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Registration: XA904

Construction Number: PS16

Military Unit: 44 Squadron

Model Avro 698 Vulcan B1A

Operator: Royal Air Force

Airport: RAF Waddington (WTN / EGXW), UK - England

Photographer: Official via Peter Middlebrook

Date Taken: 02/03/1961

Date Submitted: 14/10/2009

Fuel starvation, engines flamed out downwind at night. Rear crew exited via open cockpit. Plenty of fuel, but too thinly spread across tanks. An early Vulcan lesson.

Picture ID:1197541

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