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Posted: 17 Mar 2007, 22:06
by Garry Russell
That's a shame Chris :sad:

Good site that........soon be back I suppose :smile:

Gary

Posted: 17 Mar 2007, 22:09
by Garry Russell
In the meantime

For those who don't know the creature :smile:

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Garry

Posted: 17 Mar 2007, 23:22
by steelsporran
Going the other way is this turboprop Meatbox: http://www.meteorflight.com/index.html?turboprop.htm and I'm pretty sure I've seen a pic with one of each.
Now that would make a mind-blowing model.

Posted: 18 Mar 2007, 00:29
by kit
steelsporran wrote:Going the other way is this turboprop Meatbox: http://www.meteorflight.com/index.html?turboprop.htm and I'm pretty sure I've seen a pic with one of each.
Now that would make a mind-blowing model.
There is one, filename trenmet.zip on flightsim.com by J.R. Lucariny so can't be all bad. I have it stashed somewhere but not flown it for ages.

Posted: 18 Mar 2007, 00:43
by jonesey2k
Its a shame they didnt make the Jet-Viscount! Ive got a DVD called Farnborough in the 50's and there is some good footage of this thing doing flypasts about 10 feet off the deck! :lol:

Posted: 18 Mar 2007, 00:49
by Garry Russell
Never a serious proposition

It was only research

In eight years of flying it only few about 110 hours.

Purely a test vehicle.

Garry

Posted: 18 Mar 2007, 01:24
by Vulcan_to_the_Sky!
What a fascinating plane.

I think that was on a Farnbourgh airshow through the years that I watched on video an age back, at the time I didn't know what the aircraft was but this has solved that question..it was the Jet powered viscount.

Posted: 18 Mar 2007, 01:27
by Garry Russell
Apparently it was very fast, very noisy and had a phenomenal rate of climb.

Actual figures have still never been released

Garry