Vulcan's 25 years at Southend

摘要

A group of Vulcan Restoration Trust (VRT) volunteers braved the cold on the evening of December 19 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Avro Vulcan B.2 XL426's arrival at its present home, Southend in Essex. Built in Manchester in 1962, XL426 served with the RAF for 24 years, based at Scampton and Waddington in Lincolnshire, with numbers 83,27,617 and finally 50 Sguadron. It was part of the UK's nuclear deterrent force and carried the Blue Steel cruise missile. In 1963 it set an unofficial record for flying over the North Atlantic in 4 hours and 52 minutes.