This TP suffered a decline in confidence with the Vickers designers soon after a wing main spar of the second Valiant prototype broke beside me with a huge bang. Thankfully the wing stayed attached via alternative load paths even though at AUW (168,000 Pnds) and a couple of just fired Super Sprite units.
When advised of the failure Vickers engineers stated that it couldn't have been a spar failure as if so the wing would have come off.
That was too close.
Last edited by Milt; 23rd January 2010 at 11:47.
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