Originally Posted by
Tankertrashnav
A bit further than that. Max fuel uplift on the Victor K1/1a tanker was 86K pounds. Substitute that max bomb load for fuel and that gives you say 50K fuel. We used to reckon 10k fuel used for start up, taxi and climb to TOC. Assuming in an operational situation you might be pla its reliable but hardly overpowered Sapphires was that you were never going to get airborne at anything like the max tow because of the high temperatures, so once you have reduced your fuel load we are probably nearly back to your Marham to Leuchars example in terms of usable range with that full load of bombs.
My last sortie in a Victor K1a just over 40 years ago. Where did that go?
Not sure where my years went either, seem to go even faster now. Was it really 50 years ago since the Victir tanker arrived at Marham.
Well remember the abysmal take off performance of the K 1and it's 8,700 foot ground roll on Marham,s 9000 foot runway, but could she go , clean, at height !