PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Vulcan rocketry!
View Single Post
Old 13th Jun 2007, 22:11
  #30 (permalink)  
Clear Right,Px Good!
 
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Lynehamshire
Posts: 79
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Stopping Power !

They were, as you know, delivered to short and to soft airfield but also at basic weights. A min landing run, minimal fuel, max aerodynamic braking, chute stream etc and it could do a very short landing but not all the time.
I read with interest !. I wonder, XM594 (B2) is, as you no doubt know on display at Newark Air Museum (once Winthorpe). It was flown in of course, and I was wondering just how long the runway would have been there (especially at the time). Must have been an achievement even in a 30 kt headwind, and I think proves further that the Vulcan could operate (at least into) from a short field.

CRPxGood
Clear Right,Px Good! is offline