the last remaining flying Avro Vulcan lifts off at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, it was under taking tests so that it can take part in public air displays, a Mail on Sunday campaign helped save it from being grounded for ever,
an astonishing £500,000 was raised in five days after the newspaper highlighted its plight, leading the trust’s chairman Robert Pleming to comment: ‘Never has one aircraft owed so much to so many.’ a crowd of up to 50,000 is expected to watch the classic delta-wing bomber sweep over the airfield in a spectacular eight-minute, 200mph flight,
more than 130 Avro Vulcans were built in the Fifties and Sixties and they constituted the bulk of Britain’s nuclear deterrent until the introduction of Polaris submarines in 1969, in the 1982 Falklands War, five of the ageing aircraft carried out a series of raids on the Argentine-held Port Stanley airfield, at the time, the 8,000-mile round trips were the longest-range combat missions ever undertaken, British and Proud Of It!
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