Post amazingly cool pictures of aircraft (Volume 2)
Discussion
Dr Jekyll said:
I believe it's some huge radar in the nose of the Vulcan and Valiant, but how they managed with a much smaller one in the Victor only a few years later I don't know.
The Vulcan used a development of the Wartime H2S ground mapping radar as did the Victor. I should imagine the Valiant did as well since all 3 were fitted with the same NBS ( Navigation and Bombing System). In Vulcan it was in the nose, in Valiant it was in the bulge under the nose aft of the bomb aimer's window.On Vulcan Mk2 the 'tit' on the front of the nose (below the pitot) mast was the TFR (Terrain Following Radar); the bulge under the nose was for the Doppler Navigation Radar (initially Green Satin, later [I believe] Green Hammock).
The Doppler fitted to the Vulcan Mk1 was then fitted to the Dominie when it entered service in 1965. When 11 of the Dominies were upgraded to post DAU standard (Dominie Avionics Upgrade) in 1996 the Vulcan Mk1 Doppler was replaced by that which had been fitted to Vulcan Mk2.
D4VE 3LL said:
- Love the framing of the second one too!
Low Flight
Oh, I have slipped through
swirling clouds of dust,
A few feet from the dirt,
I've flown the C-130 low enough,
To make my bottom hurt.
I've flown in the desert, hills and valleys,
Mountains too,
Frolicked in the trees,
Where only flying squirrels flew.
Chased the frightened cows along,
Disturbed the ram and ewe,
And done a hundred other things
That you'd not care to do.
I've smacked the tiny sparrow,
Bluebird, robin, all the rest,
I've ingested baby eagles,
Simply sucked them from their nest.
I've streaked through total darkness,
Just the other guys and me,
And spent the night in terror of
Things I could not see.
I turned my eyes to heaven,
As I sweated through the flight,
Put out my hand and touched,
The Fire Warning Light.
~~Author Unknown 1972~~
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