Avro Vulcan - Why Did Britain Build One of The GREATEST Strategic Bombers EVER? - Full Story

First five seconds earns a like...just for that Vulcan howl!🙂👍

"Then the Americans locked out the British from the atom bomb that the British helped develop. And also stole British research and broke the sound barrier with it and claimed all credit. And also hocked the British with loan payments that the British did not pay off until 2000. But they definitively saved our Limey asses. Apparently."

We might need a couple, the yanks are getting silly....

Saw one of these aircraft flying through low clouds

The people that run these so called Charidys are making millions from this so called charidy straight into there pockets, and thats the only reason they are in this charidy????????

Archer ❤ 💥

Thank you for this fascinating video. As for myself, as a young lad, once I had read the 'Biggles' novels I was hooked on aviation. Going on, as a teenager, to gliding in a Slingsby T21? glider as well as a German K7 and A K4. I passed the flying Aptitude Tests at Biggin Hill later on but was not selected, sadly, for further training. I retained my fascination with aircraft and did some Hang Gliding and a single parachute descent from a Cessna 172/176? at Shobden airfield. My visit to RAF Saint Athan on Battle of Britain day in 1969 still gives me vivid memories, of the numerous flying aircraft and also the stationary ones. The ground shaking roar of a Vulcan doing a shallow beat up over the runway was a tremendous experience. What a sight that was.

I was in the RAF years ago when I was standing on the end of a runway watching a Vulcan coming towards me and taking off over my head.
Completely unforgettable sight and sound. The thunder of the engines is something you never forget.
I was born in January 1948, the same year and month that the Vulcan was ordered.

I feel blessed to grow up in RAF Waddington and later live in Bracebridge Heath in to late 70s and early 80s. This was my alarm clock every morning.

It was a badly designed aircraft. Ask any of the pilots who couldn’t even straighten their heads in the awfully designed cockpit. Or the poor weapons specialists who sat in the dark, facing backwards with no windows and an only escape hatch in front of the nosewheel. A piece of shit in reality.

Please, we need more videos about those British planes, especially those unorthodox, insane designs of the 50' and 60' like the lightning, and more of the V bombers

Looks like a prehistoric bird of prey...

My RAF passing out parade had a vulcan as a flypast salute... Things like that you dont forget.

When Sperry Gyroscope developed the ring laser gyro in the early 80s, the US parent company sent over a delegation to discover how we (the UK arm) had managed to get it to work. We sent them home none the wiser, probably as payback for stealing all our best ideas and blocking us from using them ( in the 80s, US technology was pretty unreliable as I spent some time in goods inwards testing US products before sending them on to other departments and they rarely worked correctly)

For me as an Austrian it is quite weird that the first british nuke was called "blue danube" of all things...

"From soup to nuts." I love that expression! Don't hear it much any more.

Answer: Because we could. Not now 😡

It's very strange to me that you say the Farnborough demonstration flights would have made men "go weak at the knees". I never really knew the meaning of that phrase until I saw the last flight of Vulcan XH558 over Woodford. The scream as it approached then appeared out of nowhere was terrifying. To see it bank and turn over the former airfield as it tipped its wings in a final farewell was as close as I will ever come to a religious experience and my knees really did almost buckle.

From New Zealand, the tea and gingernut tradition is alive and well in this ex colony at least

Snoopy! I like the cartoons you used there

Insane. The Lancaster first flew just 11 years earlier than the Vulcan?!

MYUNCLE,FRANK,WORKED!FOR,ROYCE!AND,IT,WAS,FOR,THE!VULCANBOMBER

Volcan was at its best looking in the White 'Swan' look.
Such an awesome sound as well!

It’s a rubbish aircraft. Fancy not even making the cockpit big enough for the pilot to hold his head up straight!

Hello, I was involved in the Vulcan story,, being a foreman in the Woodford `Experimental' Dept ( later renamed Flight Research & Development). I worked on both protos VX770 & VX777 and subsequent `Development' aircraft, I was also involved in the fitting of the Phase 2 wings to VX777, and the conversion of XH537 to carry the Skybolt missiles. Those Woodford days were the most exciting of my Aviation career and now long life. -

"A Britisher" ... Lolwhut? But it's true, the Vulcan was more than just an aircraft. She's a Legend!

What a plane!

I remember as a boy when a Vulcan had a Bristol Olympus 593 test engine strapped under it, and came in to land at Filton airfield and flattened the petrol station on the approach to the Brabazon runway....ha ha🥰

love this plane. I remember when one did a flyover of my school back in the '80s. HUGE. If you know where to look there is one on Google Earth right now. I say again, HUGE.

Not a terribly good video!

Deliverer of sunshine lol

The British didn't build just one of the world's greatest strategic bombers Avro themselves built one of the worlds greatest strategic bombers a few years before the Vulcan too! The De Havilland Mosquito was also in its day probably the greatest tactical bomber in existence

THEN WE HAD VALIANT AND VICTOR YEARS AHEAD OF THE LOT OF THEM

YES THAT SOUND SCARED THE SGGG OUT OF CRUSTEVE THEY HAD NOTHING

yanks were havering about a wooden delta wing stealth fighter now theres our VULCAN thats a delta wing fer ye yankies couldnt even build the engines then CONCORD THEY COULDN,T BUILD ONE OF THESE EITHER HAHAHAHA

Like it. Quick comment: “Raff” to me is always the RAAF.

Russian Generals: Tony Stark The British developed the Vulcan in a dark, dank,drafty hut!”
Russian Designeers “We’re not the British”

You answered your question with your question its because they needed a great strategic bomber.

the fact all the companies needed for its support to keep them airworthy pulled away that support is the single biggest failure of the uk, i miss hearing that sound in person and feeling it in my chest whenever it blessed any airshow

We saw XH558 being recommissioned at Bruntingthorpe in2008.Great shame she had to be grounded after only a few years flying.

I remember seeing this legendary aircraft when I was 8 years old (I'm now 46) at the RAF Mildenhall air show in England. Back then Mildenhall was the 2nd largest American air base in the U.K.
However, I digresse lol.
Apart from being the coolest thing I'd ever seen (for an 8yr old in the 80's remember), and second only to the Harrie as the coolest thingr, the one thing I will never forget is the thrust you felt on your chest.
Those who have seen the Vulcan on take off, while being at the runway barriers will know lol.
Great video dude, I'm now a new sub.

Because we could, and we still had our own aircraft industry, today we can't, and we no longer have an aircraft industry, the reason why we don't in two words, Labour Party.

Nice video. Good job!

It still annoys me seeing the Sovs and their jets during the 50s as we (the English) sold them the design for the Jet engine so we could make the odd fiver here and there. Stupid decision and then some!!!! They would have gotten it in the end, but it would have taken longer and probably not been any good. Well, at least not to start with anyway.

I'm old enough to recall the Vulcan flying in the skies of the UK. The aircraft was awe inspiring to watch fly over head, and the noise it made, was music to the ears. But back then the UK had an air force with planes to fly. This plane was a shout to the world saying, look what our great engineers are capable of building.

Cancelling the '46 atomic agreement was the consequence for giving the soviets the nene engine.

Youre welcome for helping you survive the war so you could make cool planes.

The Valiant was the only V bomber to drop a nuke so that vid needs to be done.

IN the 1970s I was lucky enough to win a competition at an Air Training Corp summer camp, the prize was a flight in a Vulcan. I was fourteen at the time, but that flight has stayed in my memories as if it was yesterday!

YES!!! ABSOLUTELY!!! THE VICKERS VALIANT!!!! PLEASE!!!!!🤔🤔🤔😉😉😊😊