• Air Defence System

    From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 21 08:06:40 2025
    In view of the technical expertise in here I though I would ask this here.

    Trump, who seems to be our new leader as he is always on TV, has announced
    a "Golden Dome" defence system to protect against air/space attack and
    said "All of them will be knocked out of the air."

    Will they then fly away or is it likely they will end up exploding on the ground?

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  • From alan_m@21:1/5 to Jeff Gaines on Wed May 21 09:34:14 2025
    On 21/05/2025 09:06, Jeff Gaines wrote:

    In view of the technical expertise in here I though I would ask this here.

    Trump, who seems to be our new leader as he is always on TV, has
    announced a "Golden Dome" defence system to protect against air/space
    attack and said "All of them will be knocked out of the air."

    Will they then fly away or is it likely they will end up exploding on
    the ground?


    As both Russia and the Ukraine has found recently, you are unlikely to
    knock out everything when the airspace is saturated with relatively
    cheap drones along with the munitions that do the serious damage.

    It will be something like the full air coverage against attack in the
    USA in the 1960s but still the UK nuked America (twice). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wx6npt421c




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  • From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to m95hg5Fl1nlU1@mid.individual.net on Wed May 21 10:00:55 2025
    On 21/05/2025 in message <m95hg5Fl1nlU1@mid.individual.net> alan_m wrote:

    On 21/05/2025 09:06, Jeff Gaines wrote:

    In view of the technical expertise in here I though I would ask this here.

    Trump, who seems to be our new leader as he is always on TV, has
    announced a "Golden Dome" defence system to protect against air/space >>attack and said "All of them will be knocked out of the air."

    Will they then fly away or is it likely they will end up exploding on the >>ground?


    As both Russia and the Ukraine has found recently, you are unlikely to
    knock out everything when the airspace is saturated with relatively cheap >drones along with the munitions that do the serious damage.

    It will be something like the full air coverage against attack in the USA
    in the 1960s but still the UK nuked America (twice). >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wx6npt421c

    Thank you for that, I hadn't seen it before :-)

    Those were the days our technology led the world. I remember being on
    holiday in Malta when a flight of 4 Vulcans (from memory painted white)
    flew over the Golden Sands hotel, awesome!

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    I've been through the desert on a horse with no name.
    It was a right bugger to get him back when he ran off.

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  • From The Natural Philosopher@21:1/5 to Jeff Gaines on Wed May 21 10:33:48 2025
    On 21/05/2025 09:06, Jeff Gaines wrote:

    In view of the technical expertise in here I though I would ask this here.

    Trump, who seems to be our new leader as he is always on TV, has
    announced a "Golden Dome" defence system to protect against air/space
    attack and said "All of them will be knocked out of the air."

    Will they then fly away or is it likely they will end up exploding on
    the ground?


    Well no, they will normally explode in the air, or not explode at all.

    As a 'controlled explosion' destroys a bomb by disassembling it before
    it can go bang.

    Of course until El Donaldo canme to power, no one actually *wanted* to
    attack the USA.

    Oh well..


    --
    “It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established
    authorities are wrong.”

    ― Voltaire, The Age of Louis XIV

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  • From alan_m@21:1/5 to The Natural Philosopher on Wed May 21 11:12:06 2025
    On 21/05/2025 10:33, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
    On 21/05/2025 09:06, Jeff Gaines wrote:

    In view of the technical expertise in here I though I would ask this
    here.

    Trump, who seems to be our new leader as he is always on TV, has
    announced a "Golden Dome" defence system to protect against air/space
    attack and said "All of them will be knocked out of the air."

    Will they then fly away or is it likely they will end up exploding on
    the ground?


    Well no, they will normally explode in the air, or not explode at all.

    As a 'controlled explosion' destroys a bomb by disassembling it before
    it can go bang.

    Of course until El Donaldo canme to power, no one actually *wanted* to
    attack the USA.

    Oh well..



    Build a system to knock everything out of the sky and the sneaky
    bastards will just cyber attack space x and knock out all the
    satellites. With Trump now giving all US contracts to Musk for their
    security he creates an easy target. :)

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  • From The Natural Philosopher@21:1/5 to All on Wed May 21 11:48:26 2025
    On 21/05/2025 11:12, alan_m wrote:
    On 21/05/2025 10:33, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
    On 21/05/2025 09:06, Jeff Gaines wrote:

    In view of the technical expertise in here I though I would ask this
    here.

    Trump, who seems to be our new leader as he is always on TV, has
    announced a "Golden Dome" defence system to protect against air/space
    attack and said "All of them will be knocked out of the air."

    Will they then fly away or is it likely they will end up exploding on
    the ground?


    Well no, they will normally explode in the air, or not explode at all.

    As a 'controlled explosion' destroys a bomb by disassembling it before
    it can go bang.

    Of course until El Donaldo canme to power, no one actually *wanted* to
    attack the USA.

    Oh well..



    Build a system to knock everything out of the sky and the sneaky
    bastards will just cyber attack space x and knock out all the
    satellites.  With Trump now giving all US contracts to Musk for their security he creates an easy target. :)

    It is a monumental clusterfuck.

    Well, technical and social evolution will sort out what works better
    from what doesn't work at all.

    UKs massive laser weapons look promising


    --
    "Nature does not give up the winter because people dislike the cold."

    ― Confucius

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  • From Another John@21:1/5 to tnp@invalid.invalid on Wed May 21 10:54:38 2025
    On 21 May 2025 at 10:33:48 BST, "The Natural Philosopher"
    <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    Of course until El Donaldo canme to power, no one actually *wanted* to
    attack the USA.

