It does – Im right! Im sure none of the production aircraft had retractable probes. I was looking on demobbed site after I posted and was pleased to see that a handful of early Buccs are still about, unfortunatly some in spurious RAF colours.

BTW that is a cracking site, especially as every aircraft is illustrated and history listed. Easy to forget how many colour schemes they flew with.

Indeed, the IFR probe was a “hockey stick” affair fwd and slightly stbd of the pilot. It wasn’t fitted to RAFG a/c.
A couple XK’s were converted to S2 standard, one even served as the nuclear load training airframe (sorry can’t remember which) at Honington when I was there.

There are much older jet engines than that which are still running.
Is there a specific problem with the Gyron Junior?

Pete

The lack of spares would be abit of a problem, it wasn’t the most mass produced engine of that era.

I’ve always thought the Deuce looked to be a very clean airplane, and it has a slightly better TWR ratio than the F-100 which uses the same engine, so why shouldn’t the Deuce be faster than the Hun? (even if not by much) Is Mach 1.5 really that unreasonable for the F-102 to achieve in level flight by an aircraft with the Case XX wing?

Try looking up the area rule and look at the F106.

Aah, the good old films. I remember them well.
If you do find them do drop me a line as I would be interested in them too.
I’m also looking for a copy of “Blue spear, the movie” shot at Marham in ’86.

Cheers,
Rob

A very good performance from Vladek Sheybal as a German officer in this film, especially when you consider in real life he was in a concentration camp and made two escape attempts. He also was an excellent Dr Doug Jackson in UFO.

UFO? Now that is going back abit!

I think you’ll find the cockpit shot is in a Victor, certainly the rear section with the Nav Radar.

The last FRADU Hunter sortie took place on 19th February 1995, in T.8C XF994/873.

You can also get 150 gallon droptanks from Swiss stocks too.

Personally I wouldn’t mind a 100 gal tank, for nostalgic reasons.

Yes (Kauchman carrots), and somewhere to but the main undercarriage units without cutting into, and weakning the wing main spars. Vital for its low level role.

Using them to store the u/c was a bonus then. On the Victor they were used as chaff dispensers (pre tanker).