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==Popular culture==
*The Vulcan bomber was featured in the 1965 [[James Bond]] movie ''[[Thunderball (film)|Thunderball]]''. Agents of [[SPECTRE]] hijacked a Vulcan bomber in order to use its two nuclear bombs for a ransom plot against the US and Britain. However, inIn the original novel, the bomber is known as the (fictional) ''Villiers Vindicator''.
*Parts from two scrapped Vulcan bombers were used to make the set of the spaceship Nostromo from [[Ridley Scott]]'s [[1979]] film ''[[Alien (film)|Alien]]''.
*The spaceship HMS Camden Lock in the BBC2 comedy series [[Hyperdrive (TV series)|Hyperdrive]] bears the serial number XH558.
*Parts from two scrapped Vulcan bombers were used to make the set of the spaceship Nostromo from [[Ridley Scott]]'s [[1979]] film [[Alien (film)]].
*The Vulcan is featured in the [[Ace Combat]] computer game series and the Vulcan is in the [[Aero Fighters]] arcade game series.
 
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