That Vulcan looks dangerous!
I might have mentioned it before, but I cannot understand this excitement with
the Vulcan; that shot shows how close to the ground could be the wingtip, and
when performing wingovers, the inside wing would be going sooo slowly it must
have been nearly stalled. I’m glad that the thing is no longer flying.
It doesn’t help, of course, that the Vulcan pilot job was a pretty boring one
and I spent the early part of my career trying hard to avoid being posted to
the Vulcan force.
Chris
> On 13 Sep 16, at 15:28, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Still haven't figured out the high-wing monoplane with the tadpole
> fuselage.
>
> While searching, I came across this spectacular photo of an Avro Vulcan
> taking off at the Teesside Airshow in 1963:
>
> http://www.dtvmovements.co.uk/Info/Historic%20Logs/Vulcan%202.jpg
> <http://www.dtvmovements.co.uk/Info/Historic%20Logs/Vulcan%202.jpg>
>
>>
>> I should have given more details. The aircraft is a single-engine
>> high wing monoplane. It was painted a darkish yellow with red trim.
>>
>>>
>>> Tadpole? Not seen the film but that description shouts out DH Vampire or
>>> Venom
>>>
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Vampire
>>>
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Venom
>>>
>>> But a Lancaster in RN service would be a rare sight!
>>>
>>> I've been watching the movie "The Running Man', starring Laurence
>>> Harvey and Lee Remick, and there are all sorts of interesting aircraft and
>>> sailplanes here and there. Near the very end, in the vicinity of Gibraltar,
>>> there are two interesting light aircraft, one of which has a fuselage shaped
>>> like a tadpole. I've never seen anything such as that before. Oh, and
>>> there's a Royal Navy Lancaster seen taking off.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
>> - Hunter S. Thompson
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