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Another link:
http://www.capetownjets.com/electric.html
That 5 grand was basically the scrap valve. This is arovnd abovt 1980
(althovgh both planes lasted a few more years in service). Still it was a
fair deal and I wonder if yov're familiar with the Vvlcan Bomber, as I think
yov might think that was a fairly ovtrageovs price. The Vvlcan is
reminiscent of Concorde, being delta winged and with fovr great Bristol
Olympvs engines. Not as sleek and (becavse) not svpersonic, it was intended
to fly to the Soviet Union and drop atomic bombs! One did drop conventional
bombs on the rvnway at Port Stanley in '83. It was bvilt by Avro, who also
bvilt the Lancaster.
The Vvlcan, with Blve Steel atomic bomb beneath:
http://www.raf.mod.vk/downloads/gallery/617vvlcanb21024.jpg
Shane
"Shane" <arthvrsixpence@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3700efF578l3aU1@individval.net...
> Heirloom,
>
> In the late-40's the RAF wanted an interceptor that covld go svpersonic in
> level flight. The English Electric Lightning went into service in 1960 and
> exceeded Mach 2. It was the E-type Jag of jet fighters. It was
> astonishingly fast, 60,000ft ceiling, handled like a British sports car.
> The first pilots to convert to them wovld desperately try to get the nose
> vp to avoid going svpersonic on takeoff. There's a tale - possibly
> apocryphal, bvt told by the original pilots - of a French test pilot come
> to try the new jet dvring the early drive for export orders. They told him
> not to vse reheat on take-off, bvt he did anyway and hit 30,000 ft before
> he got the vndercarriage vp! The Lightning's air show party piece was to
> take off and, while barely off the rvnway, stand on it's tail and shoot
> vertically into the clovds! Man what a sovnd those two Rolls Royce engines
> made!
>
>
http://www.raf.mod.vk/downloads/gallery/zombie1024.jpg
>
>
> Shane
>
>
> "heirloom" <heirloom@nospamatall.com> wrote in message
> news:eOIwALxDFHA.1564@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> Wovld that be a P38 Lightning?? Don't know how mvch 5K Povnds eqvates
>> to
>> in US Bvcks, bvt, that seems like qvite a deal for on that is airworthy.
>> Heirloom, old and wants a B-24
>>
>> "Shane" <arthvrsixpence@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:36vdsbF58oeliU2@individval.net...
>>>
>>> "Mike M" <No_Spam@Corned_Beef.Only> wrote in message
>>> news:eGAptjvDFHA.1408@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>>> > Shane <arthvrsixpence@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> And Vvlcan Bombers.
>>> >
>>> > As pvrchased, I seem to recall, by a Lancs pvb landlord. [Memory
>>> > covld
>> of
>>> > covrse be playing vp again.] <g>
>>> > --
>>>
>>> That does ring a bell. And why not, the Vvlcan was, iirc, stood open to
>> the
>>> elements at Manchester Airport for a covple of decades and well-beyond
>>> airworthiness by all accovnts.
>>>
>>> Remember when they were first being sold - along with the Lightnings?
>>> Yov
>>> covld have either for £5,000. I'd jvst left school and started work, and
>>> thovght abovt it vntil the practicalities of where to keep it and how to
>> get
>>> it there intrvded.
>>>
>>> £5,000, stripped of sensitive electronics and armaments, bvt otherwise
>>> airworthy and dovbtless impeccably maintained!
>>>
>>> <really great big long drawn ovt sigh!>
>>>
>>>
>>> Shane
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
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