CAA to investigate Vulcan's alleged illegal barrel roll ?

[Paul K]

This has just appeared on the BBC news website:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-li ... e-34712344

From the admittedly poor footage, it certainly looks like it rolled. Oh dear!

[grumpyoldb]

Quite a few reports of her being barrell rolled over the years, and a few bits of footage but nothing really conclusive. Seems to be an elusion after a half roll off the top.

What are they going to do? ground her?

[airboatr]

looks like the maneuver was well inside the envelope... well done that man

[Paul K]

Maybe it was only illegal during a display, and the CAA just wants to make sure it wasn't done anywhere near an airshow. I can't find anything else about it.

[Chris Sykes]

What I understand it was on the Sunday of the farewell tour and over Grantham way, the lighting of the first set of those pictures make me question the integrity of the shots. it could be a certain position the person was viewing from made it look like a roll. The only evidence we will have is if someone videoed it or the on-board footage they recorded shows the roll/s which I'm sure the CAA will be seizing/wanting to get hold of to view it...

[cstorey]

Why is what is described ( by the BBC of course, 2nd only to the Daily Mail in idiotic pronouncements ) as a video, in fact a series of still shots ?And whatever type of roll it purports to be, the first certainly isn't a barrel roll as far as I can see - it looks more like a vertical roll in a half loop , but in fact there are so many holes in the sequence of pictures ( particularly in the second " roll" where there looks to be a perhaps 1 second - at least - gap that I don't think any real conclusion can be drawn from it

[DaveB]

Yup.. agree completely Chris.
EDIT: Incidentally.. having watched the video link Robin posted of the last flight and can't recall seeing a barrel roll.. unless it was edited out
ATB
DaveB

[ChrisHunt]

Whatever it was it was pretty impressive. Didn't look like a barrel roll though.

[dodger]

Well i never! when i watched the the Video that John posted of 558 final flight i did have the feeling that it looked like she was going to roll but thought at the time she was to low to do it,

I did watch Roly Falk roll the Vulcan [not 558 of course] when i was at the Farnborough show in 1955 and i have never forgotten it.

Roger.

[Dev One]

As I understand it from the BBC News channel at lunchtime today, it was done on Oct 3rd, & the apparent ban seems to be related to aeros at official displays after the Shoreham incident.
Keith