Been away for a long time but interesting to see some of the eng. posts (OK I understand the thread is "Did You Fly" but I sort of think most of the operators (tee hee!) have an interest (more or less) in the eng. aspects of this great aircraft's service life. From my engineering perspective, the 2 great design features in the V-force (Vulcan in particular) NBS were:
The Calc 3 (balistics "computer") square rooting pin wheel
The automatic variation setting cam unit (Calc 5? - can't remember if that was the box)
In other words - how did they come up with these things? I thought the AVSCU was a joke till I saw the pukka item in a servicing bay (looked like the burnt out candle the night you fell asleep in the bath ) and I thought - hats off to the boffins that designed this.
Discuss :-)
MSJ