Vulcan at Dunsfold

I visited the Wings & Wheels event at Dunsfold on Sunday primarily to watch the two Lancasters but the Vulcan was displaying there as well.
This photo was taken at the start of its display giving us all a nice topside view.
I used a K5lls, DA* 60-250mm & HD 1.4x TC.



Vulcan XH558 by R M BRIGHT, on Flickr

Nice - it was lovely to see the Vulcan flying again.

While it was still loud it didn't seem to have that ear shattering roar that I remember. Maybe they're trying to avoid stressing the airframe and enegines too much. Alternatively, it could also be a dodgy memory!

Phil

Thanks Phil.

You're right re the sound, it could be that they are waiting until the final season next year for us to hear the "Vulcan Howl" more often

When I was a Photographer in the Ministry of Aviation I went to the AVRO Factory with a Senior Photographer and we had to go up into a Vulcan to photograph the Electronics and Hydrolics Systems -- we had a whole plate Ex=RAF Camera, glass plates and a photoflood then did a time exposure of several minutes while waving the lamp about -- it gave very good results-- the plates were 'Contact Printed' -- that was about 1959.

Very nice Rob.

I used the 60-250mm and 1.4x on the K-5II at Yeovilton and was impressed with the IQ produced ... although it slowed down the AF tracking enough to cause a quite a few blurry pictures.

Thanks Mike. Yes I've also been very impressed with the IQ and have got used to the fact that I've been getting some blurry pictures as well, but on the whole very pleased with it.