Comments by "David Elliott" (@davidelliott5843) on "V Bombers - Vulcan, Victor u0026 Valiant - The Last British Bombers" video.

  1. The Dawlish Airshow (Devon U.K.) fliew the planes over a hill to the south and they bank left to drop down and run parallel with the beach. In 2014, I was on that hill as the RAF and Canadian Lancasters came over with the bomb doors open. They were so low you could see the rivets and bomb brackets. Their true purpose hits you and you viscerally realise how extremely scary these machines really are. The absolutely stunning Spitfire Hurricane and Mustang looked almost trivial by comparison.
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  2. The Vulcan bomb sight was the exact same instrument as used on Lancasters. The accuracy was good enough for placing a nuke and it turned out, also adequate or the Black Buck missions.
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  3. I saw the Vulcan test flights near Buntingford around 2010. Almost every car stopped so people could stand and watch. At Dawlish in 2015 the pilot flew by with the underside facing the beach/audience. The engines sound like swing machines when they come over low. The roar when he hit the throttles is truly visceral. The contrast with the two Lancasters we saw in 2014 was just jaw dropping.
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