The Avro Vulcan was nearly retired when war broke out in the Falklands. Yet, using patched-up refueling systems and Cold War ...

Summary: The UK introduced the Avro Vulcan bomber shortly after WWII ... that was able to carry the Blue Steel nuclear stand-off bomb. Following their withdrawal from the nuclear deterrent ...

So, too, is the unique design of the Avro Vulcan, a formidable bomber from the ... bomber landplane capable of carrying one 10,000 lb bomb to a target 1,500 nautical miles from a base which ...

When the Avro Vulcan first flew in August of 1952 ... range bomber landplane capable of carrying one 10,000 lb (4,500 kg) bomb to a target 1,500 nautical miles (1,700 mi; 2,800 km) from a base ...

The last Avro ... the Vulcan was called into combat. To make it and other aircraft useful against Argentina---which was thousands of miles away and didn’t merit being hit with a nuclear bomb ...

On the 1st of July, 1960 Avro pilot Tony Blackman climbed into the cockpit of a Hawker Siddeley Vulcan delta wing strategic ... the Blue Danube atomic bomb. Thankfully, those weapons of mass ...

Police warn the very last flights by the only airworthy Avro Vulcan may have to be cancelled if crowds ignore warnings to stay away from its home airport Vulcan bomber XH558 is due to make its ...

The Vulcan to The Sky Trust, which owns the Avro Vulcan XH558, needed to raise £400,000 to keep the aircraft flying. The trust said it still needed to raise £75,000 before the end of October or ...

Meet the Avro Vulcan: Located closer to the Soviet Union ... The airplane had an ahead-of-its-time innovation with its internal bomb bays and could carry 21 one-thousand pound bombs when operating ...