Classic British Flight Sim

Quick one before it becomes next year:
Part of a Christmas present, what will it build into?

I hope that I'm more on the ball in 2026; I forgot to post the results from 29-12-25
Belatedly, .....
Mick (woody901) said Airfix Sea Fury, and gets a Gold.
PeteP and Ben (TSR2) both got a Diamond for Airfix Sea Fury II, 1/48 scale.
Well done lads.


Pete was first with his exact description, getting another Knows Art:

'erewego for 2026.
Poor scan, distorted to make it worse, but you will know what it is

12-01-26 RESULTS
You did well (as usual )
Eric (Tomliner) and Joe (blanston12) receive Silver badges for naming the Lockheed Hudson.
Mick (woody901) gets gold for tying it down to 206 Squadron.
PeteP and Simon (simondix) picked up Diamond badges for nailing it down to s/no T9303.
Pete is doing a Pinochio, extending his Nose (Art) collection yet again.


The original: I found it interesting that VXoV was used on two airframes, serial no P5162, as selected by Mick, and T9303 chosen by Pete and Simon.
Not surprised that the letter was recycled after the first was lost, but that they all identified the letter code from that awful image

19-01-26 It's been a long day. Had the fibre-optic technician here for a good four hours, than spent nearly an hour talking to the ISP, trying to get the modem configured. Left that conversation and spent another 50 minutes with another bloke, who actually knew how to get info on my modem.
A model what? Not on our listing.
I nearly cried with relief when it finally all fell into place.
OK, I don't think it's a good idea to plunge pointy aircraft into the ocean, but this pilot did. Why, and what was he flying?
Click to see all.

19-01-26 results.
The Convair XF2Y-1 Sea Dart was spotted by
PeteP, Mick (woody901), Brian (Bridon Bear) [welcome back], AllanL and Simon (simondix) and Joe (blanston12), so they get the Diamond badge.
Eric took it as a Dart, but not the Sea version, so I'm giving him Silver.
PeteP suggested Bu 137634. I looked at the production history, finding that only 5 were built; 3 never flew, one broke up in the air, (as mentioned by AllanL), and the other was Bu 137634, so unless it was 137635 before its destruction, 634 is probably the one in the photo.
PeteP therefore gets the "Knows Art" again.

Thanks for playing.

26-01-26 I think the first aeroplane kit I ever built was one of these, and was about 7 parts
I probably made a mess of that, too.

26-01-26 results.
The Lockheed F104G Starfighter was spotted by
Mick (woody901), Joe (blanston12) and Ben (TSR2), scoring them Diamond badges.
Mick, I think this is your first Knows Art
Eric (Tomliner), PeteP, Brian (Bridon Bear) and AllanL got Gold for F104.

Thanks for playing

02-02-26

I did a tour of the BC Aviation Museum in 2018. It was a quiet day and one of the staff in the gift shop offered to show me round. As we went through the Museum it transpired that we had both been at the Pairs airshow in ’67. I was just a schoolboy who had taken a day out from a school trip to Paris to go out to the Airshow. He had been a member of the Canadian display team – flying CF-104s. He mentioned that the one thing that worried him at Le Bourget was an offer of a flight in the back seat of one of the Red Arrows. Luckily for him it was a low ceiling day, so the display was kept under the cloud base. I always wondered how someone who regularly displayed as tricky a plane as the CF-104 could be unnerved by a passenger flight in a Folland Gnat. BCAM have recently taken delivery of a CF-104.

50 years earlier I was on a school exchange in Germany when two Starfighters went supersonic at low altitude overhead. It was legal there. That makes a lasting impression. While Lockheed were developing the Starfighter we were developing the Lightning.