Handley Page Victor

[rickshaw]

What was the plane's maximum g-load and low-level speed?

Maximum G-Load:- High
Low-level speed:- Near sonic

[Captain Canada]

I'm just getting X's on the pics Kit ?

but thanks for the info !

[KJ_Lesnick]

rickshaw

Maximum G-Load:- High

I assume you mean high for a large bomber?  Would you say 3.5g x some overload factor, or greater?

Low-level speed:- Near sonic

That seems conflicting with the statement that it's wing didn't do so good at low level.

[rickshaw]

rickshaw

Maximum G-Load:- High

I assume you mean high for a large bomber?  Would you say 3.5g x some overload factor, or greater?

No idea.  "High" is good enough for me.  One Victor on Blue Steel trials off the South Australian coast, near Adelaide, had "problems" and the pilot nearly lost control.  He recovered but in the throwing of the plane around the sky the aircraft broke the speed of sound and sustained a high-g load.  After inspection it was returned to service.

Low-level speed:- Near sonic

That seems conflicting with the statement that it's wing didn't do so good at low level.
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Difference between speed and handling.   The Victor's wing was not strong enough for sustained low-level operations and controllability was low.  Speed though, could be quite high.  "Near sonic" is good enough for me.

[Captain Canada]

  One Victor on Blue Steel trials off the South Australian coast, near Adelaide, had "problems" and the pilot nearly lost control.  He recovered but in the throwing of the plane around the sky the aircraft broke the speed of sound and sustained a high-g load.  After inspection it was returned to service.

Wow !

[PR19_Kit]

I'm just getting X's on the pics Kit ?

but thanks for the info !

Try it now Cap'n.

I'm getting VERY cheesed off with Imageshack, I'm paying them for a service and they aren't delivering. They NEVER reply to my emails complaining that they need to sort things out. A bunch of shysters to my mind.

[scooter]

I'm getting VERY cheesed off with Imageshack, I'm paying them for a service and they aren't delivering. They NEVER reply to my emails complaining that they need to sort things out. A bunch of shysters to my mind.

That's why I stopped using them and switched over to either Imgur or Deviantart

[Captain Canada]

That's the ticket ! *click *save

Cheers Kit !

[rickshaw]

I'm just getting X's on the pics Kit ?

but thanks for the info !

Try it now Cap'n.

I'm getting VERY cheesed off with Imageshack, I'm paying them for a service and they aren't delivering. They NEVER reply to my emails complaining that they need to sort things out. A bunch of shysters to my mind.

It could be a path problem (between the viewer and the data store) rather than a problem with the datastore.  I occasionally get such problems at work but when I get home, I'm using a different network and hence a different path.  Never had a problem with Imageshack since I first started using it over five years ago.  It is IMO, money well spent on my part.

[PR19_Kit]

It could be a path problem (between the viewer and the data store) rather than a problem with the datastore.  I occasionally get such problems at work but when I get home, I'm using a different network and hence a different path.  Never had a problem with Imageshack since I first started using it over five years ago.  It is IMO, money well spent on my part.

I've only had these problems since Imageshack's system failure a short while ago.

After that a lot of my pics I'd posted earlier all over the Net became un-readable in their various Forums (Forii?) unless I dug back and re-linked them.

Since then the site has been most unreliable for me, and they don't seem to give a damn. They've NEVER replied to any of  my complaints, apart from the auto-generated 'We're looking into it and we'll get back to you within 24 hrs' which of course has never happened..........

[Mossie]

Found this 1st stage rocket launcher that sorta resembles a Victor, especially in planform.





There's more retro futuristic stuff on the blog I found it on:
http://unconventionalspace.blogspot.co.uk/2008_11_01_archive.html

[Captain Canada]

That's pretty wild ! I like the second pic gives an idea of the scale of it.

[ysi_maniac]

Passenger versions of H.P. Victor, militar and civil. 

Note that this would be an almost global range liner.

[NARSES2]

Neat