Re: [OM] More Old Aeroplanes.

[Chris Trask]

>
>> 
>> 
>>> Consider also that a Vulcan disintegrated during another show
>>>
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Syerston_Avro_Vulcan_crash 
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Syerston_Avro_Vulcan_crash>
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Syerston_Avro_Vulcan_crash 
>>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Syerston_Avro_Vulcan_crash>
>>>
>>> so it was probably operating very close to its airframe limits in any 
>>> manoeuvre like this.
>> 
>> Design limits or limits of that specific test airframe?
>> 
>Could have been either, Ken.  But my point is that the system for checking 
>designs and clearing 
>them for their flight envelope was less sophisticated than now.  Add to that 
>the slightly slacker 
>attitude to airframe limits that pertained at the time.
>

     Looking at the one photo it appears that the #3 engine (right side 
inboard) disintegrated.


Chris

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