Classic British Flight Sim

I used to enjoy the AVPIN starter on the Hunter FGA9...It was such an exquisite sound :flying:
And the smell was memorable too. I distinctly recall my first whiff on the old Vic (HMS Victorious) whilst preparing Vixen FAW2s for a sortie and the Wessex 1's starting up with AVPIN. That mingling with ...

Hi Dave,

I've read about that Vixen, got some good reviews. Alas, it will have to wait for a while as my pocket money is spoken for :lol:
Go on, go for it. You won't regret it. I have waited for some years for a good Sea Vixen sim, having been on 766 and 893 back in the mid 1960s when the Fleet ...

Yo Phixer..

Steve has already done that.. look on the page before this one ;-)

ATB

DaveB :tab:
Yeah Dave! I did spot that one after I posted but then I am having internet connection drop outs which mean that I find it hard to follow all threads in the forums I inhabit and I often don't get all ...

Flight Safety sort of crept in over that period and was emphasised and talked about in the monthly mags like "Flight Comment"...Rules were changed and tightened up and the old "Gung-Ho" attitude strongly discouraged.
'Gung-Ho' as in flying a Hunter through Tower Bridge. I think that the name of ...

Thanks for your post Peter. I've just spent most of the last hour looking at your website. I hope you don't mind me saying that I feel the whole nation owes the Airforce and Navy pilots of the Fifties a huge thank you. You were the true unsung hereos of the Cold War, often paying the ultimate ...

The catapult was at RAE Bedford, there's an interesting bit of film here showing a Vixen being launched off it. Note the FDO in his smart No.5's!

http://www.seavixen.org/index.cfm?fa=contentGeneric.nqqrtkpqvvyefuol&pageId=157857
:doho: Doh!

You are correct. Time has played havoc with my ...

I have started on my AI traffic program for Ford/HMS Peregrine in Sea Hawk days and now have a Station Flight consisting of an incorrectly painted Chipmunk and the Yeovilton Station Flight Meteor T7.
I wonder what types of aircraft actually made up the station flight at ford between 1955-61?
A bit ...

I'm guessing it didn't stay in the course long after that!
I recall Phantom F4Ks being thrown off that during 1969 whilst we, on VL NASU, were working frantically fitting no end of MODs and carrying out endless engine changes as we worked our way through the colours of the Phantom Spey MOD states ...

In general it was a relatively clean burning engine and unlike some of its contemparies it recovered the rear bearing oil ,not using the total loss system of others. Regards John
A total loss oil system was a characteristic of the de Havilland screamers fitted to the Vampire and Venom types ...

What was life like up at Arbroath on a typical day? Did you spend a set amount of time on one type, such as Sea Hawk, then move on to another, or was it multiple types on one day? I can never get enough of old service stories.
I was an artificer under training at that time so time was split ...