Charity Starts At Home
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So has anybody bought a ticket yet, £15 and you get to watch a Lightning taxi onto the runway, listen to it roar to 100% on both engines, then off with the brakes and on with the reheat, i have seen it a thousand times or more and still find it ALMOST orgasmic.. 
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Rather stay at home, snuggle up together and experience something that is ACTUALLY orgasmic. 
Oh! it was not just aircraft technology we excelled at, take this for instance, those Ruskies ne're stooda chance.
http://youtu.be/DT0qmSHjDAA
SCRAP THE PILE OF OLF JUNK AND DONATE THE PROCEEDS TO A WORTHY CHARITY.
It's gone- same as 99.9% of Moggie 1000s.
That plane was a killing machine- and was soon overtaken by soviet aircraft.
Nostalgia is a wonderful thing- but- Pleeeas--let those killing machines be consigned to the scrapyards.
Vulcan bombers appreciation society is the same .
TOO MUCH money to keep them -- money that would be better spent on the people who are alive today.
Much money to appease a few who like to remember their link with thier past.
130k this year- 230k next year. Please let it go and keep your memories in your head and in the photos you cherish.
It's gone- same as 99.9% of Moggie 1000s.
That plane was a killing machine- and was soon overtaken by soviet aircraft.
Nostalgia is a wonderful thing- but- Pleeeas--let those killing machines be consigned to the scrapyards.
Vulcan bombers appreciation society is the same .
TOO MUCH money to keep them -- money that would be better spent on the people who are alive today.
Much money to appease a few who like to remember their link with thier past.
130k this year- 230k next year. Please let it go and keep your memories in your head and in the photos you cherish.
In Fact- there is a lightning aircraft 10 miles from where I live . BAE Salmesbury Lancashire . It has its own spot at the entrance to the site .
They even have a social club there 'the lightning club'.
Plenty of spares available --no engine though .
To be honest--it looks a mess .
Bae should let it rest and take it away to a quiet place .
OR-- BAE would maybe- make a kind donation if asked . Why not ask them ?.
They even have a social club there 'the lightning club'.
Plenty of spares available --no engine though .
To be honest--it looks a mess .
Bae should let it rest and take it away to a quiet place .
OR-- BAE would maybe- make a kind donation if asked . Why not ask them ?.
YOU REALLY ARE A CUFFIN IDIOT!!
Get your facts right, i did 1yr on 617Sqn Vulcans at Scampton followed 3yrs at Wattisham 111Sqn Lightning mk 3s and 2yrs at Gutersloh 19Sqn on Lightning mk6s. The Lightning was an interceptor, not a killing machine, RAF camps had two Sqns, and the Sqns would rotate every 4 weeks to do a stint of QRA (quick readiness alert) believe me! i did my fair share, i asked the jockey one night why he had been scrambled to which he replied, the usual, some civvy a/c had lost his radar, he had intercepted and guided the other plane into Hamburg airport.
In its time the Lightning was never overtaken or superceded by a Russian a/c, the Mig 21 i think it was that defected was taken to pieces by the Yanks, it was made of stainless steel or something similar, that is better than balsa wood, but only just.
The Lightning also flew rings around the Phantom and Starfighter, the only a/c that showed the Lightning a clean pair of heals was the TSR2 which was scrapped by the Labour government.
And as for the Vulcan! how many squaddies lives did it save by bombing Stanly runway, also putting the Yanks in their place when they claimed their radar system was infallable, nothing could invade their airspace without them knowing, so a Vulcan shadowed a Boeing 747 into JFK, the first they knew about it was when they asked air traffic permission to land.
That single bomb the RAF landed on target had zero impact on whether the airfield was operational or not. They only actually intended to get one to hit the strip of course, but it didn't do anything of substance. The RAF had more use when dropping stuff and dark shadowy figures out of hercules.
