[jabl]

In one of the documentaries about the Vulcan raid on the Falklands (1982), one of the pilots interviewed remarked that somebody flying Avro Lancasters in WWII would have felt right at home in the cockpit of the Avro Vulcan. E.g. the navigator used mechanical clocks to keep track of when to turn, and so on.

Not sure if this was a conscious decision wrt EMP, or was it just that they were in a hurry to develop a jet bomber for delivering nukes and they reused existing stuff as much as possible.

[NeedMoreTea]

Not in the least surprising. The Vulcan prototype, the 707, first flew in 1949. They even had a mount for the old Lancaster bomb sight - though that was mostly used for a camera.

Flight engineer and radar operator in the seats behind would have got the fancy new (for the early 50s) electronic things.

[mhh__]

The Lancaster was loaded with the technology of the time by the end up the war e.g. they had radar navigation, radio navigation, (when it worked) a 'lock' detector for German night fighter radar

[johncalvinyoung]

Which documentary was this? I read Vulcan 607 about ten years ago and loved it.

[jabl]

I'm quite sure it's this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBJ99bIhAVk