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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
2nd Dec 2009, 03:07
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,428
Posted By Milt

Eleanor Can only recall brief details of...

Eleanor

Can only recall brief details of Ossie's deep stall in a Vulcan and his ejection. Must ask Tony Blackman for the details.

Your grandfather and I were on 14 ETPS course at Farnborough....
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
3rd Oct 2008, 06:23
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,428
Posted By Milt

Vulcan versus Carrier Some comments I...

Vulcan versus Carrier

Some comments

I do recall the odd effect on the approach angle when, as was my want, to stabalise on a 3 degree slope. With one's intended point of flare continuing to...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
2nd Oct 2008, 08:31
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,428
Posted By Milt

Pontius N Cannot recall the specs for stores...

Pontius N
Cannot recall the specs for stores retention on the bomb bay doors of the Vulcan and I was back down under when the incident you mention occurred. But along the same lines is the...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
2nd Oct 2008, 05:05
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,428
Posted By Milt

Vulcan versus Aircraft Carrier Many of my...

Vulcan versus Aircraft Carrier

Many of my flights in the Vulcan out of Boscombe Down in the mid 50s were to achieve clearances of stores out of the weaopon bay. So it was one day after having...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
14th Sep 2008, 01:09
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,428
Posted By Milt

P Tube Testing. It never occurred to us TPs...

P Tube Testing.

It never occurred to us TPs at Boscombe Down to flight test those tubes in the Vs. It would have been an interesting trials instruction. Nor have I ever tried to find a design...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
23rd Aug 2008, 09:00
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,428
Posted By Milt

Art Field Powered flying control systems in...

Art Field

Powered flying control systems in the 50s were a challenge. We TPs at BD investigated limitations. Cannot recall shutting down the feel units on the Vulcan Mk 1. Perhaps not possible....
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
12th Aug 2008, 08:41
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,428
Posted By Milt

Smith's Mk10 Auto Pilot on the Vulcan Mk1 at...

Smith's Mk10 Auto Pilot on the Vulcan Mk1 at Boscombe Down required many test hours coupling it to the Nav Bomb System and for auto ILS approaches. After finding the optimum settings on each avionic...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
4th Apr 2007, 11:53
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,428
Posted By Milt

Pontius Thanks for the response on bomb...

Pontius

Thanks for the response on bomb clearances. We TPs at BD generally flew as briefed or to flight test instructions. It would have been the boffins who issued the 0.3 second interval....
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
31st Mar 2007, 06:59
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,428
Posted By Milt

Vulcan Mk1 Weapon Bay and Bomb Separations. ...

Vulcan Mk1 Weapon Bay and Bomb Separations.

Clearances for weapon releases from the Mk1 Vulcan (XA892 mostly) involved dropping enormous numbers of duds into Lyme Bay. All sorts of combinations of...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
15th Jan 2007, 10:04
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,428
Posted By Milt

Did any rear seaters bail out sucessfully and...

Did any rear seaters bail out sucessfully and describe the experience ?
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
15th Nov 2006, 21:50
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,428
Posted By Milt

OK Vulcan enthusiasts I quit using this thread in...

OK Vulcan enthusiasts I quit using this thread in trying to source some detail of the Glenview loss.

I am intrigued as to how the do-gooders will continue the cover up post 2008 which is nigh...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
15th Nov 2006, 12:24
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,428
Posted By Milt

BEagle and FJJP This is a Professional...

BEagle and FJJP

This is a Professional Pilots' Network within which most members should be concerned with Aviation Development, Aircrew Proficiency and Safety of all aspects of flight.

You are...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
5th Nov 2006, 16:03
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,428
Posted By Milt

FJJP This is no place for your type of...

FJJP

This is no place for your type of sentimentality. The family survivors of an aircraft accident eventually need closure on the event just as much as we aviators but for different reasons.
...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
4th Nov 2006, 10:30
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,428
Posted By Milt

All of the aerobatics in the Vulcan Mk1s not...

All of the aerobatics in the Vulcan Mk1s not involving negative g were readily performed. It had a fighter stick, a good roll rate and handled more like a fighter with fighter stick forces and Q...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
22nd Oct 2006, 05:46
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,428
Posted By Milt

allen907 What was the function of the springs...

allen907
What was the function of the springs and what would fail when one broke?
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
5th Jun 2006, 07:11
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,428
Posted By Milt

So it's funny story time in Vulcania! Early...

So it's funny story time in Vulcania!

Early days at BD with the Mk1 - probably XA-892. Preparing for a long haul trying to make the NBS black boxes compatible I ordered in-flight meals for...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
19th Apr 2006, 00:54
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,428
Posted By Milt

Pontius Navigator raises a few interesting IAS...

