Airfix 1/72 Avro Vulcan (Finished)

[Gregers]

The envy is at about 75.000ft and climbing like a bat out of hell.
I'm now trying hard to imagine an 18 ton mach 2 Gnat!!!

All the best.

Greg

[MarkyM607]

You know we all hate you now don't you?!

[skypirate]

Good on you, TeeELL,
Glad you are among us in the forum, keeping history alive!

cheers,

David

[Tarkas]

I never understood why British men (mostly) within a certain age bracket, always lost their collective sh...their heads, at the sight of the Vulcan.

But witnessing your model, I'm beginning to get it. What an incredible looking aircraft. And what a great piece of modelling too. Congratulations on accomplishing this.

You have to see the beast in flight to really understand the awe it produces. It can boggle the mind to see the "Tin Triangle" do its thing; it's amazing that something that size can fly the way it does. It seems to leave the ground at a ridiculously low speed, especially for something that looks to be so heavy, and then it rears up and defies gravity by climbing so steeply, and then the crew start hauling it around in manoeuvres and you wonder how so much sheer mass can do that!

British designers of that era had a way of creating aircraft that, at first sight, ought not to be able to do what they can do. The Sea Vixen is another example: get up close to one, and you wonder how a great slab of metal like its wing can actually get off the ground. It's sort of the next step up from a flying brick, and the Vulcan is much the same, only bigger. But they do it, and they do it well, and we love them for it.

[TeeELL]

Tarkas,
Immediately prior to flying the Vulcan, I had flown the Hunter. The Vulcan flew much the same as the Hunter (the 'fighter pilot stick' adding to the sensation), where the disimilarity between the 2 started was the 80k ilbs of thrust of the Vulcan and its ability to manoeuvre at 45,000 ft.