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Time to get the anoraks out!
How many prototypes of aircraft that made it into series production are still in existance?
I can think of only 3;
D.H. Mosquito
D. H. Heron
Concorde
any others??
(I wonder how much K5054 would be worth now?)
How many prototypes of aircraft that made it into series production are still in existance?
I can think of only 3;
D.H. Mosquito
D. H. Heron
Concorde
any others??
(I wonder how much K5054 would be worth now?)
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707
727
737
747
757
767
777
bac 111
ATP (for god sake why?)
146 (ditto)
The list goes on if you add in military A/C too. The only one flying though is the 777 as the very first one was re-worked and is new flying for Cathay.
What ever happened to the DC-10 prototype?
727
737
747
757
767
777
bac 111
ATP (for god sake why?)
146 (ditto)
The list goes on if you add in military A/C too. The only one flying though is the 777 as the very first one was re-worked and is new flying for Cathay.
What ever happened to the DC-10 prototype?
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Last Flight of a Prototype
It was Valiant WB215 loaded up to 170,000 pnds and two Super Sprite rocket take off units - 4,000 pnds thrust each.
Measured take off at Boscombe Down followed by drop tests of the Super Sprites.
Before the drops when I was still hauling around 42,000 pnds of ballast water, a main wing spar broke in vicinity of undercarriage attach point.
Fatigue crack had grown to about 30% of botton spar cap. Rest had just failed in tension.
Wing held on by a cross brace from top of forward sub spar to main spar outboard of failure.
Started buying lottery tickets after that trauma.
WB 215 never did fly again.
Does anyone know what happened to it?
It was Valiant WB215 loaded up to 170,000 pnds and two Super Sprite rocket take off units - 4,000 pnds thrust each.
Measured take off at Boscombe Down followed by drop tests of the Super Sprites.
Before the drops when I was still hauling around 42,000 pnds of ballast water, a main wing spar broke in vicinity of undercarriage attach point.
Fatigue crack had grown to about 30% of botton spar cap. Rest had just failed in tension.
Wing held on by a cross brace from top of forward sub spar to main spar outboard of failure.
Started buying lottery tickets after that trauma.
WB 215 never did fly again.
Does anyone know what happened to it?
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I think I remember seeing the Meteor and Lightning prototypes at Cosford along with various other interesting R&D aircraft.
The prototype JP5 is Victor Mike at North Weald!
RD
The prototype JP5 is Victor Mike at North Weald!
RD
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Protoype 1-11 was written off in the deep stall crash. Crew lost included Mike Lithgow. Aircraft was 'SHG, Number Four. Presumably first three aircframes were static test examples?
Development aircraft G-ASYD still around, though WFU as far as I know. Is that the one at Brooklands?
Beagle Pup and Basset prototypes still exist I think!
Development aircraft G-ASYD still around, though WFU as far as I know. Is that the one at Brooklands?
Beagle Pup and Basset prototypes still exist I think!
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- The A318,
Frontier recently purshased the development aircraft
- The A320,
aircraft still used by the manufacturer
- the A340-200,
development aiframe sold to the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, replacing the 707-138B (HZ-123)
- the A340-300,
still retained by the manufacturer and used as a test bed for the new RR.Trent
- the 777-200
the development aircraft was finally sold to Cathay
list goes on
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Frontier recently purshased the development aircraft
- The A320,
aircraft still used by the manufacturer
- the A340-200,
development aiframe sold to the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia, replacing the 707-138B (HZ-123)
- the A340-300,
still retained by the manufacturer and used as a test bed for the new RR.Trent
- the 777-200
the development aircraft was finally sold to Cathay
list goes on
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What ever happened to the DC-10 prototype?
Gone to the Great Hangar
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29.07.1970: Assembled in Long Beach and used as test aircraft by Mc Donnell - Douglas as N10DC
29.08.1970: First flight (maiden flight of the DC-10!)
08.12.1972: To American Airlines, N101AA
15.11.1994: WFU and stored in Tulsa, Oklahoma (Hours / Cycles by 15/11/1994: 63325 / 24281)
11.01.1995: WFU and stored in Marana, Arizona
22.02.1995: To GATX
12.02.1997: To FedEx
1998: Ferried to Goodyear, Arizona to be converted to MD-10
1999: Re-registred N530FE
16.05.2002: To Aviation Management Systems for scrapping
2002: Broken up at Goodyear after being assigned to MD-10 program.
(The prototypes of the DC-8 and DC-9 were also scrapped I think.)
Gone to the Great Hangar
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29.07.1970: Assembled in Long Beach and used as test aircraft by Mc Donnell - Douglas as N10DC
29.08.1970: First flight (maiden flight of the DC-10!)
08.12.1972: To American Airlines, N101AA
15.11.1994: WFU and stored in Tulsa, Oklahoma (Hours / Cycles by 15/11/1994: 63325 / 24281)
11.01.1995: WFU and stored in Marana, Arizona
22.02.1995: To GATX
12.02.1997: To FedEx
1998: Ferried to Goodyear, Arizona to be converted to MD-10
1999: Re-registred N530FE
16.05.2002: To Aviation Management Systems for scrapping
2002: Broken up at Goodyear after being assigned to MD-10 program.
(The prototypes of the DC-8 and DC-9 were also scrapped I think.)
Development aircraft G-ASYD still around, though WFU as far as I know. Is that the one at Brooklands?
Another prototype that´s still around: Fokker S.14 PH-XIV, in storage at Aviodrome, Lelystad, The Netherlands.
And don't forget Hawker Hunter prototype WB188!
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XP831 Ist Hawker P1127 Prototype now hanging from ceiling of the South Kensington Science Museum. The 6th and final P1127 was the standard of the Kestrel. There was no prototype Harrier, XV276 being the first of six development P1127(RAF) aircraft subsequently named Harrier
44 years later this is the latest great great grandson of XP831.
The Harrier GR9 has a mere 3000 lbs thrust more than the GR7 in ISA+35 (yes that is correct 50 deg C).
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The Phillips Speed Twin G-GPST is still around somewhere as are the original Europa G-EURO (in a museum - YAM?) and the Isaacs Fury G-ASCM is still flying I believe.
Sure there are more but my mind's gone blank... New anorak time??
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Slightly off topic I'd like to see G-LIZI (I think she is now) a PA.28 preserved eventually - why this one? Because she was the first of her type registered in the UK back in the 60's...
Sure there are more but my mind's gone blank... New anorak time??
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Slightly off topic I'd like to see G-LIZI (I think she is now) a PA.28 preserved eventually - why this one? Because she was the first of her type registered in the UK back in the 60's...
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Hey Milt,according to the book VICKERS VALIANT by Eric B Morgan,it's last flight was on 29 Apr '57[your's?]when a large piece of wing skin came off. After that used for wing fatigue tests until being broken up at Foulness in MAR '62. Hope thishelps. GB.
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How many prototypes of aircraft that made it into series production are still in existance?