Pontius Navigator raises a few interesting IAS numbers for the Vulcans. In my time at BD as senior TP on the Vulcan Mk1 our flight test limits were 415 KIAS and 0.98 IMN. The RAF service release was...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
18th Apr 2006, 12:31
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,428
Posted By Milt

Two RAAF TPs flew the Vs at Boscombe Down in the...

Two RAAF TPs flew the Vs at Boscombe Down in the late 50s.

Had a couple of close encounters in the Vulcan Mk1 taking one to the flight test corner of the envelope - 415 Kias, 0.98 IMN, 3.5g. Ran...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
1st Feb 2006, 09:42
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,428
Posted By Milt

Auto Mach Trims have their limits. I can...

Auto Mach Trims have their limits.

I can only talk to the Vulcan and Victor Mk 1s although a few flights in a Vulcan Mk2 as an IRE were a bonus.

The extract from memoirs has been posted some...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
31st Jan 2006, 06:06
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,428
Posted By Milt

Pontius When did you Brits convert to runway...

Pontius

When did you Brits convert to runway lengths in feet.

In my day during mid 50s at BD this one from Oz had to try to get used to runway lengths in yards and you mostly suffered (but not...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
29th Jan 2006, 21:07
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,428
Posted By Milt

Pontius Nav Were those scrambles made with a...

Pontius Nav

Were those scrambles made with a full load or at light weight.

Could the Victors exhibit similar attributes?

I only flew the Mk 1 Vs and a couple of rides in a Mk 2 Vulcan with...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
27th Jan 2006, 03:10
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,428
Posted By Milt

Anyhow you will be writing about the aircraft...

Anyhow you will be writing about the aircraft that was responsible for causing all of its pilots to have very great affection bordering on love. The thrills of flying the Vulcan went undiminished by...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
14th Jun 2005, 00:13
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,428
Posted By Milt

Supersonic Vulcan The highest readout on...

Supersonic Vulcan

The highest readout on both cockpit machmeter and flight test instrumentation I have seen in a B Mk1 was 1.14. Full up elevators could not hold the nose down pitch.

Anyone...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
11th Mar 2005, 08:40
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,428
Posted By Milt

Boscombe Down to Lyme Bay. During the late...

Boscombe Down to Lyme Bay.

During the late 50s I wore a Vulcan groove from BD to Lyme Bay, between Torquay and Weymouth, to drop a huge number of inert weapons. Purpose was to ensure safe...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
18th Feb 2005, 22:38
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,428
Posted By Milt

Vulcan Flight Controls During flight testing...

Vulcan Flight Controls

During flight testing of the Vulcan, when ever I wanted precise control over pitch I found that this could be enhanced by using the fingertips of the left hand positioned...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
27th Aug 2004, 02:44
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,428
Posted By Milt

Wouldn't we just love to fly one again.?

Wouldn't we just love to fly one again.?
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
14th Jun 2004, 03:27
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,428
Posted By Milt

Tony Blackman Tony graduated on No 13 ETPS...

Tony Blackman

Tony graduated on No 13 ETPS course in 1954.

Flew with him a few times on Vulcans at Boscombe Down circa 1956 before he left to go to Avro at Woodford.

Where are you now Tony?
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
11th Apr 2004, 02:08
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,428
Posted By Milt

Nasty Pee Tubes The P51 Mustang had a little...

Nasty Pee Tubes

The P51 Mustang had a little funnel on a tube somewhere beneath the seat. Other end of the tube exited the fuselage down the back.

If ground crew didn't like you they would turn...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
16th Mar 2004, 08:10
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,428
Posted By Milt

V Bomber Photo Have a very rare photo of...

V Bomber Photo

Have a very rare photo of Vulcan, Victor and Valiant in a V formation.

How does one post it to the site?
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
23rd Feb 2004, 07:02
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,428
Posted By Milt

Vulcan Low IAS

John Farley

Remember Ossie Hawkins doing very low IAS testing in a Vulcan B1 fitted with a chute?

Did you ever hear the results of any such tests?

I recall he pitched up, used the chute and...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
22nd Feb 2004, 18:22
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,428
Posted By Milt

Heathrow Crash

Response to 'normally right blank' - GCA controller.

Milt was a Vulcan TP at Boscombe Down on a 4 hour standby with a spare aircraft and crew ALL of the several weeks that Vulcan XA897 was away...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
20th Feb 2004, 18:00
Replies: 2,117
Views: 1,199,428
Posted By Milt

Vulcan BMk1 NBS and Memories

Vulcan Bombing Accuracy

Hey - you oldish and bold ex Vulcan crew members please answer a question that has been bugging me.

For a while I was Senior Vulcan B1 TP at Boscombe Down. In between...
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