Posted: 25 Jun 2006, 14:26
Hot Charlies' right - Vulcan VX770 broke up after a high speed fly-past.
The pilot was briefed for two runs over the airfield at 200-300ft between 250-300kts at 70-80% engine rpm.
Analysis of a cine film showed that the Vulcan was clocking up to 410-420kts as it flew along the runway and decended to 65-70ft of the ground.
Briefly having read an accident report into this.......The cause of the crash was that the pilot flew the aircraft too fast and started to roll and pull up at the same time into a 3,000ft min climb imposing between 2-3g when he should have stayed below 1.25g.
the airframe broke up at the very point on the wing leading edge which Avro had shown to be the weakest part of the structure.
So it appears that the pilot, in his attempt to show the aircraft to its best best effect completely forgot or ignored his pre-flight briefing.
The pilot was briefed for two runs over the airfield at 200-300ft between 250-300kts at 70-80% engine rpm.
Analysis of a cine film showed that the Vulcan was clocking up to 410-420kts as it flew along the runway and decended to 65-70ft of the ground.
Briefly having read an accident report into this.......The cause of the crash was that the pilot flew the aircraft too fast and started to roll and pull up at the same time into a 3,000ft min climb imposing between 2-3g when he should have stayed below 1.25g.
the airframe broke up at the very point on the wing leading edge which Avro had shown to be the weakest part of the structure.
So it appears that the pilot, in his attempt to show the aircraft to its best best effect completely forgot or ignored his pre-flight briefing.