Vulcan, Aeroplanes, history

"It's a Vulcan, Jim, but it's not Spock!"

Rochester — This is Vulcan XH558, flying over Cliffe, near Rochester, Kent a couple of weekends ago, on one of its final flights before being permanently grounded. This is the only airworthy Vulcan left, so this really marks the end of an era. A magnificent aircraft, one of the three “V Bombers” used in the Cold War (the other two being the Valiant and the Victor) as the UK’s strategic nuclear strike force,...