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Sylar
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Vulcan at Gaydon

Post by Sylar » Sun Oct 04, 2015 8:43 pm

Complete with an emotional Sean Maffett at the end
http://youtu.be/SxPo1okTJJY

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Re: Vulcan at Gaydon

Post by Supra » Tue Oct 06, 2015 2:49 pm

Don't know about Sean Muppett being 'emotional', you should've heard me go-off on one if I had been subjected to that 'p**s-up in a Brewery' !
That is by far & away the worst private display (if not ever?) provided for a limited audience absolutely nowhere close-by. The organisers (drunkards?) decide to set the display-line 2 miles from the punters, facing directly into the sun, behind buildings & trees, such that a third of the sequence was obscured & their lasting memory as the Vulcan fades into the distance....is a freaking TREE hiding it all!!!!

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Re: Vulcan at Gaydon

Post by paddyboy » Tue Oct 06, 2015 2:58 pm

Just watched that, and I would have been incandescent if I had paid money for that venue :@

VTTST at it again :S

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Re: Vulcan at Gaydon

Post by GVLCN » Tue Oct 06, 2015 3:12 pm

I think you all need to calm down, private display it was indeed & for free! Although I was half way down the old runway at ex RAF Gaydon lol, good planning prevents bad performance!

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Re: Vulcan at Gaydon

Post by Sylar » Tue Oct 06, 2015 3:31 pm

It only cost £3, but yes, while the Vulcan actually did what it was meant to, the location left a lot to be desired. Into the sun etc. Not a great end to it all. Thankfully a good zoom lens help but that's not the point.

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Re: Vulcan at Gaydon

Post by Stroudy » Tue Oct 06, 2015 3:56 pm

I feel for the people inside Gaydon for that display, it looks a long way off. I was on the other side of Gaydon on a footpath and it was right overhead. Hopefully the trees on site didn't obscure it for everyone.

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Re: Vulcan at Gaydon

Post by Richard B » Tue Oct 06, 2015 4:06 pm

Why they have not arranged a display like at Bruntingthorpes, a location with a bit of planning could get a very big crowd in.

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Re: Vulcan at Gaydon

Post by Sylar » Tue Oct 06, 2015 4:08 pm

Because it's Bruntingthorpe. Think they would rather scrap it than do anything at Brunty.

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Re: Vulcan at Gaydon

Post by Richard B » Tue Oct 06, 2015 4:31 pm

Sylar wrote:Because it's Bruntingthorpe. Think they would rather scrap it than do anything at Brunty.

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Shane
Sounds like it, guess they have not paid for the Vulcan fully yet. :ninja:

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Re: Vulcan at Gaydon

Post by Freeman Lowell » Tue Oct 06, 2015 4:33 pm

GVLCN wrote:I think you all need to calm down, private display it was indeed & for free! Although I was half way down the old runway at ex RAF Gaydon lol, good planning prevents bad performance!
Like a meal, there is no such thing as a free display. The people at VTTS have constantly reminded us how much fuel per hour for this magnificent beast is. If you were one of the many punters who had put their hand in their pocket to keep these people in a job over the years, you might be disappointed about how that donation has been used at Gaydon and before.

As that man said 'bring on the Shackleton'.

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Re: Vulcan at Gaydon

Post by Sylar » Tue Oct 06, 2015 4:49 pm

Richard B wrote:
Sylar wrote:Because it's Bruntingthorpe. Think they would rather scrap it than do anything at Brunty.

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Shane
Sounds like it, guess they have not paid for the Vulcan fully yet. :ninja:
If it wasn't for the politics, I would still be a member.....

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Shane
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