Vulcan Flying Blind?

[GLIDER 90]

Was the Vulcan ever flown blind by meaning the anti flash curtain pulled across the cockpit window for imc training?

[Fareastdriver]

It wouldn't have been for IMC Training. The safety pilot has to be able to see outside, all around.

The only way you can blackout the cockpit for the pilot flying is to use the old blue/amber system. That is where amber screens are placed over the transparencies and the flying pilot wears blue goggles. Blue and amber makes black; the instrument panel is a bit blue but the safety pilot still has the world in amber.

That went out of fashion in the RAF in the fifties.

[Duchess_Driver]

It wouldn't have been for IMC Training. The safety pilot has to be able to see outside, all around.

The only way you can blackout the cockpit for the pilot flying is to use the old blue/amber system. That is where amber screens are placed over the transparencies and the flying pilot wears blue goggles. Blue and amber makes black; the instrument panel is a bit blue but the safety pilot still has the world in amber.

That went out of fashion in the RAF in the fifties.

but a very neat solution to the “screens” or hood problem.

[Bill Macgillivray]

Glider 90
No, anti-flash was for one reason only!

[Wander00]

Which leads me to ask, perhaps naively, what if any protection from flash was provided for crew of other nuclear capable aircraft, but single pilot, eg Canberra, Buccaneer

[Heathrow Harry]

didn't some of them wear an eye patch so that when one eye was frazzled they would still have a working alternative?

[Bill Macgillivray]

Don't know about the others but we were also issued with an eye-patch on Vulcans (Arr, Jim lad!!)

[sycamore]

BM,but no `blue parrot`....

[GLIDER 90]

Hello All

Thanks all for your replies.