Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2016 16:40:42 GMT -5
Some days ago I came across a website dedicated to the Vickers VC10. The chapters relating trial and proving flights attracted my attention. Especially those of one of the first airframes, the G-ARVB. I tried to recreate these flights with FS9 and AI traffic. Due to lack of this specific registration I had to use the available G-ARVF of David Maltby.
On December 21, 1962 G-ARVB took off for the first time from Vickers factory airfield at Weybridge / Brookland near London and flew to the other Vickers facility at nearby Wisely. During several months the aircraft did test flights there and at Boscombe Down.
taking hardly off from Weybridge / Brookland ...
... and returning to Wisley airfield
On August 12, 1963 it flew to Torrejon AB near Madrid for four weeks tropical trials. That was certainly the first and only VC10 flight to land and take-off at this NATO base.
at Torrejon air base, then jointly used by US and Spanish air forces (some B-47's of Strategic Air Command are seen in background)
For further tropical trials VC10 G-ARVB flew on October 21, 1963 to Johannesburg via Cairo, Karthoum and Salisbury and returned to Wisley four weeks later.
over Cairo West, an Egyptian air force base, while approaching Cairo Int'l
at Johannesburg Jan Smuts Airport
Early 1964 G-ARVB flew to Hucknall UK for nose wheel chine trials (whatever that means ...) at Rolls-Royce Flight Test Establishment.
landing on the very short runway at Hucknall
And on April 8, 1964 she went to Marshall Aerospace, an aircraft maintenance, modification and design company at Cambridge Airport for refurbishment to production standard.
at Cambridge Airport owned by Marshall Aerospace
It's only on February 6, 1965 that G-ARVB has been delivered to BOAC.
(Source: http://www.vc10.net)
On December 21, 1962 G-ARVB took off for the first time from Vickers factory airfield at Weybridge / Brookland near London and flew to the other Vickers facility at nearby Wisely. During several months the aircraft did test flights there and at Boscombe Down.
taking hardly off from Weybridge / Brookland ...
... and returning to Wisley airfield
On August 12, 1963 it flew to Torrejon AB near Madrid for four weeks tropical trials. That was certainly the first and only VC10 flight to land and take-off at this NATO base.
at Torrejon air base, then jointly used by US and Spanish air forces (some B-47's of Strategic Air Command are seen in background)
For further tropical trials VC10 G-ARVB flew on October 21, 1963 to Johannesburg via Cairo, Karthoum and Salisbury and returned to Wisley four weeks later.
over Cairo West, an Egyptian air force base, while approaching Cairo Int'l
at Johannesburg Jan Smuts Airport
Early 1964 G-ARVB flew to Hucknall UK for nose wheel chine trials (whatever that means ...) at Rolls-Royce Flight Test Establishment.
landing on the very short runway at Hucknall
And on April 8, 1964 she went to Marshall Aerospace, an aircraft maintenance, modification and design company at Cambridge Airport for refurbishment to production standard.
at Cambridge Airport owned by Marshall Aerospace
It's only on February 6, 1965 that G-ARVB has been delivered to BOAC.
(Source: http://www.vc10.net)
