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Vickers Vanguard

52.5k Tang0five  6.1 years ago

Here’s another great British Beauty that unfortunately wasn’t quite as successful as it could have been.....(sigh, I swear I should have just made a should-have-been-great series!) And a beauty she is - up there with the other magnificent looking Britannia’s and viscounts. Stunning looks coupled with exceptional speed should have meant the Vanguard replaced the Viscount and was a bit of a market pleaser for the short to medium market but it never was to be sadly. Coming into service with big jets in the late 50s, the Vanguard was largely overlooked with only 44 being completed. With that said she was fast, and powerful! In fact one of the most powerful and fast turboprops ever - more so than the highly successful dash 8 or Saab 2000. Short hops in and around the 300-400 mile mark were not being beaten by the jets of the age and allegedly she could hold altitude at 10,000ft with one engine at max the rest feathered! Something the mighty C-130 (of original 50s spec) could not achieve being of comparable weight and power. Rather unfitting for such a bird most were converted to ‘cargoliners’ the last of which was retired in ‘96. Fast and beautiful this is the greatest turboprop that we never really had!

Destructions are simply VTOL down for flaps, 8 for lights! Some notes on bimbling around the sky - she requires a smidge of trim until at full speed. I’ve smuggled various power plants to achieve the performance and more importantly the noise of a turboprop but this has come with some drawbacks. When idling engines on landing/reducing speed, the turboprops I smuggled into the wing will over speed and blow up. To eliminate this just ‘blip’ the throttle a % or two till it gives you the safe rpm message and repeat when landing/slowing down. I thought maybe like the dash 8 the vanguard would have had a set of spoilers but for the life of me I could not find any evidence/pictures/videos of these so assumed this was controlled via pitch control - that distinct rise in noise as a turboprop slows down, but some pilots or better informed people will brief me otherwise! I laid off further detail such as panel lines purely as i got ahead of myself and got her flying nice and trim before finalising aesthetics. Once again thanks for downloading or sharing interest in what I feel is the greatest looking/performing turboprop ever!

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General Characteristics

  • Created On iOS
  • Wingspan 76.4ft (23.3m)
  • Length 77.1ft (23.5m)
  • Height 23.8ft (7.2m)
  • Empty Weight 58,316lbs (26,451kg)
  • Loaded Weight 83,911lbs (38,061kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 0.803
  • Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.19
  • Wing Loading 23.8lbs/ft2 (116.1kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 3,529.7ft2 (327.9m2)
  • Drag Points 19613

Parts

  • Number of Parts 283
  • Control Surfaces 15
  • Performance Cost 1,367
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    4,729 MaxB17

    Wtf didn't notice your Vanguard has a BEA livery too :D I just liked the plane. As for my 1-11, I had to choose BEA because adding parts to the bottom ( for painting ) would cause Landing Gear problems. So I had ro take BEA bec. they had no paint at the bottom fuselage.Thx again for your like and support, if u wish, you could follow me, if you dont wanna miss any new creations. My next project will be a Trident ;)@Tang0five

    4.9 years ago
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    52.5k Tang0five

    Thank you @MaxB17 I assume you must be a BEA fan or out interests must overlap!

    4.9 years ago
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    52.5k Tang0five

    I did a vc7 a while back and that was nearly 400 parts so I had many in game crashes trying to tweak and add detail - in the end I just had to finish it and do no more! @ChristianFennell

    +1 6.0 years ago
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    52.5k Tang0five

    Thanks @ChristianFennell I do all my builds from a rusty old iPad!

    6.0 years ago
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    52.5k Tang0five

    Many thanks! @getorge

    6.1 years ago
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    @Tang0five NP!

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    52.5k Tang0five

    @Sgtk and @RamboJutter thanks very much for spotlighting - most kind of you!
    @Audiobotguy03 @orendel @grantflys @RAF1 @niggelas100 @1918 @tsampoy @scotttheaviator1031 @Tully2001 and @QingyuZhou thanks for your support!

    6.1 years ago
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    52.5k Tang0five

    Cheers! @MKGamePlay

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    52.5k Tang0five

    Thanks @KidKromosone glad you’re liking them!
    Many thanks! @DestinyAviation

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    @Tang0five no problemo :)

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    25.7k KidKromosone

    How the heck are you only 12K these builds are great!

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    52.5k Tang0five

    Cheers guys! @RCBOSS and @GINGER01

    6.1 years ago
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    @Tang0five no problem. The build is very nice, and you have invested some time to write a nice description. But you have one mistake that hurts eyes (in description). You wrote "destructions" instead of "instructions".

    +1 6.1 years ago
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    52.5k Tang0five

    @EternalDarkness and @grizzlitn thanks guys!

    6.1 years ago
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    52.5k Tang0five

    Cheers buddy! @Texasfam04

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    52.5k Tang0five

    Well thank you very much @Trainzo very kind of you to say so! And yup I made one a while back but never published it so to speak, definitely needs a redux. I was looking at doing viscount/Britannia potentially.....

    6.1 years ago
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    15.2k Texasfam04

    Great job! Flies beautifully

    +1 6.1 years ago
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    38.2k Trainzo

    Your creation are always so beautiful. Good Job . Will you make a Bristol Brabazon day?

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    8,063 Ryn176

    @Tang0five No Problem m8

    6.1 years ago
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    4,244 Maxwell1

    Jolly good! @Tang0five

    6.1 years ago
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    52.5k Tang0five

    Cheers! @Maxwell1

    6.1 years ago
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    52.5k Tang0five

    Thank you both @Ryn176 and @JettStorm
    Two different types made in the same era roughly, I think the vanguard entered service first @JettStorm

    6.1 years ago
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    3,012 JettStorm

    Looks like a P-3 Orion. Was it derived from this?

    6.1 years ago
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    52.5k Tang0five

    Thanks @BogdanX much obliged!

    6.1 years ago