07:30 17 July 2008Farnborough Engine Manufacturers Incidents
<P>The unique sound of four <A href="http://www.rolls-royce.com/index_flash.jsp">Rolls-Royce</A> Olympus 202 engines at ground idle brought thousands of show-goers flooding out of Farnborough’s halls and chalets yesterday afternoon as <A href="http://www.tvoc.co.uk/">Avro Vulcan B2 (XH558/G-VLCN)</A> told the world that it was about to begin its second public display since 1992.</P> <P> <TABLE style="WIDTH: 445px" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 align=center border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TH> <IMG style="WIDTH: 445px; HEIGHT: 297px" alt="Avro Vulcan" src="../assets/getAsset.aspx?ItemID=24179" border=0></TH></TR></TBODY></TABLE></P> <P>Never the most smoke-free engines, the four Olympus 202s emitted their tell-tale plume of part-burnt kerosene as XH558 took to the Hampshire skies after a remarkably short take-off run – accompanied by a myriad car-alarms tricked into action by the crackling, vibrating roar that speaks of the god of fire and volcanoes after who the Vulcan is aptly named