Classic British Flight Sim

MB

I can tell you that there are some British Exotica under development at The Pond (http://www.britsim.com)

Including

a Percival Provost for fs9 and seperate FSX. NOT the jet version either!!
The Thruxton Jackaroo (in both 4 seat and crop duster versions)
Still a lot more Austers to go -- the latest is the last marque built at Rearsby
A Beverley for FSX
a Tipsy Trainer/Belfair
And we are never sure what Rob Richardson is going to come up with next.
Not fast movers but fun to fly

There's an Avro 707A by David Maltby in the library here. http://www.cbfsim.org/cbfsim/cbfs_lib/t ... hp?album=1

There is also a deHavilland dh108 & a Bristol B188 floating around the net. The dh108 can be downloaded here: http://www.bluesteelfs.com/, but the link to the B188 leads to a dead page

Cant really say that my first Gmax was fantastic, which is why I did it again, so if at first you don't suck seed.....
Keith

All over at Flightsim.com

There's always the BAC221 by ito-san bac221.zip and the Fairey Delta 2 fdelta.zip by Craig Richardson

Another Swallow, again by Ito-san dh108swl.zip

Arrow 730, again by Ito-san avro730_t1.zip

Armstrong Whitworth AW52. aw52_v01.zip by Ted Cook

SRA1 by guess who! sra1_263.zip

Gloster E28 pioneer.zip by Felipe Belalcazar

It's FS2002 but there's the BAC 311 by Toby Vickers bac3-11p.zip

And I'd include the Saro Princess in the list sr45fs9.zip by Paul Clawson

A good few TSR2s bactsr2.zip by Ian Willis, tsr2_219.zip by Ito-san and of course AlphaSims fantastic version

Trent meteor trenmet.zip by JR Lucairny

The MB5 by Alphasim (now freeware) alph_mb5.zip There's another at the outhouse (http://www.balbo-net.org/fs9/Planes.htm)

The Rotodyne by Ito-san rotodyne.zip (a nice what-if BEA paint at the pond!)

There's the EAP by Iris Simulations

That's all I can think of for now :-) But that's quite a few!


Kind regards

John

The Miles M53, it almost existed, or so we are led to believe.

The Miles M53, it almost existed, or so we are led to believe.

The wind tunnel test model is at the Museum of Berkshire Aviation so at least that existed

ATB
DaveB

Not far from you Dave,
I went and had a look at it a year or two ago, there doesn't seem to be any evidence that it was ever more than a wooden mock-up.
The lady on duty was very keen to show me all that was left ( a few scraps of paper and a line drawing ) of what must have been a major project at the time.
I know a wooden wing was flown on a Miles Falcon.

Hiya Rob

Yup.. that's right. It's pretty much on my doorstep but suffers from odd opening hours. I was a 'Crew Member' there for a couple of years.. perhaps 3 but as I was spending every Wed at Brooklands and couldn't split myself in two, I ended up letting my membership lapse. I remember it as being a bit like a junk yard inside.. very little room to move and exibits shoehorned so close together, you couldn't see them. Still.. they do what they can with what they've got

ATB
DaveB

The M.52 (cough) did get to be 90% complete before cancellation.

Although it did fly, in model form. A 30% scale RC model powered by an Armstrong Siddeley Beta rocket engine, although it blew up on it's first launch just days before Yeager went supersonic a later launch again a few days after Yeager went well and the model achieved mach 1.38 in level flight.

Instead of diving into the sea as planned, the model failed to respond to radio commands and was last observed (on radar) heading out into the Atlantic. Some reports suggested is was aimed at the Bell Aircraft Company HQ

I have yet to find evidence, other than anecdotal, that the M52( sorry not “M53”) was ever more than a mock-up.
I know the Model did go supersonic some years after cancellation of the Miles contract.
Had the aircraft reached 90% finished where are the pictures, or indeed any evidence, of its existence?