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Chris made it sound like this was a current event. Hadn't thought about her, he... whatever. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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sheep
A domesticated ruminant animal with a thick woolly coat and (typically only in the male) curving horns. It is kept in flocks for its wool or meat, and is proverbial for its tendency to follow others in the flock.
Ovis aries, family Bovidae, descended from the wild mouflon
master
1.2 - A person who has dominance or control of something
thus, a sheep master would be someone who has "dominance" or "control" over sheep
kinky
Involving or given to unusual sexual behavior
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That's pretty rich, coming from a Cat Master...
Life is too shor
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She is the last airworthy Vulcan, but sadly her flying days end this year.
I have been able to see her both static and flying and the Vulcan is the bog's dollocks of all Cold War aircraft. No-one, with the exception of the garrison at Port Stanley in May 1982, has witnessed her majesty and not found it a life-lifting experience.
If you get the chance this summer, go and see her. Here[^] is her current schedule; it will be regularly updated.
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I will be going to the Clacton air show again this year, most definitely on Vulcan day, if XH558 is appearing there (not on the schedule yet when I looked at the weekend).
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Also If you haven't read Vulcan 607 makes you think. I have seen her twice in the air also I have seen most but not all Vulcans that are preserved, while the Victor was the most Sci-Fi looking the Vulcan did the job the best!
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I was never enamoured by the bloody tankers! 
I have read Vulcan 607 and it was a truly remarkable achievement. One thing that stands out for me is the "Aaah..." moment when the first wave of Vics return to Wideawake and they realise that they've slightly, marginally underestimated the fuel needed by a tad...
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Yeah, well that's what you get by using a calculator from a market stall!
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It makes you realise how much traffic the RAF had down there when you think that Wideawake, with her single runway, was the busiest airport in the world during May 1982. The only limiting factor was not the speed at which they could taxi the planes on and off, but the rate they could pump the av-gas ashore from the tankers in the harbour.
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They have a Victor at the Yorkshire Air Museum, its a non flyer but it does do thunder runs up and down the runway - and its a bit loud - not sure about the pink colour scheme though
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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I think, I am not sure that is the one that 'hopped' accidently started to take off a couple of years ago! 
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not sure that something the size of victor could take off accidentally
It actually sounds like a variation of the famous boxkite incident at Old Warden where that actually happened
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Mmm...must admit I did think 'really?' if it did what sort of <<redacted>> are allowed at the controls?? 
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And if you can't make it to the UK in the summer you can take a look here[^]
<Nomex suit on>The Victor looked a lot cooler</Nomex suit on>
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Nomex suit on
You'll bally well need more than THAT!
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Well it did look 'cool' and served longer than any other V Bomber (alright as Petrol Station but...)
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Even as a tanker it was useless. It was too slow for the Vulcans and the later fast jets, and they had little to no rear visibility to know what the refuelling plane was doing or where it was.
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Point, they did however serve up 'til Gulf 1 as tankers I have seen a photo of two F18's tanking off one so it was doing some thing useful. I think there was a news story about one that was set up for fast taxi runs at Brunitng Thorpe getting air borne by 'accident' 
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They had problems with the Tornado, the Victor's maximum airspeed was below the Tornado's stall speed. They fixed it by...
... flying the Victor in a downward parabola, reminiscent of the Vommit Commit, with the Tornado in tow.
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If memory serves when they flew Maggie & Dennis to the Falklands in a Herc they had all sorts of problems and had to do a similar thing. Today the VC10 has a similar problem with the Typhoon (one reason they are changing to Airbus tankers??)
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Rubbish. The Victor flew at M0.95. Any plane that stalled under Mach 1 would never get off the ground. Also the Victor could carry 48,000 pounds of ordnance as standard, with up to 70,000 overload, and could go slightly supersonic in a shallow dive.
The ex-chief aerodynamicist of Handley Page was one of my lecturers in the late 70's, so you can be sure I didn't get these facts off some stupid internet site.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: It was too slow for the Vulcans
The top speed of the Vulcan was only 29 km/h higher than the Victor, I feel you are a bit picky here, Shirley they can let of the accelerator a tiniest bit while refuelling.
The Victor was better than the Vulcan in most areas until the RAF changed tactics and decided to do low level bombing instead of flying at max height.
Something the airframe of the Victor wasn't good enough for.
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I *may* be being unfair, though I doubt it, but I just think the Vulcan is a great plane. Unlike the Victor, she also fired in anger.
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The bombing of the Falkland islands in '82 must be one of the looniest missions ever. Need Brits to come up with something like that.
The tactical effect was small at the best, but strategically it was one of the most important missions ever.
When the Argentinians realized they could get bombed, they kept the majority of their air force at home.
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