In article 2, DerbyBorn
wrote:
charles wrote in
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The engines for the Vulcan were developed long before Concorde was even
thought of. There was one Vulcan which was adapted as a test bed for
Concorde engines, though, One engine on one side of the plane instead
of the usual two. In the same way that there was a Shackelton with a
Vulcan engine underneath the fuselage, flying out of Bitteswell in the
1950s.



Correct.(But I thought the Concorde Engine was under the bomb bay for
flight testing) The Vulcan and the Victor were also used to carry our
nuclear deterrant - the Blue Steel Missile. The missile (there were
over 50 of them) carried a nuclear warhead. They were an air launced
cruise missile with a guidance system that used valves (it predated the
invention of the transistor)

You could be correct about "under the bomb bay", I wasn't sure. But valves
v transisitors, no. Blue Steel's guidance system might have predated the
serious use of the transistor, which were "invented" in 1947. The first
prototype Vulcan flew in 1952. Blue Steel was called for in 1954 and
entered service in 1964.

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