Hawker Sea Hawk for FS2004 - released

[pedro]

Hi Again,
You had no access panels for the Plennum Chamber except from above, therefore if tools etc. ,were accidentally dropped in this area,especially during engine replacement, the engine had to be re-lifted! (Much Cursing etc.). The Plessey Cartridge starter was an "engineering work of art"- it was well made and fairly complex -Indexing and planetary gears, I think there were six cartridges fired in pairs (could be eight) but if it misfired the first suspect was that the Head had not been fitted correctly, thus one smote it with a mallet just in case because the whole head could have blown off in one's face!
The guns were the dept. of the "Bomb Heads"(Ordnance Tiffies) so can't help there. In general it was a relatively clean burning engine and unlike some of its contemparies it recovered the rear bearing oil ,not using the total loss system of others. Incidentally, I went on the INS Vikrant during its work-up passing through Malta in 1961, in fact I helped to transport some of their aircraft by road from Hal Far to be lightered on to the carrier. The aircraft that in many (cases belatedly) followed this machine, the Scimitar, Vixen and Buccaneer were far more complex and more than twice as heavy as the delightful Sea Hawk and Sea Venom.
Regards John

[phixer]

In general it was a relatively clean burning engine and unlike some of its contemparies it recovered the rear bearing oil ,not using the total loss system of others. Regards John

A total loss oil system was a characteristic of the de Havilland screamers fitted to the Vampire and Venom types.

nazca_steve

Her is an oddly marked one for you:

http://www.fradu-hunters.co.uk/prefradu/seahawk1.jpg

[DaveB]

Yo Phixer..

Steve has already done that.. look on the page before this one ;-)

ATB

DaveB :tab:

[nazca_steve]

Good stuff there, both Phixer and Pedro, many thanks for the shared memories. Merry Xmas to all, I am off for a bit now. CHEERS

[nazca_steve]

Ok chaps, one quick update, for those that were having trouble with downloading the files in IE.6, I have added the links to the respective model pages and these work fine ( I finally was able to test on a friend's IE.6 and can confirm). So, start here if you need to:

http://www.nazcastudios.com/sea-hawk/models/f1.html

[phixer]

Yo Phixer..

Steve has already done that.. look on the page before this one ;-)

ATB

DaveB :tab:

Yeah Dave! I did spot that one after I posted but then I am having internet connection drop outs which mean that I find it hard to follow all threads in the forums I inhabit and I often don't get all images loaded. :-(

Many is the time I have made a post and had it lost in cyberspace on send. I often copy and paste into a text editor before send just in case.

VM are so busy signing up new customers with attractive packages but this stresses the bandwidth. They say it is my router but my internal wireless network functions fine and it is only the external that demonstrates drops to 1 or 2 Mbits/sec at times, the noticeable harbinger of a total drop out. Infuriating this is when trying to upload files to ones web site by ftp and constantly having to log in again, and again and again as I have just had to do, all for a C 9kb GIF for a post in the Developers Corner Hal Far thread. This at a time when my wireless signal strength is higher than it has ever been. As I said VM cust' serv' are BSing me.

[nazca_steve]

Sounds like a total mare there, Phixer, sorry to hear you're still bogged down with all this VM b.s. I'm also in the realm of tech-problems at the mo, having received a late Xmas gift in the form of a virus which I can't get off my comp, and now am having to rebuild my system. We've all been there, what a bug**er it is though. Still, it was a good excuse to get that new 1TB hard drive I've been after, which should be on my front door about now...

Happy New Year all, providing you're not in the Gaza Strip.

ATB,

Steve

[nazca_steve]

Well, the pinup line keeps going, and as a few people have asked to see it, here is my new avatar image in full. A little bit cheeky as you can see but something to put a smile on your face for early '09, eh, chaps? And before anyone asks, it's not the size of the rocket, it's what you do with it ;-)



You can get the tshirt (for girls too) here:

http://www.zazzle.com/hawker_sea_hawk_a ... 6322438136