Civilian Aviation

I went to Southend yesterday to see Vulcan G-VJET (aka XL426) carry out it's first taxi run for a while - it was superb! The viewing location was also excellent for views of aircraft taxiing into the terminal and of course on the runway so it was an even better day!

Starting with the other movements:
from memory, someone on here likes Metros so lets start with this:
D-CASL Metroliner BinAir Southend 16-11-2019 2221 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

EI-STS B.737 ASL Airlines Southend 16-11-2019 4903 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

EI-STS B.737 ASL Airlines Southend 16-11-2019 4926 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

N345DT Mooney M.20 Southend 16-11-2019 5001 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

G-VVWW Enstrom 280FX Southend 16-11-2019 5030 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

G-UZHF A.320N EasyJet Southend 16-11-2019 4835 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

G-ISLK ATR.72 FlyBe Southend 16-11-2019 4943 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

G-UZHF A.320N EasyJet Southend 16-11-2019 2254 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

G-BSZO Ce.150 Southend 16-11-2019 4933 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

now some of the aircraft in the background of the previous photo...
Vulcan XL426 , registered G-VJET strutting it's stuff - superb sight and noise, the first time I'd seen a Vulcan move under it's own power since October 2015 anh how i'd missed it
G-VJET (XL426) Vulcan 16-11-2019 Southend 5080 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

G-VJET (XL426) Vulcan 16-11-2019 Southend 2296 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

G-VJET (XL426) Vulcan 16-11-2019 Southend 5093 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

G-VJET (XL426) Vulcan 16-11-2019 Southend 2344 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

and some of the hard working volunteers who made it possible - thanks guys you made my day - or should that be year?
Thanks guys 16-11-2019 Southend 5162 by Andrew Goldsmith, on Flickr

I took quite a lot of photos (I expect you're surprised to hear that ) and also several bits of video and both are visible on Vulcan section of the forum that I set up for the superguppy here: https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/supergu ... -t220.html ENJOY!

thanks for looking , C&C welcome

Andy

Nice set Andy and well done for braving the cold weather.

Wow, nice set. Didn't know the Vulcan is still flying.

Wallie wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 19, 2019 7:17 am

Wow, nice set. Didn't know the Vulcan is still flying.

It's not flying (unfortunately) Wallie, it was just doing runs along the runway.

It's not the one that was flying until 2015 either that was XH558 (G-VLCN) which now resides next to a sewage works at Doncaster and is unaccessible to the public apart from engine run days at about £150 a time

andy