A Little VC10derness

Compare this attempted first flight to that of the 10
vololiberista
http://www.dump.com/aircrafttest/

10/10 for effort though!

I like the bit where the narrator says "a crowd had formed" and the camera pans to show 6 people

WTF =D>

I applaud the effort, but I suspect too much weight, and not enough power.

Thumper wrote:10/10 for effort though!

I like the bit where the narrator says "a crowd had formed" and the camera pans to show 6 people

Yes, when you're travelling in these countries like Africa, The Middle East etc you think you are completely alone. Until you stop that is, and then suddenly out of nowhere you are surrounded by kids usually. One can't say they come out of the woodwork because of all the termites!
vololiberista

This reminds me of "Junkyard Wars" the US version of "Scrapheap Challenge" when they did an aircraft episode, only theirs was better than the above

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-ExnBCpEWI

That's what I like to see, the Brits showing everyone how its done! =D>

No fannying around, just taxi away, power on and off into the air!

Magnum wrote:That's what I like to see, the Brits showing everyone how its done! =D>

No fannying around, just taxi away, power on and off into the air!

You're referring to the last Victor flight?
vololiberista

Magnum wrote:That's what I like to see, the Brits showing everyone how its done! =D>

No fannying around, just taxi away, power on and off into the air!

The US team apparently thought they were making a car!

I remember the full episode they did get it to fly in the end. It was odd how the French and US made essentially replica vintage aeroplanes whereas the Brits actually designed and built the best flying machine they could with the materials available and it performed so much better than the other two.

I found the Scrapheap Challenge flight episode on the Channel 4 on demand website, I can't find the Junkyard Wars one though which is a shame as it was really good.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/scra ... od#2928678