Avro Vulcan XA903 Farnborough
First public appearance of the then unnamed stand-off bomb. Eventually called Blue Steel it became the standard British air carried nuclear weapon. This aircraft later became the testbed for the Olympus engine used by Concorde
Picture No
10823031
Media ID
47614098
Size
3000px x 2961px
(1.7MB)
Credit
© A Flying History / The Peter Keating Aviation Photograph Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
A Flying History - The Peter Keating Aviation Photograph Collection
Date
1958
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