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Forum: Rumours & News
19th Jun 2015, 16:43
Replies: 61
Views: 28,469
Posted By petitb

Poor buggers, hard nosed lot are'nt you!.:=

Poor buggers, hard nosed lot are'nt you!.:=
Forum: Flight Testing
4th Jul 2014, 09:15
Replies: 12
Views: 11,394
Posted By petitb

Wisley Flight Test

I will try to put something together and send it to you.

You are correct it is Lew Roberts not Lou, and Peter Baker took over as project pilot when the second prototype flew.
Peter assures me he...
Forum: Flight Testing
2nd Jul 2014, 18:46
Replies: 12
Views: 11,394
Posted By petitb

VC10 Flight Test personel

I might be able to help you on this subject. I was the flight test engineer for Elliots who supplied the VC10 (and 1-11) Automatic Flight Control System, as such I was based firstly at Weybridge...
Forum: Cabin Crew
8th Apr 2014, 22:54
Replies: 7
Views: 5,324
Posted By petitb

VC1O photos

Does anyone know the name of the young lady being served in First Class?.
Forum: Flight Testing
11th Mar 2014, 13:46
Replies: 2
Views: 4,309
Posted By petitb

Brian Powell

These won't answer your question, but I was at Wisley on and off from around 1956 until it closed, and I don't remember anyone called Brian Powell. Would be interested know if am wrong.
Forum: Military Aviation
21st Sep 2013, 08:44
Replies: 123
Views: 34,761
Posted By petitb

petitb

I am probably (sadly) one of the last surviving members of the original Vickers VC10 Flight test team based at Wisley. I was responsible for the development and certification programme of the AFCS. I...
Forum: Spectators Balcony (Spotters Corner)
20th Sep 2013, 21:30
Replies: 6
Views: 2,393
Posted By petitb

Air Lanka diversion to Stanstead

My daughter on Air Lanka flight this evening due Heathrow at 20.00 diverted to Stanstead, with police swarming all over aircraft, and passengers coralled in hanger. Anyone with further news?.
Forum: Questions
5th Feb 2013, 16:01
Replies: 10
Views: 6,109
Posted By petitb

Incidents and accidents history; Not employable

Nobody likes a hero!!
Forum: Tech Log
5th Feb 2013, 15:55
Replies: 17
Views: 11,251
Posted By petitb

VMC and bank angle/turns

Reads like a good question, but for clarity I think you mean Vmca. Good luck with replies.
Forum: Tech Log
3rd Feb 2013, 18:51
Replies: 71
Views: 18,918
Posted By petitb

Flight Directors etc

One further point here;
I think a big problem lies in the (apparent) Airbus philosophy which seems to advertise it's aeroplanes as ultra safe and if the automation is used throughout, the aeroplane...
Forum: Tech Log
3rd Feb 2013, 18:39
Replies: 71
Views: 18,918
Posted By petitb

Flight Directors etc

The foregoing (brilliant) discussion sort of fires white noise at the hoary continous problem of pilot training in the modern era of highly complex automated aircraft.

It seems to me that pilot...
Forum: Rumours & News
28th Sep 2012, 16:21
Replies: 121
Views: 52,506
Posted By petitb

AutoThrust/Manual

Having read six pages of expert comment on near stalls due to Auto Thrust/Throttle failure, please tell me gentlemen, what does a captain do with his right hand when flying an approach/landing on any...
Forum: Tech Log
27th Oct 2011, 09:17
Replies: 26
Views: 9,128
Posted By petitb

Most Difficult Airfield

A friend e-mailed me this link Most difficult landing in the world - Bhutan? - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsZqN-uEgQU&feature=youtube_gdata_player) showing an approach to Bhutan, under...
Forum: Flight Testing
3rd Sep 2011, 11:12
Replies: 12
Views: 5,170
Posted By petitb

Peter Twiss

In 1954, I was a Vickers apprentice, and managed to join a team of hydraulic fitters sent to Boscombe Down to repair a Valiant which had made and emergency landing there. Wandering around "B" hanger...
Forum: Private Flying
20th Jul 2011, 19:57
Replies: 13
Views: 2,135
Posted By petitb

Thumbs down All in one place, but maybe not talking.

The coordinating authority for the olympic airspace decision is A|D|S which is the old (new) SBAC, who just happen to be the organisers of the 2012 Farnborough Air show, and which airfield is also...
Forum: Spectators Balcony (Spotters Corner)
24th Feb 2011, 07:36
Replies: 61
Views: 12,692
Posted By petitb

Emercency evacuation capacity

Doesn't the RAF still have VC10's/Tristars which are passenger configured?. If so why were these not deployed immediately.
Forum: Tech Log
31st Dec 2010, 17:26
Replies: 49
Views: 9,956
Posted By petitb

Super Stall

DozyWannabe (http://www.pprune.org/members/54871-dozywannabe)

"Correct - BAC lost a 1-11 in testing, in an infamous accident that killed Mike Lithgow and his crew".

-true, but why "infamous"...
Forum: Tech Log
27th Nov 2010, 08:29
Replies: 3,893
Views: 1,544,125
Posted By petitb

Link to French Newspaper Article

Ladepeche.fr : actualité information annonces emploi sport économie... (http://www.ladepeche.fr/recherche?search_fulltext=AF447)
Forum: Tech Log
26th Nov 2010, 11:06
Replies: 3,893
Views: 1,544,125
Posted By petitb

Thumbs down Part Statement by Air France (Google translation)

In today's La Depeche
Flight from Rio to Paris: Air France was aware of "a critical risk," said an association


Wreck of the Air France AF447 in the Atlantic Ocean, June 9, 2009 BRAZILIAN NAVY...
Forum: Tech Log
22nd Nov 2010, 17:47
Replies: 316
Views: 85,038
Posted By petitb

Thumbs up Trident Autothrottle

Many years ago, both the VC10 and Trident had "noisy" autothrottles. At Wisley Flight Test on the VC10 we considerably improved matters by moving the pitot heads further out from the fuselage and out...
Forum: Questions
20th Aug 2010, 09:03
Replies: 18
Views: 9,753
Posted By petitb

Cranfield

Just for your information, I believe that Cranfield is a Post Graduate University. Marvelous place for your post degree specialties.
Forum: Rumours & News
17th May 2010, 22:12
Replies: 3,110
Views: 1,592,853
Posted By petitb

Question petitb

itsresidualmate.

"So far I've not found any evidence of ash damage in all the aircraft I've inspected (northern european regional routes). I've asked a lot of my colleagues in other airlines if...
Forum: Rumours & News
22nd Feb 2010, 13:57
Replies: 341
Views: 93,969
Posted By petitb

petitb

Has the link to the Concorde photo been removed?, or could someone kindly direct me to it. Thanks.
Forum: Rumours & News
5th Sep 2008, 15:30
Replies: 3,239
Views: 1,139,858
Posted By petitb

No comment on the probable cause, but the...

No comment on the probable cause, but the proposed revised operating procedures remind of my Tiger Moth days (1961); "when descending with throttle closed, regularly open throttle to rev engine"....
Forum: Cabin Crew
31st May 2008, 17:06
Replies: 17
Views: 1,884
Posted By petitb

petitb

It seems that the protest has been hijacked by the warm front johnies, but not one of you has mentioned the fact that 700 people will lose their homes and way of life, seems to me that's a good...
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