In the early Cold War, the Royal Air Force fielded three separate strategic bombers—but relinquished all three amid advances in anti-air technology. The Vulcan’s “Black Buck” missions in the Falklands ...
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The Avro Vulcan - Britain’s nuclear bomber was brilliant, troubled, and never truly safe
The Vulcan entered service looking like the future of British air power, but its early career was far more troubled than its ...
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Music and beer festival at Southend Airport Vulcan hangar to return this summer
The Music and Beer Festival at the Vulcan will take place across Friday, July 31, and Saturday, August 1, inside the Vulcan Restoration Trust hangar.
The Vulcan’s “Black Buck” missions in the Falklands War were among the most complex and logistically demanding in RAF history, pushing the aging bombers and their crews to their limits. The Avro ...
Following the announcement that the Royal Air Force is regaining nuclear weapons, we explore the service’s history using nukes, explaining why they were originally abandoned in 1998. For 43 years, the ...
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The Avro Vulcan - Britain’s nuclear bomber had to fly straight into Soviet hell
The Vulcan’s low-level mission was built around one of the grimmest assumptions of the Cold War: that if war came, its crews ...
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