VX770 Conway engines

[Dougs]

cool just seen this have a photo in my vulcan book of the final landing minus the cockpit roof and buried in the grass nice to tie up the cause i will scan it if anyone whishes to see it just post here and i will get 'busy'

[Saracenman]

this one?...

[Dougs]

yep thanks SM thats the one! amazing the pilot ever got it down in one piece must have been a hard decision to stay with it! those Vulcan pilots have balls of steel

[Mayfly]

I have no knowledge of this incidence, I know it is very difficult for the rear crew to abandon the aircraft when the undercarriage is down, infact almost impossible to ensure it is done without harm, therefore the pilots would not abandon the aircraft as they would condemn the rear crew.

I've just spoken with DT & he says he would not be particularly concerned about putting the aircraft down under those circumstances - tho' it wouldn't be some thing he would volunteer for.......

[Hungry Haggis]

not my field personally but would the cockpit canopy be blown on approach to allow escape once it stopped in the event that the nose gear colapsed as looking at the pic again the exit is still closed .(cant imagine anyone would want to exit underneathfor obvious reasons)

[Saracenman]

any landing you can walk away from...

[Sooty655]

On this would the air brakes have retracted or woulod they have been stuck out when the gear leg was destroyed are the hydralics not in that bay or am i barking up the wrong leg.

The airbrakes are driven electrically, so hydraulic system damage wouldn't have made any difference.

Sooty

[IanM]

not my field personally but would the cockpit canopy be blown on approach to allow escape once it stopped in the event that the nose gear colapsed as looking at the pic again the exit is still closed .(cant imagine anyone would want to exit underneathfor obvious reasons)

Wasn't the canopy blown so that the pilots could eject but there was something about the guys in the back putting the pins in the seats saying that either they all got out or none at all?

Ah ha, here we go...

Also the canopy has been blown but never really talked about was the fact that the crew in the rear, who had no ejection seats, inserted the safety pins into the pilot's ejection seats, and told them they would get out all together, or not at all.

Linky

[Gully]

Here's the rather blatent Kiwi Roundel applied to XH562. Apparently, she arrived back at Waddington like this, to be quickly towed into the hanger for a re-application of our markings!



Gully

[Wedgy]

[Dougs]

I met a guy from the Canadian Warplane Museum in Hamilton Canada (home of the 'other lancaser') who lived in Newzealand at the time and actually went aboard the crashed vulcan and had a look arround before being moved on by the MP's small world!

[Ray C]

This a great post/thread! Dear god what must the crew of 770 gone through in those 6 seconds before impact ? Unimaginable.

[Sooty655]

This a great post/thread! Dear god what must the crew of 770 gone through in those 6 seconds before impact ? Unimaginable.

.......and in the case of the pilot, Keith Sturt, to then be wrongly blamed for the crash for the next fifty-plus years, mostly in recent years by people who really should know better.