Classic British Flight Sim

Hi All

Anyone know where I can get a Canadair Argus model for FS2004.

Googling leads to http://www.indigoflightrules.com, but the download link does not work.

Thanks in advance

Ned

Hi,

My guess is that he hasn't finished them yet. Tim's email address is on the Home page - why not ask him how they are coming along?

Hi
This is a beta version which has been in my e hanger for two months or so. It works quite well with a DC-7 sound pack and DC-7 air file. When I got it the aircraft cfg file had a slight mis numbering of the engines causing a permanent 3 engine configuration, renumbering them to 0, 1, 2 & 3 worked OK. There was a thread about it on California Classics a few weeks ago, using DC-7 features seemed OK to me as there appeared to be a lot of Douglas influence in the Argus, apart from the Britannia wings.

The "Douglas" influence is probably due to Canadairs manufacture of the C4/C5 and that design thinking showing in the design.

Garry

As Canadair had experience of building/adapting Douglas designs I wonder why the Britannia wing design was chosen for the Argus? Was the Brit wing exceptional? I believe it was used on the Belfast and some other aircraft.

Harry

Having flown on the Brit just a little - I can answer that in one word STRENGTH
Bristol built the Brits wing like a Bridge - it was very very strong and ideal for long low level
operations that the Argus was designed for - the reason the Wright "corncobs" were used
was they were more efficient than the Proteus at low level - Garry Russell who is presently
building the Brit for FS9 can probably give you more info but the Argus like the Cl44 and
for that matter the Brit herself were all destined to be reengined but right now Im having a senior moment
and I cant remember the name of the bugger. The Argus's fueslage was a trade off
as an anti sub aircraft it was not thought it would need to be pressurized - In fact it would
have been a tough thing to do with the huge plexiglas nose so they designed a fueslage more
suitable to the task at hand - and having built the C4 the jigs were available.


Leif

Canadair built their own re engineered version of the Britannia which was the CL-44 and the Argus was a Maritime Patrol version of that..is was a part of the set of Martime Patrol, Military long range freighter/personell carrier and airliner/freighter.

There is a lot of the Britannia not just the wing in the Augus ....the tail, tailplane, main undercarriage is Britannia.
Even the fuse is basically Britannia with a new front end.

The Britannia airframe was immensly strong.

As Leif says it was pistons for low level and the smaller fuse gave longer range.

Bristol designed a large fuse, rearloading version of the Britannia. Short who were building Britannias for Bristols adopted that and enlarged and redesigned it to produce the Belfast which in civil form would have been called the Britannic.

The Britannia did suffer problems and delays as indeed the CL-44 but both were due to engines not airframe. The CL-44 was to be powered by Bristol Orion as was the Britannia but the engine was abandoned. Canadair adopted the RR Tynes as the Proteus was unsuitable.

TCA were also to re engine their Vanguards with Orions and the Vanguard had the extra strength built into the wing to take them.

Garry