Classic British Flight Sim

I thought you might enjoy some photos of this morning's second post-restoration flight of Hawker Fury K5674 from Goodwood.


Enjoying the sunshine at Goodwood


Sir Fred Rosier's son David in front of his father's aeroplane.


The 'office'.


David Rosier hands his father's log book to Charlie Brown to be carried on the flight. (A nice touch this!)


Getting ready to start.


Strapping in.


Final checks.


Ready to go.


Airborne!

I've also got a reasonable video of the engine start which I'll try and upload to YouTube and post a link here. I did also video the take-off but with rather disappointing results so I probably won't put that up.

Pete

Lovely pictures of a beautiful aeroplane.Thaks for posting them Pete EricT

Cheers Pete The 'office' looks surprisingly 'busy' for an aircraft of this age

ATB
DaveB

Nice set of pictures Pete, thanks for sharing

OK, here's the promised video of the start and taxi. Don't forget to turn the sound up!

http://youtu.be/dB6W4zquKXg

Pete

Cheers Pete. Damned shame the takeoff and flight vid wasn't to your liking. I really wanted to see it after watching it taxi.

ATB
DaveB

Lovely Pete

Thanks very much

Do you think you could post the take off

We're not looking for a Spielberg, just a chance to share in the event

The first flight films of the BAC One-Eleven and VC 10 are not great technically, well, very poor, but the are great none the less.

Your call

Well since you put it like that...

The problem was entirely of my own making - what sort of idiot uses new and untried equipment for something important? Operating near maximum zoom, the slightest movement of the lens is magnified many times and when you add panning for the actual take-off run, you get the problems you see on the film. I did zoom out a little to try to mitigate this effect but clearly not enough. I'm off to practice with the camera!

Here's the link to the take-off: http://youtu.be/4U-xjQuq1O8

Pete

what sort of idiot uses new and untried equipment for something important?

Me! I bought a Canon Digicam (dvd) recorder to film a Vanguard engine run from the inside without having tried it. One lot of vid is as I wanted and the second is sorta widescreen. I've no idea what I did but I wasn't best pleased

Tks for posting it mate. Charlie made it look so easy

ATB
DaveB

Cheers Pete

Not that bad at all...a good record