Farnborough 1962

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Re: Farnborough 1962

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NIce one Ian :)

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I seem to recall that the B206 was not that successful.Any one know why?EricT *-)
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Hi Eric

It was very badly designed and a nightmare to maintain. In RAF service the props hit the ground when taxying across grass at times due to a lack of promised ground clearance.

It did have some success in the States but only after a dealer gutted them, fitted new electrics and general refitted the systems. :)

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Thanks for that Garry. :thumbsup: EricT
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Shame really as it was a very neat little aeroplane in every other way.

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Could'nt agree more Garry.

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Re: Farnborough 1962

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All the bits and pieces I used are still on flightsim - search All Files for beagle produced 36 hits, and once you get past all the Bulldogs (and a Russian) there they are. This is from the info with Shigeru's FS2000 RAF one:
This FS2000 model is depicted as the second of mass produced Basset CC.1, in the scheme of Royal Air Force Transport Service with serial number XS766, used to transport V-bomber crews to distributed airbases in addition to its ordinary transport service in RAF. By Shigeru Tanaka.

I always thought it was Transport Command, meself.

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I had assumed that the author's copyright requests had been respected :-# (ie no uploading to other sites) and hence indicated where the files could still be found.

Obviously Flightsim didn't mind/couldn't care.

And IIRC the restrictive copyright was also the reason that no one ever posted correct colours schemes for the Bassett.

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Thanks, Ian -
I'm sure that archive link will prove very useful.
I re-downloaded the Basset files and found this in the documentation:
<<<<< Copyright Notice >>>>>
The present archive [STBASSET.ZIP] is copyrighted by the author
under the international copyright law, and is released as a model
downloadable exclusively from flightsim.com and the author's
website Shigeru's Aircraft Models only.

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