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What happened to this Vulcan?



 
 
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Old November 8th 06, 11:01 AM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
Syke
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Default What happened to this Vulcan?


"DAN" wrote in message
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Anyone knows the circumstances of this photo?

Looks pretty nasty...


This was a development aircraft, fitted with RR Conway engines, which proved
too powerful for the airframe. It disintegrated during an air display at RAF
Syerston on 14th September 1958. The Vulcan pilot and co-pilot were
provided with ejector seats but the rest of crew had to bale out manually.
In this crash, unfortunately, all crew died.

Pat Macguire


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Old November 8th 06, 11:56 AM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
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Agreed this is the Syerston Vulcan. There were pictures of it at Cranwell
when I was there. The story there was that this was a failure of the
leading edge fairings that lead to the interior of the wing pressurising and
main spar failure.

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"DAN" wrote in message
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Anyone knows the circumstances of this photo?

Looks pretty nasty...


This was a development aircraft, fitted with RR Conway engines, which
proved too powerful for the airframe. It disintegrated during an air
display at RAF Syerston on 14th September 1958. The Vulcan pilot and
co-pilot were provided with ejector seats but the rest of crew had to bale
out manually. In this crash, unfortunately, all crew died.

Pat Macguire



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Old November 11th 06, 07:54 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
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Default What happened to this Vulcan?

On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:01:52 -0000, Syke wrote:


"DAN" wrote in message
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Anyone knows the circumstances of this photo?

Looks pretty nasty...


This was a development aircraft, fitted with RR Conway engines, which proved
too powerful for the airframe. It disintegrated during an air display at RAF
Syerston on 14th September 1958. The Vulcan pilot and co-pilot were
provided with ejector seats but the rest of crew had to bale out manually.
In this crash, unfortunately, all crew died.


Vulcan pilot? I thought we only used humans.

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Old November 11th 06, 09:32 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
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Default What happened to this Vulcan?

Peter Hucker wrote:
On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:01:52 -0000, Syke wrote:


"DAN" wrote in message
news
Anyone knows the circumstances of this photo?

Looks pretty nasty...



This was a development aircraft, fitted with RR Conway engines, which proved
too powerful for the airframe. It disintegrated during an air display at RAF
Syerston on 14th September 1958. The Vulcan pilot and co-pilot were
provided with ejector seats but the rest of crew had to bale out manually.
In this crash, unfortunately, all crew died.



Vulcan pilot? I thought we only used humans.

It's only Logical.
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Old November 12th 06, 01:47 AM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
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Peter Hucker wrote:

On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 10:01:52 -0000, Syke wrote:


"DAN" wrote in message
news
Anyone knows the circumstances of this photo?

Looks pretty nasty...


This was a development aircraft, fitted with RR Conway engines, which proved
too powerful for the airframe. It disintegrated during an air display at RAF
Syerston on 14th September 1958. The Vulcan pilot and co-pilot were
provided with ejector seats but the rest of crew had to bale out manually.
In this crash, unfortunately, all crew died.


Vulcan pilot? I thought we only used humans.


a Vulcan would never bail out.....

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