM605
Sometime ago, while casually looking in my flying log book for entries involving XH558, a very similar Vulcan tail nu...
29 September 2023
Sean Dad
Well-known and highly respected air show commentator Seán Maffett became synonymous with Vulcan displays and indeed w...
23 August 2023
Avro_Lancaster_Bomber
Barnes Wallis The concept for the Dambusters raid was first proposed early in World War II by aeronauti...
31 March 2023
558 and Lancaster
With funds once again depleted XH558 had to sit patiently in her hangar after her all too brief taste of freedom. It ...
28 October 2022
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Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown is credited with over 2,400 carrier landings (no one else has come close) as well as be...
8 March 2022
v-bombers
Research into delta-wing aircraft had also been conducted by the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) at Farnborough, a...
20 December 2021
Roy Chadwick
With the dawning of the atomic age in August 1945, it was obvious to military strategists that any future bomber to d...
25 November 2021
Avro-Vulcan-rear-crew-positions
Vulcan to the Sky volunteer Geoff Higley, who lives in Grantham, was in the airforce for 20 years as a navi...
29 July 2021
XA899
On 4 February 1955, the first production Vulcan B.1, XA889, made its maiden flight, flying with the original Vulcan w...
29 January 2021