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Aviation History
1957
1957 - 1223.PDF
PowerplantFour Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire Span 110ftLength 114ft llin Photograph above and drawing below show Victor B.I. Right. Civil Victor (artist's impression). HANDLEY PAGE, LTD. Claremont Road, Cricklewood, London, N.W.2. Telephone: Gladstone 8000 Victor B.I During the coming months Victor B.I medium bombers, powered with four Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire turbojets, will be entering Royal Air Force service with No. 3 Group, Bomber Command. The essential characteristics of this fine machine— notably its crescent wing—will be remembered from earlier years. Highlight of Victor news during the past twelve months has been the revelation that in the course of a test flight one of these bombers exceeded Mach 1 in a shallow dive. Flight's report of this event read: "At the same time several members of the Handley Page company near Radlett heard a loud sonic boom; it was heard, also, in Southern Hertfordshire. The Machmeter was subsequently calibrated, and it is claimed that its indication was accurate and that the Victor exceeded the speed of sound at about 40,000ft by about 15 m.p.h. There was apparently no other instrumentation aboard which would prove this claim conclusively. The boom provides strong circumstantial evidence." Victor B.2 It has been officially announced that the Victor B.2s on order for the Royal Air Force are to be powered with four Rolls-Royce Con way RCo.ll by-pass turbojets, each delivering a thrust of the order of 17,250 lb. In conjunction with airfiame improvements, the Conways will confer a notable increase in performance. Civil Victor Handley Page have long been aware of the commercial potentialities of their strategic bomber. Indeed, at the 1952 S.B.A.C. Display the company presented a transport project based on the design of their then forthcoming Victor. Now, with three years' practical test experience of that aeroplane, they have been able to offer a much-improved civilian
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