[Sussex] OT - Vulcan to fly again....

[Stephen Williams]

On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 16:48 +0100, Colin Pickard wrote:
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> I found it fascinating, and had to send it my Dad, who retains a
> fondness for Vulcans since working for Hawkey-Siddeley (and later BAe)
> in a building beside a runway from where Vulcans used to take off
> vertically and very loudly.  The resulting hearing trouble has now has
> not dimished this!
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> Of perhaps more interest, he also worked on the afore-mentioned
> Nimrods, and has a small claim to fame as one of probably only two
> people to have played noughts and crosses on the big tactical radar
> thingy screens on board a Nimrod - probably one of the Nimrod MR2s
> like the one that crashed near Kandahar on Saturday.
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> Of course, hacking on a multi-million pound state of the art military
> system back in the 70s is only really bragging rights in select
> company!  But it cerrtainly impressed me a small child.

Similarly, flying an expensive, noisy high performance aircraft, on your
own, almost all at low level (250 ft radio altitude), with some
pyrotechnics (1,000lb HE retard bombs, 30mm HE Cannon, various less
exciting practice munitions etc.), completely legally and all at the
taxpayer's expense was a huge grin inducer for a hot-headed 23 year old.

Steve W.

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> Colin 
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