[Vulcan 005]

Not sure John, don't think Finningley was a Vulcan base. You can see why we used call her the 'Tin Triangle'

oh it was a Vulcan base all right, perhaps not what may mean in being a QRA base? It was a training base, also with Victors, and I'm not sure it may have had Valiants as well. Once a month the instructors took over the QRA(Quick Reaction Alert) from Waddington over the weekend. I spent from June 63 to february 64 so got used to watching practice alerts and the large mounds dotted around the station were nuclear bomb dumps. If you search for info on Google you can get all that data. I have more than once on here gone into detail about watching 3 do tail take offs one Sunday, then climb vertically, 12 engines flat out, the noise was utterly mind blowing, gawd knows what it must have sounded like in the village under the take off path.

John

[Vulcan 005]

yes an amazing sight and sound. 558 is kept at Doncaster airport in, I think, the same hangar as when she was 'operational', a familiar sight to me in 1963-64.

jh

[Godmanchester River Great Ouse (47)]

love the tree photo with snow/rime and the blue sky

[Red Arrows]

like the Red Arrows one

I have lost count how many times I saw them display. In a way I was lucky I suppose being involved with the RAF, so I often saw them, usually before they got their red uniform prior to the Air Officer Commanding agreeing they were up to scratch, usually, funnily enough, after two weeks in Cyprus!!

regards

John

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railway workers refuge by mountain railway