The Other B2 Bomber



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Unveiled in 1952, its dramatic delta-wing, sleek airframe design, and tall single-tail fin captured the viewers’ imaginations, revealing a new step toward nuclear-age futurism.

This was the British Avro Vulcan strategic bomber, designed to deliver a devastating nuclear blow over Moscow if ever the unthinkable happened.
Seemingly plucked out of a Sci-fi story, the Vulcan soon became the star of many action films and TV shows for its mesmerizing design and imposing presence.

It wasn’t just visually striking; this movie star overwhelmed all senses. When pushed to its limits, its engines produced a distinctive and haunting cry known as the Vulcan Howl, a sound that commanded dominance in the vast expanses of the sky.

After 30 years of waiting, already near the end of its service life, the Vulcan was called up for action in the Falklands, and it had something to prove…

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36 thoughts on “The Other B2 Bomber”

  1. I grew up in England near a major airport, and was a plane spotter as a boy. We got mostly civilian types flying over on their approach, to land but one day I was in the garden practicing my fly fishing casts and I heard this incoming roar from a different direction. A low flying Vulcan appeared overhead, and it to this day is the most impressive sight and sound that I've seen in the sky, fifty years later.

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  2. We had one land at my base during the 1970s at Loring AFB in northern Maine. It was an amazing sight to behold. It had a high stance on the ground akin to the B-58 Hustler. I found out only the pilot & co-pilot had ejection seats,the crew went down with the bird !

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  3. In the late seventies my dad's lorry had a puncture near the end of i think Kirton Lindsay runway. it takes a while to change a HGV tyre and all the time Vulcans were doing circuits, the howl was impressive to say the least

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  4. I was living on Tyneside. One summers day in the mid 1970s my wife and I took an elderly aunt from London to the Scottish border at Carter Bar on the A69 so she could put her foot in Scotland. From a position near the sign welcoming visitors to Scotland we looked down into Scotland and the Vale of Tweed. Suddenly something was moving against the landscape. There below us we looked down onto the backs of a pair of Vulcans as they climbed towards us. Seconds later we heard the iconic howl of Vulcans’ engines followed almost immediately by the stupendous roar as they skimmed at what felt like an few metres over our heads before they descended down Redesdale before they disappeared towards Catcleugh Reservoir. My aunt, a resident of Mill Hill in London was totally impressed and for years afterwards told of the day a Vulcan nearly took her hat off!

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  5. The image used for the video thumbnail is that of Avro Vulcan XM573, Located at the Strategic Air Command and Aerospace Museum in Ashland, Nebraska, USA. I actually work there and can confirm that she’s undergoing a full static display restoration.

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  6. wows has evolved into ww2 homing torpedos, turbo jet powered attack squadrons from carriers, and mountain-piercing scifi radar on super-powered cruisers, and ships with thunderous depth charges. give me a break. 20 knot submarines. believe that.

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  7. Don't forget the Vulcans managed to drop several nukes on the USA in 1961.
    Quite a few in fact, with no losses whatsoever.
    Oh yes, training nukes.. sorry, did I forget to say that. Yes, training nukes.

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  8. When I was growing up in rural Oxfordshire, one summer, a Vulcan would regularly fly over our home, at low altitude, bound for Brize Norton and powered by what was to be Concorde’s engine, in test. Later, Concorde flew over, undercarriage down, on test flights. We had old sash windows, and I can still remember the frames rattling.

    There was a low-altitude military corridor overhead, with a number of RAF camps nearby, including Upper Heyford, so we were also treated to the occasional group of 6-or-so F4 Phantoms, and later F1-11’s.

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