Thanks Rick - Another great British invention flies again

[Kevin Farnell]

Awesome shots, as always!

Particularly like the first and the last one.

Cheers

Kevin

[glen]

IIRC World of Wight which I must reload contains the Hovercraft Museum at Lee on Solent with the 2 SRN4's sitting in their spots.

Great shots John.

Glen.

[John]

IIRC World of Wight which I must reload contains the Hovercraft Museum at Lee on Solent with the 2 SRN4's sitting in their spots.

Great shots John.

Glen.

Thanks for the kind words chaps

I've delved into some old pics that show two of those locatons 1: Cowes and 1: Lee-On-Solent.

I'll give them a go.



Kind regards

John

[Motormouse]

If youre sending one to Cowes for maintenance, they actually went to the Falcon works,
just up the river Medina from the Cowes chain ferry, could only get through there at spring tides ( )

The initial build SRN.4, were done at the Columbine works (the hangar with the big Union flag painted on it)
and the Falcon works did the upgrade to 'Super 4' as the Columbine works were busy with SRN.7 'Wellington' models for Iranian Navy
at the time.

The first one out (Super 4) actually made us all very late for school that day (living in East Cowes had to cross the river to go to school in West)
; coming out at @ 8 am !

ttfn

Pete

[John]

If youre sending one to Cowes for maintenance, they actually went to the Falcon works,
just up the river Medina from the Cowes chain ferry, could only get through there at spring tides ( )

The initial build SRN.4, were done at the Columbine works (the hangar with the big Union flag painted on it)
and the Falcon works did the upgrade to 'Super 4' as the Columbine works were busy with SRN.7 'Wellington' models for Iranian Navy
at the time.

The first one out (Super 4) actually made us all very late for school that day (living in East Cowes had to cross the river to go to school in West)
; coming out at @ 8 am !

ttfn

Pete

It's information like that, that I love! Thanks Pete you're a star!

TTFN

JR

[ianhind]

I have some video somewhere of an SRN4 beaching at Boulogne. I posted it here before but of course can't find that and even if I could I don't know whether the files are still on the server.

Need to find the files and upload again. One thing I do remember is more spray!

Ian

[DaveB]

Hi Ian

For sure.. Rick's SRN4 has a LOT more spray than depicted in John's lovely screenshots. I honestly couldn't say if it was too much or not enough when compared to the real thing but (in FS9 at least) you don't see a lot of the hovercraft

ATB

DaveB

[John]

Hi Ian

For sure.. Rick's SRN4 has a LOT more spray than depicted in John's lovely screenshots. I honestly couldn't say if it was too much or not enough when compared to the real thing but (in FS9 at least) you don't see a lot of the hovercraft

ATB

DaveB

That's exactly right Dave, for the purposes of these shots I reduced the amount of spray just to show the model off bit more

Good spot thought!

KInd regards

John

[GaryJ]

This is a model i would love to have

I was onboard an SRN4 back in 1978 when it lost 130 feet of it's skirt in a severe storm when it was seven miles from Dover. I then had to endure a hour and a half terrifying sea battering trip as we were forced to drift with the wind and tide all the way back to France and beached at Wissant

Gary