Military Austers

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RyDraiggoch

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Three - the AOP6 the T7 and the Ski version Antartica by David Molyneaux
for fs9 but will port to FSX

available at www.classicbritishfiles.com now

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Cheers

Leif
 
Lovely! My wife's grandfather flew Austers as a British Army AOP spotter during WWII in North Africa, Italy, and Europe after Operation Overlord.
 
What more can I say.....I as ever am very impressed by the detail and flight model of these lovely recreations. Being something of an Auster fanatic, one was brilliant, but now we have three different sub-types (Autocrat, Autocar and now the military 6) and all have the same high quality and attention to detail built into them.

Thanks to Dave, Leif, Brian and the rest of the team for making this all possible.

Best wishes to all,

Martin
 
Motormouse said:
WE600..reminds me of the Airfix kit...

ttfn

Pete
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Talking of the Airfix kit....when the kit was re-released in the late 1970s, it took the form of VX113, the military AOP.6 in this package. This started life as a AOP.6, was converted into the civilian version (the Terrier) in the early 1960s and has now been re-converted back into its original form in which it flies today.

Martin

The number 36 on the tail is the race number of VX113 when it was the British Army entrant into the Kings Cup Air Race at Coventry in 1959.
 
Sorry to bump the thread :bump:

Just posted three nice paints for the AOP6 by Peter Watkins , One for the Belgian Antartic expedition , A T7 that is still seen frequently on the Airshow circuit in the UK, and was erroneoulsy issued as a paint for Bjorn's Mk5 - and a Civilian Swedish one on Ski's.

They are at "The Pond" now

Leif
www.classicbritishfiles.com

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Old Warden

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Short Field work at Brasschatt

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Swedish Snow
 
T6flyer said:
Talking of the Airfix kit....when the kit was re-released in the late 1970s, it took the form of VX113, the military AOP.6 in this package. This started life as a AOP.6, was converted into the civilian version (the Terrier) in the early 1960s and has now been re-converted back into its original form in which it flies today.
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Actually talking of WE600 reminded me that while I was working for 'Betty Windsor', and 'holding' between postings at St Athan; WE600 was in the
museum that was there at the time..painted an almost bright yellow shade..and with wheels only..no ski pants

IIRC it got moved to Cosford when the museum closed sometime in the mid-1980's

The museum 'boss' at the time Wing Co. Paul Brindlay, was very enthusiastic about getting the old birds to come to life..I helped out with getting the Fw190 engine working

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Pete
 
Very Nice models.

Somewhat on or off topic:
Anyone ever notice the real world wings of Austers and Taylor Craft planes appear to have their wings mounted upside down? More curve on the bottom than there is on the tops of the wings. You can even see it in these models. Only reason I can think of that this is done is to combat trim changes with changes in speed. Anyone know for sure the real aerodynamic reason for this design or is that the reason?
 
Pete, I remeber it all very well, there was a Kawasaki fighter that also had engine runs I think


Motormouse said:
Actually talking of WE600 reminded me that while I was working for 'Betty Windsor', and 'holding' between postings at St Athan; WE600 was in the
museum that was there at the time..painted an almost bright yellow shade..and with wheels only..no ski pants

IIRC it got moved to Cosford when the museum closed sometime in the mid-1980's

The museum 'boss' at the time Wing Co. Paul Brindlay, was very enthusiastic about getting the old birds to come to life..I helped out with getting the Fw190 engine working

ttfn

Pete
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Motormouse, I should have mentioned my first ever flight was from St Athan in a civvie Auster on Battle of Britain open day in 1960, cost 5 shillings, duration 5 minutes, take off a circuit taking in RAF Llandow and Llantwit Major and land, do'nt ask what model.

The three blister hangers near the railway housed a number of Army Austers, again not sure which Mk, there would often be 3 or 4 0f them outside, maybe they were only stored there
 
I'm a member of the Eggesford Heritage Flight, a small group of volunteers who rebuild and fly vintage aircraft. Based in Mid Devon, England we have a collection of types some of which are either the only ones built (Luton Minor Duet) or the last survivors of the type in existence (Auster Alpine, Chrislea SkyJeep. Out of the world's remaining population of airworthy Auster AOP.9s (8), we have half of them.

I over the last few months, been priviledged to have worked with the people over at classicbritish files on the Austers being produced primarily by Dave Molyneaux and his band of assistants. Having flown a number of the aeroplanes that they have created, I can personally vouch for their accuracy in both appearance and flight dynamics.

Today, I fired up Fsrecorder and tried a little formation flying and achieved a somewhat loose formation of actual aeroplanes that we operate. It seemed weird, almost spooky at times to see something come alongside that you know so well.

Thanks to all for making this feel so real.

Best wishes,

Martin

For more information on Eggesford, have a look at our website at:
http://www.eggesfordairfield.co.uk/

The Broussard scheme was done for us by Ray Blake and used to be available at Avsim. Hopefully it will be back there in the not too distant future. The Cub repaint and the Austers are all available from ClassicBritishfiles.
 
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