Avro Vulcan Near-crash Landing

25 Responses to “Avro Vulcan Near-crash Landing”

1. tweetingsparrow says on: 5 January 2010 at 3:05 pm

   Apparently he got it on the ground without too much kerfuffle, was repaired and flew back to England eventually.
2. schlusselmensch says on: 5 January 2010 at 3:45 pm

   I reckon the next landing was not “remarkably free of hurt” or expense LOL.
3. tweetingsparrow says on: 5 January 2010 at 4:40 pm

   Maybe so, but you have to announce he done pretty well to keep it moving and up in the air over again.
4. tweetingsparrow says on: 5 January 2010 at 5:17 pm

   Yeah i guess a few people would have gone home ponging. I see that over the weekend there was a 50 year celebration of the airport opening, would have been excellent to visit if possible, be some fascinating shots on show.
5. 4OSouth says on: 5 January 2010 at 5:47 pm

   My elderly 91 year-ancient cousin only told me just yesterday that he got sprayed with kerosene made by that bomber. Apparently he was not the only one to be sodden with it that day.
6. geoac says on: 5 January 2010 at 6:12 pm

   Dodgy flying I would reckon!! No doubt the Pilot got a reaming after that!!
7. tweetingsparrow says on: 5 January 2010 at 6:41 pm

   Somewhere that rings a bell. Don’t know if it was this show or not but possible, I might have to check the full-length video at some point.
8. 64TrueKiwi says on: 5 January 2010 at 7:29 pm

   I judge a small sunderland of the RNZAF also had problems after it’s hull struck the runway during a flyby at the same event.
9. pulsejet1 says on: 5 January 2010 at 8:07 pm

   A excellent part of a pilot’s skill but is recognizing a terrible situation and being able to get out of it. Whether the problem was his mistake or something else.

   A excellent number of pilot’s don’t realize their own mistakes or they ignore them until it is too late.
10. xoio says on: 5 January 2010 at 8:56 pm

    I like how the comentator is ‘praising’ the pilots skills etc .. when he really ‘F*cked up in the first place!
11. tweetingsparrow says on: 5 January 2010 at 9:26 pm

    Yes it is bumpy at the best of times, I’ve been across a few times recently and last Friday in a Caravan was fun. They seem to have canned the 767′s a while ago, I guess due to economics and passenger demand, but some people around must have flown on the 747-SP’s when they did their thing. Went and watched them myself when younger.
12. NZWolf2 says on: 5 January 2010 at 9:53 pm

    Wellington airport is notorious for cross winds, and ‘fascinating’ landings. Last year, an aircraft was flipped over when it was on the runway. Even even if it is an international airport, the 747′s and A380 would never land here as the runway’s too small.
13. XTR3M3uk247 says on: 5 January 2010 at 10:07 pm

    The RAF don’t need a nuclear bomber’s since the Royal Navy are in charge of nuke’s if one was ever going to be used.
14. wba95x says on: 5 January 2010 at 10:11 pm

    Excellent question, I reckon since we are allies with America we don’t feel the need to invest in them when they have B52′s that we can use. To be honest I reckon that they should never of scrapped the Vulcan, it’s a splendid aircraft.
15. tweetingsparrow says on: 5 January 2010 at 10:58 pm

    Really do the RAF have any nuke bombers? I guess some of the strike aircraft are nuke capable.
16. wba95x says on: 5 January 2010 at 11:07 pm

    sorry i was surveillance it with no sound… now i know whats going on lol
17. wba95x says on: 5 January 2010 at 11:34 pm

    nahh they only have one flying at the moment and and it isnt owned by the RAF… its owned by Vulcan to the sky trust. They were mostly scrapped after the cold war.
18. foxy123ok says on: 6 January 2010 at 12:28 am

    it right that the vulcan is still the RAF nuclear bomber?
19. tweetingsparrow says on: 6 January 2010 at 1:07 am

    Crosswinds???
20. wba95x says on: 6 January 2010 at 1:23 am

    might just be some crosswinds
21. tweetingsparrow says on: 6 January 2010 at 1:29 am

    There must’ve been a few of them come to grief around the world then. Guess it happens to a lot of military craft even if.
22. airraideagle says on: 6 January 2010 at 2:07 am

    My member of the clergy saw the Vulcan that crashed
    into a landfill near Glenview Naval Air Station
    in Illinois (near Chicago) in 1978.
23. tweetingsparrow says on: 6 January 2010 at 2:29 am

    Bloody hell! You wouldn’t know weather to be fascinated or terrified. DVD sounds a go, I have a honest bit of stuff on VHS but it drops some feature when digitising.
24. wynmead says on: 6 January 2010 at 2:32 am

    A friend has just given me a DVD full of National Film Unit archives including all of this footage and more, from the opening of the Wellington Airport extensions in 1959. I was surveillance from a nearby hill. My sister was sprayed with jet fuel!
25. tweetingsparrow says on: 6 January 2010 at 3:24 am

    Thanks for that, curious to know where you got the pics. Air force crew or journos? I have the vaguest recollection of seeing a newspaper article from the time, probably one my member of the clergy had kept but I expect it would have got chucked at some point while having one of his mad periodic clean-ups.
    This and the Vampire are flogged off a video I got some time ago on historic NZ aviation, I have been importance to post more from it for ages but just don’t seem to get the opportunity.