green/grey Andover?

Motormouse · Post by **Motormouse** » 05 Nov 2006, 13:28

Found this one on Dave Fagan's web-site (scroll down)

http://daveg4otu.tripod.com/airfields/tis.html

ttfn

Pete

Kevin · Post by **Kevin** » 06 Nov 2006, 02:29

Thanks for that, Pete. I was there then, but I can't say I remember that one - as the caption says, it was unique.

One thing I do remember about 46 Sqn in the early '70's was the Christmas carols being broadcast from the Andover's "Sky-Shouting" equipment. It was common to hear bursts of Xmas carols intermingled with RR Darts anywhere in the local area. It was only done for a couple of years.

BTW, a minor typo in Dave Fagan's otherwise excellent Thorney Island page: 242 OCU left TI for Lyneham in 1975, not 1965.

Nowadays it's hard to imagine the variety of aircraft in the RAF only a generation ago. 242 OCU had separate Beverley, Hastings and Argosy Flights, 46 Sqn had Andovers, and a detached Flight of 22 Sqn had Whirlwinds, all on one small Hampshire airfield.

AND, we had a lot more airfields.

Cheers,

Kevin

Motormouse · Post by **Motormouse** » 06 Nov 2006, 15:46

Oh...there were some Herks there too..and don't forget the air experience flight..I had my first (ever) flight, in a Chippie from Thorney to Bembridge in November 1974!

ttfn

Pete

kit · Post by **kit** » 06 Nov 2006, 21:45

Not exactly RAF or even British, but didn't the RNZAF have a couple of Andovers as well?

Dunno why that sticks in my mind but bells are ringing somewhere.

I must say that grey/green scheme looks the biz, and it's probably possible as a repaint to Rick's 780 as well, the ramp being the same colour all the way up.

Post by **Garry Russell** » 06 Nov 2006, 22:10

The RNZAF bought quite a few C1's from the RAF

Don't know how many off hand

Garry

Kevin · Post by **Kevin** » 07 Nov 2006, 18:38

I seem to remember it was ten a/c, but that's memory, not a reference.

Some of the rest went to 115 Sqn to replace Argosys used on navaid calibration duties and were seen for quite a while. That would also be a nice alternative scheme.

Kevin

Post by **Trev Clark** » 08 Nov 2006, 18:58

One thing I do remember about 46 Sqn in the early '70's was the Christmas carols being broadcast from the Andover's "Sky-Shouting" equipment. It was common to hear bursts of Xmas carols intermingled with RR Darts anywhere in the local area. It was only done for a couple of years.

I heard this, it flew over my school, so I guess it was around 1971-2. The aircraft kept going into cloud which made it even more sureal. Yes, most of the fleet went to Grey/green and stayed that way in RNZAF for several years. Silly to waste any money on a re-paint.

I seem to remember seeing an all white UN version of the NZ Andovers too, not to mention the superb red/white/grey livery used by 115 sqn in calibration duties for years.

Some good stuff on the NZ Andovers, here
http://www.adf-serials.com/nz-serials/nz7620.shtml

kit · Post by **kit** » 08 Nov 2006, 21:17

Hmmm, that red/white/grey scheme looks good.

Rick, would it work with the tail door textures mapped as they are? Not that I'm hinting or anything..............

Post by **Rick Piper** » 09 Nov 2006, 01:04

Hi Guys

Red/white & grey should paint ok as it does not stray only the extreme rear with stripes like "Open Skies" type are the problem liveries.

I will leave repaints to others as i am upto my earholes rebuilding the chipmunk for FS9 & FSX with a lot of new detail and corrections.
All new VC gauges in 3d with no VC entries at all in the panel.cfg like Realair models with smmmooooooooth gauges.

I just have a massive workload at the moment (understatement)

Regards
Rick