Editing Avro Vulcan (section)

===Colour schemes===
[[File:Aerial Vulcan.JPEG|thumb|Aerial view of a Vulcan B.2 in late RAF markings on static display at [[RAF Mildenhall]], 1984]]
The two prototype Vulcans were finished in gloss white. Early Vulcan B.1s left the factory in a natural metal finish; the front half of the nose [[radome]] was painted black, the rear half painted silver. Front-line Vulcan B.1s had a finish of [[anti-flash white]] and [[Royal Air Force roundels|RAF "type D" roundels]]. Front-line Vulcan B.1As and B.2s were similar, but with pale roundels.<ref name="brookes33-35">Brookes and Davey 2009, pp. 33–35.</ref>

With the adoption of low-level attack profiles in the mid-1960s, B.1As and B.2s were given a glossy sea grey medium and dark green disruptive pattern camouflage on the upper surfaces, white undersurfaces, and "type D" roundels. (The last 13 Vulcan B.2s, XM645 onwards, were delivered thus from the factory<ref name="bulman43">Bulman 2001, p. 43.</ref>). In the mid-1970s, Vulcan B.2s received a similar scheme with matte camouflage, light aircraft grey undersides, and "low-visibility" roundels. B.2(MRR)s received a similar scheme in gloss; and the front halves of the radomes were no longer painted black. Beginning in 1979, 10 Vulcans received a wrap-around camouflage of dark sea grey and dark green<ref name="brookes36-41">Brookes and Davey 2009, pp. 36–41.</ref><ref name="bulman170">Bulman 2001, p. 170.</ref> because, during [[Red Flag (United States Air Force)|Red Flag]] exercises in the US, defending [[Surface-to-air missile|SAM]] forces had found that the grey-painted undersides of the Vulcan became much more visible against the ground at high angles of bank.<ref name="Buttler p. 72" />
[[File:Avro_Vulcan_Flight_Deck.jpg|thumb|Avro Vulcan rear crew positions]]