Saw it on the news the other day, fantastic to see one flying again however briefly!
I like the comment "it shouldn't be doing that" from the cameraman.
I bet the "co-pilot" won't be asked back!!!!!!
Wrinklies rule ok.
1. The brake parachute - it was never there. The bay where it lives (just aft of the rudder)until deploying is empty so using it was never an option.
2. The RATs (Ram Air Turbines) were stowed at least until the final part of the landing roll so the pre take off checks would seem to have been completed.
3. Normal procedures are that the pilot 'handling' would have his hands on the
thrust levers and nobody else is allowed to touch them apart from the 'non handling' pilot (the co pilot in this case) who would be allowed to fine tune the thrust settings. Looking at the way it accelerated it probably had full take off thrust selected. (a fully laden Victor Tanker BK2 takes approxiamtely 45 seconds from brakes release to unstick so clearly this aeroplane was very light and would reach Vmca [speed minimum control speed ] very very quickly.
To land with the runway in front of you is preferable to aborting and trying to stop with hardly any runway left. It was quite a feat to land this aeroplane with hardly any runway left and with apparently little or no damage. More of a feat when you think he did not rely on the brake chute being there.
Was it deliberate? Maybe - maybe not.
Bit of a laugh though.................
and don't you just love it. Life would be so totally boring without these people.
Absolutely Keith. I thought all of our V bombers looked quite incredible. I flew in the Victor BK1 at Marham in Norfolk in the swinging 60's and thought it a quite stunning and very agressive looking machine. They were converted to tankers in Radlett at Handley Page and if you saw the length of runway at Radlet you'd understand how this one got airborne quite so easily.
</TD></TR><TR><TD>Ironically I worked at Radlett again in the late 70's on the Nimrod AEW program for Marconi Elliot Avionics Systems Ltd (Measl for short)
I know there are many pilots on this forum, but when watching the video, I had both my toes pointed out and pressing on the brakes. Also felt myself trying to correct with the stick. I would have been pulling those throttles out of the center console to get it stopped and they would have to repair the brake pedals. That should have never happened. She had to be light, it jumped off the ground.
I would have been pulling those throttles out of the center console to get it stopped and they would have to repair the brake pedals. That should have never happened. She had to be light, it jumped off the ground. 
