On 18 June 2015 at 06:06, Pete Turnbull <p...@dunnington.plus.com <javascript:;>> wrote: > I'd have directed you to http://www.vulcantothesky.org/ if Rob hadn't > already. Sometimes, though, it flies near places not on the official list - > for example, I've seen it fly almost over our house (we live near Elvington) > on two different Fridays in the last month or so. Presumably in transit to > some other show. > Very neat. It's too bad it's never flown to Canada before. Then again, why would it? I feel kind of miffed that I've not really gotten the chance to see any really "cool planes" flying. (I'd have loved to see the SR-71 in flight, or to see an SR-71 up close at all; the latter is still possible but I don't quite have the money for it...)
> Sadly, on the first occasion it flew circuits for a quarter of an hour, but > I didn't hear it (or realise it was the Vulcan) until my wife said something > like "Oh, that triangular aircraft has been flying around a bit for a > while." (We often get noise from Elvington and sometimes I tune it out.) I > watched it fly a couple of circuits before I thought to fetch the camera - > by which time it was almost out of sight. On the second occasion it was so > cloudy I couldn't get a decent shot. Sigh. > I've had the fortune of seeing the former RCAF FM213 (now registered as C-GVRA) flying a few times. I honestly can't really tell if it is the Lancaster by looking at it (my eyes are shit), but the sound is sufficiently different from any5thing else there's little doubt. Though I may have mistook the B-25 or C-47 for it. Did you get a chance to see both of the flightworthy Lancasters together last year? I didn't since I'm not in the UK and the time that FM213 was over in the UK intersected with my university terms. Regards, Christian -- Christian M. Gauger-Cosgrove STCKON08DS0 Contact information available upon request. -- Christian M. Gauger-Cosgrove STCKON08DS0 Contact information available upon request.
