Subsonic transatlantic record
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 11:44 am
I was reading on the bruntingthorpe aviation site that XR808 held this record, but I was under the impression is was G-ASGC that held this record?
A Tribute to the Vickers VC10
https://www.vc10.net/forum/
Surely upside down in a VC10 is more interesting? I have heard a few stories about what went on with some of the training flights! VI was defiantly upside down shortly after travelling at M.97 quiet early on in it's career (late '64). And there was the Dutch roll exercise which often ended upside down (allegedly)!Gwyn wrote:At the time I did the 'Atlantic dash' I was a very young freshly promoted Captain and after the flight I went to our management to hopefully, record the event somewhere, I got fobbed off under the banner of 'NIH' or 'not invented here' syndrome. This was 1979 and the new breed of young Captains were looked down upon since they had never been 'upside down in a Hunter' let alone be capable of anything spectacular so that was that. Having said that I know I did it and enough for me.
Gwyn
In their defence, they did have to cope with 'changable' handling characteristics when the germans decided to remove bits of the airframe without permision!Gwyn wrote: As for the trainers back in the 60s they were a mad lot.
Gwyn
I think you should have flown a VC10 under Tower Bridge......that would have put the Hunter upside downers in their place !Gwyn wrote:At the time I did the 'Atlantic dash' I was a very young freshly promoted Captain and after the flight I went to our management to hopefully, record the event somewhere, I got fobbed off under the banner of 'NIH' or 'not invented here' syndrome. This was 1979 and the new breed of young Captains were looked down upon since they had never been 'upside down in a Hunter' let alone be capable of anything spectacular so that was that. Having said that I know I did it and enough for me.
Gwyn