Identify this plane please!
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LiamB

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8,117 posts

172 months

Friday 21st September 2012
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I would like to say it's a Vulcan. But I realllllly doubt it.








Got a video that I will upload tomorrow as well if needed.

Cheers!thumbup

Matt172

12,415 posts

273 months

Friday 21st September 2012
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Looks pretty vulcany to me smile

15peter20

191 posts

188 months

Friday 21st September 2012
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It is the Vulcan, yes

LiamB

Original Poster:

8,117 posts

172 months

Friday 21st September 2012
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Oh wow. Quite happy I have seen one now!

Was over cranfield airport in Milton Keynes.

Cheers for that

Edited by LiamB on Friday 21st September 23:19

davepoth

29,395 posts

228 months

Friday 21st September 2012
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LiamB said:
Oh wow. Quite happy I have seen it now!

Was over cranfield airport in Milton Keynes.
EFA.

Eric Mc

125,606 posts

294 months

Saturday 22nd September 2012
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After all this time and all the publicity, TV programmes, internet chat etc, I am amazed that people are still unaware of the Vulcan restoration project.

LiamB

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172 months

Saturday 22nd September 2012
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Eric Mc said:
After all this time and all the publicity, TV programmes, internet chat etc, I am amazed that people are still unaware of the Vulcan restoration project.
If I personally saw it I would have known.

I got sent the pictures.

RS16i

944 posts

223 months

Sunday 23rd September 2012
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Eric Mc said:
After all this time and all the publicity, TV programmes, internet chat etc, I am amazed that people are still unaware of the Vulcan restoration project.
Not everyone's as interested in it as you though.

Simpo Two

92,666 posts

294 months

Sunday 23rd September 2012
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I expect if you went out and asked the average person in the street 'What's a Vulcan?' you'd get

'Don't know' 60%
'An aeroplane?' 30%
'The one on Star Trek with the pointy ears' 10%


There is a vast swathe of folk who know nothing if it's not reality TV or soap opera.

Wacky Racer

41,246 posts

276 months

DamienB

1,211 posts

248 months

Sunday 23rd September 2012
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LiamB said:
Oh wow. Quite happy I have seen one now!
LiamB said:
If I personally saw it I would have known.

I got sent the pictures.
Er...?

LiamB

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8,117 posts

172 months

Sunday 23rd September 2012
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DamienB said:
Er...?
I came outside to see it in the distance, that's why I had no idea what is was.

A family member was already outside taking pictures and they sent them to me so I could put them up here.

Eric Mc

125,606 posts

294 months

Sunday 23rd September 2012
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RS16i said:
Eric Mc said:
After all this time and all the publicity, TV programmes, internet chat etc, I am amazed that people are still unaware of the Vulcan restoration project.
Not everyone's as interested in it as you though.
Or the tens of thousands of people and dozens of companies and the National Lottery Fund who have donated millions to the project.

RS16i

944 posts

223 months

Sunday 23rd September 2012
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Eric Mc said:
Or the tens of thousands of people and dozens of companies and the National Lottery Fund who have donated millions to the project.
Obviously not.If it wasn't for so much talk about it on here i probably wouldn't know what it was either.

Some people just have different interests i suppose.

Eric Mc

125,606 posts

294 months

Monday 24th September 2012
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I guess - but the project did get national news coverage in the lead up to the first flight - chiefly because it is the only aircraft restoration project which received such substantial lottery funding.
So, although those who follow such things would be very much aware of it, I would also have thought that, due to the fairly mainstream media coverage at the time of its first flight, many non-enthusiasts would at least been aware of its existence.