Avro Vulcan
B1A XH503 awaiting disposal at RAF St Athan circa 1967. From this angle,
it is not always too easy to tell the difference between a B1A and a
B2 of that period.
On the
B2 (lower):
- the pitot heads have been moved from the wing-tips to the fuselage,
- the nosewheel is shorter (no nose-up attitude),
- the intake between the engine intakes and the nose-wheel door
port side has been deleted,
- the intakes are larger though the first 10 B2s XH533-539 XH554-556
retained the shallower Mk1 intakes (the financiers refused to pay
the £30000 per aircraft to incorporate the modification),
- the main undercarriage oleos are redesigned though not obvious
here.
©
Paul Hartley collection/Nigel Corrigan
