On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 11:46:14AM +1000, John Coyle wrote: > Is the Vulcan still flying? I recall seeing both the Vulcan and the Victor > at Farnborough, probably early 60's: the lasting impression was how slowly > they seemed to fly, and the colossal noise they made on take-off!
If you want a noisy Vulcan, try the flying testbed for the Olympus II engine developed for the Concorde. Just one of those engines was fitted underneath the belly of the aircraft. When they lit that one up it was louder than all four of the regular engines. And Concorde had four of those ... I saw the testbed at the Farnborough airshow (probably 1969). The pilot took off with all four conventional engines running. Then he mad a slow pass over the airfield with the standard engines throttled back, and just the single underbelly engine powering the plane. Then, at the end of the pass, he lit up the afterburner, stood the plane on its tail, and climbed straight up through the cloudbase. There's one Vulcan still in flying condition, based at RAF Brize Norton. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
