Classic British Flight Sim

....de Havilland style :shock:



Tom

Wet Start? or do Goblins ALWAYS do that?


Leif

Should never have had that curry :redface:

Bob

Something of a DH habit?





Apparently a not-uncommon problem after an engine backfire on start-up.

I was taking long-range shots at the end of the day when my son asked,"Are they supposed to do that?", as flame shot out of the exhaust on start-up. I don't normally take pictures if I think they are going to end up badly, but my fingure was already on the shutter button. So I fired off three more shots, ending in the first one above. Apart from a toasted wing it ended with no more damage, or more importantly injury to anyone on board.

I believe it is back flying again - in a different scheme?

"As real as it gets"

For God Sake don't show the first picture to the Government. Carbon foortprint and all that.

Allan..

She was flying again not too long after that incident.. and in the same livery I'd been up in her the same day with my dad :shock:

ATB

DaveB :tab:

DispatchDragon wrote:Wet Start? or do Goblins ALWAYS do that?

That Venom has a Ghost engine and it has a cartridge starter (the smoke) and yes it often had a "torch start" and an astbestos blanket was draped over the tail for every startup.

The WR470 is a fake as the real one I flew a lot on 208 Squadron, was a Venom FB4. I think we discussed it before and I think this one is not what it seems

Hi Peter

You're right it's a fake :shock:

That is an ex Swiss Air Force machine painted up as WR470

Garry