Langley
I wondered about the table tennis balls and heated galvanised baths, they must have been rich kids at Scampton, no such luxuries at Wittering, ex MQ baths for the poor people near Stamford !
I was also interested in the jettison and taxi away Vulcan routine as such a thing would not have been possible with the Victor due to ground clearance. In fact I am now wondering about the wisdom of fitting Blue Steel to the Victor. In addition to the clearance problems mentioned, there were others, not least the lower vertical fin which had to be folded up when the A/C was on the ground. Originally the plan was to have the fin coupled to the wheels, wheels up fin down and vice versa, after several failures resulting in ground down fins when it failed to fold on landing, the system was immobilised and the fin kept folded up, in the event of a launch the fin was blown down using the emergency pneumatic system.