discussion Did Someone Forget The Lead ?

[colin m]

Looks like a tail sitter.


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[yak face]

OOPS! nice oone colin , looks like some of my models! At first ,from looking at the background I thought it might have been snow on the wings causing the shift of balance but when you look closely the rest of the airframe looks totallly clean, maybe it was a fuelling error , I know on some aircraft the tanks have to be filled in a certain order to keep the centre of gravity . On another note , didnt the Vulcan have a tail bumper wheel ? but of course it would be retracted on a parked aircraft , if it had been left deployed no doubt it would have saved the exhaust cans from getting damaged. tony

 

[colin m]

This was a fuelling error. Oddly enough, I've got another picture showing just what snow can do to a Vulcan.

 

[PaulTRose]

cant find much info other than its XL361 and it happened at Goose Bay


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[Ian M]

Ouch that cost a few beers from the poor bugger that did that.

 

[stona]

XL361 became the gate guardian at Goose Bay. It wasn't struck of charge as a result of this incident but as a result of in flight fire in December 1981. The aircraft was still at Goose Bay about five years ago and still is as far as I know.


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If you are ever in Newfoundland and are stuck for something to do......


Cheers


Steve

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[Robert1968]

Fuelling errors or not I'm sure whoever made that happen ( 1st pic ) got his ass well and truly kicked )


Robert

 

[Guest]

Is there ever anything to do in Newfoundland?

 

[Guest]

Is there ever anything to do in Newfoundland?

Yes. The lobsters are very cheap and delicious.

 

[Guest]

Don't eat Lobster but I do in truth love Newfoundland and Nova Scotia, our intention is to move across to Nova Scotia in a few years.

 

[Guest]

I've heard of cow tipping when the locals over do it on the gaga juice but vulcan tipping naw it'll never catch on.

 

[colin m]

I've heard of cow tipping when the locals over do it on the gaga juice but vulcan tipping naw it'll never catch on.

It might have caught on already.


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[Guest]

I'll have a pint of what there drinking please Landlord !

 

[rickoshea52]

I've heard the urban myth of this happening to a VC-10 at St.Athan during a de-fuel where the hapless sootie didn't empty the fin tank first. Apparently it was a foggy day and the nose of the aircraft was poking through the layer of fog and could be seen from the tower!


Actually, it was BZN...I found this...http://www.vc10.net/History/incidents_and_accidents.html#XR806%20Brize%20Norton%2018%20December%201997

 

[colin m]

I've heard the urban myth of this happening to a VC-10 at St.Athan during a de-fuel where the hapless sootie didn't empty the fin tank first. Apparently it was a foggy day and the nose of the aircraft was poking through the layer of fog and could be seen from the tower!
Actually, it was BZN...I found this...http://www.vc10.net/History/incidents_and_accidents.html#XR806 Brize Norton 18 December 1997

I had heard this story as well, from an Ex-RAF chap. But now we have pictures.....

 

[stona]

That's a great link to the VC10 page.


As a youngster I used to fly as an 'unaccompanied minor' to West Africa, usually Kano or Lagos, on a BOAC VC10. I've still got my Junior Jet Club logbook to prove it


In those days they always let me and my little brother visit the cockpit and it was the captain who would fill in and sign the logbook.


Cheers


Steve

 

[rickoshea52]

I was lucky enough to fly on a VC-10 to Belize for £18 return aged 12 to visit my dad who was on a six month tour over there. Most of the troops went to Florida but my dad stayed and we went all over the place camping in the jungle, Mayan ruins, Mexico and to loads of the Keys for snorkelling and wind surfing. I also went shooting, toured the Harrier hides and had BBQs on LST's moored off shore. I even got time off school for it.


I also got a go on the flight deck, I think that trip stirred my interest in the RAF as a career.

 

[dave]

That's a great link to the VC10 page.
As a youngster I used to fly as an 'unaccompanied minor' to West Africa, usually Kano or Lagos, on a BOAC VC10. I've still got my Junior Jet Club logbook to prove it


In those days they always let me and my little brother visit the cockpit and it was the captain who would fill in and sign the logbook.


Cheers


Steve

I remember those days as well, my BOAC Junior Jet Club logbook is sitting at the bottom of one of my archive boxes. I seem to remember a small badge set of wings as well

 

[colin m]

That's a great link to the VC10 page.
As a youngster I used to fly as an 'unaccompanied minor' to West Africa, usually Kano or Lagos, on a BOAC VC10. I've still got my Junior Jet Club logbook to prove it


In those days they always let me and my little brother visit the cockpit and it was the captain who would fill in and sign the logbook.


Cheers


Steve

I used to fly a lot a remember the cockpit being wide open for the (invited ) kids to go and have a look. How times have changed.

 

[stona]

I remember those days as well, my BOAC Junior Jet Club logbook is sitting at the bottom of one of my archive boxes. I seem to remember a small badge set of wings as well

Yep there was a lapel pin, a set of wings with Junior Jet Club in the centre. Mine has long since disappeared though I do have a photo somewhere showing it on my school blazer. I believe my brother still has his, and one of those little BOAC bags (like those carried by the Beatles when they arrived in the US), but he was always a bit of a squirrel


Cheers


Steve