RIAT has real aeroplanes for a change

Sean,

yes, sorry. Completely forgot about the Albatross. I was in a tent full of pre WW1 aeroplanes at the time and missed it. It’s a lovely aeroplane, I’ve seen it before at the 2002 ILA Berlin.
I didn’t count the Fouga Magister as it’s still serving but you’re right, it is historic. Unfortunately, having gone only on saturday, I didn’t get to see the Iskras this time but yes, they’re historic as well.
It wasn’t actually a complaint, just a comment, any lack in the flying was more than made up for by the static display which had fantastic content and a good layout.
Even the blue cones seem to have backed off a bit, which as a keen photographer is great news!!

One of the best RIATs (or IATs) I’ve been to, and I’ve been to every one since 1979.

Willow

Sorry gents you’re all wrong. The plural of Wessex is of course WALTERS :p

Meteor Prototype

Glad you like the profile, Coanda, one of about 50 for the next Modeller’s Datafile I’m working on.

Lines are much sharper in the original, of course, as this is a low res version to fit the board’s limit for uploading. Simple, really, it all depends on resolution, the higher the better. I work at 450dpi CMYK, at 1/48th scale. You need a lot of ‘horses’ to pull that!! My souped-up G4 can take it, no problem.

Cheers,

Airart

I would say a white thong is being worn. It wasn’t Snapper in disguise was it or could it have been Droptank?

…and the plural of thong is of course, knickers! 😀

The plural of Wessex is Wessex, as with Lynx, Fish etc

Hmm, as an expert in such matters, I have to agree with our lovely Spitfire polisher there, looks like a black thong under the white strides. Tut!

Not sure if it’s the correct black thong to wear under that shade of white though, I’ll have to look it up in ‘Camoflage Schemes For Crumpet Vol 9’.

Got any more like this?!!! 😉

ok, well maybe I reckon it should be brown and green because I have seen this aircraft lots of times too, I dont have the book your referring to richard unfortunately.

wonderful side view tho richard.

how do you get those panel lines so subtle?

I think the plural of Wessex is Wessi

coanda

Re: RIAT has real aeroplanes for a change

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Just a shame that the only historics in the flying were the Rolls-Royce Spitfire and the EADS Ju52 though.

What did anyone else think?

Willow

P.S. Is Wessi a suitable word to describe more than one Wessex? [/B]

Actually Willow, there was an Albatross B2 at the start of the flying display.. OK I know it was a replica, but it was beautifully replicated – the only thing I could find wrong was that the original had a claw brake in the middle of the axle, and the replica didn’t. (Though of course the engine wasn’t a Mercedes 6-cylinder in-line – it was a Walter-Minor 165PS) The aeroplane came from the Aircraft Production and Flight Museum at Fürstenwalde, near Berlin, and it flew, well, just beautifully.

Also, you might consider the Team Iskry (7x TS-11 Iskra) quite historic, to say nothing of Paul Rorive and the lovely Fouga Magister.

Glad you enjoyed the 100 Years of (Powered) Flight exhibition

sean

PS On mature consideration, I think the plural of Wessex is Wesseces. (oh, the benefits of a classical education)

:confused:

Cargomaster – Thanks, great shot, hopefully I’ve got a similar one at the processors somewhere!!

DIGBY – Sorry to mention those nasty jet things but some of them were quite old you know (OK some of them weren’t). My apologies. As a penance, I’ll go for a look round Old Warden at my next opportunity.

coanda – I too, am convinced that the Prototype Meteor should be Green and Brown, but this may purely be because I have seen this particular aeroplane, in this scheme, many times.

Yak11fan – I think, prehaps, Jay-Knee, was somewhere else…….

Willow

Originally posted by SteveYoung
Of course. 😀

As it’s after the watershed, I’ll post this one up. In our semi-leathered state, the four of us were trying to work out whether this one had gone commando for the occasion. Jury’s still out…

With apologies to Ashley and our other female members of course. 😮

It looks suspiciously like the lady in question has committed the cardinal sin of wearing black underwear (looks like a thong) under white clothing (as all fashionistas know is just not the done thing :D)

Now I have to explain to my colleagues why exactly they caught me with my nose pressed up again the screen peering at a lady’s derierre…well today could be interesting 😉

Ashley

P.S. And great pics of the aircraft Steve, this way I can feel like I went to RIAT but without the traffic and sunburn 🙂

For coanda

This is the typical finish for Meteor prototypes. For further details see ‘Camouflage and Markings Number 11’, by J. Goulding, p. 242. This shows the second prototype, DG203/G, with the bullet fairing added, but without the ventral fin/bumper, and clear canopy aft of opening section (it was solid on DG202/G)

Originally posted by Moggy C
You didn’t happen to take any pictures of the totty did you? 😉

Of course. 😀

As it’s after the watershed, I’ll post this one up. In our semi-leathered state, the four of us were trying to work out whether this one had gone commando for the occasion. Jury’s still out…

With apologies to Ashley and our other female members of course. 😮

You mean he still doesn’t know what happened to Janie?????? 😀 😎 😎 😎 😎

YAK 11,
I bet it was a RIOT. I can just imagine A L running around pulling his hair out trying to find out what happened to “JANIE”:D 😀 😀 😀

Whats this RIOT stuff all about then?

I saw Janie at the weekend, may have been there, if not most likely it was somewhere else.

Willow,
you were doing great at the start of your thread, bloody great in fact till you reached the point where you started mentioning Parrafin burners, Was “JANIE” there for Alexis?

As promised

I err, though that the prototype one, ie this one, was?

Great pics.

However, whoever painted that Meteor prototype should be shot! Meteors were NEVER finished in Dark Earth/Dark Green camouflage, but in Ocean Grey/Dark Green. Moreover that band around the fuselage is a funny colour of Sky! What a pity, such a pretty aeroplane.

Airart