That is double Dutch!

I’ll go along with that.
The book “I always get my sin” springs to mind.:D

Of the three V bombers introduced into the Raf in the ’50s what went wrong with the Valiant?

The Vulcan served between 1956 and 1984 famously bombing the Falkland Islands in two historic 16 hour 8000 mile Black Buck raids in 1982.

The Victor served between 1957 and 1993, after conversion to tanker in 1974 provided airbourne refueling in 1982 and 1991 in both the Falklands War and Desert Storm.

The Valiant entered service in 1953, flew bombing raids in 1947 during the Suez crisis and the last Valiant squadren was disbanded only 12 years after the aircraft entered service.

Why were the Vulcan and Victor able to continue in RAF service for well beyind their 20 year and yet the Valiant didn’t make it past 15?

The Valiant suffered from fatigue in the mainspar. This was discovered late ’64 early ’65.
The first Victor tankers (B(K)1 2P) were ready in ’66. The B2’s were converted to K’s in the ’70’s, the first arriving in ’74.

Yup, G-BWGL is going to live in the Netherlands……

Was registered to “STICHTING HAWKER HUNTER FOUNDATION” at Leeuwarden in March 2007..

That’s somewhat double up. Stichting and Foundation:D

Honington is still open.

Home to the Rock Apes I believe.

Blimey thats come around quickly.

Its hard to believe that they are on their way out so soon. Now Im feeling very very old. 🙁

Anybody know why the airframes are going to Cosford? I thought the schools that Im assuming would be using them at Cosford were moving to St Athan?

So training is going back to St Athan? Will it be No 4 S of TT?

Very primitive assumption, which possibly helps over North Vietnam, but surely not over the Soviet Union. No problem to build a missile that reaches 100,000ft and Mach 5. Guidance no problem either. Add some MW to the illuminator. Due to high altitude the B-70 can be detected hundreds of miles before it enters the airspace.
The B-52 had at least some capability to survive a missile hit. I think the lost airframes reflect only partly the number of SAM hits over North Vietnam. A Mach 3 aircraft has less room for trading.

That is all very well but it has been proved in the past that you could penetrate the Soviet air defence system using a German kid in a Cessena.

That would be research for the W2-700 for the M52, didn’t think of that. Cheers

Actually, it was for a more immediate problem. It was an attempt to produce more thrust to help combat the V1. By time the flight tests took place the threat had already passed.