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3. V-Force with Jonathan Glancey
The History Book Club is staying with the 20th century as we discuss
the V-Force, the aircraft best exemplified by the Vulcan which was the plane that played a huge role in the James Bond film, Thunderball. It was a remarkably beautiful engineering feat, that remains an iconic vision of where British design and science was at in the 1950s. It was capable of flying vast distances where it was intended to deliver its payload, a nuclear bomb. Perhaps its most well-known mission was a bombing run during the Falklands War in 1982.
Jonathan Glancey joins the club – he’s an aircraft enthusiast, writer on architecture as well as being a thoroughly interesting chap with a lovely voice so we talk about British produced bombers and fighters
produced post-war.
Jonathan Glancey Links
V-Force: Britain's Nuclear Bombers and the Cold War
Vulcan barrel roll, Farnborough 1955
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The History Book Club is staying with the 20th century as we discuss
the V-Force, the aircraft best exemplified by the Vulcan which was the plane that played a huge role in the James Bond film, Thunderball. It was a remarkably beautiful engineering feat, that remains an iconic vision of where British design and science was at in the 1950s. It was capable of flying vast distances where it was intended to deliver its payload, a nuclear bomb. Perhaps its most well-known mission was a bombing run during the Falklands War in 1982.
Jonathan Glancey joins the club – he’s an aircraft enthusiast, writer on architecture as well as being a thoroughly interesting chap with a lovely voice so we talk about British produced bombers and fighters
produced post-war.
Jonathan Glancey Links
V-Force: Britain's Nuclear Bombers and the Cold War
Vulcan barrel roll, Farnborough 1955
Oliver Webb-Carter Links
Substack
Who Cares Who Wins?
Paean to Patrick Leigh Fermor
X
Instagram
Email me: [email protected]
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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