Something Missing

Wasn’t there a B1 that lost its nose wheels on takeoff from Scampton? IIRC the guys in the back bailed but one was killed, and the aircraft was pancaked successfully by the ‘drivers’. Turned out it was because the nose leg had been damaged by the tug driver.

I wonder if any Vulcan suffered from nosewheel failure and, if so, were the crew able to exit?

Roger Smith.

What happened

Aircraft selected gear down, Mains lowered no nose. Emergency down no change. Blow down no change. After a number of attempts to bang the gear down the crew elected to ditch. On carrying out ditch drill door opened normally but when the front seats fired the hatches the co pilots would not release. So the captain elected to land. As shown. On jacking up the nose it was found that the striker plate from the door sequence valve had fallen off hence no nose leg. as soon as it was manually pushed down came the nose.
The whole fleet had a UTI for the striker and all the cannopy release guns.
I think the Captain got a green endorsment. Typical of xl190, and the radome was a ba****d to fit afterwards.:)

Ahh but there is still skill (and artistry) required to make it look real 😉

Not much, IMHO. I did have to do a fair amount of manually retouching pictures for a technical printers, and computer changes are infinitely easier. Human incompetance is also infinite, so there’s a lot of rubbish fakes out there, but it does not follow that a lot of skill is required to make a credible (not undetectable) fake – it is not really that hard.

However it’s not the kit that makes a ‘pro’ as you say; it’s understanding and imagination. See Here on WIX. . 😀

Yeah.

Still before then they were assumed to have been ‘retouched’ – which did, at least, require a smidgen of skill, and wasn’t branded.

Ahh but there is still skill (and artistry) required to make it look real 😉
Just because one has Pshop doesn’t make one a ‘pro’.

(sorry, sometimes it is my job to make the fakes)

Don’t you just love how, since Photoshop was created, every pic of any unusual aviation event is automatically assumed to be PS’ed?

Yeah.

Still before then they were assumed to have been ‘retouched’ – which did, at least, require a smidgen of skill, and wasn’t branded.

Don’t you just love how, since Photoshop was created, every pic of any unusual aviation event is automatically assumed to be PS’ed?

XL190 survives as a cockpit section at the RAF Manston History Museum. Here’s a link to DamienB’s Thunder & Lightnings page…

http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/victor/survivorspics2.html

Roughly when did the above incident happen?

ROTFL!

😀

Is she still around?

No. She got married and moved to Safron Waldon.

:rolleyes:

Is she still around?

Anybody got a picture taken five seconds later?

Yes, here it is a little later.

The jpeg is called XL190 – could Tommo have it?

If so, I bet that was an expensive trip!

Adrian

Anybody got a picture taken five seconds later?

XL190

Not necessarily Photoshop. Could that be XL190 arriving at Ascension Island with the nose undercarriage stuck up? Repaired locally it sported a huge shark mouth for the return trip to Marham.

Tommo

Photoshop strikes again….

Colin–

Hm! Where’s the nosewheel! (I knew the HP88 testbed was a taildragger, based as it was on a Supermarine Attacker…but not that any production Victor variants were taildraggers too…) :rolleyes:

So what’s the story?

S.