Vulcan XH558 on full power at Hawarden Airport
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Vulcan XH558 on full power at Hawarden Airport
Image: © John S Turner Taken: 5 Sep 2009
Vulcan XH558 was displaying at the Broughton Airbus Family Fun Day celebrating 40 years of Airbus Industrie/Airbus SAS. After a wheels down approach along the main runway the pilot opened up the Rolls Royce Olympus engines to perform a deafening power climb. http://www.vulcantothesky.org/ The North Wales railway line passes in front of the camera. (Viewing position is on private land accessed by kind permission of the farmer)
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