Sometime ago, while casually looking in my flying log book for entries involving XH558, a very similar Vulcan tail nu...
29 September 2023
Well-known and highly respected air show commentator Seán Maffett became synonymous with Vulcan displays and indeed w...
23 August 2023
Valiant Bomber 249 Squadron.
Ejection Seat chain of events.
I completed Boy Entrant training as an armourer...
28 September 2022
On 4 October 1957, the Soviet Union began the Space Age by launching Sputnik 1. It was the world’s first artificial s...
23 June 2022
From the time of their arrival into service at the Operational Conversion Unit (OCU), all the Vulcans were painted si...
27 January 2022
In March 1959 I was posted to Headquarters Bomber Command (HWBC) at High Wycombe. At the time I was a Flight Lieutena...
27 January 2022
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
William Penney, the man in charge of Britain’s bomb design, William Cook, his deputy, and the scientists at the Atomi...
29 October 2021
It was a bright, sunny day at the Wroughton Airshow, the day Dr Robert Pleming first laid eyes on Vulcan XH558 in the...
26 February 2021