Would the engine power available at the time have allowed for a wide body VC-10 with a cabin diameter matching say today’s Boeing 767 on the VC-10 cabin length?

If so, is there a market at the time for such an aircraft?

Vickers prepared a number of schemes in 1964 utilising the basic VC10 structure in a number of interesting ways. “Vickers Aircraft since 1908” (Putnam) has copies of several drawings including two which had two VC10 fuselages and could accommodate 300 or 450 passengers (powered by either 4 or 6 RR Medway engines mounted at the rear between the two fuselages). Another 300-seater was a double-decker with two paired RR Conways beneath each wing and a low-set tailplane. A more recognisable double-decker would have been powered by three RB178-14 “aft fan gas generators” and would have accommodated 295 passengers. They also proposed a military transport with bulged nose section, area ruled fuselage and front loading doors beneath the cockpit.

I watch in awe every time I see Mr Hoover do his airshow routines.
J man

I remember him aerobatting his yellow Aero Commander at the Paris Air Show back around 1970-71. Single engined loops and wing-overs 😮

Grumman Mallard (?) just flown over Barrington, Cambs, heading NorthWest. Lovely!

… and five minutes later it’s gone back over on the reciprocal heading … ARCo DX by any chance?

Well they ended up being grafted to this machine RR232 (see recent thread on Mk XIX wing attachment). In turn when RR232 was exported to the Charles Church in the UK in the mid 1980’s it is most probable that the wings were transferred to one of the wingless Mk XIV projects from India.

Mark

According to Spitfires and Polished Metal (pg 18) the wings were used by Mr Melton on SM832. :confused:

This photo – courtesy Steve Darke – shows the fuselage at Takhli in February 2004.

I’ll scan the appropriate pages from the UK Air Pilot (1934 Edn) when I get home tonight.

IIRC it was part of the Whitney Straight organisation.

Well I would have done but when I checked Bury St Edmunds was not established until 1937/38. The information that I have is that Courtney M. Prentice of Ipswich founded the West Suffolk Aero Club at the new – municipally owned – aerodrome on Newmarket Road, Bury St Edmunds with two Taylorcraft Model A aircraft, G-AFDN and G-AFKN. ‘DN was the first UK import and was demonstrated at the Heathrow Garden Party of the RAeS on 8 May 1938, it was based at Ipswich before moving to Bury St Edmunds. (He was also the founder of the Suffolk Aero Club at Ipswich in 1925).

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/nick.neale/ravenswood/airport_history/

Once the Taylorcraft went into production at Rearsby, the West Suffolk club acquired G-AFTP (c/n 104), G-AFTT (c/n 101), G-AFTZ (c/n 106), all being delivered in May and June 1939. G-AFKN crashed at Bury on 11 March 1939 and was replaced by a Piper J-3 Cub, G-AFIY (c/n 2425) which was dismantled at Bury St Edmunds in July 1941.

This website says the airfield was located at Westley:
http://www.stedmundsbury.gov.uk/sebc/visit/1900-2000.cfm

CFI at the West Suffolk club was Wg Cdr Bruce Lockhart, Courtney Prentice’s son Eugene taking his place in March 1939.

Could this be a reference to the same Eugene Prentice? (Look in the “Apologies for Absence”) got to be the same chap IMHO.

http://www.ngcglide.freeserve.co.uk/password/agm2001.htm

That’s all Folks! 🙂

Kenley Spitfire (TB885)

A substatially “complete” Spitfire was excavated from Kenley a few years back. Mark 12 will probably fill in the details! That said, I do agree that most of the buried aeroplane/aeroplane engine stories are fantasy and never bear the acid test of discovery! Andy Saunders

Here’s a scan from the appropriate page of the second edition of Spitfire Survivors. 🙂

The replica or the post?

The replica reads PL944 as in this crop from a Gary Brown shot.

Mark

The replica is supposed to represent Tom Blair’s Mk IX, PL344, it was mispainted in error.

intrestingly none of the mkv’s in that pic have :confused: does anyone know why ? as i thought that all the oz mkv’s that whent into combat had them fitted

79 Sqdn removed the Vokes filters and hand-fashioned new cowlings for their Mk Vs.

When flying from Goodenough Island and Kiriwina most of their work was relatively long patrols with long-range tanks which were flown at low revs & low boost (1,700 rpm & +2). With the filters on they were too sluggish – so they removed them. They did re-instate them when they moved on from Kiriwina.