Good advice! I'll remember that!

I can imagine!

Armourers load a dummy Yellow Sun Mark 2 (free-fall thermonuclear bomb) into the bomb bay of a Handley Page Victor B.1A, during Exercise Unison at RAF Honington, 1963.

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A Victor in anti-flash white is arguably peak UK deterrent aesthetic!

This Valiant was modified to act as a testbed for the Rolls-Royce Pegasus turbofan engine, which was the powerplant for the Harrier jump jet.

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An early Victor - in blue!

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I mean, it's perhaps not how I'd sell London but it's a fair point I guess...

“You can’t hear an image”

The Image

[Similar theme different noise... Bring On The Noise]

A long look at a QUICK STRIKE The grim realities of a faux nuclear war plan from 1958

For DOOMSDAY MACHINES this week, a post that has in some sense been in the making for something like a decade. It is a very close look at the "war plan," QUICK STRIKE, featured in the formerly classified 1958 film "The Power of Decision," produced for the USAF. doomsdaymachines.net/p/a-long-loo...

Vulcan & Victor sat next to each other

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Cold War classics

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Vulcan and team!
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Vulcan, Sunderland Airshow, 2011.

Credit to Greco photography.

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The start of a nuclear fireball. Lovely shades of red and orange.

the bomb.

OTD March 26, 1954 the 11 megaton Romeo shot, a part of Operation Castle, is performed by the US military, becoming the first deployed thermonuclear bomb.

The shot was designed to test the TX-17, the worlds first air-droppable thermonuclear weapon.

Victor - those intakes...

A black and white photograph of President Kennedy standing outside the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California, with (left to right) Los Alamos Director Norris Bradbury, Livermore Director John Foster, Lawrence Radiation Laboratory Director Edwin McMillan, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Glenn Seaborg, physicist Edward Teller, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, and Director of Defense Research and Engineering, Harold Brown.

A typewritten copy of a April 2, 1962, two-paragraph letter from President Kennedy to Dr. Edwin McMillan, Director of Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, thanking him for the "most interesting and informative" visit to the laboratory on March 23.

Today in 1962, President John F. Kennedy visited Lawrence Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California, where he saw full-size models of stockpiled US nuclear bombs and warheads and received a stockpile briefing from the Atomic Energy Commission and the Los Alamos and Livermore laboratory directors.

Unsure who to credit for this but what an image - moody Victor

WE HAVE CADBURY MIRV!

REPEAT WE HAVE CABURY MIRV!

:D

Vulcan

Vulcan (Concorde photobombing)...

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amazing

Excellent!

"A meeting without biscuits."
How terribly British. I my house we would call it, "the big talk in the small room."

“industrial grade, bomb making material” is a really vague and essentially meaningless phrase.

On 3 May 2009, at the Cold War Jets Open Day at Bruntingthorpe Airfield, Victor XM715 accidentally became airborne during a high-speed taxi demo. Crew were all ok, but I imagine that a meeting without biscuits occured shortly afterwards...

Credit to James Fenely

Vulcan and its tools of the trade...

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Victor B Mk.1

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My favourite thing about the Vulcan was that thanks to its enormous delta wing, it could out-turn any American fighter at altitude.

Struggled to locate, date and credit this image but after some discussin on 'the other place' I think it might be the Vulcan from BLACK BUCK after it diverted to Rio. SHRIKE hard points on show...

Vulcan in the Sun

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