    HaHaHaHa! Nice one!

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  • From Sam Plusnet@21:1/5 to Another John on Wed May 21 19:38:26 2025
    On 21/05/2025 11:54, Another John wrote:
    On 21 May 2025 at 10:33:48 BST, "The Natural Philosopher" <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    Of course until El Donaldo canme to power, no one actually *wanted* to
    attack the USA.

    HaHaHaHa! Nice one!

    There used to be several countries which would have liked to attack the
    US. It's just that the field have become overcrowded of late.

    --
    Sam Plusnet

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  • From charles@21:1/5 to Jeff Gaines on Wed May 21 19:45:01 2025
    In article <xn0p626mx9bpebs00j@news.individual.net>,
    Jeff Gaines <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:
    On 21/05/2025 in message <m95hg5Fl1nlU1@mid.individual.net> alan_m wrote:

    On 21/05/2025 09:06, Jeff Gaines wrote:

    In view of the technical expertise in here I though I would ask this here. >>
    Trump, who seems to be our new leader as he is always on TV, has >>announced a "Golden Dome" defence system to protect against air/space >>attack and said "All of them will be knocked out of the air."

    Will they then fly away or is it likely they will end up exploding on the >>ground?


    As both Russia and the Ukraine has found recently, you are unlikely to >knock out everything when the airspace is saturated with relatively cheap >drones along with the munitions that do the serious damage.

    It will be something like the full air coverage against attack in the USA >in the 1960s but still the UK nuked America (twice). >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wx6npt421c

    Thank you for that, I hadn't seen it before :-)

    Those were the days our technology led the world. I remember being on
    holiday in Malta when a flight of 4 Vulcans (from memory painted white)
    flew over the Golden Sands hotel, awesome!

    I can remember being right undeneath a Vulcan which was "hedgehopping" in
    the west of Scotland. It even had to bank to avoid hitting a Decca
    Navigator mast. It was noisy!

    --
    from KT24 in Surrey, England - sent from my RISC OS 4t
    "I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle

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  • From Jeff Layman@21:1/5 to Jeff Gaines on Wed May 21 22:39:33 2025
    On 21/05/2025 11:00, Jeff Gaines wrote:
    On 21/05/2025 in message <m95hg5Fl1nlU1@mid.individual.net> alan_m wrote:

    On 21/05/2025 09:06, Jeff Gaines wrote:

    In view of the technical expertise in here I though I would ask this here. >>>
    Trump, who seems to be our new leader as he is always on TV, has
    announced a "Golden Dome" defence system to protect against air/space
    attack and said "All of them will be knocked out of the air."

    Will they then fly away or is it likely they will end up exploding on the >>> ground?


    As both Russia and the Ukraine has found recently, you are unlikely to
    knock out everything when the airspace is saturated with relatively cheap
    drones along with the munitions that do the serious damage.

    It will be something like the full air coverage against attack in the USA
    in the 1960s but still the UK nuked America (twice).
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wx6npt421c

    Thank you for that, I hadn't seen it before :-)

    Those were the days our technology led the world. I remember being on
    holiday in Malta when a flight of 4 Vulcans (from memory painted white)
    flew over the Golden Sands hotel, awesome!

    There is a Vulcan at the Newark Air Museum. I visited there around 9
    years ago and was fortunate enough to take the cockpit tour (carried out
    by the squadron commander who landed it there many years earlier). It
    was an amazing experience but I'm not sure if those tours are done any
    more. If they are, and you're in the area, it's worth seeing. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWwG22HgaHU>

    --
    Jeff

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  • From alan_m@21:1/5 to Jeff Layman on Wed May 21 23:05:49 2025
    On 21/05/2025 22:39, Jeff Layman wrote:
    On 21/05/2025 11:00, Jeff Gaines wrote:
    On 21/05/2025 in message <m95hg5Fl1nlU1@mid.individual.net> alan_m wrote:

    On 21/05/2025 09:06, Jeff Gaines wrote:

    In view of the technical expertise in here I though I would ask this
    here.

    Trump, who seems to be our new leader as he is always on TV, has
    announced a "Golden Dome" defence system to protect against air/space
    attack and said "All of them will be knocked out of the air."

    Will they then fly away or is it likely they will end up exploding
    on  the
    ground?


    As both Russia and the Ukraine has found recently, you are unlikely to
    knock out everything when the airspace is saturated with relatively
    cheap
    drones along with the munitions that do the serious damage.

    It will be something like the full air coverage against attack in the
    USA
    in the 1960s but still the UK nuked America (twice).
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wx6npt421c

    Thank you for that, I hadn't seen it before :-)

    Those were the days our technology led the world. I remember being on
    holiday in Malta when a flight of 4 Vulcans (from memory painted white)
    flew over the Golden Sands hotel, awesome!

    There is a Vulcan at the Newark Air Museum. I visited there around 9
    years ago and was fortunate enough to take the cockpit tour (carried out
    by the squadron commander who landed it there many years earlier). It
    was an amazing experience but I'm not sure if those tours are done any
    more. If they are, and you're in the area, it's worth seeing. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWwG22HgaHU>



    They are advertising a tour of a vulcan cockpit (for a fee) at Southend
    on Sea airport on 15th June 2025 / 17 August 2025 / 28 September 2025 /

    https://avrovulcan.com/events

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  • From charles@21:1/5 to junk@admac.myzen.co.uk on Thu May 22 07:00:02 2025
    In article <m9711sFsc1kU1@mid.individual.net>,
    alan_m <junk@admac.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
    On 21/05/2025 22:39, Jeff Layman wrote:
    On 21/05/2025 11:00, Jeff Gaines wrote:
    On 21/05/2025 in message <m95hg5Fl1nlU1@mid.individual.net> alan_m wrote: >>
    On 21/05/2025 09:06, Jeff Gaines wrote:

    In view of the technical expertise in here I though I would ask this >>>> here.

