What is at issue here is that by announcing that “the BA Collection is on the move”, by saying “The airframe will be transported to East Fortune” the impression is given that the aircraft are being preserved. Actually they are being destroyed. The RAFM and BA are being untruthful. Had the truth of the matter been known earlier other interested parties might have been able to come up with an alternative plan, funds could have been raised etc.
I’m not one of those who thinks that saving a cockpit has any relevance to aircraft preservation.

Well said forester.

G-AOJC Viscount cockpit section is indeed a submerged diving attraction at Stoney Cove, near Hinckley, Leics. I’ll try get some piccies next time I go.

Depleted urainium. Canberra elevator ballast weights.

LesB beat me to it.
Yes, depleated uranium is substantially denser than lead and so is used in many aircraft with unpowered control surfaces that need balancing and the area forward of the hinge is small enough to warrant it.

(better tell the Iranians that it’s DEPLETED urainum, not enriched – before they start stripping down their aircraft ! :diablo: )

One of the most attractive civilian airliners everbuilt in my view second only to Concorde but first for an all british airliner

Gotta agree with you there – there’ll never be another propliner with the character of the Viscount 😮
I’d also add the VC-10 to the list of attractive British airliners. Vickers as well 😀

Presumably there’ll be EXCELLENT duty free facilities there 🙂

[QUOTE=BIGVERN1966]An Incident with an F15 losing a wing and making it back is in Richard Herman Jnr’s ‘Fire Break’ in the Book a WSO tells his pilot that an F15 body lift and Tailaron will keep the aircraft flying if a wing is lost and that an Israeli pilot was the first to do it. Never expected to see the photos however.

At least one of those F15 piccies is a poor fake. The one 2nd from the botom on the left is clearly faked as the flap on the left (and only!) wing is down as it would be for a ‘normal’ 2 wing landing. In a ‘single wing’ scenario, lowering the flap would vastly increase the asymmetric lift and almost certainly render the a/c uncontrollable – and would be the last thing a pilot in that situation would do. Note also the tailerons are more or less level with each other – not fighting a gross lift asymmetry as you’d expect.

I’m not, however, saying this never happened – all credit to the pilot concerned. Just that at least one piccie is a fake.

Excellent shots bobleeds – I’m a Leeds lad myself.

Never knew Spantax operated the 990 into LBA – must have been shortly before they went bust.

Showing my age here, but I remember as a kid of 10 sometime in the mid 70’s looking over a rickerty wooden fence near the old terminal to the apron beside the old black hanger (now long since demolished) and seeing an old Viscount sitting on it’s belly being scrapped. Anyone got an id for this one?