Random Vulcan Question
I don't suppose anyone has a soft copy (or hard at a push) of any engineering drawings for the Vulcan (any mark) do they? I'm particularly interested in the wing profile (rib dimensions etc).
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Get yourself a copy of The Vulcan Story (Tim Laming, 2002. Silverdale Books ISBN 1-85605-701-1 ) Component weight and dimensions on p.216.
Great book even if it is no good for what you need it for |
Bruntingthorpe migh have what you need.
You might get lucky with BAE as well. |
Random vulcan question
Hi
I work on xl426 at southend airport and we have various manuals and drawings let me see what i can do il pm you at the weekend if we have what your looking for. Kind regards Matt I |
Might I say that when I popped in to this thread I was somewhat disappointed? I was rather expecting that there might be a fun, brief little quiz along the lines of:
1/ Who was the first Vulcan in Starfleet? 2/ Explain how the Vulcan mind meld works 3/ How many marks, out of ten, would you give Commander T'Pol? 4/ How did Spock get off Delta Vega? 5/ When was T'Pol born? |
what worries me is that you will get some correct answers on here:)
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Yes, but how many will cheat and look up the answers?
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T'Pol? I'd give her 1, repeatedly:E:E
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Hueymeister,
Join the queue. |
I once took a swig of Teepol, mistaking it for fruit juice.
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I have a Vulcan question, well kind of, I've come across some photos at the IWM showing ground crew in 1969 arming a Vulcan, what I've never seen before is some of the ground crew are wearing what look like white zip up fleeces?
Anyone any ideas?:confused: FB:) |
The drawings you are looking for would be those issued to the Chadderton Works where the wing sets were built. Contacting the AVRO Heritage Centre Home might point you in the right direction. They should still have the wind tunnel models available for you to measure first hand; a bit easier than measuring a full size machine.
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Originally Posted by Finningley Boy
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some of the ground crew are wearing what look like white zip up fleeces?
Maybe private purchase by the group? |
Thanks for the leads guys! :ok:
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Originally Posted by Finningley Boy http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/sr...s/viewpost.gif
some of the ground crew are wearing what look like white zip up fleeces? We wore short, white(-ish) duffel jackets at Linton for barrier manning, circa 1980, before it went all military. Us engine boys looked after the cold weather clothing, they were a remnant of old stock. Could it be them you saw? Cheers |
Not a lot of help but the root was NACA 0010 mod and the tip NACA 0008 mod.
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@Brian
Do you have any more details on the leading edge undercamber mod to the NACA 0008 airfoil? |
Finningleyboy wrote:
some of the ground crew are wearing what look like white zip up fleeces? |
In 1966 we made a formal complaint about the lack of cold weather clothing. We were issued an old worn out anorak, a pair of old "Trog Boots" and a pair of second hand sea boot socks. The word came back from No.1 Group that we could wear our own. Thereafter we looked more like a civilian work party than members of an elite front line nuclear bomber force.
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I remember "Trog" boots. The soles were made out of redundant tractor tyres. An inch and a half thick with large knobbly treads. You could stand out on the pans in a force ten gale body horizontal but held onto the ground by your boots. We also had these navy-style off-white polo/roll neck sweaters made out of a greasy wool. They used to get used by one and all, but never got laundered from one year to the next.
After a night on QRA, a dozen of us would head to the mess for breakfast. The Orderly Officer was under strict instructions not to venture near a table reserved for us, as we were the scruffiest, unshaven unwashed, un-kempt and definitely un-uniformed bunch of grunts. Trousers tucked into white sea-boot socks, trog boots, off-white sweaters and invariably oil stained uniforms. But we kept the birds flying !!! |
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