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Red Arrows salute ‘The Spirit of Great Britain’: World’s only airworthy Vulcan opens Farnborough Airshow
The skies above a normally sedate Hampshire town erupted into life today, as the Farnborough Airshow treated plane enthusiasts to a truly thrilling sight: the world’s only airworthy Avro Vulcan bomber performing a flypast in formation with the Red Arrows.
A relic of the Cold War, the historic plane was the first of its kind to be delivered to the RAF, on the 1st of July 1960, and the last Vulcan to leave RAF service in 1993.
Now, the venerable bomber XH558 – named ‘The Spirit of Great Britain’ – is the darling of aviation enthusiasts everywhere, and drew gasps of pleasure as it opened the show by performing a flypast in formation with the Red Arrows.
Around 250,000 visitors are expected to flock to Farnborough, the world’s largest airshow, during its six-day run.
As 1,400 exhibitors from 40 countries plied their billion-pound wares today, pilots displayed their prowess at the hands of fighter jets, double-decker airliners and everything in between.
Though the skies were filled with drizzle, attendees were delighted to see the distinctive shape of a Lancaster bomber emerging from the gloom, followed by a spitfire which performed a number of flypasts before touching down.