There is a great story about one of the visits to the USA of the Vulcans to exercise with the B 52 s . A TV crew had set up cameras all along the runway to do a news piece on the bombers . First the B 52 rolls down the runway using the curvature of the earth passing all the cameras the flying over the camera and interview going on at the end of the runway . Then the Vulcan was airborne before the first camera and sitting virtually on its tail heading up and the RAF officer makes some snarky but understated comment . Its in the great book Vulcan 607 . <| sep |> I was totally on board but their website kept crapping out around midnight while I was trying to check out so I decided that was a sign ! <| sep |> I wasn ' t ready for such a hard laugh