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Vulcan74
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Vulcan Upside down!!

Post by Vulcan74 » Sat Dec 15, 2018 8:35 pm

Remember seeing a Vulcan climbing up from Scampton in the 70's over Lincoln, and seeing the camouflage underneath and thinking for one moment it was flying upside down!!

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Mike
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Re: Vulcan Upside down!!

Post by Mike » Sat Dec 15, 2018 8:41 pm

That's amazing, was it XH558?
This season, I'll be mostly wearing........A THONG!

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Re: Vulcan Upside down!!

Post by Vulcan74 » Sat Dec 15, 2018 9:07 pm

I don't know, but learned later that they used it for the Giant Voice/ Red Flag 77-79.

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Re: Vulcan Upside down!!

Post by Mike » Sat Dec 15, 2018 9:56 pm

Vulcan74 wrote:
Sat Dec 15, 2018 9:07 pm
I don't know, but learned later that they used it for the Giant Voice/ Red Flag 77-79.
Most of the Vulcan fleet at that time had camouflage on their undersides.
This season, I'll be mostly wearing........A THONG!

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Re: Vulcan Upside down!!

Post by NAM Updater » Sun Dec 16, 2018 12:36 pm

Back in 1977 I was on a museum visit to RAF Waddington and managed to photograph XM607 in the wrap around 'desert' scheme that was specially applied for that year's Red Flag Exercise - as I recall at that time it was unique to the Vulcans in the Waddington fleet and we were not meant to photograph it!

I had an interesting chat about those markings with Vulcan author Craig Bulman at one of Newark's V-Force reunion events.

I've just added a low-res scan to my Twitter timeline: https://twitter.com/DTEPHoward/status/1 ... 8074145793 :ninja:
Howard Heeley - Newark Air Museum Trustee
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Re: Vulcan Upside down!!

Post by Vulcan74 » Sun Dec 16, 2018 2:13 pm

I have seen a video when the Vulcans participated in Red Flag 77, flying low level through the mountains.

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