I flew over Woodford some years ago. I told controller in atc we needed to fly over and take pictures of the airfield. He asked why. I think i let cat out of the bag when i said, it's up for sale....
@@marcbiff2192 My conspiracy theory is that UK aerospace at the time was leading US in developement and innovation. I feel there was some "influence" from them. It seems the UK Govt at the time seems just reduced and closed the industry overnight. Pitty
There's an episode of the 1960s TV series "The Saint" in which a Hawker Kestrel (Harrier) is stolen. One scene was filmed on the wing of this Avro because the Kestrel wasn't available.
O i like that!! very limited colour footage of it flying and the video looking at the control surfaces puts to bed questions we had over a pod on the front egde of the tail. Good find!!
Yes, I love how the early attempts at naming things are so often right and so often wrong. A really good example of this is the Mother of All Demos czcams.com/video/yJDv-zdhzMY/video.html
Jolly clever those chaps at Avro and RAE.
Rather!
Interesting with the jet age how margines of control reduced and electronics could protect the pilot.
Chaps with the right sort of moustache. Probably smoked a pipe. Went to a decent school.
@@ConradAinger Members of the Oxford University Aero Club and a Rowing Blue obviously.
@@Anmeteor9663
Spot on.
Early fly by wire.
The reason it worked so well was that it, like the later Concorde, was all analogue.
In the 50s the US had FBY in the F-107, X-15 and A5 vigilante.
The aircraft is now preserved at the Avro Heritage Museum, Woodford.
I flew over Woodford some years ago. I told controller in atc we needed to fly over and take pictures of the airfield. He asked why. I think i let cat out of the bag when i said, it's up for sale....
Classic British aerospace at its best! Pitty the British Govt cut it all away! who knows what the Brits could have achieved!!
We give everything away,for some damned reason.
@@marcbiff2192 My conspiracy theory is that UK aerospace at the time was leading US in developement and innovation. I feel there was some "influence" from them. It seems the UK Govt at the time seems just reduced and closed the industry overnight. Pitty
There's an episode of the 1960s TV series "The Saint" in which a Hawker Kestrel (Harrier) is stolen.
One scene was filmed on the wing of this Avro because the Kestrel wasn't available.
O i like that!! very limited colour footage of it flying and the video looking at the control surfaces puts to bed questions we had over a pod on the front egde of the tail. Good find!!
So basically fly by wire before we had a name for it.
Yes, I love how the early attempts at naming things are so often right and so often wrong.
A really good example of this is the Mother of All Demos czcams.com/video/yJDv-zdhzMY/video.html
Vaccum tube/valve and mechanical computers? So far advanced, thus the future doctrine of removing the pilot. Cool stuff.
Early fly by wire.