On 09/06/2014 10:06, charles wrote:
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.

Do a google image search for Vulcan XA903 Olympus. I remember seeing it
in a book about the Vulcan a few years ago in our local library.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-R...ma_Olympus_593 has info
about the development of the Olympus.