Classic British Flight Sim

Great stuff Ralph...A note to Ben...This post of Ralph's is still corrupt:-

"by auster on Mon Aug 06, 2007 6:57 pm

Learning to Land Again and the AOP9 Described"

Garry Russell wrote:Sounds like a lot of fun Martin

Thanks for the rundown.

What was the Islay Airshow like....was it more of a fly in?

Garry

Umm you could have said that - there was us, the Belgian Chipmunk and two others from Gigha. Total number of visitors was about 40. Static consisted of a Puma, Hawk, Army Islander, Scottish Ambulance Service King Air. Air Show (which had to be repeated twice due to lack of participants) included the Caledonian Chipmunks, a SE5a replica, Pitts S2A, Yak 52 and a Nord Ramier.

Martin

Cheers Martin.

Still, no doubt a peaceful day out to be enjoyed by all

Garry

Nigel,

I know very little about Austers, other than the MK9. However, your remark about the floor mounted flap lever confused me because, as far as I am aware the Auster Atlantic, recently discussed in this Forum - ‘Anyone know what it is?’ by Leif – was the first Auster with this feature. You may have been flying a very special one-off customised Auster.

Martin,

What a wonderful long weekend for you. Congratulations on your water crossings. You have more nerve than I ever had. I know exactly what you mean about the silence over water. I used to get worried when crossing the Thames and I am not talking about the estuary end. But seriously, you’ll remember that forever.

I would be very interested to know just how much fuel you put into the tanks after your flight to Prestwick. Had the port tank run dry? I reckon that if 2 hours 55 mins was your flight time then you may have had about 5 galls on board and I found that the port tank would be empty at that point. I will explain why I am interested in this in a future post.

Peter,

Once again, thank you for your encouragement.

Regarding the corruption, there also seems to be a formatting problem with apostrophes throughout the posts.

Just got back to the ‘saga’ and will post shortly.

Ralph

Hi Ralph,

Peter Mac has sent me all your previous posts in word format so that I could fix the formating problems after the forum move. I have't had a chance to do it yet, but its on my "to do" list.

Ben,

Thank you. Now, just what was XR219?

Ralph

Here you go

The first pic is of Ben after a curry :roll:

http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.s ... entry=true

Garry

Garry,

Very many thanks. I should have known that. Especially as its cancellation changed my career direction. Also. I have Rolly Beamont's book 'Testing Years' which describes his experiences with XR219.

Bit of advice Garry: DO NOT GET OLD!!

Ralph

Hi Ralph

No worries ...........as to the second part of the post, I'm working on it :-(

Regards

Garry

Hi Ralph, one of the best aircraft we never put into production... Its my personal favourite.