• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

Lancaster!

ok i was on it being all fabric covered, still wasnt painted in gloss paint like the BBMF one is though :engel016:
 
Hi chaps,

Shots look like they may be the older revision textures. I'll see what I can show.

Trev- bomb aimer note taken into consideration ;)

Thanks chaps.
 
stiz said:
1 major flaw (in my opion) .... lancs are canvas covered, not metal .. so they shouldnt be glossy,it really shows on the shot of the coastie and the nose shot, looks great otherwise :engel016:
Click to expand...
Lancasters are not, repeat not covered with canvas. They are alloy skinned and riveted. I worked on the Lincoln with 617 Squadron and the Lincoln was just a bigger Lancaster. The only aircraft in service during WW2 fabric covered were Avro Anson. Airspeed Oxford. Fairey Swordfish. The Hawker Hurricane had a fabric covered fuselage and the earlier marks had faric covered wings. Also numerous aicraft like the Auster and Tiger Moths.

Ken
 
Oxford was plywood, Ken. That and its shape led to the "ox-box" nickname.

The wellington/Warwick and Harrow must have been the largest British aircraft of that period to have a fabric covering.

Best wishes
Steve P
 
krazycolin said:
It was canvas on the outside, plywood on the inside. (At least, according to wikipedia)
Click to expand...

Thats a bit misleading because it implies, to the aviation minded anyway, a wooden skeleton or frame, with a skin of canvas.

The fuselage and wings of the Mosquito were plywood with a coating of doped Madaploam fabric, in the same manner wallpaper covers a plaster wall. The fuselage was actually a plywood/balsa sandwich, formed in concrete moulds in two halves, then glued together along its length.
 
Paul K said:
Thats a bit misleading because it implies, to the aviation minded anyway, a wooden skeleton or frame, with a skin of canvas.

The fuselage and wings of the Mosquito were plywood with a coating of doped Madaploam fabric, in the same manner wallpaper covers a plaster wall. The fuselage was actually a plywood/balsa sandwich, formed in concrete moulds in two halves, then glued together along its length.
Click to expand...
correct!

Who' Lank is it?
H
 
Paul K said:
The fuselage and wings of the Mosquito were plywood with a coating of doped Madaploam fabric, in the same manner wallpaper covers a plaster wall. The fuselage was actually a plywood/balsa sandwich, formed in concrete moulds in two halves, then glued together along its length.
Click to expand...

if i recall it wasn't just any balsa but Ecuadorian balsa, being light on its feet and wooden (hence the mozzie being called the 'wooden wonder') it could take a heck of a beating and still get home :icon_lol:
 
Yes the Mosquito is made of Balsa and Plywood. The last time that I went to Elvington air museum near <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:eek:ffice:smarttags" /><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">York</st1:place></st1:City> they were in the process of rebuilding one. I doubt whether they will have finished it.
Incidentally if you are ever near York the museum is well worth a visit, it’s situated on a second world war bomber base (Halifax’s) and you can certainly sample the atmosphere and feel the ‘ghosts’ in the place.
<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:eek:ffice:eek:ffice" /><o:p> </o:p>
Ian.
 
They used to make mossie's about 5 minutes from where I live in a bed frame factory of all places during the war!
 
cool, i live about 15minutes away from Castle Bromwich, where Spitfires were made, and about 45mins from RAF Cosford where they were made/repaired and scrapped...
 
Just saw Dambusters not too long ago. Guess I need to go have a look at the Mohne and Eder areas in FSX... should be able to do some nice stuff now with FSX to show a damaged dam.

Man.. that mesh should be even more accurate now... it was a beast in FS9 to approach the Eder!

If only we could do bouncing bombs. Grrrrr
 
Smoothie said:
cool, i live about 15minutes away from Castle Bromwich, where Spitfires were made, and about 45mins from RAF Cosford where they were made/repaired and scrapped...
Click to expand...

Now you're scaring me.

/glances over both shoulders to ensure you're not behind me/

<looks over="" both="" shoulders="" to="" check="" you="" re="" not="" behind="" me...=""></looks>
 
crashaz said:
Just saw Dambusters not too long ago. Guess I need to go have a look at the Mohne and Eder areas in FSX... should be able to do some nice stuff now with FSX to show a damaged dam.

Man.. that mesh should be even more accurate now... it was a beast in FS9 to approach the Eder!

If only we could do bouncing bombs. Grrrrr
Click to expand...
i have a dambusters scenry in fsx by Tim Clayton
but no bouncing bombs
H
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top