    Trump, who seems to be our new leader as he is always on TV, has
    announced a "Golden Dome" defence system to protect against air/space >>>> attack and said "All of them will be knocked out of the air."

    Will they then fly away or is it likely they will end up exploding
    on the
    ground?


    As both Russia and the Ukraine has found recently, you are unlikely to >>> knock out everything when the airspace is saturated with relatively
    cheap
    drones along with the munitions that do the serious damage.

    It will be something like the full air coverage against attack in the
    USA
    in the 1960s but still the UK nuked America (twice).
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wx6npt421c

    Thank you for that, I hadn't seen it before :-)

    Those were the days our technology led the world. I remember being on
    holiday in Malta when a flight of 4 Vulcans (from memory painted white)
    flew over the Golden Sands hotel, awesome!

    There is a Vulcan at the Newark Air Museum. I visited there around 9
    years ago and was fortunate enough to take the cockpit tour (carried out
    by the squadron commander who landed it there many years earlier). It
    was an amazing experience but I'm not sure if those tours are done any more. If they are, and you're in the area, it's worth seeing. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWwG22HgaHU>



    They are advertising a tour of a vulcan cockpit (for a fee) at Southend
    on Sea airport on 15th June 2025 / 17 August 2025 / 28 September 2025 /

    Did one, as member of the CCF, at RAF Gaydon in the late 1950s.

    -

    --
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  • From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to Jeff Layman on Thu May 22 07:34:16 2025
    On 21/05/2025 in message <100lh6l$2tmf4$2@dont-email.me> Jeff Layman wrote:

    On 21/05/2025 11:00, Jeff Gaines wrote:
    On 21/05/2025 in message <m95hg5Fl1nlU1@mid.individual.net> alan_m wrote:

    On 21/05/2025 09:06, Jeff Gaines wrote:

    In view of the technical expertise in here I though I would ask this >>>>here.

    Trump, who seems to be our new leader as he is always on TV, has >>>>announced a "Golden Dome" defence system to protect against air/space >>>>attack and said "All of them will be knocked out of the air."

    Will they then fly away or is it likely they will end up exploding on >>>>the
    ground?


    As both Russia and the Ukraine has found recently, you are unlikely to >>>knock out everything when the airspace is saturated with relatively cheap >>>drones along with the munitions that do the serious damage.

    It will be something like the full air coverage against attack in the USA >>>in the 1960s but still the UK nuked America (twice). >>>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wx6npt421c

    Thank you for that, I hadn't seen it before :-)

    Those were the days our technology led the world. I remember being on >>holiday in Malta when a flight of 4 Vulcans (from memory painted white) >>flew over the Golden Sands hotel, awesome!

    There is a Vulcan at the Newark Air Museum. I visited there around 9 years >ago and was fortunate enough to take the cockpit tour (carried out by the >squadron commander who landed it there many years earlier). It was an
    amazing experience but I'm not sure if those tours are done any more. If
    they are, and you're in the area, it's worth seeing. ><https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWwG22HgaHU>

    Beautiful, thank you :-)

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    Have you ever noticed that all the instruments searching for intelligent
    life are pointing away from Earth?

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  • From Chris J Dixon@21:1/5 to Jeff Layman on Thu May 22 08:22:42 2025
    Jeff Layman wrote:

    On 21/05/2025 11:00, Jeff Gaines wrote:

    Those were the days our technology led the world. I remember being on
    holiday in Malta when a flight of 4 Vulcans (from memory painted white)
    flew over the Golden Sands hotel, awesome!

    There is a Vulcan at the Newark Air Museum. I visited there around 9
    years ago and was fortunate enough to take the cockpit tour (carried out
    by the squadron commander who landed it there many years earlier). It
    was an amazing experience but I'm not sure if those tours are done any
    more. If they are, and you're in the area, it's worth seeing. ><https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWwG22HgaHU>

    I recall a flying display at Finningley in the 60s, featuring a
    scramble of 3 Vulcans, and that sound really shook your body.

    The Lightning doing a low pass and rapid climb was another
    highlight.

    I have been inside the Vulcan at Newark, and certainly wouldn't
    fancy 16 hours travelling backwards in those cramped conditions.

    This is a great story, even if you know the ending:

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vulcan-607-Rowland-White/dp/0552152293

    Chris
    --
    Chris J Dixon Nottingham UK
    chris@cdixon.me.uk @ChrisJDixon1

    Plant amazing Acers.

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  • From Davey@21:1/5 to charles on Thu May 22 08:50:03 2025
    On Wed, 21 May 25 19:45:01 UTC
    charles <charles@candehope.me.uk> wrote:

    In article <xn0p626mx9bpebs00j@news.individual.net>,
    Jeff Gaines <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:
    On 21/05/2025 in message <m95hg5Fl1nlU1@mid.individual.net> alan_m
    wrote:

    On 21/05/2025 09:06, Jeff Gaines wrote:

    In view of the technical expertise in here I though I would ask
    this here.

