Spinning a four engine Handley Page Victor bomber

[Centaurus]

Now that's what I call an unusual attitude recovery!!

Victor Incident (http://jsaxon.org/bluesteel/books/victorin.htm)

[Lead Balloon]

Fantastic story, well told.

Ah for the good ol' days. :(

[megan]

Remember reading about it in the "News" or "Advertiser" the day after.

[Stanwell]

Was the airframe usable again?

[gerry111]

(Stanwell, Please read the third last paragraph.)

I remember a late night visit to have a look in a Handley Page Victor during May 1969. That was at RAF Wittering, U.K. where my family were guests of a Sqn Ldr Victor navigator based there. The aircraft had flown direct from Goose Bay and was covered in ice. I was able to sit in the pilot's seat as an 11 year old, just after the Blue Steel missile was removed..

[Stanwell]

Thanks, gerry.
As a primary school teacher once noted on my report card...
'Must pay more attention'.

[Lead Balloon]

It shows how real risk management was run in the real world.

[gerry111]

Stanwell,

May I empathise?

My year 4 teacher noted: "Gerald spends all his time comfortably ensconced in trivia, totally ignoring all the key facts." Ouch!

[jas24zzk]

bahahahahaha

My year 9 English teacher said i could do better if all my book reviews weren't on aeroplane books

[Fris B. Fairing]

My year 12 teacher reprimanded me for looking out the window at a DC-3. Serves them right for building a skool near an airport. I still turned out ok.

[Stanwell]

Fris B,
Are you sure about that?
One of my more clever moments was, as a kid, and passing by, I was gawping at the rivet detail on a DC3.
Right up to the point where my head contacted the trailing edge of the portside wing.
D'oh!

[Fris B. Fairing]

Are you sure about that?

Sure that it was a DC-3 or sure that I turned out OK?

[aroa]

At a high school on the west beach adelaide flight path I got to be able to watch the whole range of airliners of the day, and of the bomb test era. Top stuff.

Best of all was one day of severe glazing gazing the teacher says .. "since yr really not here in class, son so go outside and see what you want to see."
So I did and I did ...the fabulous futuristic looking Vulcan did low orbits around Adelaide and from the school oval had an unobstructed view of the magnificent roaring thing that looked like something out of a science fiction comic.

Sadly back in the UK on the homecoming ILS approach to London it crashed. Bugger.

Another big Pommie machine I got to see was the Bristol Britannia.

Aahh the good old days.

[Ascend Charlie]

A Herc-flying friend told me of seeing a C-130 in the incipient stages of a spin.

His instructor's comment was "......well, there's something you don't see every day..."

[Stanwell]

Sure that it was a DC-3 or sure that I turned out OK?


I was referring to the latter, Fris B, he says with a slap on the back. :ok:

[gerry111]

In 1967, my family flew from Heathrow to Gerona (Northern Spain) return in a Bristol Brittannia "airliner". I remember the aircraft being very noisy which seemed a rather good thing as we passed over the Pyrenees. Fortunately, my next airline flight in 1969 was in a QF B707. That really was an airliner! :D

P.S. At Gerona airport, there were 6 BE-35's lined up with their V-tails a sight to behold..