Classic British Flight Sim

What a beautiful model. I like to think of them at their best, though, not quite as grimy. It's an amazing testament to his skill, but it looks like it's spent a couple of weeks on gritted roads. I remember how proud the crew was to get "their" bus back after a complete overhaul at the Ald...

Carvair! How silly! Two engines, four engines, high wing, low wing. Pretty much unmistakable, really. Got carried away in my excitement.

There's a series called "Britain on Film" on BBC4, taken from the Rank Organisation's "Look at Life" series. It was shot in superb quality on 35MM colour film. The series is nearly over, but episodes are still available on BBC iPlayer. In Episode 2: "Brits at Play", the...

To me, the best looking feature of the 747 are the extravagantly swept wings and tail plane. I miss the 707 and all those rakish aircraft from the 1960s. Actually, I will be different and say I prefer the fuselage of the A380 — as far as double-deckers go, that is. I got a fright the first time I sa...

For example, I would bring in a rule whereby they could only have so much fuel to start with and they have to complete the race on only that much. Every year you could lower it :lol: Just MHO! The FIA did exactly that in the 1980s, with Formula 1 cars being rationed to 250 litres per race (approx 3...

Wonderful, thanks.

Mihaly — You may know this already: when converting aircraft from FS/FSX to X-Plane it's only the 3D model that carries over. Everything else, in particular the flight model, animations and any plug-in programming would have to be made from scratch. Obviously, inheriting a 3D model would save a shed...

I used to find X-Plane's continual updates annoying as they seemed to constantly break things that'd been working in the previous versions. It still happens, but it is much improved with proper delineation between "beta" and "release" versions. Anyway, upgrades are entirely volu...

And no one believed Neville Shute Norway? Keith It wasn't quite as simple as in "No Highway". Fatigue was known about, but not properly understood. There was already a suspicion that the existing certification requirements were not sufficient, and that the greatest risk came from cabin pr...

Just think what might have been had the disasters not occurred...might the type have been a world beater or would US domination have been inevitable? In a period of post-War austerity, Britain decided that any new airliners must be able to operate from existing airports without changes to infrastru...