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It was the last chance for people in Lincolnshire to see the Vulcan bomber in action on Friday. Crowds gathered at RAF Waddington to watch the Vulcan XH558, which was delivered to the base in 1960, take off and perform a special flypast. The Vulcan's engines will reach the end of their life next year and Waddington's runway will also be out of service for repairs in 2015.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-28276162 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-28276162)

I was lucky enough to see the Vulcan do a fly past at work on Friday, not a better sight in the sky. Shame to see it dissapear.
Some photos from Friday.

Wow Pat ace pics.Last time i saw that bird fly was Brands Hatch 1985.Oh yea reminds me Com on germany.

I was lucky enough to see the fantastic sight of the Vulcan at FOS this year.  ;D

Its a miss at the Sunderland Airshow. We got the Battle of Britain memorial flight this year and weather permitting I'll be watching it from the boat, camera in hand.

I love that 1st photo Bonio.  :)

Looking forward to two Lancasters at Cleethorpes air show as well.

For anyone in the Lincoln / Waddington area, XH558 will be landing at Waddington again today, Wednesday 20th @ 15:00 hrs. She is staying overnight and will be joined on the ground at Waddington at 10 am by both Lancasters for a photo shoot in front of a public parking area being set up for the event.

Both Lancasters will take off at approx 2 pm on Thursday and depart, followed by XH558  as she sets off for Clacton on Sea airshow.

Another forum says:

From the Vulcan site.

Although we can’t be exact to the actual route, there are three key places where you should catch a glimpse of the three-ship formation.

- Overhead the eastern edge of Lincoln at approx. 13:30
- Overhead RAF Coningsby at 13:45
- Overhead RAF Marham at 14:00

All times approx. and are subject to change. Watch our Twitter feed, Facebook page or App Tracker for the latest positional and timing reports.

There is also a good map of the routing
twitter.com/XH558

We're looking at slot start today of 1416 for the flypast at Marham - arriving together - of the Vulcan, with both Lancs, a Spitfire and a Hurricane; then followed by their various displays before the slot time ends at 1445. 

If in the area, then other stuff is displaying from 1200 through until 1630. 

All in support of RAF Marham Families Day, which is a station event for RAF Marham personnel and families - hence, sadly, I haven't been able to cast the net wider to get others in.       

MG Mark 

friend posted these on facebook today as he is now based at RAF Coningsby

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Very fortunate, it was a similar sight and sound at  Marham.  It was emotional....

MG Mark

Nice pictures. Thanks for posting Kev.
Glad to hear how much exposure the Lanc are getting together.
Phil

Not sure if this will work from my phone or not.

Another off the phone.

Hi Chris,
            Nice pictures. But now I have a crique in my neck  ;D ;D
Phil

There Phil, turned them round for you :-)

Hi Smokie,
              Thanks
Phil

Holy Task Force! I was out and about on Friday 'artnoon somewhere around the Haslemere part of the world when I heard this awful racket, at first I thought someone was after me with a herd of badly tuned lawnmowers then I realized the din was from above. Looking up (isn't that sooo uncomfortable these days?), and then lying down, I could hardly believe what was up there. There was 3 or maybe 4 triplanes, and what looked like a recon type biplane (lots of windows and a Sainsbury's trolley for undercarriage), and worst of all at least 3 of them were sporting German insignia. I couldn't tell from where I was, but I imagine most of Haslemere were putting on their tin hats and heading for the bunkers. I quickly phoned a friend in Berlin and asked him what the word on the streets was, but he couldn't (or wouldn't...) tell me anything. That was two days ago, and as far as I can tell Surrey isn't yet in the hands of the Hun, so maybe Haslemere's residents are back out in the daylight now, mind you, you can't be too careful though.

The planes looked fantastic!

H

Hmm, I'm not sure if I'd be flattered on insulted if someone told me I had undercarriage like a Sainsbury's trolley. I think I'd be flattered, not sure about Sainsburys though.

That'll be them Fokkers H

Them Fokkers' in their Messerschmidt's

http://www.guernseyairdisplay.com/

Today over Guernsey harbour and the Island

11.00    Battle of Britain Memorial Flight - Spitfire, Hurricane and Lancaster displaying with the Canadian Avro Lancaster
11.19    Rv8tors
11.30    T28 'Fennec'
11.36    The Blades
11.52    Pitts S2S
12.02    Strikemaster & Jet Provost
12.19    Wildcats
12.28    Tucano
12.36    Breitling Wingwalkers
12.54    Red Arrows

>Martini...LB

Hi Martini,
              I expect you needed a sit down with a Pastis after all that excitement ;D
Phil

Aircraft? Cars?

Renaultsport Club have their annual gathering tomorrow, Sunday 14th, at the RAF  :police: Museum Cosford. Loads of none too shabby Renaults in attendance along with some specials being brought along by the official Renaultsport arm. All this on the site of an outstanding aviation museum whose café serves legendary bacon sarnies.

See you there!   

http://www.vulcantothesky.org/salute-to-the-v-force-tour.html

Today and tomorrow, click on the linky for more info....

bollox....I missed it today.  :(

I'm gutted to have missed it. It would have been visible over my house if it had stuck to the route Sunderland to Boulmer. I only find out about its flight from reading on here about one hour too late.

I saw her take off from Doncaster yesterday and will be there again this afternoon to see her land.

Steve

They have a very good twitter feed which tells of take off times and routes overhead. @xh558

Very pleased to have seen her at Cosford yesterday

That Twitter feed is very useful when tracking her, I think it must be kept up to date by one of the flight crew

"We're coming in to Elvington now, give us a wave" is the sort of info it gives live

Almost makes me like Twitter


sort of...

Thanks to the crew for today's return to Doncaster. Great viewing spot halfway down the runway and a 20 minute display before landing. Fantastic to see but bittersweet.

I was round the out-laws so missed it, did anyone get any photo's of it?

Worth the time to watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBJ99bIhAVk
The longest Bomb raid in history. Airfields who needs stinking airfields  ;D  when there is no LAND just Sea.
Think of the consequences of  some of their decisions. ( Now we know it worked...but they had to decide)
Phil

I was using the Twitter feed at East Midlands and Duxford. Was funny at EMA, as you heard a beep ripple along the crowdline as the messages arrived.

It was a wonderful sight, and I will be sad to see the Vulcan grounded  again, but what a great few years extra life(http://)

Theres some great footage of the Vulcans 2 day tour on Youtube, this being one of them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scNZJBBBVts


Brings a tear to my eye..... :(

About 9 days to last flight.....

Flypasts at Gaydon this Saturday and Biggleswade on Sunday, and a farewell north and south flypast next weekend.

Then that's it folks.....

MG Mark

Lovely flypast at Coningsby yesterday, firstly a couple of solo passes, then she went off to the Petwood, then came back, with 7 Spitfires and 2 Hurricanes escorting

Channel 4 screened the documentary Guy Martin Last Flight of the Vulcan on Sunday night.

You can catch it on C4's catch-up service together with a couple of additional programmes that were not broadcast.

Aricus