Happy Birthday Big V

this is done with love from my mum and dad who have passed away and spent years supporting you and spent years getting you flying again. with all their love ALLAN ana VALARIE WOODS

Happy Birthday Vulcan
on 50 years in services.

Awesome. The greatest bird flying anywhere in the world.

Happy birthday great Vulcan!

Happy birthday and safe landings!

Happy 50th to the Big Beautiful Vulcan V Bomber! Thanks Big V to you & your aircrew for helping to stop the Cold War from turning hot. May you howl & roar in the skies for many years to come.
Respect to the RAF's Biggest Hitter! Second only in appeal to the legendary Lancaster Bomber.

Rule Britannia!!!

Pure pleasure. The noise is something else. Happy Birthday!

Happy Birthday! Thanks so much for a special glimpse of you the other day. Any glimpse of you in the sky is truly magical

Happy Birthday 558! Good luck for the future and lets hope you keep reminding us of what we are capable of in this country!

A lifetime ambition achieved at Dunsfold on Sunday. To the proud and dignified lady at the front of the Grandstand, it was an honour to share the occasion with you and if you would like any pictures of the magnificent aeroplane your late husband flew, hopefully you'll see this message and get in touch via this site?

happy birthdaywor ked 2nd line cottesmore66/67 anybody remember when we had to generate 30+ for the defence college meet.noise of them all taking off was deafening.

It is always a pleasure to see you in the air. Happy Birthday XH558

Happy Birthday you roaring beauty. Shame on me for having missed your latest performances and shame you are the last of your kind taking to the skies. If only we could bring back those other ladies to the sky.

Enjoy gobsmacking the crowds for a long time yet and I WILL see you soon.

Happy Birthday, you beautiful lady. You and your sisters have graced our skies and long may you continue to do so.

to the most beautiful girl in the world
i hope you are enjoying your birthday
you bring back all the memories of scampton 69 to 74 and goose bay 74 to 76
keep on keeping on you beautiful creature

Saw your display at Dunsfold yesterday - it was great to see a Vulcan flying again (my first since Biggin Hill some time in the late 80s / early 90s.

I remember driving past Waddington back in 1981 on the way back from Scotland, and seeing a whole squadron of Vulcans taking off - it was an absolutely awesome sight for an 8 year-old boy who was already obsessed with planes!

Saw you fly past on Sunday in Oxfordshire. Took me back to R.A.F. Coningsby in the 60's when my dad was Crew Chief on the vulcans. Used to watch the vulcans of 35 Squadron take off and land after scrambling. Brought tears to my eyes to hear and see that magnificient plane fly overhead this weekend! Keep flying!

Happy Birthday indeed, may you have many more. Am I ever going to see you flying at Duxford again?

I used to train my Alsation, Oskar in Lincoln and used to live in Officers Quarters at Hemswell asa my then husband was Air Electronics on these big birds. and Vucli Girl used to fly low (about 300 feet) over our roof-top. Oskar never stopped trying to 'down' this great snarling brute.

Except for Concord the Vulcan is an aircraft to be recond with.

Lots of success in keeping her in the air. This femail looks very wrong sitting around, she is BORN TO BE FREE - IN THE AIR.

Birthday Greetings, A wonderful flypast Butser Hill 30/08/10 was not expecting that, and then heard this distant roar and thought, wow listen to those engines! x

Still the most impressive aeroplane ever. Congratulations to XH558 and to everyone that has worked so hard to keep her flying.

Had a fantastic view of your display on both days at Dunsfold. I was marking up rugby pitches with my son & we both agreed that although the Red Arrows were brilliant, the Typhoon awesome & the rest of the display as good as ever, especially seeing the Lancaster perform, YOU WERE THE UNDOUBTED HIGHLIGHT - AN UNBELIEVABLE AIRCRAFT THAT MUST BE PRESERVED FOR MANY YEARS TO COME SO THAT FUTURE GENERATIONS CAN MARVEL AT YOUR BEAUTY, GRACE & POWER

My second birthday message, but just had to say - saw XH558 display at Dunsfold today; what a great and emotional experience,seeing her in the air for the first time since restoration. Keep flying, special lady!

