One for John Howling Mouse

[John Howling Mouse]

Baz, that would be great. I can work something out. And the Evergreen - you tell me, I've never used the stuff. It needs to fill in the space where the tailplane tabs would go in the fuse.

Okay, took me awhile to find this thread again (I've really got to start drinking alchohol).

I'll send you a little sample of Evergreen strip stock to fill those little tab-slots and the props/spinner from the Gannet.

 

[The Rat]

(I've really got to start drinking alchohol).

Once you start down the dark side, forever will it guide your destiny...

[K5054NZ]

A teetotaller too I am, enjoying it too.....

[John Howling Mouse]

(I've really got to start drinking alchohol).

Once you start down the dark side, forever will it guide your destiny...

True, but I hear all the hot chicks go for it!

[K5054NZ]

Okay, um, BACK ON TOPIC!!!

[Ollie]

I heard alcohol!

I drank a Bitburger yesterday as we did a saeurkraut at the airport.

There's nothing like eating sauerkraut amids a Pilatus P-3, a Harvard and a Caravan.  I even went to see the Focke-Wulf to tell her how nice it had been.

I sure miss me C-FWOL...    

[K5054NZ]

  Why have you and FWOL separated?

[Ollie]

It's winter for Diego's (cool cat in "ICe Age") sake, and she has no heating, so she sleeps it out in the bigger hanger, while we fly around with the 208, and soon a 185 (when the ice decides to let us fly by stopping being so slippery on the runway.)


Next summer will be a good one, 4 confirmed airshows...  B)  

[K5054NZ]

I only wish I could get there to see her...and to meet you, of course! Ah well....summer ain't too far off....You COULD move here, y'know. Winter normally has an average temperature of 15degrees Celsius!

[Captain Canada]

Next summer will be a good one, 4 confirmed airshows...  B)

Who, what, where, when, how......I'll bring the beer !

 

[Ollie]

Québec City, Carp, Lac-à-la-Tortue and Rockliffe...

 

[Captain Canada]

Une-tario !

 

[The Rat]

Winter normally has an average temperature of 15degrees Celsius!

So does Montreal if you simply add a '-' in front.  ^_^  

[K5054NZ]

 

[K5054NZ]

Okay, once more back on topic, here's a backstory I've just whipped up (hints of a future model or two in mind as well   ):

HAWKER-SIDDELEY HS.1410 "SUPER FURY"

Calls from various countries for a counter-insurgency (COIN) ground-attack aircraft reached the United Kingdom in 1974, and one of the companies to respond quickly was Hawker-Siddeley. Their HS.1410 design was essentially the company's earlier Sea Fury fighter of World War II vintage extensively redesigned.

A Rolls-Royce Dart turboprop of 2320hp was fitted in an extended cowling, and an eight-bladed contra-rotating propeller system was installed. Jettisonable tiptanks went onto a strengthened wing, and the horizontal stabilisers were moved to a T-tail position atop a cropped vertical fin. A new avionics package was developed especially and fitted, and eight hardpoints fitted under the wing. More effective brakes, from the Hawker Hunter, were fitted to improve stopping distance, and leading-edge slats installed to improve short take-off performance.

The prototype, registered G-HSSF, first flew on September 14 1974 from RAF Farnborough. Several test flights followed, and weapons testing at the range at Shoeburyness saw the design proven. Orders were received from several African air arms, as well as the Irish Potato Company of Belfast (later discovered to be a front for the IRA, who used their four aircraft against the SAS) and Argentina. Ironically the FAA Super Furies saw action against British forces in the Malvinas Reclamation War, being praised highly by President Galtieri after the successful end of the conflict. One Super Fury pilot was even awarded the Order of Argentina for his heroic actions against British positions at the Battle of Goose Green.

Today the aircraft remains in limited service in Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is not known whether the other African aircraft remain in service, due to lack of access to them by Western observers. Several former Ethiopean aircraft were recovered by a group acting on behalf of major warbird collectors in 1993, and of these "refugees" two are now airworthy - one with the Commemorative Air Force in Texas, and the other with Stephen Grey's The Fighter Collection at Duxford. The final six Argentine aircraft were retired in 1992, after being used for patrols around Puerto Stanley, the capital of Islas Malvinas.

Anyone got some spare Argentine decals?