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Great video of this stunning Vulcan doing four fast taxi runs yesterday...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrr17_UsAsA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrr17_UsAsA
MoggieMinor said:
Narcisus said:
Ayahuasca said:
Is there anything mechanically preventing the pilot from opening the taps and taking off ?
Google Lusty Linda if you’ve not seen it before 
Teasin' Tina at Bruntingthorpe 2009! The last flight of the Victor....
Ayahuasca said:
Is there anything mechanically preventing the pilot from opening the taps and taking off ?
I don’t know for sure, as I’m nothing to do with 426, but even a ‘serviceable for flight’ Vulcan in the 70s would’ve been carrying a few issues. So, one that’s not having to meet the requirements for flight will probably be carrying more issues, just because of costs. And it wouldn’t have been carrying enough fuel for take off and a circuit, I’d have thought.
MoggieMinor said:
Narcisus said:
Ayahuasca said:
Is there anything mechanically preventing the pilot from opening the taps and taking off ?
Google Lusty Linda if you’ve not seen it before Teasin' Tina at Bruntingthorpe 2009! The last flight of the Victor....
Before anyone shoots me down, that attitude is why I'm not a pilot. I went and took the entrance exam for Oxford aviation and was rejected due to being too 'make a decision and consider the consequences later' in their words.
Tony1963 said:
Ayahuasca said:
Is there anything mechanically preventing the pilot from opening the taps and taking off ?
I don’t know for sure, as I’m nothing to do with 426, but even a ‘serviceable for flight’ Vulcan in the 70s would’ve been carrying a few issues. So, one that’s not having to meet the requirements for flight will probably be carrying more issues I was at Coningsby the day '426 made its last ever VDF display flight in June 1986.
Two points:
Looks in great condition, I wonder if you scratched under the paint how the airframe and mechanicals compare to 558 and is it far away from being a ‘flying’ aircraft?
Shame they had to end the full thrust so early which in turn reduced the chance of the ‘Vulcan howl’
After all these years it’s a magnificent looking aircraft
Looks in great condition, I wonder if you scratched under the paint how the airframe and mechanicals compare to 558 and is it far away from being a ‘flying’ aircraft?
Shame they had to end the full thrust so early which in turn reduced the chance of the ‘Vulcan howl’
After all these years it’s a magnificent looking aircraft
Krikkit said:
Turn7 said:
OOI, how loud / scary are these at full chat compared with, say, a Typhoon ?
Very similarly impressive I think, although the Vulcan makes a nicer noise the sheer brutality of a typhoon on afterburner is something that sticks in the memory.aeropilot said:
And that's aside from the fact that it last flew 34 years ago......in fact it will be 34 years in 6 days time, since its final flight....and the reason it was retired from the VDF mid season, was it was due a major, which is why that had to retrieve '558 from the fire dump at Marham..!!
I was at Coningsby the day '426 made its last ever VDF display flight in June 1986.
I was at Marham, Tornado ASF and Visiting Aircraft from 1982 to 1987 ish. I think I saw 558 in for what was supposed to be it’s final resting place. Sadly, life’s memories are a bit of a blur...I was at Coningsby the day '426 made its last ever VDF display flight in June 1986.
Tony1963 said:
Yertis said:
Chopping the throttles when it's just got rolling must be very frustrating.
Aye, but if the brakes don’t have much meat on them, and/or the tyres are nearing the end...And they have only about 4000ft of runway to play with to make the left turn onto the taxiway to come back past the terminals and back to the east end of the runway.
If they miss that, they would have to go right to the west end and do a tight 180 at the end of the runway and track back up the runway to turn off onto the taxiway.
Hence the very short full throttle duration.
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