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PostPosted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 6:53 pm
by Alfashark





Aerosoft's Airbus and Ferihegy, Iris's Vulcan, the freeware Christchurch Photoreal and RealNZ Marlborough.

PostPosted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 6:58 pm
by Splitpin
thumbup1.gif thumbup1.gif thumbup1.gif many thumbs Alpha......not a big airbus fan but you make it look good....but the Vulcan .... wub.gif

PostPosted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 7:10 pm
by Adamski
Splitpin wrote:
QUOTE (Splitpin @ Apr 17 2011,6:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
thumbup1.gif thumbup1.gif thumbup1.gif many thumbs Alpha......not a big airbus fan but you make it look good....but the Vulcan .... wub.gif

Well ... I'm a big Airbus fan (Boeing? ... pffft!!) *as well as* a big Vulcan fan! tongue.gif tongue.gif tongue.gif Great pics!

PostPosted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 7:44 pm
by Ian Warren
Steve , I no nothing about VULCAN bombers biggrin.gif , the Arrbust a little (It breaks down real quick and disappear,s ) very quick without a solution - Boeing is the leader

PostPosted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 9:59 pm
by scaber
Lovely Vulcan shots. After Ian dragged me kicking and screaming into the cockpit and after my moaning about the letterbox slit windscreens I've actually developed a real liking for it. I reckon it's one of the most majestic aircraft around.

PostPosted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 10:20 pm
by Adamski
scaber wrote:
QUOTE (scaber @ Apr 17 2011,9:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Lovely Vulcan shots. After Ian dragged me kicking and screaming into the cockpit and after my moaning about the letterbox slit windscreens I've actually developed a real liking for it. I reckon it's one of the most majestic aircraft around.

I've actually sat in a Vulcan cockpit ... and you really can't see much. That said, how the hell did Lindbergh cross the Atlantic with no forward vision *at all* ... just some loopy periscope?!

PostPosted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 11:20 pm
by scaber
Adamski wrote:
QUOTE (Adamski @ Apr 17 2011,10:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I've actually sat in a Vulcan cockpit ... and you really can't see much. That said, how the hell did Lindbergh cross the Atlantic with no forward vision *at all* ... just some loopy periscope?!

Amazing - both your experience in the Vulcan and Charles Lindbergh trying to land using a periscope out the left side of the plane - that has to be pretty difficult.

PostPosted: Sun Apr 17, 2011 11:58 pm
by Ian Warren
Adam , so you would obviously have our fave the Vulcan then smile.gif , how do you find her .

PostPosted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 12:57 am
by Adamski
Ian Warren wrote:
QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Apr 17 2011,11:58 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Adam , so you would obviously have our fave the Vulcan then smile.gif , how do you find her .

Totally amazing winkyy.gif In RL I saw them a lot as a child (we used to spend many summers at an uncle's "hut" in a refugee/displacement camp in Lincolnshire - near RAF Wittering). Later on, I got to spend a week at RAF Coningsby.

In FSX, I really like the IRIS version I have .. though I don't take her out to play as much as I should!

PostPosted: Mon Apr 18, 2011 3:07 am
by Olderndirt
Adamski wrote:
QUOTE (Adamski @ Apr 17 2011,3:20 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
I've actually sat in a Vulcan cockpit ... and you really can't see much. That said, how the hell did Lindbergh cross the Atlantic with no forward vision *at all* ... just some loopy periscope?!
He also had a hole in the floor for his drift compass. Like all good pilots of the time, he knew that as long as he saw ocean through the hole things were good. If he saw stars, energetic control inputs.