Classic British Flight Sim

cstorey wrote:It is very beautiful indeed. Was it actually bare metal when it entered service in 1958, or had the grey taken over by then?

They were never grey

Only the VC 10's that had to be painted due to the metal treatment during manufacture

All the other types kept the natural metal until the end.

The metal dulled though in time

Garry

AlexP wrote:Garry,

Our posts crossed.

I hadn't realised that the Viscount had also been painted grey. I think that safely puts paid to my theory! :redface:

I hereby revoke all of my hypothesis making rights.

Alex

From pics it looks like a sort of silver fox type paint on the Viscount but it looks nothing like the bare metal that that livery had.

I don't think the wings and most of the under fuse of G-ALWF were ever painted in service :think:

Garry

Yes Chris, as far as I know BOAC Comet 4s were always metal finish on the lower fuselage & wings.
Don't think they kept them long enough to repaint any.

[edit] Pipped by the Russell again.

DM

The Comet 3 was painted silver underneath..........but that was not a BOAC aircraft

Garry

Guys, I suspect its grey because of two reasons:

1) The surface of the metal underneath may include a fair bit of corrosion and/or repairs

2) The amount of work required to get back to a good polished ali finish is probably a lot more and would require a lot of continuous work to preserve it

Lets not forget that like at Cosford (where the airliner's were BA's not the MoD's), the airliners are not part of the IWM's collection but the Duxford Aviation Society's and since the museum as a whole is IWM.....

Hi Alex,

I remember some years back getting a bit of paper inside one of Duxford's airshow progs with a diagram of what was 'proposed' to be on display in the enlarged hangar and bless my soul, they have similar to the same on the IWM Duxford website..

http://www.airspaceduxford.org.uk/html/hangartour.html

Of course, things move along and times change but the current plan looks to be much the same as the original

Does anyone know why the Argosy got moved out of the display area at Cosford and out onto the airfield by the Air Ambulance?? Hang on a bit.. blows dust off remaining brain cell..
From what I remember, the Argosy used to be parked at the end of the line up by the top hangar (Vulcan up the top end.. Victor.. Varsity then the Argosy (I think)) and at that time, the new car park area and main reception building were grassed bits with aircraft on. She was probably moved out of the way prior to building work starting as there may not have been anywhere else to put her. With plans already in place for the Cold War hangar.. there'd still be nowhere for her to go (due to building work) but.. with the demise of the BA fleet.. they must surely have somewhere to put her now?? :think: She looked in fair nick back then but I am going back a few years :roll:

ATB

DaveB :tab:

Dave,

Trying valiantly to redeem myself – the answer to your Argosy question is:
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o133 ... 006011.jpg

Also probably of interest is this:
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/attach ... tid=148687

All courtesy of a thread over on the Flypast Forum I saw a while back.

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showth ... ht=cosford

Alex

Edit: Some better shots of the Argosy to be found here:
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showth ... ht=cosford

Hi Alex,

No redemption required matey. If we all knew everything, forums would be pointless

Nice to see her inside and tks for those links

ATB

DaveB :tab:

<--Just waking up for the day (night) at work - Ah Dirty B*ll*cks in all her glory - she looks a lot better than the last time I saw her parked on the Ponderosa at Luton - Im going to guess that by the amount of scab patches she had then Garry and DMs suppositions about why shes painted grey underneath is probably correct



Leif

MALTBY D wrote:To redress the balance, can we have that VC10 back in that nice red tail BA now?

:shock: :think: :huf:

Ian