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Early days at Weybridge & Wisley To kick off a new set of pages, to be filled with loads and loads of photos, this page will bring you some images from the very early days of the VC10.
1. Rollout of G-ARTA at Weybridge.
1. G-ARTA parked at Weybridge before her first flight.
1. G-ARTA taking off from Wisley in August of 1962
1 - 4. These photos were taken by Flight Test Engineer Dick Storey during flights on G-ARTA. Mr. Storey unfortunately passed away a few years ago but in 2002 a bag of flight test reports was donated to the Brooklands Museum by his widow and in the bottom of the bag was a box of slides which turned out to be these images (and a couple more just like it). As can be seen on the photos the wing was adorned with lots of tufts, taped there to show the local airflow. The purpose of the tests is probably to assess a series of spoiler angles for different speeds and flap settings.
1. A photo of the inside of G-ARTA during the flight testing stage. |
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