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点评：Friday 04th October 2024 Newark Air Museum. I took the opportunity whilst travelling from our holiday in Sedburgh to home, for a short visit to see Avro Vulcan B.2 XM594 amongst the collection of aircraft and other exhibits. Upon arrival, you can imagine my delight when I saw the Vulcan was open for cockpit visits for the princely sum of £2. Advised by the reception desk that I had to be quick as it looked like the volunteer guide was coming down the steps to close the access door, I made my way quickly to the aircraft and having deposited my £2, I was beckoned up the steps into the cockpit. This was my first ever visit inside a Vulcan, having visited the airframes XJ824 at Duxford, XL318 at Hendon, XL426 at Southend (and flying at Mildenhall in 1983 & 84), XM597 at East Fortune, XM607 at Waddington, XM571 at Gibraltar and having previously seen XH558 fly at Mildenhall in 1986, 87, 1988 & 1990, Wings & Wheels at Dunsfold in 2013, Southend for the V-Force Tour in 2015 & finally the 11th October 2015 Farewell to Flight tour over the M25 motorway (inc no shows at Dunsfold in 2008 & 2014 Southport Airshows). Needless to say, I was excited to be in the cockpit and having sat down in one of the rear seats I soon became aware that not only was the friendly volunteer I had come across at the near-deserted museum a pilot, but he was also none other than Bill Ramsey who his biography lists as "one of the most revered pilots in the world, the man in charge of the last Vulcan flight ever" Bill Ramsey. I asked if it was ok to video our discussion and we then proceeded to have a fascinating (from my perspective) conversation about many other things inc: Starting on the Vulcan between 1975-78, then wanting to move too fast jets inc the Jet Provost, Hawk Inc. Red Arrows, Tornado, Flying the BBMF Lancaster and then moving back to fly XH558 as part of the VTTS and how they removed so much (7 tones) of equipment and the impact this had on flight as well as debating whether the post return to flight was the same as the pre-1992 retirement displays (he said the display plan was the same but the conditions on height were different i.e. 100 v 500 feet), piloting the farewell tour and described how the map was drawn (I said I guestimated where over the M25 it would cross) as well as an interesting discussion (from my perspective) on the options to extend the life of the Hawks in the Red Arrows, the cost of the operation and what the Italians have done to replace their aircraft. Needless to say, this conversation was for me AMAZING and as soon as I exited the plane I went to post the whole conversation to a Vulcan FB group I belong to, only to find that for the only time in my life the overheating message I noted on my phone screen and which I had noted had terminated the video, had in fact left no video recorded at all. I could have cried. As it is all I have is the memory and the images I post here.
翻译：2024 年 10 月 4 日星期五，纽瓦克航空博物馆。在从塞德堡度假回家的途中，我抓住机会短暂参观了 Avro Vulcan B.2 XM594，参观了飞机和其他展品。抵达后，你可以想象当我看到 Vulcan 开放参观驾驶舱，只需 2 英镑的巨额费用时，我有多高兴。接待处建议我必须快点，因为志愿者导游似乎正走下台阶关上通道门，于是我迅速走到飞机前，存入 2 英镑后，我被招呼着走上台阶进入驾驶舱。这是我第一次参观 Vulcan，此前我曾参观过在杜克斯福德参观过的 XJ824 机身、在亨顿参观过的 XL318 机身、在绍森德参观过的 XL426 机身（并于 1983 年和 84 年在米尔登霍尔飞行过）、在东福琼参观过的 XM597 机身、在沃丁顿参观过的 XM607 机身、在直布罗陀参观过的 XM571 机身，之前还曾看过 XH558 机身（1986、87、1988 和 1990 年在米尔登霍尔飞行）、2013 年在邓斯福尔德参观过的 Wings & Wheels 机身、2015 年在绍森德参加过的 V-Force 巡回展以及 2015 年 10 月 11 日在 M25 高速公路上空的告别飞行之旅（包括 2008 年在邓斯福尔德的未露面和 2014 年的南港航展）。不用说，我很高兴能进入驾驶舱，当我坐在后排座位上时，我很快就意识到，我在几乎空无一人的博物馆遇到的那位友好的志愿者不仅是一名飞行员，而且他就是比尔·拉姆齐，他的传记中称他为“世界上最受尊敬的飞行员之一，最后一次 Vulcan 飞行的负责人”比尔·拉姆齐。我问是否可以录制我们的讨论，然后我们进行了一次非常有趣的（从我的角度来看）关于许多其他事情的对话，包括：从 1975 年至 1978 年之间的 Vulcan 开始，然后想要驾驶速度更快的喷气式飞机，包括 Jet Provost、Hawk Inc. Red Arrows、Tornado，驾驶 BBMF Lancaster，然后返回驾驶 XH558 作为 VTTS 的一部分，以及他们如何拆除如此多（7 吨）的设备以及这对飞行的影响，以及辩论返回飞行后是否与 1992 年退役前的展示相同（他说展示计划相同，但高度条件不同，即 100 英尺对 500 英尺），驾驶告别飞行并描述地图是如何绘制的（我说我估计它会穿过 M25 的哪个地方），以及关于延长红箭飞行表演队中 Hawks 飞行表演队寿命的选项、运营成本以及意大利人已经完成了飞机的替换。不用说，这次谈话对我来说是惊人的，我一下飞机就去把整个谈话发布到我所属的 Vulcan FB 群组，结果却发现，这是我一生中唯一一次在手机屏幕上看到的过热消息，我注意到它终止了视频，但实际上根本没有留下任何视频。我差点哭了。因为我所拥有的只是记忆和我在这里发布的图像。
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