22 June 1961 - Visiting AVRO B1A "VULCAN" A-bomber [serial XH481] of RAF 101 Squadron, on public display at RAAF Richmond, New South, Wales, Australia

AIRCRAFT HISTORY

(courtesy of UK Serials website) www.ukserials.com

- 25 Apr 1958 - Certificate of Airworthiness granted while at Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft.

- 30 Apr 1958 - Assigned to Royal Air Force.

- 7 Oct 1960 - Transferred back to Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft & retro-fitted to B1A conversion standard.

- 8 May 1961 - Returned to active service with RAF 101 Squadron.

- 10 Jan 1968 - Allocated to Fire Section at RAF Waddington.

- 1976 - Perished (ie destroyed) during fire drill training.

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SOURCE INFO

- The original image was captured by my late father Alec Crisdale, using an SLR with AGFACOLOR 100 ISO 35mm slide positive film.

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PROCESS INFO

- Digitized the badly degraded colour positive slide using a CANON Canoscan 8800F scanner.

- Latest version enhanced using Topaz Denoise AI & Skylum Luminar Neo AI & enlarged using Topaz Gigapixel AI.

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