    Trump, who seems to be our new leader as he is always on TV, has >>announced a "Golden Dome" defence system to protect against
    air/space attack and said "All of them will be knocked out of the
    air."

    Will they then fly away or is it likely they will end up
    exploding on the ground?


    As both Russia and the Ukraine has found recently, you are
    unlikely to knock out everything when the airspace is saturated
    with relatively cheap drones along with the munitions that do the
    serious damage.

    It will be something like the full air coverage against attack in
    the USA in the 1960s but still the UK nuked America (twice). >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wx6npt421c

    Thank you for that, I hadn't seen it before :-)

    Those were the days our technology led the world. I remember being
    on holiday in Malta when a flight of 4 Vulcans (from memory painted
    white) flew over the Golden Sands hotel, awesome!

    I can remember being right undeneath a Vulcan which was
    "hedgehopping" in the west of Scotland. It even had to bank to avoid
    hitting a Decca Navigator mast. It was noisy!


    We went to watch the Last Flight as it passed near us in East Anglia,
    and due to a local storm, it diverted from about a mile away to directly overhead. Perfect!
    There used to be a Vulcan at Barksfield Air Force Base in Louisiana, it
    might still be there. But it was not being well looked after, just
    sitting out in the hot Louisiana sun.

    --
    Davey.

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  • From John Rumm@21:1/5 to Jeff Gaines on Thu May 22 11:41:23 2025
    On 21/05/2025 09:06, Jeff Gaines wrote:

    In view of the technical expertise in here I though I would ask this here.

    Trump, who seems to be our new leader as he is always on TV, has
    announced a "Golden Dome" defence system to protect against air/space
    attack and said "All of them will be knocked out of the air."

    Will they then fly away or is it likely they will end up exploding on
    the ground?

    A basic HE weapon would like explode in the air. Anything more complex
    that requires complicated triggering (e.g. a nuke) would be probably be destroyed before it can detonate properly.

    (if you are trying to tackle ICBMs, then the best time to hit them is in
    the ascent "boost" phase before they get into orbit. They are slowest,
    and most vulnerable as a single target at this stage.

    Once they are in orbit they typically split into multiple re-entry
    vehicles, each of which can contain multiple warheads (or dummies). Some
    are also steerable on the descent - so much harder to intercept at that
    point. (although there are systems that can do it for at least some)


    --
    Cheers,

    John.

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  • From John Rumm@21:1/5 to Davey on Thu May 22 11:31:24 2025
    On 22/05/2025 08:50, Davey wrote:
    On Wed, 21 May 25 19:45:01 UTC
    charles <charles@candehope.me.uk> wrote:

    In article <xn0p626mx9bpebs00j@news.individual.net>,
    Jeff Gaines <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:
    On 21/05/2025 in message <m95hg5Fl1nlU1@mid.individual.net> alan_m
    wrote:

    On 21/05/2025 09:06, Jeff Gaines wrote:

    In view of the technical expertise in here I though I would ask
    this here.

    Trump, who seems to be our new leader as he is always on TV, has
    announced a "Golden Dome" defence system to protect against
    air/space attack and said "All of them will be knocked out of the
    air."

    Will they then fly away or is it likely they will end up
    exploding on the ground?


    As both Russia and the Ukraine has found recently, you are
    unlikely to knock out everything when the airspace is saturated
    with relatively cheap drones along with the munitions that do the
    serious damage.

    It will be something like the full air coverage against attack in
    the USA in the 1960s but still the UK nuked America (twice).
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wx6npt421c

    Thank you for that, I hadn't seen it before :-)

    Those were the days our technology led the world. I remember being
    on holiday in Malta when a flight of 4 Vulcans (from memory painted
    white) flew over the Golden Sands hotel, awesome!

    I can remember being right undeneath a Vulcan which was
    "hedgehopping" in the west of Scotland. It even had to bank to avoid
    hitting a Decca Navigator mast. It was noisy!


    We went to watch the Last Flight as it passed near us in East Anglia,
    and due to a local storm, it diverted from about a mile away to directly overhead. Perfect!

    The last flight of one stopped at Southend airport (28th June 2015) - I
    went out in the car to try and get to a good vantage point - but it was gridlock. In the end I went home, only to catch a glimpse of its
    approach and realise it was going to fry overhead. So I was able to stop
    at the side of the road and get a short video of it directly above.

    The irony was that it flew straight up our road and over our house, so I
    would have got a better view just by waiting in the garden!

    https://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php/File:Vulcan-Southend-Flypast.jpg


    --
    Cheers,

    John.

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  • From Jeff Layman@21:1/5 to John Rumm on Thu May 22 13:35:40 2025
    On 22/05/2025 11:31, John Rumm wrote:
    On 22/05/2025 08:50, Davey wrote:
    On Wed, 21 May 25 19:45:01 UTC
    charles <charles@candehope.me.uk> wrote:

    In article <xn0p626mx9bpebs00j@news.individual.net>,
    Jeff Gaines <jgnewsid@outlook.com> wrote:
    On 21/05/2025 in message <m95hg5Fl1nlU1@mid.individual.net> alan_m
    wrote:

    On 21/05/2025 09:06, Jeff Gaines wrote:

    In view of the technical expertise in here I though I would ask
    this here.

    Trump, who seems to be our new leader as he is always on TV, has
    announced a "Golden Dome" defence system to protect against
    air/space attack and said "All of them will be knocked out of the
    air."

    Will they then fly away or is it likely they will end up
    exploding on the ground?


