Anyone familiar with flying a delta wing?

Hi

In article ,
Bertie the wrote:

I have a friend who used to fly the Avro Vulcan. He told me the airplane
would fly to very low speeds indeed and could turn in extrmely small
radii because of it's ability to fly so slowly. Roll rate was almost
fighter like and the airplane was apparently a joy to fly in every way.
They're pretty impressive to watch ( and hear) fly..

And one has just been restored to flight recently (apologies if you already
knew this).

Andy

Andy Hawkins wrote in
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Hi

In article ,
Bertie the wrote:

I have a friend who used to fly the Avro Vulcan. He told me the
airplane would fly to very low speeds indeed and could turn in
extrmely small radii because of it's ability to fly so slowly. Roll
rate was almost fighter like and the airplane was apparently a joy to
fly in every way. They're pretty impressive to watch ( and hear)
fly..

And one has just been restored to flight recently (apologies if you
already knew this).


Yeah, I know one of the guys who helped rebuild it, in fact! Never thought
they'd actually get it going, though. What an effort.

Bertie

Hi,

In article ,
Bertie the wrote:

Yeah, I know one of the guys who helped rebuild it, in fact! Never thought
they'd actually get it going, though. What an effort.

Indeed. Hope I get to see it fly someday.

Andy

Andy Hawkins wrote in
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Hi,

In article ,
Bertie the wrote:

Yeah, I know one of the guys who helped rebuild it, in fact! Never
thought they'd actually get it going, though. What an effort.

Indeed. Hope I get to see it fly someday.


I thought I heard something about it falling on had times after that first
flight. True or just a rumour? It'll take millions to keep that thing
going. I often wonder how just a few thousand at an airshow, paying a
tenner to get in, supports a string of thirsty Merlins and Pratts. You'd
need a very big audience to keep that thing going.

Bertie

Hi,

In article ,
Bertie the wrote:

I thought I heard something about it falling on had times after that first
flight. True or just a rumour? It'll take millions to keep that thing
going. I often wonder how just a few thousand at an airshow, paying a
tenner to get in, supports a string of thirsty Merlins and Pratts. You'd
need a very big audience to keep that thing going.

I think it's been cleared for a relatively limited number of hours of flying
or something, can't remember where I read that. As a result they're likely
to 'save' the hours for airshows and the like.

Ah, hold on, sounds like you're spot on. This article dated 18th Feb.

http://www.tvoc.co.uk/

"Avro Vulcan XH558 has run into the headwinds of the current economic
conditions. The return of the aircraft to air displays is at risk of being slowed to a
stop because potential sponsors have drawn in their purse strings and are
not making available the expected funds. With three month.s work still
needed to ready the aircraft and its crew for air displays, the lack of
funding to start this last phase is now endangering the return of the Vulcan
to the beginning of the airshow season."

What an awful shame.

Andy

Andy Hawkins wrote in
:

Hi,

In article ,
Bertie the wrote:

I thought I heard something about it falling on had times after that
first flight. True or just a rumour? It'll take millions to keep that
thing going. I often wonder how just a few thousand at an airshow,
paying a tenner to get in, supports a string of thirsty Merlins and
Pratts. You'd need a very big audience to keep that thing going.

I think it's been cleared for a relatively limited number of hours of
flying or something, can't remember where I read that. As a result
they're likely to 'save' the hours for airshows and the like.

Ah, hold on, sounds like you're spot on. This article dated 18th Feb.

http://www.tvoc.co.uk/

"Avro Vulcan XH558 has run into the headwinds of the current economic
conditions. The return of the aircraft to air displays is at risk of
being slowed to a stop because potential sponsors have drawn in their
purse strings and are not making available the expected funds. With
three month.s work still needed to ready the aircraft and its crew for
air displays, the lack of funding to start this last phase is now
endangering the return of the Vulcan to the beginning of the airshow
season."

What an awful shame.

Yes. They really are something to see fly. I saw one doing it's stuff in
Goose bay on a NATO exercise once and the sound of it taking off was
just incredible.



Bertie

Hi,

In article ,
Bertie the wrote:
Yes. They really are something to see fly. I saw one doing it's stuff in
Goose bay on a NATO exercise once and the sound of it taking off was
just incredible.

Guess we just have to hope that the people who can afford to donate these
sort of sums are interested enough to do so.

Andy