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Bet you didn't expect to see this, Doug!











After the last time I carefully installed it so it couldn't do any damage but there is definitely something wrong with it. If you select it in 'Create Flight' it crashes FS9 back to the desktop but I got it by selecting the Kingair first and swapping.

Few things - it hits FR very hard (hard as a Meljet), the textures are dodgy and are difficult to keep in focus when viewed (for the shots had to pause, hit Alt which is a trick to sharpen textures up and even then they drifted out very quickly) and the flaps don't work although they are in both the air and cfg files.

But I have to say it flies very nicely by hand (couldn't understand the autopilot!)



Roger

LOL I must admit that I didn't expect you to go anywhere near it after all that kerfuffle. I don't think I would in your situation.

I seem to remember that I got it working myself but my own HD crashed & burned since then. Nothing to do with the Beverley I assure you.

PS. I almost had a ride in one of those old birds once. As we were taxying out (backwards) to the runway they discovered it was overloaded & turfed us off.

Nice shots Roger. Which Beverly is that? The one that knackered your machine?

Mark

Nice shots Roger. Which Beverly is that? The one that knackered your machine?

Mark

Yep

This time I wacked it a coupla times with a crowbar first so it knew who was boss

Pity about the problems because it's an unusual plane and flies quite nicely.

Another one I've been playing with is Tom Ruth's AN-124 transport - it kneels down and sticks its tongue out at you when you open the nose doors. Need a panel for that. I'll post some pics later (if no-one else gets in before me now I've mentioned it! )

Roger

It kind of looks like a lancaster with a blown up nose! - Similar shape anyway::)

It kind of looks like a lancaster with a blown up nose! - Similar shape anyway::)

Interesting. This had never occurred to me so I looked it up. According to The Beverley Association, who should know about these things, the Beverley was actually derived from the General Aircraft Hamilcar glider.

The Beverley was descended from the tank carrying heavy-lift General Aircraft GAL50 Hamilcar glider which saw service in World War Two. In response to an Air Ministry Specification for a heavy-lift short range transport aircraft,General Aircraft, the manufacturers of the Hamilcar, produced the GAL60 Universal Freighter, the Beverley's immediate predecessor. General Aircraft then merged with Blackburn before the GAL60 was complete. The GAL60 was built at Feltham, Middlesex, then dismantled and taken to Brough, East Yorkshire, reassembled and first flown on 20th June 1950, by which time it had become the Blackburn and General Aircraft Universal Freighter. I was told by a craftsman who worked at Brough at that time, that bets were actually taken on whether the aircraft would get off the ground.

It kind of looks like a lancaster with a blown up nose! - Similar shape anyway::)

Hmm... don't know about that, bit more porky round the waistline I'd have thought.

Tel you what though - the sound is nice. Know that because while I was flying it my wife came in and said people could hear it for miles!

Tel you what though - the sound is nice. Know that because while I was flying it my wife came in and said people could hear it for miles!

The good old Bristol Centaurus sleeve-valve radials. Somehow I would prefer to hear them on a Sea Fury.

No, looking again it doesn't! But picture 2 just reminded me of the Lanc, probably just the square windscreen!

http://airliners.net/open.file?id=346169

This is the Hamilcar. http://www.jaapteeuwen.speedlinq.nl/html%20pages/GENERAL%20AIRCRAFT%20GAL49%20HAMILCAR.htm

What about a formation with an Argosy....

Nice,

Charlie

What about a formation with an Argosy....

Nice,

Charlie

How about a Bristol 170 Freighter. Channel Airways used to operate a regular cross-channel ferry service out of Shoreham with these old birds. I haven't looked too hard but don't remember seeing an FS version. http://users.chariot.net.au/~theburfs/brisftrMAIN.html

PS. I haven't found a DH Dove or Heron either. One day perhaps, even if I have to do it myself.

What was it that BAF operated out of Lydd Doug? Were they Bristols - got a feeling it was something else

Roger

PS

Haven't got time to read it right now but just scanned through that link Doug

Silver City Airways - there's a name. Takes me right back to when I was collecting pics for my scrap book...

Hi Roger. I remember BUA operating the Carvair (converted DC-4) out of Gatwick. Maybe it was that.
http://www.aim72.co.uk/HW03-003.htm

I think this might shed some light on it.
[quote]When Wing Commander Taffy Powel set up Silver City, (named after a silver mine in Broken Hill, Australia), he opened a fascinating and innovative new chapter in British aviation.

A keen and impatient traveler himself, Powel realised that by converting a Lancaster bomber, he could fly passengers, and their cars, to Europe. This would allow holiday-makers to avoid the lengthy wait for the ferry. So on the 7th of July 1948, Powel made the first ever British flight with a car, from Lympne to Le Touquet.

The service was a resounding success. Once it all took off however, it became apparent that another, more suitable location would have to be found. So Silver City relocated to Lydd, where the first new post-war airport in the UK was built, in under six months, and