When the V-bombers were the nation’s only defence against armageddon | History | News

The new Delta-Khanate Euro Vulcan was a revelation. 1955 Farnborough Airshow’s Movietone Newsreel images explode Roland Roland “Roly” FALK in the checkers of XA890, the 69 -toned machine, the Prime Minister Anthony Edes, as it rises on a higher level of military, a 69 -toned machine.

As usual, he made a falk nuclear bomber dressed in a cocktail for a cocktail, dressed in a made -up suit, tie, headline, pocket handkerchief and sunglasses. On August 30, 1952, there is a pleasant photo of Falk’s euro 698 prototype on the cockpit ladder – the name of Vulcan came later – at Woodford Aerodrome in the south of Manchester.

John Falk, the son of Roly, re -experienced this moment when Vulcan XL426 posed at Southend Airport 70 years later. He wore a suit and a tie, also a cord and a high viscard jacket, a sign of our father’s grumbling times. Safety is of course important, but Vulcan was one of the new V-force British bomber-the other Vickers Victor and Handley page Victor.

All this month, 80 years ago, Hiroshima and the USAAF Boeing Boeing B-29 Superforms in Nagasaki, a thousand times stronger than those who fell by the Soviet goals as high as possible, unarmed and fast flying. How safe is this?

When the British nuclear deterrence from the mid-1950s to 1969, the Point of Nuclear Determination of the Navy of the Navy, Polalaris submarines fulfilled them-the V-Raf’s V-Bombardantian planes, thank goodness that the Cuban missile crisis seemed to be very close to the time of the Nuclear weapons.

Before leaving married neighborhoods on Friday, October 26, 1962 at Raf Coningsby, the newly -appointed pilot Officer Peter West said to his wife: orum I want you to buy children, put them in the car, put them a few things with them and put them in hell. You will probably be safe.

Speaking to the BBC 45 years after the incident, West said, “If we had gone, if we were still dead and returned safely, my wife said that she was a bloody stupid at that time: ‘What she thought at that time:’ What she thought at that time: ‘What at that time.

Mrs. West was right. Somehow and in a very fast car, Raf Machrihanish on the west coast of Scotland may be very hit when he came there, even if he went to Skye, one of the nuclear bombardment plane bases of Raf. Mrs. West felt the best to stay at home with children. If the family would die, Russian nuclear missiles would be with the children in their mother’s arms while hitting the house.

Armageddon mission is completely prepared to fly the knife edge at the weekend, while the West and other crew members trust in Mad’s mental health, the Cold War, one side of the attack of another side with nuclear weapons will lead to the disposal of two sides.

Although last-minute diplomacy rescued the day and V-Bombardadan aircraft stopped, something close had happened. In a remarkable way, according to the bulletin of atomic scientists, “The world’s population did not know exactly what it was. Or what is not more precisely”.

On Saturday in the UK, Captain Valentin Savitsky fired a nuclear -ended torpedo in one of the US ships from the Foxtrot -class submarine to the delivery of Soviet nuclear missiles to Cuba, and many people were only watching or football. Arsenal Beat Wolves 5-4. Hearts beat Cilresnock 1-0. The deadly match between the NATO and the Soviet Union ended with a nail -biting draw.

Specification of the Ministry of Air-B.35/46-Recent was published on V-Bombardadan aircraft on January 7, 1947. It was the day Clement Attend committed to the development of an atomic bomb independent of the US, one of the isolationist phases of the Labor Government. Since long -range missile technology has not yet accelerated, the new generation of high altitude jet bombardment aircraft to carry British bombs.

Three designs were selected (fourth, short sperrine canceled); Considering that it was a new technology, it was wise to invest in competitors if one or two people were flawed.

It should not be forgotten that these sweeping, delta and crescent wing jets were only years later after heavy bombardment aircraft with unreasonable, machine rifle bone, low -flying, piston -piston heavy bombardment planes that took the war of England during the Second World War.

First, Vickers were the governor, in 1951 and four years later in the fleet service, then Vulcan and then Victor.

Victor and Vulcan proved that there were more advanced and longer-lasting jets, but in the late 1964, metal fatigue and short-cut service life-enemy targets have fulfilled all the tasks expected from V-Force, except for the fall of nuclear bombs.

During the 1956 Suez crisis, the governor carried out traditional bombing raids, dropped England’s first test A and H-bombs, stood as an important part of Britain’s nuclear deterrence, and blown handsome tasks into discovery and air.

As a navigateur of the 49 fleet with a fleet at the beginning of his 20s, the flight lieutenant Kenneth Edmonds flew to support the values ​​during both the buffalo operation and the Grapple operation; On October 11, 1956, he witnessed the Grakple X H-bomba on the southern end of Christmas Island on 8 November 1957, 500 miles north of Melbourne, 500 miles north of Melbourne.

In July last year, I met Ken Edmonds at his home in Norfolk, east of his last Victor Base Raf Marham. Marham’s F-35 Multiple Rolled Warriors rush in a distance from a distance opposite the large, burning blue East Anglian. Ken said to me: “I was very young at the time, like most of us, so they were all a great adventure and often very fun.

“Once there, we understood the magnitude of the operation-political, scientific and military and military, but it was a real pleasure to be friendship. The installation was happily informal.

“We all came together – Air teams, national service recruitment and scientists, including scientists from Aldermaston, were ruled by Sir William Penney, a pleasant man. There was no heroism in both operations. We were doing a job.”

In addition to other experiments, Ken was “strangely beautiful, rising to 60,000FT and sparkling, yellow and gold.

The rapid development of the air missiles from the deadly Soviet place was born of V-Force. Since 1962, this charismatic, pure white aircraft was re -painted in camouflage colors and flew at low levels.

This, which broke the governor’s back and led to the re -appointment of victories to fuel tanker and reconnaissance tasks from air to air. Vulcan flew as a bomber and won a legendary fame with traditional bomb raids at Port Stanley Airport during the Falkland War.

However, the Great British spirit, which was restored to Sky Trust by the XH558 Vulcan, will be a flame of V-force until 2015 and will witness by two million people-in the beginning of this year, the government’s F-35-A SealyiniTers will buy US F-35-A Sittorations.

Today, V-Force can be history, and Woodford Aerodrome, the home of Vulcan’s home, was closed in 2011 with an anonymous housing land and the terrible technology that gave wings to the wing has yet to be neutralized.

• V-Force: Jonathan Glancey (Atlantic Books, 22 £) by England’s nuclear bomber and cold war now appeared now