Lanc on one engine - could it fly?
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Lanc on one engine - could it fly?
The usual argument ensued on facebook with this image.
So could an empty Lanc fly on one engine and maintain level flight?
So could an empty Lanc fly on one engine and maintain level flight?
Probably an air display special? Dive to around 360KIAS, level off and feather 3 engines. Then fly past hoping like heck that they'll unfeather after the fly past!
One of my VC10 simulator instructors had flown the deH Hornet (lucky blighter!). He told me that a Hornet pilot had once spotted a formation of Sabres well below him, so he dived on them, shut down one engine and went through their formation on one, rolling as he went..... The Sabre chaps had neither seen nor heard about the Hornet and were totally astonished!
One of my VC10 simulator instructors had flown the deH Hornet (lucky blighter!). He told me that a Hornet pilot had once spotted a formation of Sabres well below him, so he dived on them, shut down one engine and went through their formation on one, rolling as he went..... The Sabre chaps had neither seen nor heard about the Hornet and were totally astonished!
I`m sure I`ve seen a pic.`somewhere` of a formation of 3 RN Hornets looping with `Lead` having both feathered,and #2 and #3 with one each feathered....
As Beags notes,plenty of speed downhill,quick `feather`,flypast,and a rapid ` 3,4, 1,before you run out of airspeed,...and ideas...
Also, the Bell P-59 Airacomet CTP,Jack Woollams would occasionally creep up,wearing a gorilla mask,bowler hat and cigar, alongside piston engined fighters,wave and then accelerate away......leaving a smoky trail..
As Beags notes,plenty of speed downhill,quick `feather`,flypast,and a rapid ` 3,4, 1,before you run out of airspeed,...and ideas...
Also, the Bell P-59 Airacomet CTP,Jack Woollams would occasionally creep up,wearing a gorilla mask,bowler hat and cigar, alongside piston engined fighters,wave and then accelerate away......leaving a smoky trail..
I think you'll find that was a Lanc testbed demonstrating a Griffon engine for a flying display; look at the aircraft behind it, they are different types.
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Maybe low fuel, no payload, just 2 crew, etc - it might be feasible?
There are similar photos of a Lincoln doing this for a quick pass. I would say: just a display act that started with a dive and ended with a quick restart and a Hail Mary.
A Lanc. went round at a display at St.Eval c.1951 cutting an engine on each circuit.
Including the 4th!
Aicraft dived over the cliff eventually spluttering back to life over the sea and landing back
Including the 4th!
Aicraft dived over the cliff eventually spluttering back to life over the sea and landing back
Is this the image?
Source:
twitter.com/clark_aviation/status/1205836829032890369
Haven't got it to hand, but I'm sure in 'Enemy Coast Ahead', Guy Gibson was taken on his first flight in a Lanc, by Hoppy Hopgood.
I think he demonstrated it with one engine operative, 'losing height, but enough to get you away from the enemy coast'.
Later, he took the Secretary of State for Air ( IIRC) and demonstrated the Lanc on two engines and then the flight engineer, rather than unfeathering them, feathered /shut down the two live engines!
I think he demonstrated it with one engine operative, 'losing height, but enough to get you away from the enemy coast'.
Later, he took the Secretary of State for Air ( IIRC) and demonstrated the Lanc on two engines and then the flight engineer, rather than unfeathering them, feathered /shut down the two live engines!
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Why then did a Lincoln with , I believe, just one engine failing, just clear the roof of our married quarter at Waddington and plonk down on the rubbish dump next to the village quarry, around 1952? I was watching in amazement and disbelief, aged 9.
Just a question of energy.
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"On touch down, the Avro Lincoln developed an uncontrollable swing and crashed off the edge of the airfield, nearly missing an estate of some newly built NCO married quarters and slewed around ending up on a rubbish dump"
Presumably "narrowly missing" or "nearly hitting" perhaps?