Victor Question

[bolmas]

are there any victors still flying, i am sure i saw one today passing over north manchester going east at about 2-30pm. or am i just seeing things?sand coloured,t-tail,engines in the wing roots
if not any suggestions as to what it was?

[Engineer]

Victor website (http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/victor/survivors.html)

[andrewman]

There are no Victor's flying at all.

[foxile]

Not T tail but what about a Nimrod? (http://www.airliners.net/open.file/811867/M/ )

[bolmas]

i never thought about the nimrod,as the aircraft i saw was at medium height and i was directly underneath it may not have been t-tail.yes, probably a nimrod.

many thanks to all that replied

[MrBernoulli]

None of them are sand coloured any more but could it have been a VC10? T-tail but engines mounted rear fuselage.

[BEagle]

Are there still any hemp coloured VC10s, Mr B? I thought they were all in John Major Grey these days?

[bolmas]

no, not a vc10 as the wings definitely had 2 engines in each wing root. i would recognise a vc10 as i flew back from ascension islands in one after spending 11 1/2 hrs in a hercules flying falklands to ascension.

[MrBernoulli]

Beagle,

As I said in my post:

"None of them are sand coloured any more ....."

bolmas,

Sounds very much like a Nimrod. Definitely not a Victor, none airworthy anymore. I operated the Victor K2 up until its retirement in late 93.