Vulcan 2B by ratfugel
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Description
Another antique potboiler. When it came out it was described as being faster and more manoeverable than most fighters of its time. Not bad for a bomber!
( I was once ticked off for thermalling a Schweizer sailplane over three of these when they were on a training demo!)
P.S The little man is actually an indication of scale.
Whilst it had four crew members, only the driver and his mate had ejection seats. The other two had been known to stick the retaining pins back in the seats to encourage the drivers to get it down in one piece!
Comments (9)
sim3344
Great model,nice work!!!
Penters
Nice profile of a great old bird....how far away were you gliding from them?
kjer_99
Cool info about the seats.
dbrv6
Without the scale its size is deceiving because of its shape. Looks great
Emil-arts
Wonderful profile of THE bomber of it's time. Adding the figure is a very nice touch for as dbrv6 points out looks could be very deceiving where this plane was concerned.
ekatz
i remember, as a boy, going to an airshow in UK and seeing (and feeling.. the ground shakes) four of these beasts scrammble.... awesome. There was an interesting book 'The Man in the Hot Seat' about the development of the Martin Baker ejection seat. written by the test pilot (Doddy Hay I think), fascinating, in this book it has a chapter(s) on the development of a seat for the 3rd and 4th crew. Ian
g_purvis
It is a great (and beautiful, at least in the air) aircraft, saw one flying at the first Sunderland airshow (North East England). The way it was being thrown around the sky was amazing. All I can say is that the pilot/co-pilot have to be pretty slim as, having been in one twice, I still couldn't get past their seats (rib cage too deep) despite being a couple of years between visits (the first when I was 15yrs). Right now though I'm reading Vulcan 607 if you've got an interest in them it's a great read (it's about the Vulcans role in the 1982 Falklands War).
proteus2
Impressive work, and information P
debbielove
As above, I remember seeing one of these do a scramble take off at North Weald Airshow. I went straight up!! Really! Straight into the clouds tipped over on its wing and dived down etc! And everybody thinks the fights of today are great cos they can do it!! You ain't lived..... Wonderful render of a brilliant plane. Well done. Rob. P.S. Quick advert: The Vulcan to th Sky needs £1.000,000 to keep it flying. Go to the web site to help if you can. please. www.vulcantotheskies.com. Thanks.