In the early 30s #RAFLuton had The Spocks Display team (named after the famous Star Wars character) using Vulcan Fighter Bombers. The team were very popular with the crowds, seen here in their Typhoon formation! #AvGeekpic.twitter.com/TDrtvTl1HU
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@RAF_Luton has been sniffing the aviation fuel again
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Must have been what woke me up at first light when we lived at Carlton Miniott. I thought it was the Ansons and Varsities back firing.
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“Fly long and prosper!”
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Hi Robert, you are correct, that was the squadrons motto
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I remember seeing these do training over the west coast of Scotland in the 1870's, some 100 years before I was born. Apparently the speed they travel at has some effect on time or something.
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Were these the ones where the nose wheel cane down sideways to accommodate the elongated bomb bay doors?
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Only on the Mark 3 onwards.
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Russian bombers
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