New NOTAM for the vulcan

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Re: New NOTAM for the vulcan

Postby Craig. » Thu Oct 18, 2007 6:51 am

Oh well, such wonderful tv coverage means I missed it. I lads took one for the team. ::)


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Re: New NOTAM for the vulcan

Postby C » Thu Oct 18, 2007 6:55 am

BBC now been covering their redundnacies for the best part of 45 minutes! ::) ;D
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Re: New NOTAM for the vulcan

Postby Craig. » Thu Oct 18, 2007 6:57 am

BBC now been covering their redundnacies for the best part of 45 minutes! ::) ;D

Guess they're all auditioning to keep their jobs. >:(
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Re: New NOTAM for the vulcan

Postby C » Thu Oct 18, 2007 7:01 am

Back on Sky...

...and off again!
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Re: New NOTAM for the vulcan

Postby Craig. » Thu Oct 18, 2007 7:08 am

Looks from the webcam that she's back down again.
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Re: New NOTAM for the vulcan

Postby mrjake2002 » Thu Oct 18, 2007 7:13 am

She flies...!! Saw the whole thing on webcam when I should have been working in History lesson, kinda fitting I was in history really!  ;D  :) :) :) :D :D :D
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Re: New NOTAM for the vulcan

Postby expat » Thu Oct 18, 2007 7:36 am

Just seen a replay. Awesome... :)

Hardly surprising as the news service will be one of the hardest hit.


A self proving example... ;D The sooner they scrap the license fee and have the Beeb showing adverts the better - at the moment it's like having adverts anyway. There seem to be a couple of minutes of BBC trailers between programmes now anyway...



Scrap the license fee, no chance. If the Beeb payed it's own way by showing adverts, the license would just change names, e.g, The Broadcast Airwaves Reception License or similar and go directly to the government of the day. Much the same thing once we are all driving about in non polluting H2O powered vehicles.

Back on track, I would just like to thank Sky News for the 2 1/2 minutes coverage that they took out of a busy schedule covering the return of a twice dismissed and convicted crook, 3000 miles away.

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Re: New NOTAM for the vulcan

Postby Craig. » Thu Oct 18, 2007 7:39 am

And shock of all shocks, the bbc are once again back to themselves. Still not a single word on it's flight. >:(
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Re: New NOTAM for the vulcan

Postby Hagar » Thu Oct 18, 2007 7:44 am

Sky News article & photos here. http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1288877,00.html

Not mentioned at all on the BBC news website.* So much for 24-hour live news coverage. What else have they ignored? ::)

The TVOC website appears to have gone down.

* Correction. The page appears to have just been updated. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/leicestershire/7049694.stm
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Re: New NOTAM for the vulcan

Postby C » Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:40 am

Ah well, coverage or not, well done to everyone involved at Bruntingthorpe since the aircraft was purchased by the Walton family in 1993. They always said their intention was that it would fly again, and now, thanks to 14 years of hard work, another generation of enthusiasts, spotters, and the general public will experience the noise of the Vulcan. :)

As for the BBC - they're still going on about their redundancies! ::)
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Re: New NOTAM for the vulcan

Postby EGNX » Thu Oct 18, 2007 10:22 am

Video from the BBC:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_7050000/newsid_7051100?redirect=7051162.stm&news=1&bbram=1&nbwm=1&nbram=1&bbwm=1

I need to find out if the next test flights are going to be during half-term so I can go down and see them!
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Re: New NOTAM for the vulcan

Postby C » Thu Oct 18, 2007 11:14 am

I wonder how the bloke interviewed after about 20 seconds in that clip feels - I bet he never knew he was an RAF test pilot... ;D

Thankfully they captioned the right chap at the end! ;D
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Re: New NOTAM for the vulcan

Postby Hagar » Thu Oct 18, 2007 11:17 am

I wonder how the bloke interviewed after about 20 seconds in that clip feels - I bet he never knew he was an RAF test pilot... ;D

Thankfully they captioned the right chap at the end! ;D

The old gal in the patriotic dress isn't quite what she appears to be either. ;)
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Re: New NOTAM for the vulcan

Postby expat » Thu Oct 18, 2007 11:23 am

I wonder how the bloke interviewed after about 20 seconds in that clip feels - I bet he never knew he was an RAF test pilot... ;D

Thankfully they captioned the right chap at the end! ;D

The old gal in the patriotic dress isn't quite what she appears to be either. ;)


More than a little sus their :-/

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Re: New NOTAM for the vulcan

Postby C » Thu Oct 18, 2007 11:42 am

I wonder how the bloke interviewed after about 20 seconds in that clip feels - I bet he never knew he was an RAF test pilot... ;D

Thankfully they captioned the right chap at the end! ;D

The old gal in the patriotic dress isn't quite what she appears to be either. ;)


Mmm, I was wondering!  ;D
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