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Post by yeoldetangerine on Feb 24, 2013 22:04:12 GMT 1
Fascinating stuff, guess that also kicked off material science as we now know it.
Still going strong till recently as the Nimrod, what 50 years later?
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Post by whitstabletangerine on Feb 24, 2013 22:14:23 GMT 1
Blast, saw it advertised but missed it Olde. Remember from my youth after the 2nd crash in the MED the makers were told to sort it out by the government and for about 2 years they worked on development while in the meantime other manuefacturers blasted ahead while in some wasys we stood still. Strangely enough in the mid fifties our V bomber fleet were designed around the concept of engines in wing pods which in the case of the first v-bombers the Valiants caused problems with stress and fatigue. When we changed to low level from high level flying the stress on the Valianst the first to be built were scrapped.
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Post by yeoldetangerine on Feb 25, 2013 8:22:45 GMT 1
Sure it will be on again.
To be fair, it was only solved by the sheer bloody minded ness of the boss at Farnborough, months on pressure testing in a water tank on the whole fuselage whilst mechanically stressing the wings, of all things. It was then also the start of Farnborough's expertise in Air Crash investigation.
Even my non techy, non scientific wife was fascinated for the hour, result!!
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Post by Tangerine Sherlock on Feb 25, 2013 8:40:55 GMT 1
I missed it as well, but have watched something similar about the comet and pressure testing before, really was a shame. just think what could have been for British aerospace industry had things been different
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