Look what I saw flying today!

[kendo65]

Saw a Vulcan many years ago at a local airshow. Very impressive. The pilot brought it down to just touch wheels on the runway, then hit full power and took her up again.

Think my ears have still to recover!

Originally Posted by ElAurens

...
Peace is not secured by laying down and letting the bad guys trample you. It is gained by making sure that the conditions for peace exist, that is by keeping the bad dogs at bay, so the good people can flourish.
...

I remember Bush (#2) making a speech round about the time of the Iraq war (#2) when he said that we had to go to war in order to maintain (the) peace.

I thought that was BS then too.

edit: What a depressing way to hit the magic 100 mark
d165w3ll: apologies for the hijacking of your thread!

[d165w3ll]

Hi Kendo, that's ok, at least you referred to the Vulcan, so back on topic.

We have been doubly lucky. The Battle of Britain flight (Spitfire and Hurricane) flew directly over our garden last weekend at I would guess 300 feet.

D165w3ll

[LukeFF]

Originally Posted by Tree_UK

This means we can save some cash and rather than spending it on misery making machines of destruction we can hopefully try and do something creative that will benefit mankind. If we do achieve this who's going to want to attack us?

So why are you then interested in a game (SOW) that depicts "misery making machines of destruction"? Wouldn't a game like Farmville be more to your liking?

Originally Posted by LukeFF

So why are you then interested in a game (SOW) that depicts "misery making machines of destruction"? Wouldn't a game like Farmville be more to your liking?

Yeah thats right LukeFF, hey u should go into comedy, you are a really funny guy, all your posts are so laughable!!

[Hunden]

Originally Posted by LukeFF

So why are you then interested in a game (SOW) that depicts "misery making machines of destruction"? Wouldn't a game like Farmville be more to your liking?

LMAO!!!!!!!!

[winny]

Originally Posted by LukeFF

So why are you then interested in a game (SOW) that depicts "misery making machines of destruction"? Wouldn't a game like Farmville be more to your liking?

I think Farmville is probably gonna upset tree.. I mean there's mass genocide of all sorts of plants, it'd be like watching all his close relatives getting butchered everytime he played it. All that pointy sharp edged farm machinery designed to mutilate his fellow plant-bretheren.. Shocking. Don't even get me started on the cabbage extraction machine, it's inhumane.

lol, you guys.....

[ATAG_Dutch]

Originally Posted by ElAurens

Sad that the only reason it still flies is that some hobbyists put it back in the air. Not sad that that they did it, just sad that your MoD has let your country's defense fall to the sad state it is in.

Now it looks like your new aircraft carriers are going to get the axe, which of course means the end of the Royal Navy in a real sense, and the cancellation of the F 35 program for the RN, leaving you with no real naval single seater capable of competing on the world stage.

An island nation that is still a major player in the world economy, and in world politics, without their own viable naval air component, and hence, no ability to project power and defend your island in an increasingly troubled world.

Your politicians are as daft as ours are.

+1

I'm English and proud of past histories, (well, some of them) but the word 'Great' in 'Great Britain' should be replaced with the word 'Bland'.
I couldn't believe us retiring the Sea Harriers before any replacement was available so that the fleet has no airborne defence bar surface to air missiles.
However, we do have the Typhoon to counter a threat that no longer exists.
What would we do if Argentina decided it wanted the Falklands after all?
That little excursion to the South Atlantic simply wouldn't be viable.
Black Buck anyone?

[Viking]

I’m with Tree on this one.

The Vulcan is an impressing piece of machinery but the overall conclusion should be: Thank heaven that we don’t live in a world that needs these weapons anymore!

Happy to say

Viking

[brando]

We were lucky enough to see the Vulcan in company with the Red Arrows at our local airshow a couple of years ago. Although the weather was less than ideal, the RAF managed to put on an excellent low level display. The sight and sound of the big V banking around at 2,000 feet, with the scarlet Hawks echeloned either side in a perfect arrow head, was a sublime, not-to-be forgotten experience.

Airshows generate good revenue down here on the holiday coast of south-west England. I enjoy my annual fix of Merlin sound when the Memorial Flight comes to town! But I'm with Tree and Viking here, in that I would regret to return to the age when the V-bombers were on perpetual stand-by with their nuclear payloads.

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