Aviation Last time ever?

[Eddie Zedder]

That happens to us all. I was taught to set your camera to known and familiar settings before you put it away. You know then what your starting with when you pick it up. A spare battery to three helps too. I have been taking pictures seriously for a while though.

I usually keep it on the same setting but I think I must of caught the selector wheel as I pulled it out of the bag! Always carry batteries too, but I figured that by the time I changed them she would have been gone.

 

[Redline]

I usually keep it on the same setting but I think I must of caught the selector wheel as I pulled it out of the bag! Always carry batteries too, but I figured that by the time I changed them she would have been gone.

Yes - it wasn't scheduled to hang around for very long. At least you got to see it flying.

 

[hard top]

Avro Vulcan from a overflying Avro Lancaster.

 

[t-tony]

Nice picture Mike.

Tony.

 

[Redline]

Glad you posted this @hard top - reminded me I hadn't see the program. Just watched it on catch up. Great to see those close ups in flight. Brill.

 

[hard top]

A Lancaster overflys the ORP at RAF Waddington in March 1968.

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The Vulcan B2s are (front to rear) XH561, XJ782, XM656 and XJ824. Only XH561 is fitted with terrain-following radar. Having served on 230 OCU since its delivery in December 1960, 561 was returned to the manufacturers in March 1966 and was reissued to the Waddington Wing in August 1967. No doubt the TFR was fitted in that period. When this photograph was taken, the Waddington Wing was exchanging its earlier aircraft with the late-production aircraft of the Cottesmore Wing. Hence the presence of 656 in the photograph.

 

[t-tony]

Great picture! Even without the Lanc.

Tony.