Blackburn Beverley Uploaded

Perhaps modesty prevented Ian from mentioning that the RAF Khormaksar scenery is his? The readme contains the information on where to get the Argosy and Hunters.

I've seen the Hunters fly, but not the Argosy.

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what would have been a standard route for getting a Beverley from the UK to Aden in the first place please
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Probably RAF Lynham or Abingdon to Malta(Luqa) or Cyprus (Akrotiri), Down the Suez canal, into the Red sea , folowing the coast of Saudi Arabia to your east, i'll see if i can find some maps, There were other base's used , but those 2 ive mention'd are already in FSX. Someone else may chip in and provide more info.

I've seen the Hunters fly, but not the Argosy
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I never did a proper traffic for the Argosy's, only static im afraid :wavey:
 
While in the RAF, we flew to Aden via Malta, El Adem, Khartoum, and then Khormaksar.

That was carrying ground crews for some RAF Hunters, which had to stop more often than our Hastings.
 
While in the RAF, we flew to Aden via Malta, El Adem, Khartoum, and then Khormaksar.
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A quick look online and this is the prefer'd route, In those days you could fly through Libya
 
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Just knock'd up somewhere to fly to, OYBN, Beihan, Yeman. Just a few obs to give it life, you'll need my Khormaksar installed for the obs. just unzip into your Addon scenery/scenery folder




 

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nagpaw said:
Manfred,
I just reinstalled the update and can report that everything works fine. Brilliant! What a wonderful piece of work. I don't remember what you said, and I can't find the discussion up-thread anywhere: is there any plan to remove the cargo doors and install air deflectors for heavy equipment dropping? No big deal...just curious!
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That's an area I don't know much about. If I can learn how to handle 'droppable objects' I guess I could do it. I know that 'Lazarus' managed to include droppable pallets in his 'elephant ears' version of the Beverley, which is available in the library here.
 
mjahn said:
That's an area I don't know much about. If I can learn how to handle 'droppable objects' I guess I could do it. I know that 'Lazarus' managed to include droppable pallets in his 'elephant ears' version of the Beverley, which is available in the library here.
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Manfred,

No need for actually having something to drop, I suppose. I just thought it would kind of cool to have a version without the doors. I still can't believe that's how it was done in the Beverley: removing the doors and flying around with a bloody great hole in the back of the plane! Seems sort of like running around with no pants on. Breezy!

It raises a lot of questions, too, like what if the doors were removed and then, for some reason, the aircraft didn't return to the field where the doors were? Inconvenient! And I'm assuming the doors were interchangeable between airframes.

Thanks again for putting this beast together. I'm having a blast with 'er!
 
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nagpaw said:
Manfred,

No need for actually having something to drop, I suppose. I just thought it would kind of cool to have a version without the doors. I still can't believe that's how it was done in the Beverley: removing the doors and flying around with a bloody great hole in the back of the plane! Seems sort of like running around with no pants on. Breezy!

It raises a lot of questions, too, like what if the doors were removed and then, for some reason, the aircraft didn't return to the field where the doors were? Inconvenient! And I'm assuming the doors were interchangeable between airframes.
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The C-119 was no different (and it operated in places with less natural heating) https://i.pinimg.com/originals/55/44/1e/55441e70d2212bd9193318475bd9bca8.jpg

The doors were interchangeable when they left the factory - with a single-use warranty?
 
Nagpaw - The Clamshell doors on the Beverley were not opened in flight. There was an inward opening double hatch on the top floor at the very aft end of the fuselage just before the end bulkhead and where the tail section commences. Parachutists jumped out using this hatch opening nd those in the lower compartment exited the aircraft from the rear left hand doors or both were used simultaneously. For heavy dropping operations the clamshell doors were removed on the ground and then stored and two specially constructed air flow deflectors were then fitted on either side of the opening. There is an accident/incident report on the top compartment doors which apparently early on were left open and unmarked or flagged and a ground crew member fell out the opening (they were looking for the toilet or something similar) and was fatally injured hitting the ground some 20 ft below the aircraft having failed to notice the doors were open.
 
Timber!! Beginning to come to grips with this stuff but some tweaking obviously still needed. The pallet is default P3D but should be portable to FSX.

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Look at you go, Manfred! Well done. I would have been content with just having the doors removed, but having something to drop just adds to the aura!

As an aside, I've been working on a few documents to accompany the Bev. The first is a list of how much things weigh. I like to carry realistic loads when I fly, but find myself often asking "how much does a (insert strange object that gets shoved into a Beverley) weigh?" I've included everything of troops with web gear and weapons to paratroops to an average steam roller to small armored vehicle and farm animals. I'll try and finish it tomorrow and upload here, if anyone is interested.

Also, I just uploaded two more textures. The first is a two-pack representing 1958 and 1960 paint variations on the same No. 242 OCU aircraft, perfect for circuits and bounces around the UK. The other is an updated version of my No. 84 Squadron paint that corrects the misaligned stripe on the starboard side, just aft of the wing. Sorry about that! Not sure how that escaped my checks. Rest assured that my OCD kept we awake all last night thinking about it!
 

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Great touch Nagpaw like the fact you did the 242 SQDN training unit colours. By the looks of it Manfred has got the doors off done perfectly for drops. It will be a bit of fun too. Chasing up some scenere for where 242 operated, might have to have a go at one myself.
 
LOVING this plane, and appreciate the even cooler updates, Manfred! Just got a book on the Beverley, it's such an interesting beast.

Are the paratroopers coming out the back, or the door in bottom of the boom? All of the accounts I've read have them dropping from the boom. (As well as a couple of unfortunate people who went into the bathroom and walked out without looking.)
 
DennyA said:
LOVING this plane, and appreciate the even cooler updates, Manfred! Just got a book on the Beverley, it's such an interesting beast.
Are the paratroopers coming out the back, or the door in bottom of the boom? All of the accounts I've read have them dropping from the boom. (As well as a couple of unfortunate people who went into the bathroom and walked out without looking.)
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Which book is that? I thought they were all out of print...

Currently I get the pallet drops by hitting Shift-D (that's default for 'release droppable load', which needs to be loaded via a saved flight). For the paras it is Shift-P (the pushback command) and they can jump either from the trapdoor in the boom or from either of the rear doors - the exact location to be set via co-ordinates in aircraft.cfg. Still have to make the trapdoor cutout in the boom and think about how to organize the update...
 
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mjahn said:
Which book is that? I thought they were all out of print...

Currently I get the pallet drops by hitting Shift-D (that's default for 'release droppable load', which needs to be loaded via a saved flight). For the paras it is Shift-P (the pushback command) and they can jump either from the trapdoor in the boom or from either of the rear doors - the exact location to be set via co-ordinates in aircraft.cfg. Still have to make the trapdoor cutout in the boom and think about how to organize the update...
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Wonderful news! Thanks for the update.
 
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