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Yes the RAF were using several types at the time in Transport Command, the Beverly, the Argosy ( whistling wheelbarrow ) the Andover , the Britannia, and the Belfast, also the Comet 2 and 4 the Beverly was phased out once we started re equipping with the C130 also the Argosy went too, the Belfast stayed in service until around 1977 I do remember my Father who was a Flight engineer on Britannias praying not to be posted on to a Herc Squadron, as he disliked the C130 for some reason, I never did find out why, So after the Brits were retired from service, he was posted fromm 99 Squadron at Lyneham, to 53 Squadron at Brize Norton, and he went on to fly on the Belfast, an aircraft he loved almost as much as the Britannia, when the Belfast was demobbed in 77, the RAF in their wisdom decieded that a Master Flight Engineer, who had served from 1942 until that time, and only had about 18months of service left before mandatory retirement , that they would post him to a VC 10 squadron, my Dad was horrified and mystified at the same time, as he had never flown on Blow jobs, as he always said a good screw is much better So he banged his notice in and ended up flying with Heavy Lift on the Belfast so he was a very happy bunny indeed.

its got nothing to do with looks....the F4 Phantom was even called a double ugly, and look what a great aircraft it was, Tornado was ok as an attack aircraft, but it was crap as a fighter, especially compared to the likes of the F-15 and 16, and the Mig 29 & Su-27 s as for being a beauty.......errr...no.....the Jag was a beauty, the Bucc was, the Tornado was all fin and nothing else.......The Lightning was never ugly...Brutal yes, ugly no...and what pray is a Viper ? unless you mean the F-16 so the article is about the actual aircraft and how pants they were, and nothing at all to do with how poncy they looked....Just sayin'

wonder if it had anything to do with the Farnbrough disaster ? Also were procurements different for the RAF and the FAA......there was a lot of political wrangling going on at the time too the Labour Government of the time wasn't very Forces friendly. TSR2 scrapped etc. plus I guess there was some amount of competition between British aircraft companies and the American ones as well, so that may have caused a few issues as well......Didn't we aquire the Phantom as a stop gap ? and look how long the Rhino served in both the FAA and the RAF.

Yup there are some horrors in there for sure the Roc was awful, as awful as the defiant , until that stalwart was made a night fighter, where it was quite successful , I never ever liked the Tornado, at all, we should have bought F-16's , used to see Beverlys quite a lot as a kid as I lived on RAF Lyneham , so all the transport command aircraft came through there, the Javelin, may have been a bit crap, but it did stay in service for 12 years, and crap or not, its a cool looking aircraft......We on the other side of the coin has some superb aircraft too, the Buccaneer, the Spey engined F4 the Hunter, the Jaguar, the Lightning, to name but a few, I guess every country has its fair share of howlers.

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Hansa Bradenburg of some description there maybe ?

I would say that generally 200 gallon tip tanks is about the norm, which is about 1340 lbs and looking at the way you have distributed it, and comparing to a Sabre, you have the ratios not far off, I reckon those amounts are most likely in Gallons .

isn't it generally in lbs mate ?

I'm in too....if it's still a live thing.

Die Jedi scum !

Do not upgrade to 10, its bloody awful, I upgraded when it was first released, and it screwed my whole system up, I think really it was meant as a replacement to Win 8 and Vista which are even worse, stick with Win 7 as long as you can mate, its stable and relatively bug free, win 10 is pointless for Win 7 users, unless you like all the bling and rubbish that MS include in it.

As much as it irks me, But the Army pretty much fried the Air Force.......Of course this kind of confrontational behaviour would NEVER happen here in the UK.............much........well ok, maybe a little.........We call the army the Pongoes for a reason !!! hahaha

Looks sweet in the India/Burma markings......like it ! like it a lots a lot

Oh...that's good then....errrm....or is it........

Now now guys, lets be nice shall we. Yubba, biting back at comments made by someone voicing their opinion, is , rather I would think, something that should be confined to PM land, I would also say that I would also be a little peeved by Ceasars comment, or at least, the way he voiced them, maybe he should have voiced said opinions in a PM to you, as it does seem a little bit like a rap across the knuckles from a School Teacher who is having a bad day. However, if a little terse, they are his opinion, and he has the honesty to say what he feels about whatever it is all about. So, good and bad on both sides .......That is my honest opinion by the way, I am just saddened when I see things like this , which could escalate out of hand and get ......childish. But anyhow, I hope I haven't rubbed either of you up the wrong way. Just saying it as I see it.

Excellent mate !!

Thankfully DDS isn't utilised that much , it only seems to be present on older SF1 files some of which have been ported over to SF2 , I just find them awkward to work with.

Yeah I have given up trying to convert them, but anyhow, they still work just fine as DDS files, it just a matter of getting used to working with them, I have found that Paint.net handles DDS files just fine for editing, no plugins that don't work are needed, installed the plugin for Gimp though and that seems to work ok, but I only use Gimp for decal making at the moment, the bbad thing about paint.net is that it is a bit simplistic compared to PSP. But anyhoo, your advice about the LOD viewer worked like a dream, I hadn't used it before, and I wasn't aware of how simple it makes life !! So thanks for that particular heads up mate !!

Wish I was more au fait with modelling etc. as I would be willing to help, but I'm still learning the basics

There is a web site, but it is mainly an in memorium one now , they use our very own CA as a home base it would seem , which is fantastic, I have been watching the work they are doing and its bloody great.....looking forward to it being released, but as with all things its a labour of love .

Nah its ok, I just don't like 'em, prefer JPG's problem is sorted now anyhow.

yeah there is a tank lod download for it, if you add that in it gets rid of those nasty lines for ya http://combatace.com.../13582-pit1rar/

Well blow me down and bugger me blind with a wet Haddock !! I never knew it was so easy to use that bit o' kit !! thanks buddy, yet again you have unerringly pointed me in the correct and most likely, most obvious direction, the node name was wrong, I was going by the names on the existing decal.ini, so assumed that they were correct.......again it proves, one must NEVER assume....as there is always an ASS in assume !! This is why I lurrrrrve this site, you chappies are all so helpful , and non precious about stuff....unlike other Wankspangles who shall remain un named . Thanks again mate, I was ripping my hair out, and that's hard with a crew cut hahahaha.

Well I know for sure its not the TGA's as they are all fine in everything else I am using, so I would be inclined to go with option 1/3 it's just I prefer my decals to be decals, I hate painted on markings and use them as little as possible, and this AVIA, had bloody huge Czech markings on lol . I shall trie the LOD doodad, never used one before, so be prepared for more moans and whines from this corner of the naughty step And furthermore.....DDS blows !! don't effing well use it...its shit !! and I have at least another 3 bloody aircraft to do that are in DDS ARRRRGH !! need more JD !!

hehehehe that looks cool as beans mate !