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frenchy
Member Since: 05 Dec 2007
Location: Liverpool
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Nice day out indeed!!! 2000 D2 TD5 - big red tractor no longer with us
2006 D3 - no longer with us and sadly missed
2010 D4 alas no more, but a lovely colour (Nara)
2016 D4 departed
2022 DiscoSport 45mpg, but its not a D4
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 2nd Nov 2019 5:38 pm |
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Oswiperus
D3 Decade
Member Since: 02 Apr 2010
Location: Chelmsford, Essex
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Great film, I had seen footage of the Vulcan incident but not the others. Quite a day!! Stu
2016 D4 Landmark current
2022 Defender D300 SE Gone 
D4 2014 XS Commercial - Gone
D4 2016 hse lux montalcino red - Gone
D3 2005 se java black - current
D3 2005 base manual - gone
D2 1999 TD5 E white - current
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| 3rd Nov 2019 8:52 am |
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Farmer Chalk
Member Since: 06 Mar 2013
Location: Independent Republic of Kentishshire.
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Awesome...thanks for posting! 
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| 3rd Nov 2019 9:53 am |
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Moo
D3 Decade
Member Since: 13 Aug 2010
Location: UK
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That was pretty impressive. Crazy to think the Hercules is still in operational use. Thats like a WW1 Sopwith Camel still being in operational use in the 1970's! D4 HSE EU6 (Known as Jeeves)
New Defender L663 110 SE (known as Noddy!) Sold
Sold Volvo XC90 R-Design (known as Basil)
Sold - D4 HSE (Known as Gerty)
No longer the Old Buses original owner
231,000 miles and counting
05 S manual owned from March 2005
D4 Face lifted
Still original injectors and turbo
V8 Front brakes
BAS Remap, Allisport Intercooler and deCat
EGRs blanked
T-Max split charge
Hanibal Expeedition rack
Prospeed ladder
Duratrac tyres
IID BT
BAS FBH control
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| 3rd Nov 2019 11:07 am |
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jetmech
Member Since: 22 Feb 2016
Location: Suffolk
Posts: 271
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A great link. Thank you for sharing it on here. Simon.
2008MY Dicovery 3 TDV6 SE Manual
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| 4th Nov 2019 9:24 am |
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Browny90
Member Since: 19 Jul 2016
Location: Ashbourne
Posts: 698
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What always shocks me is that there is only 11 years difference between the first flight of the Vulcan and the First flight of the Lancaster..
To look at them, you think there was ALOT more than a decade between them..
Imagine if we had had the Vulcan in the height of the war..
Also nice to imagine if we had the F-35 Lightening during the war, I think It would have come to a swift end  Disco4 MY16 SDV6 Landmark Black
Disco4 MY12 SDV6 XS Orkney Grey (Gone)
Defender 90 200tdi Completely rebuilt.
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| 4th Nov 2019 10:34 am |
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RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
Posts: 13556
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When you compare the Lancaster and Vulcan, it's amazing to see that the Lancaster had longer range, but of course the Vulcan was nearly 3 times as fast and flew nearly 3 times as high. A Vulcan would have been all but unstoppable in 1941 - nothing would have been as fast or fly high enough to shoot at it. That's the power of the jet engine for you.
Interesting also to note that the Lancaster could, in special form, carry a heavier bomb load in the form of the 22,000lb Grand Slam. The Vulcan carried 21 1000lb bombs (or a megaton nuke, of course!). Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
2012 RRS SDV6
2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
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| 4th Nov 2019 10:59 am |
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charlietortoise
Member Since: 29 Oct 2011
Location: Staffordshire
Posts: 511
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Wow Discovery 4 3.0 HSE 2010 year. I like it a lot. Now with winch 😂
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| 4th Nov 2019 3:47 pm |
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KiwiD4
Member Since: 17 Aug 2017
Location: Christchurch
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Fascinating, thanks for posting!
I used to live about 40 metres from the northern end of that runway. Saw plenty of 'interesting' landings by commercial flights in the notorious Wellington wind, but nothing like this thankfully! King of the typo.
MY11 D4 5.0 V8, Bournville, lots of goodies!
Now departed: '85 RR Vogue, '94 D1, '95 D1, '70 SIIA, '97 D1, '04 D2a. All V8, except for the SIIA - but that drank as much petrol anyway!
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| 5th Nov 2019 3:10 am |
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RRSTDV8
Member Since: 07 Apr 2014
Location: Here
Posts: 13556
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Vulcan could exceed 50,000ft and max speed was over 600mph so even that mad German device would have struggled. Visiting from rrsport.co.uk
2012 RRS SDV6
2008 RRS TDV8
"When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die! You don't know who's children are going to scream and burn. How many hearts will be broken. How many lives shattered. How much blood will spill, until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: SIT DOWN AND TALK!"
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| 8th Nov 2019 12:37 pm |
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Gorilla63
Member Since: 18 May 2019
Location: Bewdley
Posts: 446
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Remember the Vulcans. Big ponderous aircraft. We saw them in action as well as the old Hunter's, which were a bit more nimble.
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| 9th Nov 2019 12:32 pm |
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