The Vulcan

We have been to Air Day today, I'm not sure if it was about the aircraft or who had the biggest lens?! There was some serious hardware going on, I am suffering lens envy!


This is the vulcan apparently, here is the official blurb.


Potsdam July 1945 ? the start of the Vulcan's story. Within a month, the USA had dropped two atomic bombs on Japan, and Tory Prime Minister Churchill had lost a General Election in a landslide to the Labour Party's Clement Atlee, who by the end of August 1945 had proposed to the Cabinet that the UK develop its own atomic bomb.

Meanwhile Stalin was tightening his grip on Eastern Europe, and adopting the doctrine of political expansion. President Truman opposed this expansion, leading to the Cold War. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill USA President Harry S Truman and Soviet Union President Joseph Stalin.
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? Blue Danube
This is Britain's first production atomic bomb. Code named "Blue Danube", it had the same explosive power as those dropped on Japan ? about 16,000 tonnes of conventional high explosive. The RAF's three V-Bombers ?the Vickers Valiant, the Handley Page Victor & the Avro Vulcan ?were each designed to carry this huge device to Russia, in response to a Soviet nuclear attack ?the strategy of deterrence was born.
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Here is my blurb,
The Vulcan is a massive plane, it goes whooooooooooooshhhhhh very loudl and seems to get grown men very excited, it looks like it should be flown by ninjas. It is also very tricky to photograph a grey plane against a grey sky.


Edited to add- My husband says I shoudld say that the little one behind is the Vampre, also that this is the last flying Vulcan in the world.
There you go Mr Rainey, are you Happy now ;o)