Classic British Flight Sim

Cheetah Cowlings - I think if you look for Airspeed Envoy pics - ( pre cursor to the Consul & Oxford) you will see them with bulges......
I'm not sure when the NACA cowling came into being, but its design is possibly less draggy & has better cooling than the bulged variety, although some Russian kites still have bulges?
Keith

edit - just googled some photos & there appears to be lots of variation in cowlings for Envoys as well as Oxfords & Consuls - from narrow chord rings, to bulged long chord to long chord NACA for the later ones.

Yup.. the original Anson's had hand-crank gear.. 160 turns from down to up No landing in a hurry unless it was on your belly!

Keith.. there are phots knocking around of Mk1's with the later engine covers so perhaps it was a retro fit on an opportunity basis

ATB
DaveB

One of my Dad's few wartime stories was of a take off in an Anson from a bomb cratered airfield in France. My Dad was a passenger, he was in the Royal Signals and was setting up communications at newly liberated airfields.
Because of the craters the runway was too short and the take off consisted of winding up the undercarriage as early and as fast as possible. They shaved the tip of one prop.

Loved the video, she looked surprisingly nimble.

Jon

It does doesn't it Jon. Not bad considering how little those engines push out!

I wonder how long it took for your dad's heart to restart!
ATB
DaveB

DaveG wrote:You may finally get that C.19 Dave.

He should do. I took a stack of photos of Old Warden's G-AHKX for Francois Dumas just after he announced the Anson. Its the one I want too - much repaint potential.

J0hn wrote:One thing I noticed was that the undercarriage on this Anson retracts within a few seconds, unlike the AF or A2A Mk1 model, on which it takes half a circuit to raise.

You can fix that yourself by editing the contact points section in the aircraft.cfg file. Here's an example from my Navion model:

[contact_points]
static_pitch = 3.876
static_cg_height = 3.577
tailwheel_lock = 0
gear_system_type = 1
max_number_of_points = 8
point.0= 1, -3.400, 0.000, -3.900, 1801, 0, 0.727, 35.000, 0.459, 1.270, 0.600, 2.000, 2.500, 0, 113.0, 123.4
point.1= 1, -9.567, -4.321, -3.925, 1801, 1, 0.824, 0.000, 0.459, 1.270, 0.600, 4.500, 5.000, 2, 113.0, 123.4
point.2= 1, -9.567, 4.321, -3.925, 1801, 2, 0.824, 0.000, 0.459, 1.270, 0.600, 5.500, 6.000, 3, 113.0, 123.4
point.3= 2, -9.567, -15.600, 0.100, 1801, 0, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 5
point.4= 2, -9.567, 15.600, 0.100, 1801, 0, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 6
point.5= 2, -1.500, 0.000, -1.350, 1801, 0, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 4
point.6= 2, -15.016, 0.000, -1.100, 1801, 0, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 4
point.7= 2, -25.650, 0.000, -0.350, 1801, 0, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 9

Red = The class of contact point (1 = wheels)
Blue = The left/right axis dimension (0.000 = nose/tail wheel, +ve value = right main, -ve value = left main)
Purple = The gear extension time (in seconds)
Green = The gear retraction time (in seconds)

Simply adjust the time values for the required leg and your problem will be fixed. This can be done on any aircraft that you think has tardy gear or even gear that works too quickly for you.

In the case of my Navion I studied numerous videos and used a stop watch to time the gear operation on real aircraft in order to get the values I used.

Hope that helps.

Thanks, Larry, that's a useful tip!

The reason it takes so long with the AF Anson is that it's hand-cranked. I don't know if I'd be able to check how long it actually takes to crank it up in real life! Could speed it up a bit, though, with those settings.