XH558 Add-on

A great addition too the FS scene which apart from the aggravating visual/sound effect it installs across the board works well with good flight dynamics, worth the money I think.

Further funds required.

In answer too the question on how much money will be required, TVOC has always said that ongoing the amounts of money required would depend on a number of factors not least of which was obtaining a commercial sponsorship deal which I believe this and subsequent articles are refering too, currently from the sites published information there is sufficient money to complete the overhaul, flight testing and crew training programs which will prepare 558 for the proposed flight down the Mall though obviously this is not the only goal. The operation of 558 from that point will be an expensive one that will need a constant flow of money to maintain and it is this figure that members have for many months now been trying to establish without much success as I believe that no one really knows in detail how much per hour this Vulcan will cost too operate even for the limited number of hours per year they envisage. Lets just wish them well in their efforts too achieve this and maybe by a calender for 2007. Happy New Year to all.

Like a boot sale.

Wake up and smell the Roses folks, or something along those lines, UK gov inc has been quietly selling off the family silver for years now and conveniently ignoring the warning signs flagged by almost every nation that inhabits this globe, we make all the right noises about world security while we ready yet another section of our armed forces for disbandment, close bases nationwide for sale too the highest bidder under the disguise of cost saving measures and in the end find ourselves hard pressed to find enough available troops to display for the tourists once a year all at the behest of nameless, faceless and non accountable bodies hidden away in the recesses of Whitehall, no one should be the slightest bit surprised at the closure/sale of yet another airbase but if anyone looks back a little into recent history one rather chubby politician warned loud and long about the short sightedness of such measures, I often wonder how many soldiers, sailors and airmen actually died as a result of this attitude or are currently being put at risk while we sit idly by and hope the yanks will bail us out yet again. I guess we will finally wake up one day to find squads of Securicor employees trooping the colours.
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BAC Compression Lift on Concorde Mk 2 designs.

An old chum of mine form the build days of Concorde who worked in the design office at the time recalled that BAC had considered using the Compression lift idea on the early layout drawings for the Mk 2 Concorde and serveral months of testing with models was undertaken, The Idea was eventually shelved due to the extrodinary amount of wieght that would be required for the machinery too actually make this idea work in a commercial airliner, however he did say that they all agreed the idea was sound, had considreable potential in a possible future SST design as long as the weight penalty could be negated, such a pity that even with out this idea the MK2 was never progressed further than the drawing board. 🙁

Concorde at Brunty

The way that lot work at raising the dead it would not surpise me one bit, imagine one tooling up and down the runway…… :dev2:

It is the ‘ sign that brings up ATC, if it fails to do so then it is more than probable that your keyboard settings have been changed, I suggest you open up the settings panel and return them to DEFAULT for the keyboard only and the ATC key should then work correctly.

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