Wisley Early 60's

[VC10]

A photographer Peter Upton kindly gave me these scans a few months ago. When he was a lad on a Saturday he would cycle from his home in Chessington down to Wisley and have a look what was about. Once he had finished there he would cycle to LHR

[TSR2]

Absolutely superb mate! Brilliant stuff, thanks very much!

Any idea what those cover things over the engines in 2 or 3. Never seen those before. :think:

[DaveB]

Yup.. nice shots

Ben.. you mean the intake covers?? Turn DM's model off and leave her cold with the brakes on and you'll see em

ATB

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[airboatr]

he said two and three ,
two is turning on to runway mate...

[TSR2]

Hi Dave yep... on re examination its actually only shot 2. There are some sort of covers over the intakes and covering the "shiny bits" too. Shot three is just the standard cover as per the models ;-)

[DaveB]

Sri Ben.. missunderstood

I'm not sure what's going on but as it is ARTA.. it could be any one of a number of things

ATB

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[ianhind]

I was going to ask about the relationship between Weybridge and Wisley but found this thread which answered http://www.pprune.org/archive/index.php/t-48496.html

My interest was because as a lad I went on a school (?) visit to Weybridge and saw most of the BOAC Super VC10 production line while there. So I wondered why VC10s were at Wisley.

Ian

[DaveB]

You could have asked the question here and received a correct reply without searching Ian ;-)

ATB

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[TSR2]

Just reading part of that PPrune post and an extract taken from some book or other states that the first prototype flights for the varsity viscount etc where from Wisley? I find that a bit strange. Dave, I'm assuming thats incorrect, can you confirm?

The other interesting thing is that it states the apron is actually elevated above the runway and says that the taxiways slope noticeably down to the runway. Explains why parts of my Wisley in FSX originally had the runway beneath the Genx scenery while the apron was fine lol

[VC10]

The Viking, Jet Viking, Valetta, Varsity, Valiant B1 & B2, Viscount 630 & 700, Jet Viscount & the LDA-1all had their first flights from Wisley.