Victor Test Pilots

My dad was at radlett with the Victor bomber as a test pilot

I have the full listing of all test flights from Radlet till it closed who was your Dad

Two Brats in a family

My father was 20th Entry (563443) and I am 86th Entry ( 682908) both of us were Engine Men My father a FAE ( Fitter Aero Engine) and me a Engine Fitter

I spent 23 years in the RAF and ended up spending twelve years at Marham in the 1960 and 1970. However a short tour at Duxford before 5 years on Bloodhound which a tour at Woomera on Bloodhound Mk 2 acceptance trials was Great NO Bull etc. Watching Blue Steel missiles cough and spit and dive into the desert what a load of rubbish. 2 years at Changi on Shacks with 205

Ended up at Marham and spent 5 years flying in all marks of the Victor tanker as the Crew Chief .

Lastly I wrote a book on the Victor

My father did a 5 year tour in Iraq and Aden without home leave from 1933-1938 with out airconditioning I dont fancy that any takers ???

Inner Tubes for Victor wheels

Always interested in anything Victor. PM on its way.

I think I am right in saying that these inner tubes go back to the early 1960’s when the brakes and wheels were changed for the current type including tubeless tyres. I found a picture of the old and new brakes in the book by Roger Brooks

XL161 Wrinkles

I worked on the K2’s between ’82-’87 I never saw any wrinkles on 161, can’t remember reading anything in the limitations log either.

Robert you would never have seen the supposed wrinkles in the skin of XL161 as she went back to HP after the Blue Steel trials and was converted to a B(SR)2 . The K2 aircraft had new inner wing skins any way.

sorry unfortunately not but it’s desert pink anyway and quite striking, update in that the artouste finally started but to late to carry out any furthur running, turned out to be a cracked ignitor box

Its worth listening for the igniters during the start and of the Artouste and always check the main engines igniters befor an engine start it saves a lot of brain ache etc

and in a correct shade of HEMP and not PINK :D:D

Victor XL231 At the last repaint she was painted in the correct colours as stated in Mod 4881 more details of all Victor colour schemes are to be found in Volume 2 of Roger R Brooks book on the Handley Page Victor published by Pen and Sword. Page 188-189.

This article also covers all the various paint schemes worn by the Victor in service 1957-1993

Victor Undercarriage operation

Victorsim, i am currently modelling LustyLindy for the FlightSim http://www.flightgear.org/, most of the 3d model is done and it’s flying, basic textures not yet properly mapped and im working on the interior.

Do you have any info on a) the landing gear raising sequence and b) a schematic of what instruments are where, both cockpit and engineers any help would be appreciated.

Alex

I saw a very good item in the book by Roger Brooks on the Victor published by Pen and Sword