    As both Russia and the Ukraine has found recently, you are
    unlikely to knock out everything when the airspace is saturated
    with relatively cheap drones along with the munitions that do the
    serious damage.

    It will be something like the full air coverage against attack in
    the USA in the 1960s but still the UK nuked America (twice).
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wx6npt421c

    Thank you for that, I hadn't seen it before :-)

    Those were the days our technology led the world. I remember being
    on holiday in Malta when a flight of 4 Vulcans (from memory painted
    white) flew over the Golden Sands hotel, awesome!

    I can remember being right undeneath a Vulcan which was
    "hedgehopping" in the west of Scotland. It even had to bank to avoid
    hitting a Decca Navigator mast. It was noisy!


    We went to watch the Last Flight as it passed near us in East Anglia,
    and due to a local storm, it diverted from about a mile away to directly
    overhead. Perfect!

    The last flight of one stopped at Southend airport (28th June 2015) - I
    went out in the car to try and get to a good vantage point - but it was gridlock. In the end I went home, only to catch a glimpse of its
    approach and realise it was going to fry overhead. So I was able to stop
    at the side of the road and get a short video of it directly above.

    The irony was that it flew straight up our road and over our house, so I would have got a better view just by waiting in the garden!

    https://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/index.php/File:Vulcan-Southend-Flypast.jpg

    When I was living in Alconbury, I thought I'd have a good chance of
    getting to the Lakenheath air show early, as it was less than an hour's
    drive away. I hadn't reckoned with the traffic arrangements - those
    coming from far away had a direct route into the airfield. Those coming
    from more nearby were led all the way round, with the traffic barely
    moving. After two hours I gave up and drove back to Alconbury, very
    peeved. After getting home I was stretching my legs after sitting in the
    car for so long when I heard a very loud and unfamiliar noise from an
    aircraft of some sort. Looking up, I saw the aircraft I was hoping to
    see at Lakenheath practising its flight - the SR-71 Blackbird! I was
    able to watch it for around 10 minutes, just flying around. It was a
    remarkable sight which more than made up for the bad start to the day.

    --
    Jeff

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  • From Jeff Layman@21:1/5 to Chris J Dixon on Thu May 22 13:22:27 2025
    On 22/05/2025 08:22, Chris J Dixon wrote:
    Jeff Layman wrote:

    On 21/05/2025 11:00, Jeff Gaines wrote:

    Those were the days our technology led the world. I remember being on
    holiday in Malta when a flight of 4 Vulcans (from memory painted white)
    flew over the Golden Sands hotel, awesome!

    There is a Vulcan at the Newark Air Museum. I visited there around 9
    years ago and was fortunate enough to take the cockpit tour (carried out
    by the squadron commander who landed it there many years earlier). It
    was an amazing experience but I'm not sure if those tours are done any
    more. If they are, and you're in the area, it's worth seeing.
    <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWwG22HgaHU>

    I recall a flying display at Finningley in the 60s, featuring a
    scramble of 3 Vulcans, and that sound really shook your body.

    The Lightning doing a low pass and rapid climb was another
    highlight.

    I remember one of those at a North Weald air show in the early 60s. It
    was flying below 500 feet and then did a vertical climb with its
    afterburners at full power. You didn't so much hear it as feel it! There
    was a similar experience when I was at Alconbury in the mid-70s. I was
    walking along the road just where the airstrip ended, and happened to
    glance down the strip to see an F-16 coming towards me. I knew what was
    going to happen so I covered my ears with my hands and after a few
    seconds the F-16 appeared less than 100 feet overhead and did an almost vertical climb. I was shaken from head to foot with the immense power of
    that jet!

    I have been inside the Vulcan at Newark, and certainly wouldn't
    fancy 16 hours travelling backwards in those cramped conditions.

    Yes, I was surprised how little space there was in the cockpit. I doubt
    anyone over 12 stone could have been able to manoeuvre themselves
    between the seats (which from memory were only about 8" apart!). The
    pilot (Squadron Leader - later Wing Commander - Colin McDougall) giving
    me the tour said he'd actually travelled as an additional member of the
    crew on one flight and basically had to sit at the top of the entrance
    hatch for a few hours as that was the only space available! There was
    little enough room for 5, let alone 6 bodies in the cockpit. He'd flown
    the Vulcan into Newark - its last flight - and it was more than a little
    hairy as there was snow and ice around. There was some question as to
    whether or not the airstrip was long enough to take the Vulcan if
    braking might be an issue.

    What I found most memorable was something I hadn't thought about - the
    special window blinds to protect the crew from the nuclear flash of the
    bomb they'd dropped. I was also told that Lancaster pilots would have
    found much of the Vulcan familiar! One other thing was that I hadn't
    realised just how big a Vulcan was. Look at the aerial photo at <https://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/vulcan/survivor.php?id=49> and
    just see its size compared to the cars parked nearby (it has the same
    wingspan, is almost 50% longer, and has approaching 3x the wing area of
    a Lancaster!).

    By the way, the cockpit tour cost me all of £1!!!

    This is a great story, even if you know the ending:

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vulcan-607-Rowland-White/dp/0552152293

    Spitfire/Hurricane, Mosquito, Lancaster, and Vulcan. Britain has always
    had the most memorable military planes.

    --
    Jeff

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  • From Paul@21:1/5 to Jeff Gaines on Thu May 22 09:39:16 2025
    On Wed, 5/21/2025 4:06 AM, Jeff Gaines wrote:

    In view of the technical expertise in here I though I would ask this here.

