Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Sunday, February 8, 2015

Your Sunday Morning Jet Noise

RAF VC10:


VC10s were reported to have good short-field performance (for a 4-engined jet) and wee rather fast. As far as I know, all have been retired, with some still existing in museums.

(Contributed by Peter.)

2 comments:

bearsense said...

When I was stationed in England, met an RAF officer who just happened to be the OC of Transport Command's Evaluation Group. He invited me to go fly with his senior IP and Eval crew out of RAF Brize-Norton.
Got to shoot four approaches to touch-ad-go in this aircraft. The acceleration and TO performance was truly outstanding.

BadTux said...

The VC-10 was expensive to maintain because so few were made, and could not be upgraded with turbofan engines once those became available because of its unusual engine configuration, meaning that compared to more modern aircraft it was loud and guzzled fuel like a hobo guzzles box wine. It got retired to Central Africa but eventually when Vickers was merged into BAE they dropped all maintenance support, making it impossible to maintain the aircraft. So alas, another cool jet went to the scrappers...

Regarding the takeoff performance, it was originally designed for high altitude use on short fields in central Africa, thus was rather overpowered for the time. That contributed to the fuel use issue though, since when you spooled up those turbojets they guzzled fuel big-time.