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Video from the channel HFY Legendenhüter about Avro Vulcan, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 23:33. Language: German. Video type: Documentary.

German-language documentary about the development and career of the Avro Vulcan, from the specification that originated it to its retirement and the missions of the Falklands War.

The United Kingdom wanted its own nuclear weapon with a smaller budget than the United States and the USSR. The Ministry of Supply issued specification B.35/46: a medium bomber able to carry a 10,000-pound bomb 1,500 nautical miles, at 500 knots and between 35,000 and 50,000 feet, with a maximum weight under 100,000 pounds. At Avro, Roy Chadwick and Stuart Davies settled on a tailless delta wing, the Avro 698. Chadwick died in 1947 in a test flight of the Avro Tudor 2. As an alternative, the Government commissioned more conventional designs from Short Brothers and Vickers, which produced the SA.4 and the Type 660. To study how the delta wing behaved, specification E.15/48 led to the Avro 707, at one-third scale. The first, from 1949, crashed and its pilot, Eric Esler, died. It was followed by the 707A, the 707B and the 707C, the last with side-by-side seating.

Roly Falk made the first flight of the 698 prototype on 30 August 1952 with Rolls-Royce RA.3 engines, and that same year the aircraft was presented at Farnborough alongside two 707s. The name Vulcan reflects the wish of the Chief of the Air Staff, Sir John Slessor, that it start with V. The B1 carried Bristol Olympus 101 engines, H2S Mk 9 radar and five crew members, and only the two pilots had ejection seats. From 1956 it was upgraded with Olympus 200-series engines, electronic countermeasures and capability for the Blue Steel missile. Its air intakes produced a characteristic howl with the engine between 85 and 97% power. On nuclear alert, four armed bombers waited at the runway threshold and could take off in one minute and 40 seconds. Faced with Soviet defences, flying shifted to below 76 m. The first B1 delivered crashed at Heathrow in 1956. In the 1982 Falklands War, the Vulcan B2s attacked the Port Stanley airfield from Ascension Island in the Black Buck missions, refuelled in flight by Victor tankers once the leaks from the dried-out probe seals were resolved. The first strike was on 1 May 1982. On a later mission, a broken probe forced a Vulcan to land in Brazil.