FS2004 Comet 1

[Garry Russell]

I remember that

He jumped on the prototype (large wheels)....so one of two aircraft :think:

He had just delivered a fighter and taken his wife along for the trip.

Garry

[crisso]

He jumped on the prototype (large wheels)....so one of two aircraft

Thanks for that - I also remember one of the subsequent shots might have been filmed at the D.H. Hatfield factory - I vaguely recollect he was arguing in an upstairs office with his wife and, in the background was the Comet 1 assembly line with their partly constructed airframes illuminated from within for effect. (I would purchase the DVD but can't find it listed.)

He had just delivered a fighter and taken his wife along for the trip.

Yes, wasn't it a Vampire or Venom? definitely twin-boom tail.

[Garry Russell]

Sounds about right

I thought the aerial shot of the whole of Kent amazing when I saw it on TV in the sixties........just didn't see that sort of thing in those days.

From what I remember the film drops several hints about things the country was proud of at the time, and the Comet was in leader in the civil pride.

A rare glimpse of the feeling of glory about the type before being tainted by the fatigue issue.

They really don't make 'em like that anymore and one worth it just for the backgrounds and incidentals alone

Garry

[glen]

He jumped on the prototype (large wheels)....so one of two aircraft

Thanks for that - I also remember one of the subsequent shots might have been filmed at the D.H. Hatfield factory - I vaguely recollect he was arguing in an upstairs office with his wife and, in the background was the Comet 1 assembly line with their partly constructed airframes illuminated from within for effect. (I would purchase the DVD but can't find it listed.)

He had just delivered a fighter and taken his wife along for the trip.

Yes, wasn't it a Vampire or Venom? definitely twin-boom tail.

I think Sound Barrier is one of those great British films of it's time, I bought it a year or two ago in HMV IIRC quite cheap, it was issued on Dvd with another film, I'll see if I can find it and see who the distibutor was it might still be available.

Glen.

[markw]

If it's the same dvd I have the other film is Hobson's Choice.

The Sound Barrier is a great film. Mind you Nigel Patrick does tend to be a bit one-dimensional in his films!

[Mark C]

Certainly most of the interior audio elements of the current COMET 1 soundpack will need being reconfigured for this new model/FDE combination .... along with addition of some extra tones too. The external elements are actually not too bad .... but .... we'll see what needs being done there as we progress.

Re the updated Ghost engines - any chance of a cartridge bang at the beginning of the start sequence?

I'll also see what we can do about a "CARTRIDGE START" .... although that external "bang" (or "double bang") really translates into nothing more than a slightly audible "click" sound from an interior perspective.

Can anyone actually verify "AFFIRMATIVELY" that such a cartridge start was indeed an actual feature of DH GHOST turbojet engines ?

Mark C
:flying:

[jensbk]

Getting closer...

Today I 'finished' the Comet 1, in the sense that it it now complete - It looks good, flies well (IMHO), and it's been painted in BOAC, Air France, Aeromaritime (UAT), Canadian Pacific and RCAF colours. An I've made a Comet 2 as well (BOAC and RAF C.2), with the longer fuselage, different nacelles for the RR Avons, and the appropriate changes to the FDE's.

I will be testing it for a few more weeks (while writing the docs) before release

Best regards

Jens

[iainp93]

Fantastic news Jens, well done

And just after clearing out the hanger...

Cheers

Iain

[markw]

Getting closer...

Today I 'finished' the Comet 1, in the sense that it it now complete - It looks good, flies well (IMHO), and it's been painted in BOAC, Air France, Aeromaritime (UAT), Canadian Pacific and RCAF colours. An I've made a Comet 2 as well (BOAC and RAF C.2), with the longer fuselage, different nacelles for the RR Avons, and the appropriate changes to the FDE's.

I will be testing it for a few more weeks (while writing the docs) before release

Best regards

Jens

Fabulous news - co-incidentally there was a programme on the Comet crashes tonight on The History Channel ("Vanishings"), it had all the depth of a puddle as per a lot of similar programmes on such channels (although the History Channel does do some good and reasonably meaty stuff) but it was lovely to see such a lot of archive film. It's on again tomorrow at 11.30 in the morning, and will probably repeat like an onion barjhee at frequent intervals in the future. It's not the one with the woeful computer graphics and re-enactments which has aired previously on other channels, this relied heavily on archive footage and was certainly new to me.

[Garry Russell]

It's a great pity there are not more documentaries about the Comet as a type instead of documentaries about the crashes.

The aircraft first flew in 1949 and deriatives are still in production and service so it would be nice to set the balance a little better.

Garry