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  1. Chazz Rheinhold

    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    Guy Martin’s Last Flight of the Vulcan Bomber will air on Sunday on Channel 4 at 7.30pm.

    Looking forward to this. Top bloke is Guy.
     
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    Chazz Rheinhold, Nov 27, 2015
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    i remember one flying low over hull in the late 60s
     
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  3. originallambrettaman

    originallambrettaman Mod Moderator Staff Member

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    It flew over again this October, as part of the nationwide farewell flight.
     
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    Did one ever fly into / out of Leconfield? I have a vague memory of seeing one whilst working near Beverley, early 1980's.
     
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  5. Yardley Tiger

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    The nearest Vulcan air base was RAF Finningley now the Robin Hood Airport. I used to pass by each week on my trips between Hull and Derby in the late 1950s and early 1960s before motorways.
     
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    LeftSaidFred Well-Known Member

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    They regularly used to fly over our house in Ferriby during the 70's, quite an awesome sight, and very loud.
     
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    Their relatively low and slow evening approaches into Finningley used to take them directly over Goole - lots of locals (including our cleaner at work) were convinced that they were UFOs.
     
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    John Ex Aberdeen now E.R. Well-Known Member

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    Guy is a real one off, as you say top bloke. Well worth a watch.
     
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  10. Chazz Rheinhold

    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    Its on now. His Grandad fought for the Nazi's...
     
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    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    Guy's Wall of Death on live now on C4.
     
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    C'mon ref Well-Known Member

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    Magnificent planes but baring the Falklands did they ever see active service?
     
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    No but as they carried atomic bombs most of the time, that's a good thing
     
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    So did they take atomic bombs to the Falklands? I remember that they had to be re-fuelled a couple of times en-route because of the distance.
     
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    wasn't he latvian or lithuanian or nearby?
     
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  16. Chazz Rheinhold

    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    Lithuanian, I think.
     
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    No obviously they didn't. They were the only thing we had at the time capable of flying that far, with bombs to drop though.
     
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  18. Chazz Rheinhold

    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    The man's brilliant. Just shrugged off a bad motor bike accident. Pins in your back?? Just soothe it in a kids paddling pool. Ace
     
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    originallambrettaman Mod Moderator Staff Member

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    The programme that revealed his grandfathers past was called Our Guy In Latvia, which is probably a decent clue.
     
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    originallambrettaman Mod Moderator Staff Member

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    They're dragging this out a bit...
     
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