Milt, re the Valiant feel system. I have vague recollections (after all we are going a long way back) of punctures in the bellows causing the controls to lose "Q feel" but I think there were some springs in there to retain a modicum of force.
Beags, I guess you have to remember that the Valiant design was of the middle of the century and Mach 0.76 was pretty good for an aircraft that size, the wing was certainly not greatly swept and was rather thick, bit like the Javelin. It has just occured to me that I started my operational flying on the Vickers Valiant and finished it 35 years later on the Vickers VC10, a very different aircraft.
Last edited by Art Field; 26th May 2005 at 09:09.