oops!

[G-BMML]

Nice little video on this site of one of our cold war aircraft taking to the air `accidentally!`

Well held Sir.

www.timesonline.co.uk (http://www.timesonline.co.uk)

[mivens]

The poster is referring to
Vintage bomber takes off by mistake at air show - Times Online (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6826566.ece)
I think.

[Bicontatto]

Glad to see even The Times could get in a mention of a housing estate:)

[Kelly Hopper]

Ummm. I'm not sure I can take this on face value.
There seems to be a definate positive rotation and all this talk about the co opening "the" throttle. So close it then!
What is being described as a taxi run is in fact a high power run to V speeds and beyond. Interesting vid though.

[tocamak]

Surely this actually happened in May as was reported:-

http://http://www.pprune.org/aviation-history-nostalgia/372553-victor-airborne-merged.html (http://www.pprune.org/aviation-history-nostalgia/372553-victor-airborne-merged.html")

[alwayzinit]

The SOPs on the Victor were for the non handling pilot to handle the throttles..............no idea why, maybe a hangover from the flight eng holding the "Go" levers to the fire wall in a Lanc?

I never understood why especially when doing in flight refuelling you handled the throttles yourself so why not on take off and approach:confused:.

The Vid is very interesting as it clearly shows that the flaps are at the take off setting, why would you do that for a taxi run?

That said thought it hilarious seeing the camera team nearly being blown away as the beast started to roll:D.