I can account for some of that time - the old bird came for a fly past (well two actually) of my work at about 13.00 on Mon... Nice to see (last time I saw a Vulcan must have been at Finningley Airshow about 15 years ago).

The second fly past even managed to set off a few car alarms.

(Apparently the reason for the flypast was that the pilot was one of RR's test pilots (they're direcly over the road...but the flypast was along the runway on our site).

That'd be down at Filton then.

The second flypast sounded pretty neat with a nice wheels down approach and climb away by all accounts.

She's been a busy old gal this last fortnight with her Fairford appearance, flying four days (Friday - Monday) followed by seaside shows at Lowestoft and a couple of RAF Family Day displays this week with another flight taking in four venues planned for tomorrow.

Onwards and upwards.

And just 5 minutes ago she flew over my back garden, circled round and flew over again, absolutely bloody brilliant.

I know the crew stayed at the neighbouring village pub when they attended the Waddington Airshow and had planned a flypast to say thanks on the Sunday of the airshow but she ended up grounded for the weekend.

Without wishing to repeat myself, absolutely bloody brilliant.

Today's sortie at the Dawlish Airshow



This is what we should have seen on the Sunday at Waddington. Never mind better late than never.

That's a great photo