Moggy, thanks for sharing

Santos-Dumont Demoiselle

A giggle indeed, but what happened to…

The Bristol Boxkite and the Avro Triplane found loving homes at Old Warden. What became of the Santos-Dumont Demoiselle? I seem to remember it was a flyer, please correct me if I’m wrong.

K

looks more like flight sim (with oversize lettering!)

Originally posted by Moggy C

I hate conflict.

Moggy

BTW

1) I think we should suggest to Steve he paints all his warbirds in Red-Bull colours

2) The Vulcan at Bruntingthrope will never fly, it is a waste of good lottery funds

3) Spitfires and Mustangs are boring and should be banned from the new forum.

4) The Halifax at Elvington is a good thing, but it should have all the skin removed from one side and a budgie perch added.

5) We need more aircraft slung from museum roofs.

Moggy is going for the Boutros Boutros stirring stick 🙂

thirded

Originally posted by mike currill
I’m still having no success downsizing stuff to use as an avatar, can anyone suggest where I might find something suitable.

Mike

yoy may wish to have a look at IrFanView, a freeware picture editor. available from http://www.irfanview.com/. It does most image editong things like resizing, format converting etc.

Ken

ps My current avatar is the BAe owned Avro XIX snapped at Old Warden last Sept. Why?, because I like the Anson. Although I may swap the avatar for the Miles Falcon.

Dave

re your comment about flyer being a 2 seater. There were several (powered) flyers.

The original 1903 flyer, was single manned with a prone pilot, and flew only on the famous day in Dec 1903. As described above it didn’t use a catapult, but did fly from rails angled into the wind.

The next two flyers were of similar arrangement. The 1904 flew only a few times. It was with the 1905 flyer that the Wrights learnd to fly circuits for extended periods. The trials of the 1905 flyer took place on the prairies near Dayton at 1800ft and in the middle of summer. That was the prompt for using the catapult, although the effects of height and temperature on lift weren’t understood at the time.

The brothers then did not fly for two and a half years. It was the 1908 flyer that had seats for 2, with the passenger between the pilot and the engine.

Ken

Born in 57, in the Pollock area of Glasgow, we were under the approach to Renfrew airport. So from an early age I learned to tell the difference between Viscounts, Vanguards, Dakotas, Heralds and so on. Then came the BAC 1-11, blinking noisy beast.

My party piece in primary school was to tell the difference by sound alone. Still get strange looks at times 😉