Victor Flypasts 1993

[JimmyTAP]

A long shot here. I am trying to find out which Victor K.2 carried out flypasts at a number of airfields including Woodford on 30th September 1993. I believe it did flypasts at airfields associated with the type prior to it's retirement in October.

JT

[Phileas Fogg]

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/photos/photos/1/0/9/0319901.jpg

XL164 @ Fairford 24/07/1993

[Phileas Fogg]

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/photos/photos/8/1/4/0709418.jpg
And XL231 @ Finningley 17/09/1993

[country calls]

Brilliant photographs! Thanks for posting them, especially the first one which co-incidently shows two other types in the frame it has been my (mis)fortune to be associated with in my career!

[Phileas Fogg]

By Googling it would seem that XH672 did the 30/09/1993 runs.

[JimmyTAP]

Thanks for that. Could you point me to the website that mentions it. My Googling didn't find that info.

JT

[Phileas Fogg]

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?p=1160473

[LTNman]

My father used to work on the Victor production line at Radlett, A dam good-looking aircraft.

Can anyone confirm that that there were some Victors parked up at Radlett in 1969 when Handley Page went bust that were waiting for tanker conversions?

[Phileas Fogg]

Yes,
Having been on Google earlier today I read that some Victors were at Radlett at the time HP folded.
Unique looking aircraft but fancy naming it after a Vauxhall car :)
Here ya go:

XL161 Taken at my then place of work where photography was prohibited! A number of these Victors were in open storage at Radlett in Hertfordshire for many years but with the demise of Handley Page they were flown to Woodford where this aircraft, a first for the database, awaits conversion to a K.Mk 2 tanker.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=0677634
http://cdn-www.airliners.net/photos/middle/4/3/6/0677634.jpg

[JimmyTAP]

Thanks very much for the help.