Classic British Flight Sim

DaveB, you ever tried FS painting and drinking on a Sat-Night..LOL no comment from me at this moment in time ...

AOA (Angle of Attack) vanes Dave -- And I DONT think they are loctated on the cargo door -- to sensitive for all that upping and downing.......
http://www.flickr.com/photos/31625633@N00/1000699473

Theres a close up of and RAE 1-11 AOA Vane

Leif

Tis weird....some pictures show it with the covers on for protection..http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2537/373 ... 3b6005.jpg

..others....like this one , nothing

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-p ... 244454.jpg

Unless of course...one photo is 551 and the other 553...?

Tony

DaveB, you ever tried FS painting and drinking on a Sat-Night

Yes I have mate but I've never liked what I've seen the next morning

Yes Leif.. I apologise for my rather simplistic one liner last night though at the extreme, if they detect too great an AoA.. you will get the stick shaker go off I'd forgotten about the 'Giannini Vanes' reference until I'd dug out the tech manual last night. Kinda cute

ATB

DaveB :tab:

Don't need to apologize for anything Dave Its been thirty years since I have heard them referred to by their "proper name"
Living in the colonies you have to use the local expressions But I am curious if they were moved on the 1-11s
that had cargo doors cut in them.


Leif

Indeed mate.. an interesting question. By definition, you'd expect them to be sited in the 'ideal' place so by moving them (or one of them) it'd be less than ideal.. cock-eyed as that sounds SYD doesn't have em as far forward as depicted on Jason's WIP shot but that said.. SYD has been around the block a few times so isn't an ideal subject for comparison. The answer is out there but I've not had time to look for it yet ;-)

EDIT..
It would appear that they weren't changed Leif. No matter which version you see them on be it a 475 with or without cargo door or a 500, they're always in exactly the same place relative to the wing LE.. that is under windows 8 and 10 counting from the LE forward ;-)

ATB

DaveB :tab:

Well Dave - I'm blessed if not blow'd" LOL I guess SYD was chopped and changed so many times in its career that it would be different. I was thinking about the actual location driving into work rhis morning (Not much else to do at 0230 except point the car down the freeway) -- I guess back then BAC engineers thought they had to be placed relative to the leading edge and SMC. The Maddogs have them far forward above the whiskers under the cockpit windows - On many smaller acft they are even further forward. I was surprised that one was still on the cargo door until yet again I thought it through -- they are neither mechanically attached to anything nor do they utilise the pitot-static system - theyre purely electrical - so cutting a ruddy great hole in the airplane wouldnt make any difference so long as the wiring loom and relays weren't compromised.


Jeeze the things you think of on a Sunday morning.

Leif ;-)

Yeh.. the annoying thing with those ideas that spring into your head is that you have to find the answer which is even more frustrating Ah well.. we know the answer now as far as the 1-11 is concerned so clear your mind for an hour or two

ATB

DaveB :tab:

Clear my mind? Not going to happen -- lots of early morning fog in the NE and I have half a dozen flights sitting in Orlando with the self loading cargo just starting to come to the boil.......I hate when real life interferes with my play time :@


Leif

Does anyone have any close up shots of the top of the very large panel on the left fuse, just id like to outline it fully rather than just have a basic rectangle representing it.