The Vulcan bomber

[Billywizz74]

For anyone interested the Vulcan will be off beachy head in a couple of hours. There is an aerial photography team waiting for it at shoreham airport. They said they will taking off in a couple of hours.

Edited by Billywizz74 on Saturday 12th September 13:41

[Nicol@]

Good heads up, but the Vulcan (XH558) has its own giant thread where all the news etc is posted:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[Mr GrimNasty]

Billywizz74 said:

For anyone interested the Vulcan will be off beachy head in a couple of hours. There is an aerial photography team waiting for it at shoreham airport. They said they will taking off in a couple of hours.

Edited by Billywizz74 on Saturday 12th September 13:41

I saw that flying box landing from the downs today, just before midday I think, wondered what it was - what's the plane called?

[EskimoArapaho]

Mr GrimNasty said:

I saw that flying box landing from the downs today, just before midday I think, wondered what it was - what's the plane called?

Short Skyvan. An endearingly ugly duckling.

[Eric Mc]

Is that Skyvan in RAF markings? I'd like to see a better picture of it.

[texaxile]

Used them extensively in Oman (well, my Dad did). I flew on one from SOAF Seeb to Salalah more than once and it was horrible. Stunk of fuel, musty military gear and canvas.
I've been told they were designed in that shape so they could fit a Land rover in the back.Nnot sure on that though, but I have a few pics taken by my Dad of one crashed at Tawi Attir.

This isn't one of my or his pics, but all credit to the original author.



I think they were still being used by RFO (Royal flight Oman, previously SOAF) up until recently.

[Eric Mc]

The Airfix kit came with Omani markings (as well as a set of decals for Olympic Airlines).

[Mr GrimNasty]

EskimoArapaho said:

Mr GrimNasty said:

I saw that flying box landing from the downs today, just before midday I think, wondered what it was - what's the plane called?

Short Skyvan. An endearingly ugly duckling.

Cheers, new to me, but aptly named!

[Eric Mc]

And it sired a family of flying sheds -

The Short S330



The Short S360

[andy97]

The USAF in Europe had a fleet of Shorts 330s for transporting spares, inc engines, around their various European bases.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_C-23_Sherpa

Edited by andy97 on Sunday 13th September 06:47

[andy97]

The USAF in Europe had a fleet of Shorts 330s for transporting spares, inc engines, around their various European bases.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_C-23_Sherpa

Edited by andy97 on Sunday 13th September 06:48

[tim0409]

texaxile said:

Used them extensively in Oman (well, my Dad did). I flew on one from SOAF Seeb to Salalah more than once and it was horrible. Stunk of fuel, musty military gear and canvas.
I've been told they were designed in that shape so they could fit a Land rover in the back.Nnot sure on that though, but I have a few pics taken by my Dad of one crashed at Tawi Attir.

This isn't one of my or his pics, but all credit to the original author.



I think they were still being used by RFO (Royal flight Oman, previously SOAF) up until recently.

My dad worked in Oman as an engineer on Skyvans and Defenders (BN Islanders) based at Seeb on contract from a UK company called Airwork. He came home every 20 weeks for 3 weeks and I loved all the aviation related stories he would tell (which obviously sparked my love of all things planes). I remember being particularly excited when he called out of the blue as he was heading to the US in the back of a C130 with a cradle he had built to collect a wing sourced for an Islander; he flew up from London for the night before rejoining the C130 for the trip to New York.

Here is a picture I found of a crashed Defender which my dad and his colleagues retrieved from a hillside in Oman -