Classic British Flight Sim

Not injection-moulded, I know, but Welsh Models do a vacform 1/144th Viscount 800, and their V.700 might also still be available. They do a nice range of post-war British transport aircraft in that scale, including Viking, Britannia, Twin Pioneer, Beverley, Bristol 170, HS748, Comet 1, Herald, etc. ...

Thanks for that, Pete. I was there then, but I can't say I remember that one - as the caption says, it was unique. One thing I do remember about 46 Sqn in the early '70's was the Christmas carols being broadcast from the Andover's "Sky-Shouting" equipment. It was common to hear bursts of X...

To hijack this further into esoteric Napier engines, I recall that we had a Napier Nomad compound (piston/jet) engine in the Queen Mary College Mechanical Engineering Dept. in the early '70's. Apparently this engine had gone as far as being type-tested in a Shackleton, and was considered at one time...

Two excellent aeroplanes! - Thanks UKMIL! :smile: I might offer a small suggestion for the FDEs: at the moment, the models have a +4/-3g limitation in (non-flapped) flight. While I don't know what the operational limits were on the Sea Harrier, I'm sure that they were higher than that. As a personal...

I love the desert camo, but can anyone tell me why fighters or Bombers of that period never wore that scheme? Good question Chris. The short answer is 'I don't know', but around that time it was being said that Transport Command (and later Air Support Command - the 'ASC' is where the callsign 'ASCO...

I like the scheme - what theatre of ops was that designed to serve in? Steve, Middle East: essentially all the tactical transports of the newly-formed Air Support Command went into this scheme in 1967/68. It was a high-gloss polyurethane finish, and very colourful. I remember at the time that it se...

There is a way to make particular aircraft park in particular spots. What you need to do is to open the 'aircraft.cfg' file and look for the following lines: atc_parking_codes= atc_parking_types= Lets suppose you want only 1 Sqn Harriers to park in a particular location, and you have an AI Harrier m...

Chris, A few general thoughts about this problem: It's important to fix something at the outset and keep it reasonably constant as a reference. What I mean is that it's very possible to get wrapped around the axle trying to vary the thrust profile, while assuming the drag profile to be correct, then...

Ben, I have painted the RAE Aero Club Chipmunk G-BDDD, but never uploaded it. Here are a couple of shots - the problem is that the texture mapping on the Chipmunk 22 model doesn't seem to allow for different colours on the top & bottom surfaces of the flaps, otherwise it's pretty accurate. http:...

Well done, Peter - it's a lovely aeroplane to fly. Just a couple of minor things on the Mk1: 1. The West African one is missing a couple of prop textures - easy to fix, just copy prop.bmp & propdisc.bmp from the BEA one. 2. The engines appear to be numbered 3-1-2-4 from port outer to starboard o...