Victor Barrel-Roll?
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Victor Barrel-Roll?
I've seen, in various places, including Wiki, that a Victor was barrel-rolled at Farnborough. We've probably all seen Roly Falk do it in the Vulcan, but I've never found any details of the Victor.
Does anyone have further information, and perhaps a link? If anyone did do it, my money goes on "Spud" Murphy
Does anyone have further information, and perhaps a link? If anyone did do it, my money goes on "Spud" Murphy
Flight Global (archives no longer available) say that during practice for the 1958 Farnborough display the Victor performed several rolls and loops. Nothing said about doing them during the actual display, though the article is titled "Farnborough Week: The most Memorable S.B.A.C. Display Yet", so it probably did. There is a video of a Vulcan doing a a half loop with a roll off the top.
Edit to add video of both Victor and Vulcan doing the LABS type delivery at the '58 show.
Edit to add video of both Victor and Vulcan doing the LABS type delivery at the '58 show.
Last edited by megan; 9th Oct 2021 at 02:43.
Fairey 'Ultra Light' powered by (I believe) a Turbomeca Palouste engine driven by compressed air exhausting through the rotor tips thus not requiring any form of torque control such as a tail rotor.
Simple but never developed further with only 6 built and the Army ordering the Skeeter instead.
Faireys did try to develop a civil variant but government funding was chopped.
Simple but never developed further with only 6 built and the Army ordering the Skeeter instead.
Faireys did try to develop a civil variant but government funding was chopped.
I am sure I once saw some black and white footage of a Victor doing a half loop and roll off the top too..whether it was at Farnborough, or some where else, I don't know..
……and didn't a. Victor prototype break up , (tail separation) at low level doing calibration runs at Cranfield and an SR 2 break up due overstress during a press day at Wyton ?
From a review of "Victor Boys" in the RAFHS Journal:
"The loss of XM716 over Warboys in front of the TV cameras in 1966 was caused by the brand new Victor being flown far too fast while pulling far too much ‘G’ because, in the words of my first Flight Commander, ‘the captain had left his brain behind on Meteors’."
"The loss of XM716 over Warboys in front of the TV cameras in 1966 was caused by the brand new Victor being flown far too fast while pulling far too much ‘G’ because, in the words of my first Flight Commander, ‘the captain had left his brain behind on Meteors’."
I can't add any information about the Victor, but my goodness that video of the Farnborough Airshow, strength upon strength in the UK's aeronautical industry. They had the world in their hands at that point it seemed.
