a local ‘strong man’ hauled her along the peri track for record attempt (he pulled her a fair way) on his own using a harness and a set of steel ladders bolted to the ground

😮

How on earth did he get the nosewheel over the first ladder step? Or was the rope so long it didn’t matter? I doubt anyone would have the strength to pull a Vulcan over one step, let alone several!

If you think that 3 FPS is too slow, you might be right! Check this baby out [click].

I’ll believe it when I see it!!

Here’s a cartridge start on WK163 taken in 2003 at Kemble.

It’s surprisingly cramped inside, isn’t it? At least it is if you’re a bit wide around the midriff, like me! I couldn’t quite get into the cockpit over the wings root box (my brain has decided it isn’t going to tell me what that’s called).

There is no mention of her sale on Aviation Heritage’s website, and she is confirmed for the FAAOA 50th Anniversary at Yeovilton later this month.

The website was updated on 22nd August.

Great stuff.

I see they’d recently cut the grass at Lydd!!!!

It’s a matter of personal preference, really.

The second one is colder, but brings up a little more detail on the ‘plane, but is a little blown out in the sky and on top of the aircraft fuselarge.

The first one is warmer, but isn’t blown out anywhere, at the expense of a little detail.

Whichever is what you saw with your eyes would be more technically correct, in terms of the warm/cold hues, I suppose.

You could try this; take the first one, and using the colour balance tools I lowered the pictures “temperature” to 7400 and removed any colour cast. After a little bit of sharpening I managed to get a little closer to the second photo without blowing out the contrast in the sky and wings/fuselarge.

I use Paintshop Pro, incidentally – I don’t know what tool you use to edit your photos, but there would be similar tools in Photoshop.