Happy Birthday ! Can't wait to see you in the sky again sometime soon I hope xx

Happy Birthday XH558!!! Let's hope you roar in the skies for many more years :-)

we saw you at dunsfold airshow today.great to see you back in the air.best plane out there.was at shoreham last week,that was a wash out.keep flying,superb.

Great to see you take off from Hurn on Saturday. Keep on the good work

Happy memories of this fine Aircraft .Visited Waddington several times in the late 60's early 70's.Based at Coningsby ,54 Sqdn on Phantoms..........Happy Birthday Big Fellah.............

Treated to a flypast today over our heads near Hungerford in the Royal County of Berkshire - a great treat. Thank you

stunning aircraft

lets keep it up

First time I saw you was 23 years ago and to this day is one of the most memorable moments of my life. Happy Birthday XH558 and many more! xx

Happy Birthday! Saw you takeoff and land at Brize today...

THANK YOU so much for an awesome and noisy display at Dunsfold yesterday, glad the weather was better for you than when we were there last year. What is it they say "An air show is not an air show without a Vulcan!" How true this is and we are so glad you are back flying and to hear your unmistakable sound once again. I saw you fly so many times as a child but P had to wait 17 years to see you fly for the first time last year. We hope you keep going until the next Farnborough because we were so disappointed when you didn't fly on the Sunday and would have loved to have seen you take off. I remember the spectacular take off the last time you displayed at Biggin Hill in '92. I have have never seen anything quite like that - even the commentator was speechless! You would certainly get a share of my lottery winnings if ever I won a vast amount. You are worth every penny. Good luck old girl and keep flying. MANY HAPPY RETURNS from two club members of many years and two of your biggest fans!

Saw you yesterday for the first time in years at Dunsfold Wings & Wheels. It is a disgrace that you are not already regarded as a national treasure and so should receive government funding to keep you air worthy.

Happy Birthday. You held station over our farm, today, on your way to Dunsfold. What a thrill. You are most welcome to do it again! Thanks and Best Wishes. p.s. On your way home, just before you headed NW.,who did you wave your wings to?

Sheltered under you in the rain at St. Athens many years ago, fell in love with you then.
Happy Birthday and many many more!

Happy Birthday, saw you at Uffington yesterday, breathtaking as always .. usual lump in the throat! Long may you continue to grace our skies. Think you should be made a National Treasure x

Happy Birthday you Beautiful Vulcan--may you grace our skies for many years to come.

I LOVE THIS PLANE HAPPY 50TH TO THE LITTLE OLD GIRL THE PEOPLE FAVOURITE PLANE I LIKE HER ENGINE BUT A BIT LOUD

Happy Birthday Old Bird! Went to Uffington especially to see you today - you were formidable and awesome! Haven't seen you since the early nineties but you still took my breath away - never stop flying and striking awe into all who gaze upon you!

Saw her fly at Dunsfold today, brought tears to my eyes, amazing and truly beautiful, please keep her flying, happy birthday xx

Happy 50th 558, saw you leave Hurn today truly fantastic, here's to many more.

Happy Birthday 558 saw you at uffington today lovely setting for your gracefull flypast.The fourth time we have seen you this year brilliant

Happy Birthday and may there be many more to come.

Heard the roar of the engines, ran outside and waved frantically at XH558 as she flew over Southbourne as she left Bournemouth! We hope she will get the chance to return next year and that the weather will be better!

Simply wonderful, happy birthday! Was just eating lunch at work when she flew over very low, thrilling and the horses didn't mind at all.xx

Happy Birthday 558. Saw yoy take off twice and display and land at Brize. We were right near the road traffic lights that stops traffic whilst landing! Memorable day.

