Unfortunately the photo has been cropped far to closely to make sense of it – I would never have had any idea it wasn't just a ground photo if you hadn't described what the issue was. Indeed, on thinking about it, that could still be the case, there's nothing to contradict that.

David

Edited By David Littlewood on 26/07/2012 17:24:36

OK, now I believe it! Of course, if taken with a long lens from fairly far forward in the cargo hold, the perspective would make the Typhoon look a lot closer than it really is.

David

(Now I feel a bit like a party pooper…)

The French will rescue us if there's any problems

The take off should be fairly easy, the main problem as I see it is landing it back in there!

Ahh" Destiny, Symphony and Harmony"….

seem to remember those had canards to…

SIG

Oops

A minor cock up in the titling, RAF Lyneham is in Wiltshire not Oxfordsdhire and is or has been closed down and is now to become a Defence Training Centre. The Hercules fleet have been relocated to Brize Norton which is in Oxfordshire.

Liked to clip and the little error doesn't detract from it.

Cheers

Martin

> seem to remember those had canards to…

Most of Gerry Anderson's design's all seemed to have at least one foot in reality. I understand he was delighted when some aeronatics students did a project to prove that, in principle, Thunderbird 2 could fly.

Neil

Rhapsody and Melody will be upset to be excluded. The Angel Interceptor is the plane in question and considering it was designed around 1966, not too far from the aircraft we're seeing today.

It's not surprising that the aircraft featured in the various Anderson series looked so good. Both Derek Meddings and Mike Trim who designed most of them were both keen aircraft fanatics and often looked at what was on the drawing board and extrapolated it into the future. When Mike left the Century 21 studios, he went to work for Profile Publications artworking aircraft profiles. He also painted the cover painting of Jeff Waynes "War Of The Worlds" album and currently he's painting new box art for Airfix (all the space kits, HMS Hood to name a few).

Gentlemen,

Whoops, already done

Thats the real thing. They get that close when tanking, it just seems unatural. Just imagine what it's like with a VC10 that close tanking from a Tristar. These aren't connected but you can see from the probes the VC10's are equipped to tank off their mates.

The Tristars don't need probes they can carry enough fuel to enable them to stay airbourne for some considerable time.

Pete

I think that when the 2 Vulcans flew down to bomb the runway at Port Stanley, a fleet of Victors was used to refuel them and a complicated scheme was worked out to make sure the Victors could keep refueling each other and the Vulcans, all done in flight.

Seems that everything was at the very limits of range and it all got rather close to disaster at times.

The whole organisation was prepared in a very short time frame into the bargain.

Even then only one Vulcan actually made it, one dropped out due to other problems.

There was BBC programme earlier this year about the raid, called "Falklands' most daring raid", if repeated it would be worth watching.

Edited By V8Eng on 30/07/2012 13:13:46