    Trump, who seems to be our new leader as he is always on TV, has announced a "Golden Dome" defence system to protect against air/space attack and said "All of them will be knocked out of the air."

    Will they then fly away or is it likely they will end up exploding on the ground?


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative

    "An early estimate suggested $20 spent on defense would be
    required for every $1 the Soviets spent on offense.

    This massively skewed cost-exchange ratio prompted
    observers to propose that an arms race was inevitable."

    Or at least, to see who could stack dollar bills into a taller pile.

    It means, basically, that you need 20x the assets of your enemy.

    Paul

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  • From Spike@21:1/5 to Jeff Layman on Thu May 22 16:13:21 2025
    Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    [re Avro Vulcan in war mode…]

    What I found most memorable was something I hadn't thought about - the special window blinds to protect the crew from the nuclear flash of the
    bomb they'd dropped. I was also told that Lancaster pilots would have
    found much of the Vulcan familiar!

    It wasn’t only their own nuclear bomb flash that they had to be aware of. They would be flying into an active war zone, with other bombers dropping
    their weapons on their own targets, missile warheads detonating, nuclear air-defence missiles going off, etc etc. The idea was that they would use
    the anti flash curtains to protect the rest of the crew, but the pilot had
    to be aware of what was going on outside and so his curtain would be pulled back far enough for this. However, he was also issued with an eye patch, so that if blinded in his uncovered eye he would still have a working one. If
    that was blinded in turn, he would hand over to the co-pilot, who also had
    an eye-patch…so there would have been a total of four eyes available to fly the mission.

    Rumour has it that when they had dropped their bomb, and realising that the
    UK would by this time essentially be a pile of smoking ash, they would fly
    east until the fuel ran out, at which point the crew would bale out, and individually settle down to a nomadic life with an accommodating Mongolian woman.

    --
    Spike

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  • From Jeff Layman@21:1/5 to Spike on Fri May 23 08:50:38 2025
    On 22/05/2025 17:13, Spike wrote:
    Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    [re Avro Vulcan in war mode…]

    What I found most memorable was something I hadn't thought about - the
    special window blinds to protect the crew from the nuclear flash of the
    bomb they'd dropped. I was also told that Lancaster pilots would have
    found much of the Vulcan familiar!

    It wasn’t only their own nuclear bomb flash that they had to be aware of. They would be flying into an active war zone, with other bombers dropping their weapons on their own targets, missile warheads detonating, nuclear air-defence missiles going off, etc etc. The idea was that they would use
    the anti flash curtains to protect the rest of the crew, but the pilot had
    to be aware of what was going on outside and so his curtain would be pulled back far enough for this. However, he was also issued with an eye patch, so that if blinded in his uncovered eye he would still have a working one. If that was blinded in turn, he would hand over to the co-pilot, who also had
    an eye-patch…so there would have been a total of four eyes available to fly the mission.

    One other thing of importance is the EMP from the nuclear explosion
    frying the electronics. But how much of the Vulcan was transistorised?

    After seeing the Vulcan I bought an Air Indicator Unit which was part of
    a "Green Satin" Doppler radar unit at Birkett's in Lincoln. When I
    opened it I was amazed to find no transistors at all, just valves. These
    were of the subminiature type - CV465, 468, 469, and 4501. I assume
    these would have been much less likely to suffer from an EMP. If the
    rest of the Vulcan's electronics were mainly valves, then it would
    probably have had good resistance to an EMP.

    The Air Indicator Unit weighed 10kg, so it's no wonder that the Vulcan
    weighed over 100 tons!

    --
    Jeff

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  • From Jeff Gaines@21:1/5 to Jeff Layman on Fri May 23 09:20:40 2025
    On 23/05/2025 in message <100p9ce$3vmfc$1@dont-email.me> Jeff Layman wrote:

    One other thing of importance is the EMP from the nuclear explosion frying >the electronics. But how much of the Vulcan was transistorised?

    After seeing the Vulcan I bought an Air Indicator Unit which was part of a >"Green Satin" Doppler radar unit at Birkett's in Lincoln. When I opened it
    I was amazed to find no transistors at all, just valves. These were of the >subminiature type - CV465, 468, 469, and 4501. I assume these would have
    been much less likely to suffer from an EMP. If the rest of the Vulcan's >electronics were mainly valves, then it would probably have had good >resistance to an EMP.

    The Air Indicator Unit weighed 10kg, so it's no wonder that the Vulcan >weighed over 100 tons!


    The Vulcan did have some sophisticated electronics presumably because the video:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wx6npt421c

    (link courtesy of alan_m)

    shows that 3 ran interference while the 4th bombed New York.

    However, I imagine that could have been valve driven, certainly a lot of
    the communication receivers of the era were excellent and they used valves
    - as well as 300V PSUs with bare cables underneath as I discovered when I picked one up :-(

    --
    Jeff Gaines Dorset UK
    Every day is a good day for chicken, unless you're a chicken.

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  • From Spike@21:1/5 to Jeff Layman on Fri May 23 13:40:24 2025
    Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> wrote:
    On 22/05/2025 17:13, Spike wrote:
    Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    [re Avro Vulcan in war mode…]

    What I found most memorable was something I hadn't thought about - the
    special window blinds to protect the crew from the nuclear flash of the
    bomb they'd dropped. I was also told that Lancaster pilots would have
    found much of the Vulcan familiar!

