Spirited Victor
Normal landing on 25(now 24) at Farnborough. The narrow strip of concrete underneath widened out to full runway width just right of shot and the threshold was roughly at the intersection with the short runway (30 in those days; changed to 29 in about '76).
In my 28 years working in the 'old' tower from where this was taken(we moved to the present tower in late 2002), I saw the same aspect with many different types from the BD 5J to the Antonov 225.(You could almost lean off the side of the balcony and touch the 225's wingtip - at least that's what it felt like!)
In my 28 years working in the 'old' tower from where this was taken(we moved to the present tower in late 2002), I saw the same aspect with many different types from the BD 5J to the Antonov 225.(You could almost lean off the side of the balcony and touch the 225's wingtip - at least that's what it felt like!)
Last edited by chevvron; 14th Jul 2017 at 12:23.
Considering the way the 225's little brother blasted turf and general debris into the air, the 225's take-off at Farnborough would have been quite a sight.
Farnborough 1988.
Farnborough 1988.
"Mildly" Eccentric Stardriver
it was most likely being flown by either Hedley "Hazel" Hazelden or Spud Murphy.
I photographed WB775 the second prototype Victor at the Biggin BOB display in September 1954 as seen here. The prototype had crashed about a month earlier ISTR.
Flying low and near the spectators was allowed in those days!
Flying low and near the spectators was allowed in those days!
1976 if I remember correctly. Seemed to need an awful lot of runway for takeoff.
The pilot of the BD5J (smallest aircraft in the display) also flew the Airbus A300 (largest). He wanted to fly the A300 and land and hop staight into the BD5 but the Flying Control Committee wouldn't let him and required at least 30 min between displays.
The pilot of the BD5J (smallest aircraft in the display) also flew the Airbus A300 (largest). He wanted to fly the A300 and land and hop staight into the BD5 but the Flying Control Committee wouldn't let him and required at least 30 min between displays.
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Yes fond memories of these gentlemen and Air Anglia. Spud gave me my first airline job as a DC3 FO and later I flew many times with Hazel on the F27.
Spud would have been the best Chief Pilot that I have ever had.
Sorry for the thread drift.
Spud would have been the best Chief Pilot that I have ever had.
Sorry for the thread drift.
Just in case anyone was planning on going to Bruntingthorpe to see the Victor do its thing this forthcoming august 27th, I've just seen that it has been cancelled.
Open Days | Bruntingthorpe Aircraft Museum
Open Days | Bruntingthorpe Aircraft Museum
Despite the earlier reports that Cold War Jets day was cancelled, and still is officially, on the 'Teasing Tina' Victor website it says that despite the cancellation of the show, there will be a scaled down event with some of the jets, including the Victor, and VC10 doing their start-up/taxi runs. They are calling it 'Jet Thunder' event. A few days ago it said it would be limited to 500 people, now it makes no mention of the 500 people. I suppose you can't limit it to a certain number of people without pre-selling tickets, because what happens when more people turn up that have travelled from afar, they get turned away at the gate ? I don't think so. So it appears there will be some jet activity, albeit scaled down, and as there is no mention on the Bruntingthorpe website, I guess there are keeping it low key to avoid bigger crowds.
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Yes, that's right ref G-SPUD. Sadly, it went off somewhere (Manx I think) and was re-registered. When it came back, the old registration wasn't allowed to be reapplied, so it ended it's days as G-BLFJ
Despite the earlier reports that Cold War Jets day was cancelled, and still is officially, on the 'Teasing Tina' Victor website it says that despite the cancellation of the show, there will be a scaled down event with some of the jets, including the Victor, and VC10 doing their start-up/taxi runs.
Jet Thunder Event Sunday 27th August
Sounds good enough to me. Some show is better than no show. I'll be there. Since going for the first time in May, I promised myself to go to both shows in the year. Hope they can include the Lightning. Top trio for me were Victor, VC10, and Lightning.
Just keeping my fellow Victor fans abreast of things, and after checking the constantly evolving official Bruntingthorpe website today, they have revised their earlier 'event cancelled' to the down scaled version as on the Victor site.
Open Days | Bruntingthorpe Aircraft Museum
Whilst there won’t be a formal event on the day, we will still be exercising a small number of the aircraft. Please note that as this will not be a formal event there will not be any trade stands
Reportedly to include the Victor, 2 Buccaneers, Canberra, VC-10, Jet Provost and Delphin