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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

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Rob's Aero Files freeware Airspeed Ambassador for FSX!

Excellent work Rob! Great choice too, I haven't seen one of these for Fs in a long time! :applause:

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Simply stunning Rob. Lovely sounds and lends itself to Accu-Feel. I'd love to try and paint a Dan Air scheme on her if that's permissable... :salute:
 
Airspeed Ambassador /Nevil Shute

Hi !

Many years ago, I read a book by Nevil Shute. The story : The main person in the book worked on a aircraft factory regard the static test of the aircraft.

The person discover som vibration fatigue on the enpanage, mainly on the fin.

In the real life of Nevil Shute worked in the aircraft industri under WW2 and some years after before be a writher.

When I look on the fin on the Airspeed Ambassador maybe is the aircraft he discribe ?

Best Regard
DennyBoy
 
DennyBoy said:
Hi !

Many years ago, I read a book by Nevil Shute. The story : The main person in the book worked on a aircraft factory regard the static test of the aircraft.

The person discover som vibration fatigue on the enpanage, mainly on the fin.

In the real life of Nevil Shute worked in the aircraft industri under WW2 and some years after before be a writher.

When I look on the fin on the Airspeed Ambassador maybe is the aircraft he discribe ?

Best Regard
DennyBoy
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Nevil Shute actually worked for Airspeed before the war,I think he may actually have helped found it from what I can remember of his autobiography. I think he'd left Airspeed before the Ambassador was started but it wouldn't surprise me if he used one of his old company's aircraft as the basis for a book.
 
"Shute worked as Chief Calculator (stress engineer) on the R100 airship project for the subsidiary Airship Guarantee Company. In 1929, he was promoted to Deputy Chief Engineer of the R100 project under Sir Barnes Wallis.

The R100 was a prototype for passenger-carrying airships that would serve the needs of Britain's empire. The government-funded but privately-developed R100 was a success in that it made a successful return trip to and from Canada and also while in Canada local trips to Ottawa, Toronto and Niagara Falls from Montreal. But the fatal 1930 crash in France of its government-developed counterpart R101 while flying to India ended Britain's interest in airships. The Secretary of State for Air, Lord Thomson, died in this crash. The R100 was grounded and scrapped. Shute gives a detailed account of the episode in his 1954 autobiographical work, Slide Rule. He strongly hinted in this autobiography that if there had been co-operation between the two teams the tragedy of R101 could well have been averted. But according to Shute there was virtually no contact between him and Sir Harold Roxbee Cox who was the Head of Development of R101 project until the very end.

He left Vickers shortly afterwards and in 1931 founded the aircraft construction company Airspeed Ltd."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevil_Shute

The fictionalized story 'No Highway', written in 1948, was an amalgam of those times and, from what I've read elsewhere, his dissatisfaction with the industry as far as not delving deeper into cooperation and newer engineering techniques. His autobiography, 'Slide Rule' was written in 1954, after the DH Comet had raised a new set of concerns about stress and fatigue.
 
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