Vulcan XH558 added into the new Star Wars Trailer. (With Howl)

Brilliant – thanks for posting!

Nice!

Looks like it belongs!

That design is still so far ahead of its time!

Doesn’t even look out of place 😀 .

That design is still so far ahead of its time!

But it was a long time ago.

what a heap of crap. some people really have too much time on their hands.

But it was a long time ago.

In a galaxy far, far away.

*chuckles*

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what a heap of crap. some people really have too much time on their hands

Indeed they do. Some people use it creatively, some just post rubbish on random forums.

Ahem, may have watched it a few times, spotted a Lake District national park sign and the TARDIS.

I like that a lot!

That design is still so far ahead of its time!

The 1st Vulcan flew just 16 years after the 1st Spitfire!

CaptainFlashheart – Member
That design is still so far ahead of its time!

The Vulcan is/was an impressive aircraft but it was very much of its time. Burying the intakes and engines in the wing roots and the thick wing in particular emphasise that it was a product of the early jet age, IMO.

The 1st Vulcan flew just 16 years after the 1st Spitfire!

The Vulcan and the Lancaster were in service at the same time.

I don’t understand why people get so emotional over a vulcan. It’s so illogical.

Brilliant – thanks!

Naimster, Wars/Trek. Often confused.

ChrisL – Member

The Vulcan is/was an impressive aircraft but it was very much of its time. Burying the intakes and engines in the wing roots and the thick wing in particular emphasise that it was a product of the early jet age, IMO.

Not unlike the B2, x47, Taranis and the RQ series of drones….hardly a thing of the past. Some of the concepts for distributed electrical propulsion also have buried engines in order to ingest the laminar flow characteristics from the wing and fuselage.

Thats brilliant – thanks for posting.

Daffy – Member
Not unlike the B2, x47, Taranis and the RQ series of drones….hardly a thing of the past. Some of the concepts for distributed electrical propulsion also have buried engines in order to ingest the laminar flow characteristics from the wing and fuselage.

It’s burying them in the wing roots that’s very of its time, not burying the intakes generally. The B-2 and the others tend to have the engines buried on top of the wing or the fuselage. The Vulcan, the other V bombers and several other aircraft from their era had them buried at the wing roots. I think it was since realised that having air intakes in a swept portion of a wing wasn’t a particularly great idea but at the time a lot of aerodynamic knowledge was still being discovered.