Classic British Flight Sim

Brian, I have amended the file on 'The Pond' easily enough but as for Avsim and Flightsim.com there seems to be no provision to edit the files now they are 'Up There' so to speak. Indeed, that's why there are (sometimes) endless streams of 'fix' files uploaded. I made a similar mistake with one of t...

Seeing as it's Conningsby, are there Spitfires, Hurricanes and a Lancaster tracking round the circuit as well?

Yes, BEA converted two Daks to Dart power in 1951 to get some experience in flying turbo-props before their Viscounts were delivered. One was G-ALXN and the other G-AMDB, both in the white top/silver underside scheme with the triple pinstripe. The conversion was done by Fields at Tollerton and the M...

Ah yes, the Eclipse 500. My employers developed the welding technique that they use to buld the Eclipse. It's called Friction Stir Welding and works a bit like rubbing two Boy Scouts together to make a fire. They press the two panels together, maintaining a precise load, and then heat the joint up b...

Slingsby T-21 Sedburgh (notice a thread starting here...?) RAF Bicester some time in 1958 (or '59, can't remember now) I managed 4 launches that day and never managed that many again ever. To celebrate Andy Gough took me up in a Blanik (a really high performance glider in those days) and on landing ...

I'm surprised it lasted 5 minutes with some of the torrential rain we've had in the last few days! :shock:

He could have just ejected..............

Derek, This tutorial on making a framed canopy will point you in the right direction: http://www.daviator.com/viewlets/canopy/wwii_canopy_viewlet.html That's amazing, I've never even heard of a 'Viewlet' before. Really informative and a good way of shwoing the intricacies. Is that unusual or are the...

I can't recall ever seeing the 'Birds flying F-16s, I must have been in the wrong place at the wrong time. But I saw them in their F-4Es at Upper Heyford in the early 80s, around the same time as I saw the Blue Angels in their F-4Js at Hucknall. Precise and accurate both teams surely were, but you c...

Graham, I'm afraid it is my RAF Driffield that is the WIP Kit. Never seem to get the time to make much progress. No need to apologise about it, it's nice to see some of missing fields being done, even if they take a while. I flew into there in an Anson once as I recall. Did the usual gear winding as...