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Old 22nd Aug 2013, 23:01
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Chris Scott
 
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Great news, as announced by Tim Skeet at the BAC One-Eleven 50th Anniversary bash at Brooklands last Tuesday.

He also mentioned that their ex-Boscombe One-Eleven-500, ZH763, is planned to be taxied regularly. I wonder if they'll be able to do the same with the 'Ten. Can't remember the fuel-flow on the Conway at idle at sea-level/ISA, but in BCAL we used to allow 900 kg (~1125 litres) taxi fuel on our fuel flightplan for a normal departure; i.e., start plus taxi until starting the take-off run. (IIRC, it was 600 kg on the JT3D-powered B707-320s, because of the higher by-pass ratio.)

Any aircrew or regular passenger who has waited on airfields in divers parts of the world for their aircraft to arrive could not fail to recognise the unique sound of a taxiing VC10 (not to mention the sound of four Conways at take-off thrust). In similar vein, does anyone have a Britannia that taxies?
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