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June 22, 2007 at 6:40 pm in reply to: AI Traffic & AI Flight Plans For FS9 #222923

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I’ve just replaced all of the modern jets with props with no frame rate drop. The new ‘AI’ models are normal user operated aircraft – no mods! It seems to work, but its probably against the rules…. simply open the flightplans in notepad, and with a flightplan generator program exchange the old aircraft list for a new one….. seems to work (more by accident than planning!)

June 22, 2007 at 5:56 pm in reply to: Replicas and reproductions #1265639

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Ho Ho… maybe downhill with a good tail wind… I don’t think anyone will notice…..:eek:

I remember the Brigand fuselage at NEAM… a sorry state for a beautiful aircraft.

Here’s an additional quetion to fry your brains : At what point is a reproduction a reproduction? If the Brigand was rebuilt ith new wings, etc, would the original bit of the fuselage (probably just the frames and stringers) would it still be classed as an original Brigand or a replica?…. What percentage of original aircraft or parts is generally considered when making this decision? If I built a spitfire completely new, but with an original tail unit, is this a replica, or an original…? My brain hurts now….:p

June 22, 2007 at 4:55 pm in reply to: Replicas and reproductions #1265660

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Regarding the HP42, I think I read that the driving force was the late Mike Russell ( Russavia at Duxford et al) .

Since his sad demise, the project seems to have gone on hold. But if anyone can come up with FOUR new Jupiter engines…………

How far advaced was this project? Had any wood/metal been cut? Are there no other engines which could be a substitute for the Jupiters? – I know they were distictive engines and particularly un-cowled on the HP42….

If a Westland Whirlwind (Fighter, NOT helecopter) was to be built from scratch, would it be possible in theory to fit merlins (with a modified cooling arrangement) instead of the rather rare Perigrines?

Imagine the looks of the labour government if some fool said ‘ TSR2 return to flight’……

June 21, 2007 at 5:48 pm in reply to: Programme, Flying Legends #1266865

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Thats more like it, thank you. I have read about, and seen pictures from legends during all the years I have been in aircraft maintenance, although my usual aircraft have a long way to go before they ever appear at Duxford… I know of the maintenance pressures building up to any airshow all too well – Lusty Lindy kicked me in the nether regions all too often on the days leading up to the Yorkshire air show…. there’s always bloody something!…

It may be late, but I am going to make a definite effort to get down there. They don’t do good airshows oop north anymore…….

June 21, 2007 at 3:02 pm in reply to: 20 Years Ago Today #1267055

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That looks like a concertina… I mean cortina..:o … not seen one of those for a while either. Shame about the rapide… I wonder whether the talbot driver’s insurance covered him..
‘well, what happened was….. bloody airplane….. landed…… squashed car….’

June 21, 2007 at 2:57 pm in reply to: wings and wheels at elvington this weekend #1267096

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Is my namesake doing a taxi run?…. Lindy’s website is not available for a while…..:(

June 21, 2007 at 9:53 am in reply to: Programme, Flying Legends #1267387

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Like I said, I have never been. TFC keep sending me flyers for it every year (I wrote to them once with a query sometime in the early nineties)…

I know I’m in a minority now, but for me, it is still one of those shows which is always on the ‘must go one day’ list… What doesn’t help is when you ask how good it really is, most people reply in the negative or with seeming disinterest…….:(

June 21, 2007 at 9:41 am in reply to: Twin-engined Spitfire! #1267403

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Twin engined spitfire indeed..! Pah! What next? Twin Mustang? Twin Pioneer?….;)

June 21, 2007 at 9:30 am in reply to: Programme, Flying Legends #1267522

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Can I asume from the general apathy, that legends is becoming very repetitive?

For the record, I have never been to a Duxford Airshow…. one day….

June 21, 2007 at 12:53 am in reply to: Aircraft Instrument Panel Projects #1267714

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4 engined yes, not a pure jet engined beast but an element in there and it is missing the co pilots panel as things stand…

Keep guessing 😀

one of those american transports that was in the ‘Air America’ film. Damned if I can remember what they are – it is, after all, one o’ clock in the morning……

Twin radials and twin jets….

June 20, 2007 at 2:24 pm in reply to: Lancastrian info #1268342

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Could some please tell me if Avro Lancastrians had Lincoln type fins

See page 77 of ‘Lancaster’ by Christopher Chant. They appear to have the longer trim tabs of the Lincoln / later Lancasters, just like PA474 does today…
The fin was the same, only the rudder different…

June 20, 2007 at 2:17 pm in reply to: Mystery linkage #1268346

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Looks like a viscous damper for use in a helecopter tail rotor transmission shaft. Sea Kings have a much bigger version. The chamber is filled with hydraulic fluid / oil and reduces the initial torque loading on the rest of the system… or at least that how I THINK it works. I would have to consult my notes…..

June 19, 2007 at 3:49 pm in reply to: Earliest Aviation Memory #1269332

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Building sand castles on the beach at St. Andrews and watching Phantom ‘Black Mike’ practicing its solo display…. wow.
Ten minutes after the Phantom landed, a yellow Wessex flew over my head at what seemed like 50 ft. The winchman waved. The downwash knocked me over.
The same day, an F111 landed at Leuchars too.

Sometime later, at the last Vulcan displ;ay at Finningly, 558 stopped on the taxiway right next to me before it took off. I was deaf for a week. The pilot waved then too…..

June 18, 2007 at 7:01 pm in reply to: New Google Earth Thread #1270405

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one of the reds is at home at Scampton too….

Aircraft recognition competition at Kubinka
55`36’42.66N 36`38’59.47E

Li 4 ? – russian Dakota…. 55`55’57.31N 37`26’26.17 E….. and a blinder (?) just to the north across the road..

June 18, 2007 at 4:49 pm in reply to: How Low Can You Go?? #1270589

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http://www.nothingtoxic.com/media/1182137931/Plane_Landing_Comes_Way_Too_Close_to_Hitting_the_Beach

😮

I swear he clips the fence with his main wheels… plus, pause it and watch the guy closest to the jet. I think he soils himself…..
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