I do wonder if Tony Cunnane DID go supersonic over Paris. I saw Mach 1 indicated on my Victor conversion, clean aircraft at TTF on the high speed run. As I recall there was no Handling problem so it was probably just an indicated Mach no. and not true and I doubt if the instrument was correctly calibrated for that Mach no.
In BA we cruised our VC10s at Mach .84 indicated (same as the cruise Mach on a Victor 1 if I recall correctly,
.74 on the Valiant and the Canberra) but which was only .825 TRUE. So the Machmeter may not have been telling the true story ( no pun intended!) on the Victor with pods on it !
But as I said earlier, she certainly could go!
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