Daily reminder that Great Shitstain scrapped all these beauties.

File: Cf-105_Arrow002.jpg (348KB, 2726x1853px) Image search: [Google]

348KB, 2726x1853px

Plz remember me

File: ALARM.jpeg.jpg (388KB, 1920x1440px) Image search: [Google]

388KB, 1920x1440px

Don't forget to pour one out for one of the raddest antirad missiles out there.

>>31896613
Came to the end of their service life bruh. Still a few in Museums iirc. Last one was only just grounded.

File: l85a1.gif (2MB, 533x300px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 533x300px

>>31896613
>and they only used it once.
So, they should have gone around nuking everyone instead?

Love the sound. Like a cross between a falling bomb and a tie fighter.

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

File: CF-100s_423_Sqn.jpg (53KB, 800x412px) Image search: [Google]

53KB, 800x412px

>>31896664
I'm more of a fan of the Clunk beside it.

File: Vulcan and Tornadoes close up.jpg (2MB, 4256x2832px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 4256x2832px

>Daily reminder that Great Shitstain scrapped all these beauties.

No, they didn't at all, you fucking prat.

>>31896613
Older than the B-52, and carrying 21,000 lbs of bombs compared with 70,000. Tornados and eurofighters both carry 19,000.

Why, exactly, would it have been kept around? Half the reason the B-52 still exists is because they built so many of them they still have literally thousands of brand new engines to slap into them. The vulcan doesn't have that.

File: tumblr_n9vp3kh6QK1sfslmbo5_r1_400.gif (2MB, 383x216px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 383x216px

British cold war Aircraft make my dick hard

File: tumblr_n9vp3kh6QK1sfslmbo2_r1_400.gif (2MB, 339x191px)

2MB, 339x191px

>>31898729
They still fly at airshows every now and then

File: absolutely groundhog.jpg (39KB, 435x326px) Image search: [Google]

39KB, 435x326px

>engines embedded in the wing root

That's not true, there was the English Electric Boogaloo too.

the vulcan has to be one of the most disgusting planes ever conceived,just like the rest of the V bombers

>>31898868
>just like the rest of the V bombers
Just like 90% of British aircraft.

>>31898868
You have no taste. Be gone.

>>31898868
Agreed. Except for Victor. Victor was absolutely beautiful.

>>31898954
The Victor was a big beautiful boy. Also I know I shouldn't cause it had tons of engineering problems but I really like the Tornado.

>>31898954
Can confirm, Victor is like a giant winged insect of death.. Shame they got made into tankers.
Though I like the Vulcan too, it can do rolls n sheeeeiiiit.

File: hitchwj954a.jpg (116KB, 1024x763px) Image search: [Google]

116KB, 1024x763px

Reminder that if the RAF backed production of the Valiant B2, they'd have a plane that could fly brilliantly at low-level altitude, unlike all other variants of the V Bombers.

>>31898732
Not anymore, the last one made its final flight a while back.

File: tu-16 with ksr-5.jpg (564KB, 3000x2400px) Image search: [Google]

564KB, 3000x2400px

>>31896613
I've never understood all the hype around these britbong bombers.

>>31898954
You don't have to agree with a shitposter. He doesn't even know about the aircraft he commented on. All he has to do is take a negative stance, and use divisive language. You'll note that there are no details specific about the subject.

File: 83ea16ce2cf6e653cf2bee39fc5bf02c.jpg (2MB, 2353x1266px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 2353x1266px

Im honestly really fucking glad us amerifats didn't retire this old son of o' bitch.

First time I heard of the Vulcan was that one James Bond movie.

>>31899539
Few good docs (from British perspective of course) about British jet planes, both commercial and military

https://youtu.be/oJtzyFRy2Ko

https://youtu.be/uif1WsyeMNs

https://youtu.be/d1QONaRtww0

>>31899590
Can't wait to see that piece of shit scrapped.

File: tu-16 (1).jpg (2MB, 2840x1880px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 2840x1880px

>>31899622
This is why i still visit /k. Thanks.

>>31899590
>muh meme plane

File: IMG_20161104_154136.jpg (71KB, 1280x960px) Image search: [Google]

71KB, 1280x960px

>>31899130
:( I only saw her last year

>>31899818
sadly she'd reached her airframe service hours about 3 years ago, since then she's been going over her safety limit - XJ558 is now the airframe with the highest total flying hours of any vulcan, and the engines were pretty damn close too. there was no way to keep her in the sky.

