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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
18th Oct 2011, 11:58
Replies: 399
Views: 192,672
Posted By philbky

Why The SSK probably didn't win

Whilst the RB211 was built in Derby the RB stood for Rolls Barnodswick, where the engine was designed. As for it being a "Derby Winner", the problems with the engine hardly made it a winner at the...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
19th Mar 2009, 12:03
Replies: 399
Views: 192,672
Posted By philbky

Thanks Wodrick and DH106.

Thanks Wodrick and DH106.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
18th Mar 2009, 22:44
Replies: 399
Views: 192,672
Posted By philbky

Just out of interest and at the risk of thread...

Just out of interest and at the risk of thread drift (and this thread has wandered a bit already!) mention of DC9 elevators reminded me of something I've never cleared up.

From the 1960s to the...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
16th Mar 2009, 00:47
Replies: 399
Views: 192,672
Posted By philbky

Sorry ZFT, all the contemporaneous magazines...

Sorry ZFT, all the contemporaneous magazines mention only the tailplane.

The fin would probably have been useless due to stress caused by the shock of the rear fuselage hitting the ground when the...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
15th Mar 2009, 14:22
Replies: 399
Views: 192,672
Posted By philbky

Nice one Brian! ZFT, could it be that the...

Nice one Brian!

ZFT, could it be that the "TAILPLANE":D had been fitted to another fin at the time you saw it?
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
15th Mar 2009, 11:44
Replies: 399
Views: 192,672
Posted By philbky

ZFT, what you saw could only have been the...

ZFT, what you saw could only have been the horizontal stabiliser see:
Surviving Bits & Pieces (http://www.vc10.net/History/bitsandpieces.html#G-ASGN).

Contemporaneous aviation magazines state the...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
6th Mar 2009, 12:36
Replies: 399
Views: 192,672
Posted By philbky

Regarding deep stall, the Victor accident is...

Regarding deep stall, the Victor accident is widely regarded in a number of reports and publications as the first time the phenomenon was recorded as such but, with a number of T tail designs...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
5th Mar 2009, 17:44
Replies: 399
Views: 192,672
Posted By philbky

Thanks Tornadoken for digging out those quotes. ...

Thanks Tornadoken for digging out those quotes.

As ever with events not open to too much public scrutiny at the time and are now around 50 years ago, there are some unresolved matters.
...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
5th Mar 2009, 09:18
Replies: 399
Views: 192,672
Posted By philbky

Other aircraft that have had deep stall accidents...

Other aircraft that have had deep stall accidents are the TU-134, the Trident 1 and the Canadair CL600 but the phenomenon was first linked to T tail aircraft with the crash of HP Victor B Mk2 XL159...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
5th Mar 2009, 08:53
Replies: 399
Views: 192,672
Posted By philbky

Boeing Hatfield visit

That visit was years later and to a different manufacturere - BAC rather than Hawker Siddeley controlled Hatfield.

There are similarities however as Boeing had fostered a relationship with de...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
4th Mar 2009, 18:45
Replies: 399
Views: 192,672
Posted By philbky

In the case of the Trident, a Boeing team was...

In the case of the Trident, a Boeing team was invited around the Hatfield facility and were shown the Medway powered Trident project that BEA abandoned and the inferior Spey powered Trident which was...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
3rd Mar 2009, 14:28
Replies: 399
Views: 192,672
Posted By philbky

Brian Potter said: "I knew that Vickers was...

Brian Potter said:

"I knew that Vickers was not state-owned but I thought that BAC had an element of state-ownership."

You were obviously confusing state ownership,with massive state...
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