cool story bro :-)
my uncle used to fly Vulcan bombers- between the two I'd prefer to have a go in Concorde but I'd be happy with a trip in a V-bomber as well. Excellent technical doobries about high bypass fans instead of pure turbos, this is apparently the same with what was the royal flight VC10- the air traffic controllers said you could always tell when Her Maj or Tony Blair was coming out of Heathrow by the sheer noise.
( Rotating Wobbly Hat That's not a banana. THIS is a banana., Mon 1 Aug 2011, 23:15, 1 reply)

Interesting on the VC10.
I just discovered that the VC10 holds the record for the fastest subsonic Atlantic crossing between London and New York. Only Concorde was faster. Amazing stuff for a first-generation jet airliner.

Concorde would be less comfortable but the Vulcan is a hell of a machine. There's still one flying now: www.vulcantothesky.org/ but funding one is not easy. They were another highlight of those air shows; I remember their display takeoff routine - full power, then haul back and point straight upwards, 90 degrees to the ground, before the end of the runway. Did your uncle have anything to do with the 'black buck' raid on the Falklands? I think they used the entire fleet for that.
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