Brilliant VC10's on A.net

[TSR2]

Was looking for something else when I cam across these tonight, some of the best VC10 shots on a.net....

http://www.airliners.net/photo/BOAC/Vic ... 1215880/L/

http://www.airliners.net/photo/BOAC/Vic ... 1202643/L/

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Vickers- ... 1202165/L/

[DaveB]

Love the second shot.. ARTA Can't make out what's happening with the fin on the 3rd :think:

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[Kevin Farnell]

All excellent, but it's the first shot that hits the spot for me.

Thanks for the links.

Kevin

[TSR2]

Yes Dave, its a strange one, it almost looks like the rudder is moving away from the tail :think: Still a great shot though

[cstorey]

On the Farnborough picture, I think the gap between fin and rudder has been taped over . IIRC there was trouble at the start with Dutch Roll , and I wonder if this was something to do with trials to deal with that. Again IIRC , eventually it could not be cured and required the permanent yaw damper

[Archer]

I'd guess they would have done the Dutch roll testing on G-ARTA, not ASGA :think:
Looks to me as if something is wrong with the image file. the shed to the right of the rudder looks a bit off too.

Great photos though!

[TSR2]

Strange one, I'd have thought any dutch roll would have been sorted on G-ARTA. Only thing I can think is something to do with the additional fuel tanks, the SVC10 had fuel tanks added to the fin.

[Edit] Jelle beat me to it

[ianhind]

Clearly something wrong with that photo - our very own archivist has some probably more authentic photos:

http://www.cbfsim.org/cbfsim/cbfsBB/vie ... 39&start=0

[TSR2]

Hi Ian, Thats an earlier picture (she has the orange door in that one) and you can't see if the rudder is deflected as its side on ..... :think:

[ianhind]

Ben

They are both supposed to be at Farnborough 1964 - and look at the previous one in Pete's collection - a not dissimilar view with the Lightning's in the background.

Ian