I, too, saw Vulcans (amongst other things) at the Farnborough shows. The most awesome-sounding Vulcan, which also showed up at Farnborough, was the one used as the flying test bed for the Olympus Two engine. That had the bomb bay doors removed and the extra engine mounted in the centre of the aircraft.
First the Vulcan made a long, slow pass running on the usual four Olympus One engines. Then the pilot made another pass with all the main engines off (or, almost certainly, throttled right back), and just the single Olympus Two powering the aircraft. That was loud. Mind you, for sheer noise, it's hard to beat the eventual home of the Olympus Two - the Concorde (which had *four* of them!). On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 05:09:28PM +1000, John Coyle wrote: > I remember watching one of those taking off at the Farnborough Air Show, > probably in the mid-60's: the sound was awesome, you felt it as much as > heard it. > > > John Coyle > Brisbane, Australia > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Cotty > Sent: Thursday, 17 April 2008 2:36 AM > To: pentax list > Subject: OT - Vulcan Bomber for the airheads > > Test flight for the only Vulcan bomber, newly restored for the few air > heads on the list... > > <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7350939.stm> > > -- > > > Cheers, > Cotty > > > ___/\__ > || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche > ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com > _____________________________ > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
