Classic British Flight Sim

If anyone's interested, for completeness, the fin codes for some of these long-gone shore bases were: Culham CH Evanton EV Eglinton GN Edzell JZ Wigtown JO Worthy Down VM These all come from Bruce Robertson's indispensible "Aircraft Camouflage and Markings, 1907-1954". I'm curious about Ed...

I don't think anyone's mentioned Lee-on-Solent so far: it had quite a long history, going back to the Smith-Barry School (where the 'Gosport Tube' and the modern method of flying training was developed during WW1). Although mostly used for helicopters in recent decades, it could accommodate the earl...

Ben, The Robert Sanderson Sea Hurricane package came with a very usable Escort Carrier just off Scapa Flow. On reflection, though, as it's a bit tight for the Hurricane, I would imagine that a Sea Vixen would have some difficulty :lol: That's the only other British carrier that I know of. Oh, apart ...

Chris, If you ever take off the stars-and-stripes propellor hat, there's a place waiting for you on the Pakistan cricket team: you've changed the rules in the middle of the game. :brick: You eliminate the S6B (nine years before the Corsair flew, 11 years before it entered service) because it was 'ex...

- Supermarine S6B, ratified World Air Speed Record, 407 mph, in 1931!!!! Sorry, meant FIGHTER. Any previous excession of 400 MPH was by experimental aircraft. Well, the operational debut of the Corsair was with VMF-124, February 1943. By that time, the Spitfire IX had been in service for eight mont...

2) Vought F4U Corsair - first aircraft to exceed 400mph in level flight, beautiful design that is pure simplicity in execution. 3) McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle - first aircraft with a thrust-to-weight ration of greater than 1:1, first true air superiority fighter, and the progenetor of the awsome F...

I believe it had something called a "Laminar Flow Wing"... Think you're right, as did the P-51, although I have a feeling that in reality so called 'laminar flow' aerofoils do experience a fair degree of turbulent flow. In general the wing has a lower t/c ratio, with the thickest point cl...

The original incident was a long time ago, but as I recall from the Aviation Week coverage at the time, this was not INTENDED to be a heavy landing test, but a test to show that the aircraft could be landed with both hydraulic systems inoperative. What had happened was that as the DC-9 grew and grew...

Thanks Dave and Garry :smile: One question - what's the date of the latest .mdl file for the Viscount 800? I have 'FSDS Vickers Viscount 800.mdl' dated 1st Sept 2004; Rick's site has a couple with 2002 dates but I don't know where I can get a .mdl file with a later date than the one I already have. ...

Fraser/Rick, I don't know if it can be fixed just within the panel (it's probably a model issue), but I've noticed a small problem with in-flight shutdown of no.1 engine: the door opens and the airstairs deploy! I think Rick put the doors in a couple of years ago and tied their deployment to engine ...