Notes:

Demonstrating its high angle of aerobraking just after touching down for the opening of FIA 2012...... that tail couldn't get much lower !!

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G-VLCN - Avro 698 Vulcan B.2 - Private

XH558 is in search of a new home, Vulcan To The Sky Trust announced that their lease at Doncaster Sheffield Airport wouldn’t be renewed and that XH558 would have to leave the site by the end of June 2023, since then the aircraft has been left outside whilst its owners search for a new home

Alex Roebuck G-VLCN
1,720 9 0 Avro 698 Vulcan B.2
G-VLCN - Avro 698 Vulcan B.2 - Private

Luca Bani G-VLCN
3,375 13 0 Avro 698 Vulcan B.2
G-VLCN - Avro 698 Vulcan B.2 - Private

Mark Stevens G-VLCN
2,614 3 0 Avro 698 Vulcan B.2

Photo location

389 - Sukhoi Su-27UB Flanker C - Soviet Union - Air Force

Being towed to the active flight line

CHH 389
229 3 0 Sukhoi Su-27UB Flanker C
G-NJAF - Dassault Falcon 2000EX - NetJets UK

Previously CS-DLL, added to the NetJets UK AOC to operate domestic operations

James Dinsdale G-NJAF
295 0 0 Dassault Falcon 2000EX
D-AJET - Embraer ERJ-135BJ Legacy 650E - Air Hamburg

Simon Reichert D-AJET
279 1 0 Embraer ERJ-135BJ Legacy 650E

Photographer

ER-SKY - Airbus A319-131 - HiSky

Shor Final for 07R

Nik French ER-SKY
628 0 0 Airbus A319-131
TC-SPC - Boeing 737-8AS - SunExpress

Departing runway 18 at the end of a long hot sunny day

Nik French TC-SPC
703 1 0 Boeing 737-8AS
OY-RUV - ATR 72-600 - Danish Air Transport (DAT)

Just vacated 23R on its first visit to MAN operating for Loganair

Nik French OY-RUV
1,105 1 0 ATR 72-600

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G-VLCN

Photo Date

Jul 09, 2012

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Notes

Demonstrating its high angle of aerobraking just after touching down for the opening of FIA 2012...... that tail couldn't get much lower !!

Camera

G-VLCN - Avro 698 Vulcan B.2 - Private

XH558 is in search of a new home, Vulcan To The Sky Trust announced that their lease at Doncaster Sheffield Airport wouldn’t be renewed and that XH558 would have to leave the site by the end of June 2023, since then the aircraft has been left outside whilst its owners search for a new home

Alex Roebuck G-VLCN
1,720 9 0 Avro 698 Vulcan B.2
G-VLCN - Avro 698 Vulcan B.2 - Private

Luca Bani G-VLCN
3,375 13 0 Avro 698 Vulcan B.2
G-VLCN - Avro 698 Vulcan B.2 - Private

Mark Stevens G-VLCN
2,614 3 0 Avro 698 Vulcan B.2
389 - Sukhoi Su-27UB Flanker C - Soviet Union - Air Force

Being towed to the active flight line

CHH 389
229 3 0 Sukhoi Su-27UB Flanker C
G-NJAF - Dassault Falcon 2000EX - NetJets UK

Previously CS-DLL, added to the NetJets UK AOC to operate domestic operations

James Dinsdale G-NJAF
295 0 0 Dassault Falcon 2000EX
D-AJET - Embraer ERJ-135BJ Legacy 650E - Air Hamburg

Simon Reichert D-AJET
279 1 0 Embraer ERJ-135BJ Legacy 650E
ER-SKY - Airbus A319-131 - HiSky

Shor Final for 07R

Nik French ER-SKY
628 0 0 Airbus A319-131
TC-SPC - Boeing 737-8AS - SunExpress

Departing runway 18 at the end of a long hot sunny day

Nik French TC-SPC
703 1 0 Boeing 737-8AS
OY-RUV - ATR 72-600 - Danish Air Transport (DAT)

Just vacated 23R on its first visit to MAN operating for Loganair

Nik French OY-RUV
1,105 1 0 ATR 72-600
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Pavel Sporish
Pavel Sporish

Don't hit the tail! Wonderful shot.

M. Azizul Islam
M. Azizul Islam

Oh, WOW! what a capture Nik. Looks like we should have been there on 9th too ;o) One of my PC of the week for sure.