    It wasn’t only their own nuclear bomb flash that they had to be aware of. >> They would be flying into an active war zone, with other bombers dropping
    their weapons on their own targets, missile warheads detonating, nuclear
    air-defence missiles going off, etc etc. The idea was that they would use
    the anti flash curtains to protect the rest of the crew, but the pilot had >> to be aware of what was going on outside and so his curtain would be pulled >> back far enough for this. However, he was also issued with an eye patch, so >> that if blinded in his uncovered eye he would still have a working one. If >> that was blinded in turn, he would hand over to the co-pilot, who also had >> an eye-patch…so there would have been a total of four eyes available to fly
    the mission.

    One other thing of importance is the EMP from the nuclear explosion
    frying the electronics. But how much of the Vulcan was transistorised?

    After seeing the Vulcan I bought an Air Indicator Unit which was part of
    a "Green Satin" Doppler radar unit at Birkett's in Lincoln. When I
    opened it I was amazed to find no transistors at all, just valves. These
    were of the subminiature type - CV465, 468, 469, and 4501. I assume
    these would have been much less likely to suffer from an EMP. If the
    rest of the Vulcan's electronics were mainly valves, then it would
    probably have had good resistance to an EMP.

    The Air Indicator Unit weighed 10kg, so it's no wonder that the Vulcan weighed over 100 tons!

    Green Satin…that took me back; I’m still in touch with what was at the time a young National Serviceman who had the temerity to suggest a modification, which I believe was adopted, to overcome a problem, something to do with overheating IIRC.

    --
    Spike

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  • From Jeff Layman@21:1/5 to Jeff Gaines on Fri May 23 15:06:56 2025
    On 23/05/2025 10:20, Jeff Gaines wrote:
    On 23/05/2025 in message <100p9ce$3vmfc$1@dont-email.me> Jeff Layman wrote:

    After seeing the Vulcan I bought an Air Indicator Unit which was part of a >> "Green Satin" Doppler radar unit at Birkett's in Lincoln. When I opened it >> I was amazed to find no transistors at all, just valves. These were of the >> subminiature type - CV465, 468, 469, and 4501. I assume these would have
    been much less likely to suffer from an EMP. If the rest of the Vulcan's
    electronics were mainly valves, then it would probably have had good
    resistance to an EMP.

    The Vulcan did have some sophisticated electronics presumably because the video:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wx6npt421c

    (link courtesy of alan_m)

    shows that 3 ran interference while the 4th bombed New York.

    However, I imagine that could have been valve driven, certainly a lot of
    the communication receivers of the era were excellent and they used valves
    - as well as 300V PSUs with bare cables underneath as I discovered when I picked one up :-(

    The Air Indicator Unit had a standard 200v 400Hz transformer inside to
    supply the HV.

    --
    Jeff

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  • From tony sayer@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 23 19:41:01 2025
    In article <m990p1F7l94U1@mid.individual.net>, Spike
    <aero.spike@mail.com> scribeth thus
    Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    [re Avro Vulcan in war mode…]

    What I found most memorable was something I hadn't thought about - the
    special window blinds to protect the crew from the nuclear flash of the
    bomb they'd dropped. I was also told that Lancaster pilots would have
    found much of the Vulcan familiar!

    It wasn’t only their own nuclear bomb flash that they had to be aware of. >They would be flying into an active war zone, with other bombers dropping >their weapons on their own targets, missile warheads detonating, nuclear >air-defence missiles going off, etc etc. The idea was that they would use
    the anti flash curtains to protect the rest of the crew, but the pilot had
    to be aware of what was going on outside and so his curtain would be pulled >back far enough for this. However, he was also issued with an eye patch, so >that if blinded in his uncovered eye he would still have a working one. If >that was blinded in turn, he would hand over to the co-pilot, who also had
    an eye-patch…so there would have been a total of four eyes available to fly >the mission.

    Rumour has it that when they had dropped their bomb, and realising that the >UK would by this time essentially be a pile of smoking ash, they would fly >east until the fuel ran out, at which point the crew would bale out, and >individually settle down to a nomadic life with an accommodating Mongolian >woman.

    As probably they might and then will perhaps as stated as the upper part
    of the globe was obscured by the smoke blocking or reducing the sunlight
    out in the northern hemisphere! The nuclear winter.

    Perhaps they should have headed to Oz if they could get a refuel on the
    way?.

    Just wonder what it would have been like for the servicemen doing that
    job, leaving their relatives perhaps wife and children to perish in the
    nuclear horror!..



    --
    Tony Sayer


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    Give him a keyboard, and he will reveal himself.

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  • From tony sayer@21:1/5 to All on Fri May 23 20:40:30 2025
    In article <xn0p64yoic5564t00o@news.individual.net>, Jeff Gaines <jgnewsid@outlook.com> scribeth thus
    On 23/05/2025 in message <100p9ce$3vmfc$1@dont-email.me> Jeff Layman wrote:

    One other thing of importance is the EMP from the nuclear explosion frying >>the electronics. But how much of the Vulcan was transistorised?

    After seeing the Vulcan I bought an Air Indicator Unit which was part of a >>"Green Satin" Doppler radar unit at Birkett's in Lincoln. When I opened it >>I was amazed to find no transistors at all, just valves. These were of the >>subminiature type - CV465, 468, 469, and 4501. I assume these would have >>been much less likely to suffer from an EMP. If the rest of the Vulcan's >>electronics were mainly valves, then it would probably have had good >>resistance to an EMP.

    The Air Indicator Unit weighed 10kg, so it's no wonder that the Vulcan >>weighed over 100 tons!