Happy Birthday XH558. Just been leaning out of my bedroom window watching you leave Bournemouth. You are such a classy lady and so gracefull. Keeping everything crossed for next year's air festival. x

Happy Birthday and hopefully many more! You are beautiful and always seem to make me cry with happiness to see you flying again.

Happy Birthday, hope to see you again soon you are spectacular xx

Happy Birthday you beautiful bird, long may you continue to fly, still get those goosebumps after first seeing you at Farnborough 50 years ago. Hope to see you at Uffington today! x

happy birthday 558.

keep flying

happy 50th - here's to another 50 of the greatest

A very happy birthday 558, was really looking forward to seeing you at BAF2010 but good old British summertime weather saw to that. Remember many years ago at Greenham in line with you as you powered up for take off, JEEEEEEEES, never forget and hope to catch your departure from Hurn on Sunday. Keep up the good work.

Happy Birthday & here's to another 50 years!

Hoping to see the take off from Bournemouth Airport tomorrow to make up for last weekends dissapointing weather!

Remember well the scrambles at Scampton - particularly during the Cuban crisis when Dad had our suitcases packed to rush us home to Inverness if things really hotted up. Our windows used the rattle in their frames at Cornwall Close! Happy birthday you beautiful bird. Hope to see you this weekend at Dunsfold and again on 26 Sep at Coventry.

Happy 50th Birthday XH558! I first saw you while driving up the M69 motorway when you were performing at the Cosford air show. I fell in love with you then and have been following you ever since! xx

Huge thanks to you all for making this possible. A truly irreplaceable icon of British aviation history. A very happy birthday XH558 and long may you continue to dominate the sky with your majestical and beautiful lines. I'm looking forward to bringing my two young sons to see you in the years to come!

Great to see 558 flying, brings back memories of Vulcan major servicing at St. Athan in the late seventies. An iconic aircraft. Long may she stay airworthy.

Happy 50th - Thanks for the memories.

At Scampton Dec 74 - Sep 77

Proud to have 558 as my last three

I'm 55 now but sure you'll see the next 50

I saw you first in 1967 at Hatfield i was only 4, my Mum reminds me that when i saw you i went rigid in my pushchair, legs out straight,arms out fist clenched and crying, she thought it was i was scared of the noise when infact it was because i got so excited. Thats is probably when my love for you and aircraft began and i later joined the RAF and was stationed at Brize Norton From 1981 - 1989.
When i heard you was going to fly again the excitement came back and then ironically you flew again on October 18th 07 my 44th birthday.
So Happy 50th Birthday, and i hope i can see you flying when i reach my 50th in 2013 :)

Happy Birthday, the winter servicing went well - well done the Servicing Team

Good to see the You tube vid. The aircraft is 4 years younger than me so is part of my growing up-happy bithday

you are the most beautiful bird in the sky, so sad you couldnt fly at bournmouth for us, very happy birthday, and a thousand thanks to all who help keep her in the skies. see you soon, xx.

My Dad is sooooo happy to see one of you still flying again.. God bless the people with dedication and the people who are still very proud of what we had. SHE LOOKS AWESOME.

Happy Birthday, still looking very good at 50 ! Especially in camo!!

Happy Birthday 558 but when will you return to the area of your birth

Wow - Fantastic Birthday wishes to my favourite bomber !!

Happy Birthday. We missed you at Sywell but I will see you one day.

Happy Birthday to the greatest aircraft of all time all the best and hope to see you fly in the future in the skies of the UK

A Very Happy Birthday, but disappointed not to see you at our Air Show on Sunday, however, all the very best for the future, and hope to see you over Sywell one day soon.

happy birthday see you at dunsfolds wings and wheels and hopfully many more airshows for as many years as the spitfires

Awesome sight during the Airshows of the Eighties, flying close to the crowds at places like Yeovilton, made your hair curl, hope you keep on going onwards and upwards...

You face a challenging time but keep your undercarriage up!