The saddest part is that maintenance was needing people who were being called up out of retirement to help, because the systems in the Vulcan were so obsolete modern-trained engineers had no clue about servicing them.

>Great Shitstain scrapped all these beauties.
>all

134 were built:

XH558, XJ823, XJ824, XL318, XL319, XL360, XL361, XL426, XM573, XM575, XM594, XM597, XM598, XM603, XM605, XM606, XM607, XM612 and XM655 all survive.

that's almost 15% of the airframes survive - as many as were destroyed by accidents.

>>31897028
>So, they should have gone around nuking everyone instead?
The B-52 was used multiple times in Nam and we weren't nuking the gooks.

>>31896664
I remember ;_;

>>31898152

Because they look and sound fucking awesome.

Where's your sense of passion?

File: Vulcan engine porn.jpg (1MB, 1600x1282px) Image search: [Google]

1MB, 1600x1282px

>>31899920

They really needed to ground her, much as I hate it.

When I saw her at Ayr, she flew around the airport for an hour after her slot ended. Turns out the wheels didn't come out fully because the airframe was so knackered. They couldn't tell what was wrong, so requested an intercept plane to come take a look.

They got a fucking Spitfire.

A. Fucking. Spitfire. On a legitimate intercept mission. In 2 0 1 6.

Identified a problem, fixed it, and then made a "gentle landing" by fucking wheelying the Vulcan all the way down the runway at a 30 degree angle to avoid stress on the front landing gear, especially so as the pilot couldn't see shit and was guided in by audio cues from the intercepting Spitfire and the control on the ground. It was orgasmically good flying.

I can die fucking happy having witnessed that day. Even on her last flights, when things started going wrong, she kept being so fucking good.

Footage here, btw.

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

Spitfire Intercept at 2:27

Outrageously awesome landing at 8:00

>>31896613
Didn't the UK just spend millions of dollars restoring a Vulcan to flightworthy?

Also I distinctly remember there being one at the RAF museum.

>>31901166
thats cool

>>31901166
>Vulcan saved by a Spitfire

File: Avro-Vulcan-XB588-when-new.png (747KB, 916x569px) Image search: [Google]

747KB, 916x569px

Looked good in white too

>>31901166
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxshOMFTZdM

>>31901674

Yes, that is the link I posted?

I'm a little confused.

>>31896613
>Literally the best weapon they developed after the Lee-Enfield and they only used it once.

If they only used it once how do you know it was so good?

File: handley-page-4540x2554-victor-xm715-hp-123-bomber-tanker-aircraft-1685.jpg (2MB, 4540x2554px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 4540x2554px

Superior plane taxiing to runway one.

File: 76456374+64.jpg (2MB, 3888x2592px) Image search: [Google]

2MB, 3888x2592px

<3

>>31896613

The Vulcan has no strategic purpose. Modern aeroplanes can carry almost as much payload and as UK nukes are carried by submarines its original mission as part of the deterrent just does not exist. It is sadly just plain obsolete.

>>31902032
Agreed. The use of the Vulcans in the Falklands War was pretty awesome though (8 planes and a bunch of tankers flying from the UK/Ascension, just to allow one plane to arrive)

>>31901166
Very cool story. Thanks for posting

File: Refuelling.plan.black.buck.svg.png (27KB, 300x361px) Image search: [Google]

27KB, 300x361px

>>31902073
The logistics for this were incredible

>>31902018
Why don't we use twin booms anymore?

>>31901118
Had the Valiant B2 entered production, or the B3, the Valiant would have had been a better choice. That or a Victor.

File: Avro Arrow 1442973591523.jpg (660KB, 3068x1052px) Image search: [Google]

660KB, 3068x1052px

>>31896664

>All Canadian Kids are brainwashed into the Arrow meme.
>The CONs cancelled it so its a perpetual Liberal propaganda tool

>>31896613
>not as good as you think
>butt hurt canucks whining--made a plane that actually flew 30 years ago, but no one noticed

Please drown in your tears already so the rest of us can stop pretending to give to a fuck.

File: britished.jpg (73KB, 508x610px) Image search: [Google]

73KB, 508x610px

>>31901166
That's actually the most British thing I've heard....on so many levels.

>>31899975
That's why you lost.
There's literally no one we need to bomb with a vulcan that couldn't be done cheaper or more easily with another aircraft.

>>31901199
That was a private charity effort.