Vulcan documentary on Sky.
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thatone1967

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Monday 22nd November 2010
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Just watching a programme about the Vulcan, absolutely amazing... they could get 4 "cold" Vulcans in the air in under 2 minutes... and then fly to Russia at under 250 ft....

y2blade

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244 months

Monday 22nd November 2010
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what channel?


Le TVR

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280 months

Tuesday 23rd November 2010
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thatone1967 said:
Just watching a programme about the Vulcan, absolutely amazing... they could get 4 "cold" Vulcans in the air in under 2 minutes... and then fly to Russia at under 250 ft....
That doesn't sound right?? A 'cold' QRA Vulcan is not going to be going anywhere in under 2 mintutes. RS02 would have been with engines fired up and on the taxyways, not on the QRA hardstands.
I would have thought that, at best they would have left the QRA aircraft at RS15.

Awaits someone with a longer memory than mine...

spitfire-ian

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257 months

Tuesday 23rd November 2010
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Le TVR said:
thatone1967 said:
Just watching a programme about the Vulcan, absolutely amazing... they could get 4 "cold" Vulcans in the air in under 2 minutes... and then fly to Russia at under 250 ft....
That doesn't sound right?? A 'cold' QRA Vulcan is not going to be going anywhere in under 2 mintutes. RS02 would have been with engines fired up and on the taxyways, not on the QRA hardstands.
I would have thought that, at best they would have left the QRA aircraft at RS15.

Awaits someone with a longer memory than mine...
There was a rapid start button which fired all 4 engines into life at once by using air fed from pressurised bottles sat between the engines. Also all the cables for ground power, etc were on tethers so they pulled out of the sockets once the aircraft began to move.

Le TVR

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280 months

Tuesday 23rd November 2010
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I understood that SIMSTART was not used following a few engine fires? Normally it was start #1 with the Palouste then cross bleed 2,3 and 4. Even so, I'm sure the definition of RS02 was 'on the taxyway with engines running'.

sorrento205

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Tuesday 23rd November 2010
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what was it called and when is it on again?????

y2blade

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Tuesday 23rd November 2010
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sorrento205 said:
what was it called and when is it on again?????
+1

great info OP rolleyes

FourWheelDrift

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313 months

Tuesday 23rd November 2010
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Probably Vulcans, Victors and Cuba. It was on one of the Discovery channels last week and repeated again.

thatone1967

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Tuesday 23rd November 2010
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sorry guys... cannot remember the exact date the programme was shown, I will update tonight when I get home.. the actual time quoted was a minute 40 seconds... watch this space....

it may have been http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1055326/, like I said, will confirm later.

Edited by thatone1967 on Tuesday 23 November 11:58

thatone1967

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Tuesday 23rd November 2010
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sorry guys... cannot remember the exact date the programme was shown, I will update tonight when I get home.. the actual time quoted was a minute 40 seconds... watch this space....



Edited by thatone1967 on Tuesday 23 November 12:06

y2blade

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244 months

Tuesday 23rd November 2010
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thatone1967 said:
sorry guys... cannot remember the exact date the programme was shown, I will update tonight when I get home.. the actual time quoted was a minute 40 seconds... watch this space....

it may have been http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1055326/, like I said, will confirm later.

Edited by thatone1967 on Tuesday 23 November 11:58
many thanks, I'll do a search on Sky.com from home later and set the sky+ for it

thatone1967

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Tuesday 23rd November 2010
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y2blade said:
thatone1967 said:
sorry guys... cannot remember the exact date the programme was shown, I will update tonight when I get home.. the actual time quoted was a minute 40 seconds... watch this space....

it may have been http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1055326/, like I said, will confirm later.

Looks like it was on back in September..

frown

Edited by thatone1967 on Tuesday 23 November 11:58
many thanks, I'll do a search on Sky.com from home later and set the sky+ for it

sorrento205

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265 months

Tuesday 23rd November 2010
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FourWheelDrift said:
Probably Vulcans, Victors and Cuba. It was on one of the Discovery channels last week and repeated again.
its on 8 times this weekend. fingers crossed and sky+'d

FourWheelDrift

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313 months

Saturday 27th November 2010
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sorrento205 said:
FourWheelDrift said:
Probably Vulcans, Victors and Cuba. It was on one of the Discovery channels last week and repeated again.
its on 8 times this weekend. fingers crossed and sky+'d
It's on today 12pm, 5pm & 11pm on Discovery History (Sky c522) if anyone else wants to see it.

Cotty

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313 months

Saturday 27th November 2010
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Yep on now