A sad picture of a VC-10 (1997)

A sad, sad day for XR806 caused by a defuelling accident. Her forward fuselage still exists at BZN I believe

Last I heard was that it’s still there, see here for photos: http://www.vc10.net/History/bitsandpieces.html#XR806

The Il-62 is a different story. Basically it was designed with a more rearwards CofG making the trainer wheel a necessity. This was never needed with the VC10 but obviously loading the aircraft wrongly, using either cargo or fuel, can get many an airplane up on its tail.

Is that why the similar configuration IL62 has a little clothes line prop under its tail? (Based on seeing them at Havana)

You could do the same thing with a British Tornado if you filled it up wrong.

Ooops springs to mind on that one LoL Bex :dev2:

apparently, she had a problem with a fuel leak or something, so they fully fueled her and then after checking fuel systems, an engineer was tasked with the boring task of de-fueling her. the gauge that reads fuel levels in the rudder was faulty and told him that there was nothing in it when it was fully fueled. thus after having emptied the main tanks, her C of G went aft, (not helped by the refueling pods which already shift the C of G aft) and she settled onto her tail.

something to that effect, im sure that there is an ex 10/101 sqn engineer who could fill us in on the finer details? 😀

A sad, sad day for XR806 caused by a defuelling accident. Her forward fuselage still exists at BZN I believe

Can I assume then defuelling caused the C of G to go haywire end result a$re down nose up? Causing structual damage? 🙁
Bex

she was at the far end of the main hangar wasn’t she next to the main road, was she really broken up in 1999? i remember going to the flying club at BZN only the other day and seeing her, how time flies. or was there another one that met the same fate, i remember seeing one in much the same way except in the gray colour that the VC-10’s are now painted, Im probably wrong mind 🙂

A sad, sad day for XR806 caused by a defuelling accident. Her forward fuselage still exists at BZN I believe