    The Vulcan did have some sophisticated electronics presumably because the >video:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wx6npt421c

    (link courtesy of alan_m)

    shows that 3 ran interference while the 4th bombed New York.

    However, I imagine that could have been valve driven, certainly a lot of
    the communication receivers of the era were excellent and they used valves
    - as well as 300V PSUs with bare cables underneath as I discovered when I >picked one up :-(


    When the Vulcan was built transistors were in their infancy only
    Germanium ones being around, but miniature vales were around like
    Nuvistors and the like they of course were OK with high strength induced
    pulses such as EMP in fact it was said that Russian bombers were very
    good in that aspect only using Valves!..

    --
    Tony Sayer


    Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.

    Give him a keyboard, and he will reveal himself.

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  • From Harry Bloomfield Esq@21:1/5 to Jeff Layman on Mon May 26 17:55:13 2025
    On 22/05/2025 13:35, Jeff Layman wrote:
    Looking up, I saw the aircraft I was hoping to see at Lakenheath
    practising its flight - the SR-71 Blackbird! I was able to watch it for around 10 minutes, just flying around. It was a remarkable sight which
    more than made up for the bad start to the day.

    When, roughly, might that have been?

    I fancy I might have seen it, very low at the time, taking off or
    landing, around the Lakenheath area. I was driving at the time, between
    hedges, so my view was so brief, I wasn't sure what I had actually seen.

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  • From Harry Bloomfield Esq@21:1/5 to Chris J Dixon on Mon May 26 18:09:44 2025
    On 22/05/2025 08:22, Chris J Dixon wrote:
    I recall a flying display at Finningley in the 60s, featuring a
    scramble of 3 Vulcans, and that sound really shook your body.

    and - Several years later, I was actually working in a tiny pumping
    station, on that same runway, when without any prior warning to me, they
    took off. The tiny, windowless, brick building shook, I shook, an
    absolutely incredible noise.

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  • From The Natural Philosopher@21:1/5 to Harry Bloomfield Esq on Mon May 26 20:55:39 2025
    On 26/05/2025 17:55, Harry Bloomfield Esq wrote:
    On 22/05/2025 13:35, Jeff Layman wrote:
    Looking up, I saw the aircraft I was hoping to see at Lakenheath
    practising its flight - the SR-71 Blackbird! I was able to watch it
    for around 10 minutes, just flying around. It was a remarkable sight
    which more than made up for the bad start to the day.

    When, roughly, might that have been?

    I fancy I might have seen it, very low at the time, taking off or
    landing, around the Lakenheath area. I was driving at the time, between hedges, so my view was so brief, I wasn't sure what I had actually seen.

    They used to be reasonably commonplace a few years back.
    Once the Russian knew they existed and where they flew from



    --
    "The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll
    look exactly the same afterwards."

    Billy Connolly

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  • From Davey@21:1/5 to The Natural Philosopher on Mon May 26 21:48:18 2025
    On Mon, 26 May 2025 20:55:39 +0100
    The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

    On 26/05/2025 17:55, Harry Bloomfield Esq wrote:
    On 22/05/2025 13:35, Jeff Layman wrote:
    Looking up, I saw the aircraft I was hoping to see at Lakenheath
    practising its flight - the SR-71 Blackbird! I was able to watch
    it for around 10 minutes, just flying around. It was a remarkable
    sight which more than made up for the bad start to the day.

    When, roughly, might that have been?

    I fancy I might have seen it, very low at the time, taking off or
    landing, around the Lakenheath area. I was driving at the time,
    between hedges, so my view was so brief, I wasn't sure what I had
    actually seen.

    They used to be reasonably commonplace a few years back.
    Once the Russian knew they existed and where they flew from




    The same Barksdale base in Shreveport, Louisiana, that I mentioned had a
    Vulcan was also taking delivery of an SR-71 when I was leaving the
    area.

    I think there might be one at Duxford.
    --
    Davey.

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  • From The Natural Philosopher@21:1/5 to Davey on Tue May 27 11:01:34 2025
    On 26/05/2025 21:48, Davey wrote:

    The same Barksdale base in Shreveport, Louisiana, that I mentioned had a Vulcan was also taking delivery of an SR-71 when I was leaving the
    area.

    I think there might be one at Duxford.

    There is.


    --
    If I had all the money I've spent on drink...
    ..I'd spend it on drink.

    Sir Henry (at Rawlinson's End)

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  • From Jeff Layman@21:1/5 to Harry Bloomfield Esq on Tue May 27 11:38:35 2025
    On 26/05/2025 17:55, Harry Bloomfield Esq wrote:
    On 22/05/2025 13:35, Jeff Layman wrote:
    Looking up, I saw the aircraft I was hoping to see at Lakenheath
    practising its flight - the SR-71 Blackbird! I was able to watch it for
    around 10 minutes, just flying around. It was a remarkable sight which
    more than made up for the bad start to the day.

    When, roughly, might that have been?

    1977. If you scroll down here <https://forums.airshows.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=76181> you'll see the
    SR-71 at Mildenhall in late May 1977. I would have thought that the
    Lakenheath Air Show would have been around the same time. Why have the Blackbird make two transatlantic flights to airfields only a few miles
    apart?


    I fancy I might have seen it, very low at the time, taking off or
    landing, around the Lakenheath area. I was driving at the time, between hedges, so my view was so brief, I wasn't sure what I had actually seen.

    There's no mistaking the profile of an SR-71!

    --
    Jeff

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