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One of the coolest aircraft to come out of the post-war world had to be the U.K.'s Avro Vulcan, which flew a year before I was born in 1953! I'd love to hear the famous Rolls Royce howl someday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_ARSE8jEHQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh-9uZjg1Tg&t=538s


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Really a cool aircraft for its time.


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We had a few at Offutt AFB in the early 80's . I think I have slides
 
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This may have been posted before, but this is a great documentary on the attack on the Falklands using the Vulcan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBJ99bIhAVk
 
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YES, these are pretty amazing beasts...like a flying Sting Ray. They used to static display ad fly them at the Abbotsford BC Airshows in the 70,80's....and I have crawled around in them while on display.
We had a few land at McChord in the 66-72 timeframe I was in the Airlift Command Post...
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Offutt 1980's. bad slide conversion



http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/XM646.html
 
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Eddy, I lived in Tacoma as a kid from 1961 to 1968. Wish I had known of the Vulcan visits so I could have told Dad! We were all aircraft fanatics and I still am.


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I have bad pictures of a Vulcan in flight over Offutt but no tail number is visible. It was 6/1982. The tail number of the one on the ground was scrapped at that time so maybe scrapped means "given to the USA"
 
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