The RIAT RAF Fairford Airshow 2015 - Vulcan

[suthg]

On Saturday July 18 2015, I attended the Royal International Air Tatoo. There was a group of NZders there courtesy of Melanie and Kevin Salisbury of Travel Managers with their Planes, Trains & Automobiles 2015 Tour. Leanne and I met them and stayed with them the weekend before in Cambridge for the Flying Legends Airshow weekend at Duxford. Couldn't get to see them in the closed white tent environment this weekend!

I have some photos to upload to Flickr but thought this was a valuable first go at sharing some highlights of the tour we had.

It was a warm summers day with some light high cloud about. Enjoy...





The camera was a small travel compact Olympus Stylus1 - 28 to 310 equivalent lens. She was on full zoom the whole video.

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Graham, great video and thanks for posting. How much longer can we expect to see a Vulcan flying?

[suthg]

As far as I know, she will have her last flight in the next 3 weeks or so, location as yet unknown as they do not want to have a mass invasion of a worthy airfield and blowing out parking and ticket sales and local resources and administration etc. It will be this season though. I believe a further thorough engineering assessment of the full airframe was to be required for continuation. Even so, it is costing 2m pound to run her in a season like this. You can do some research here - I haven't yet!

Vulcan To The Sky Trust

I have researched there and found some more displays:

Sat 26th September Leeds East - Church Fenton

Sun 4th October Gaydon - Heritage Motor Centre (Warwickshire)

Sun 4th October Old Warden (Bedfordshire)

so that may be it.