Happy Birthday XH558, see you on Sunday x x

Forever Vulcan Magnifiques

Fantastic last year at Sunderland - what a sight and sound when the power is turned up. Happy 50th Birthday and Good Luck for the future.

I was involved with Vulcans during my apprenticeship at A.V.Roe. I was lucky to fly in one, "below stairs" for a couple of hours. Indeed I was at Woodford when XH558 departed for the R.A.F. Long may she continue to fly, and inspire us. Hope top see her in the air soon.

I enjoyed working on them in the '60's and it is still great to see one of them still thrilling the crowds. Long may she stay airborne.

8000 people were waiting at Sywell on Sunday 22nd Aug.Please make sure you make it in 2012

As Tina Turner's song says - You're simply the best.

Do hope to see you again here next year and clear our ears out doing you're 90% takeoff!

I have loved you since my infant days, when my big bro was a Vulcan pilot. The fact that you entered service with the RAF on the 1st July, 1960 only strengthens our bond - the very day I was born! Caught up with you at Lowestoft where as always you stole the show.
Here's to the next 50 !!

Why does seeing this aircraft bring a lump to my throat? She is such a beautiful machine. May she keep flying for many more years. She's so special. Happy birthday XH558

Ever since my dad took me to the 1983 Bournemouth airshow when I was seven I have followed u everywhere and watched and hoped to see u again and again!!! Right down to your last display before u were grounded! Your comeback bought tears to my eyes and I can follow you yet again!!! U flew strIght over me last Friday whilst I was flying my delta kite at hengistbury head waiting for u, what an amazing sound and perfect shape in the sky!! Happy birthday 558 u are the greatest plane ever created!

Happy Birthday on reaching this milestone and hope to see you at Leuchars in Sep

So very pleased that the Vulcan is flying again. Used to love seeing her fly in the UK.
RF Shields, SMSgt, USAF, Retired
ex: RAF Upper Heyford
1980-1`986, 1989-1994

So upset you couldn't fly over the weekend but I did get to see you as I finished work on Thursday and you flew over Christchurch. I used to live just down the road from RAF Waddington in the late 70's & early 80's and remember you coming over the house and the roar as you did 'circuits and bumps' - if the phone rang, we didn't bother to answer it with that going on. People ask if I am bothered that I live under the flight path of Bournemouth airport now but once you have lived with the Vulcans, nothing else comes close!! Happy birthday XH558.

As a safety equipment fitter at RAF Scampton from 1970 to 82 i worked on 558 and it still makes the hair on the back of neck stand up every time we hear her on her way back to Bruntingthorpe fly well old freand

You were my late husbands favourite plane, hence my joining to keep you flying.
Happy Birthday

Missed you at Silverstone Yesterday, you must have been enjoying the sun at Bournemouth too much, Happy Birthday anyway, wearing your XH558 Cap for everyone to see how much we Love you!

We both joined the RAF in 1960, but you don't look our age! Happy birthday, from an aged and very proud AEO.

Missed you yesterday at Sywell! Shame about "sunny Bournemouth's" weather, t'was gorgeous in Northants!! Never mind... Looking forward to see you on 26th Sept at Coventry. HAPPY 50th :o)

First saw you whilst sitting on the beach at Weymouth and you were at the Portland Navy Day many years ago - yes, you made the people on the beach stand up then and haven't stopped doing it yet! Saw you annually at Fairford IAT until you were grounded and then to help get you flying again I think I paid for one of your nuts or bolts!
Long may you continue to enthral us all.

Happy Birthday to a glorious lady! Shame you couldn't fly at the Bournemouth Air Show this year but looking forward to 2011.

As Ex Avro Chauffeur in the 50s Still Very Proud

Congratulations you majestic old lady, we will keep you flying forever!

I remember the sad moment at Leuchars airshow in 1992 when I viewed it as the last time I would see you. Now that icon of British Aircraft is where she belongs. Many happy returns Delta Lady, may you contine to be up there in the clouds for many years to come