Talk:Handley Page Victor

message: I moved from Handley-Page Victor to Handley Page Victor to bring in line with the articles on the Company and its other products.  Sc147 20:36, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Move

message: In the external links section, it seems that http://www.lustylindy.co.uk/ is no longer live. Check and remove after a few weeks/months? R5gordini (talk) 09:17, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Done after 4 months.TSRL (talk) 14:47, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lusty Lindy Link Broken? 

message: Just as a matter of interest, according to Bill Gunston the Victor was designed for the following bomb loads:
Original design requirement:
1 X 10,000lb 'special bomb' - Blue Danube
Alternative loads:
2 X largest-size Blue Boar precision-guided bombs (Blue Boar was later cancelled)
or
1 X 22,000lb Grand Slam plus other assorted smaller weapons
or
2 X 12,000lb Tallboys
or
4 X 10,000lb light-case blast bombs
or
48 X standard 1,000lb bombs
or
39 X 1,000lb Type S sea mines - (written as '39 X 2,000lb' - presumably a typo and referring to 1,000lb 'A Type S' mines)
With reduced fuel load:
76 X 1,000lb bombs - 48 internally plus 28 in external underwing
pods - structural provision for pods included but later replaced in trials by overload fuel tanks.
Data from: The V-Bombers - The Handley Page Victor - part 1 by Bill Gunston - Aeroplane Monthly  - January 1981 issue.
Ian Dunster 12:04, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Victor Bomb Loads

message: "The B.2 was an improved Victor powered by the Rolls-Royce Conway RCo.11 turbojet engines providing 17,250 lbf (76.8 kN)."
But the Conway was a turbofan engine, not a turbojet (apparently the first turbofan).  As I am not an expert on this matter, I will leave it to somebody else to correct it, if it is an error. Jason404 (talk) 20:00, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You are right it is a turbofan, I have corrected it. MilborneOne (talk) 23:50, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error ?? 

message: I know nothing about editing Wikipedia, so hopefully someone will do that for me. I have just discovered that two of my relatives were killed by a crash of a Victor B2 in Stubton Lincolnshire 23rd March 1962. Two crew were also killed. More detail is available here 
--Tornadodad (talk) 20:50, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I have added a few more of the more notable accidents to the article. MilborneOne (talk) 21:35, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  ommision in 'accidents and incidents' section 

message: Those claimed for the Victor is a waaay too large. Here a document (PDF) in which is described how the Victor could obtain less than 250 yd from 45 kft high level bombing. http://www.rin.org.uk/Uploadedpdfs/ItemAttachments/Norman%20Bonnor%20-%20presentation-web.pdf  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.11.0.22 (talk) 14:58, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: CEP

message: The accident summary XA934 is wrong, it did not suffer a further double engine failure, on take off No4 exploded and set No3 on fire which was contained. it circled for a few hours burning off fuel om final approach did not have 3 greens, did a low pass to put searchlights on the suspect Stbd undercarriage, told ok, went for final go round and remaining two engines No1&2) shut down.
Accident board put it down to fuel system mismanagement as there was plenty of fuel in wing tanks on the portside . https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/wiki.php?id=55304. 
Dave232 (talk) 23:12, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Well it did suffer a double engine failure although we dont mention fuel mis-managment, the source you point to is not particularly reliable do you have anything better we can source it from. MilborneOne (talk) 11:52, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  XA934 

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thread_title:  External links modified (January 2018) 

message: It says there are five crew, then later says ejector seats were installed for all six.  Some of the accidents say four, but is that tankers?
:I dont think there is any room for more than five, two pilots at the front and three rearcrew sitting side-by side facing backwards. MilborneOne (talk) 19:50, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The Avro Vulcan had a fourth seat downstairs, side-ways facing. (In the first of the Blackbuck Raids this seat was occupied by an air-to-air refuelling specialist who swapped with the co-pilot for refuelling only.) Perhaps the Victor had the same. Dolphin (t) 23:41, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of crew 

message: The article states that the first time the Victor broke the sound barrier was 1 June 1956. I just happened on a newspaper item from 7 June 1957 about how a Handley Page Victor had become the biggest aircraft to date to fly at a supersonic speed and I wonder if there might not be an error here. The Finnish newspaper misspells the name Allam but otherwise the details fit. Googling a bit, I also came across this photo, dated 1957. Ofc it could be a coincidence and there may have been two supersonic instances a year apart, but still. Anyone have any better information or access to the book cited as a reference? --Rallette (talk) 11:29, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  First supersonic flight date