Sea Hawk

[DaveB]

No dayglo I'm afraid but here's a quick one before I go to work.. FGA.4 WV799/186-J HMS Eagle 1955



Available HERE

Instructions as per the others

EDIT: nice one Peter. Had that one lined up
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DveB

[511Flyer]

Lossiemouth to East Fortune. With a couple of diversions.













Thanks to Postimage for free hosting.

Thanks to Rob for the Seahawk, and Dave for the repaint. Lossie and Leuchars are by Scotflight. East Fortune is by George, who incidentally thinks it's rubbish, but it's in the right place and is a lot better than nothing at all. So thanks George. Who the carrier is by, I know not. I just happened upon it as I flew over the Firth of Forth.

Dennis. ps. I hope the shots are not too big.

[Paul K]

The carrier steaming up the Forth is ...Ark Royal.

[DaveG]

On approach.


Caught the 4-wire.


On the cat.


And away.

Victorious seems to have lost her wake somewhere.

[511Flyer]

The Ark Royal? Thank you Paul. Bit risky trying to land the Sea Hawk I guess?

[DaveB]

Most excellent

Vic '58 is the one with the unusual wake isn't it. Many folk didn't have it working in FSX to start with

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DaveB

[DaveG]

Yep, I've swapped it out for the standard carrier wake now.

[DaveB]

In case you're bored.. here's another. FGA.6 XE448 126-C 801NAS HMS Centaur '59





Available HERE

The usual T&C's apply
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DaveB

[Airspeed]

For those of you who (like me), don't have the Fleet Air Arm tail code system in their memory bank, here's a discussion which I found interesting:

http://www.worldnavalships.com/forums/s ... php?t=6473

NOW, I've just got to find out why "171" etc is not the same number as those on the wings and tail/rear fuselage.

[DaveB]

Yes Mike.. who'd have thunk 'J' could be Eagle. Why not E!!

The wing and rear fuse numbers are the airframe.. something that never changes. The large fuse numbers are squadron numbers and could possibly change between airframes. For example.. 'A' squadron may be allocated block numbers 101 to 109. Over the course of time, an airframe may be lost or written off.. lets say squadron side number 104.. airframe XE123.. and this gets replaced. The new airframe (eg XV567) wouldn't wear side number 110, it would get 104
Further down the line.. a squadron could disband and it's aircraft allocated to other squadrons. They would wear the same airframe numbers but their side numbers would fall into line with the new squadron.

I think that makes sense
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DaveB