Fairey Battle by Ed Cook

[Blackbird686]

FS2004 (ACOF) - FS2004 WarbirdsFS2004 Fairey Battle MK1
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FS2004 Fairey Battle MK1 v1. A light bomber replacement for the Hawker Hart. First flight was the 10th March 1936. Aircraft of No. 52 Squadron based at Abingdon in late 1937. By Edward Cook

I reckon the screenshots won't come through on these things that I post here... but it's over at Flightsim if anyone is interested. Another beauty from Ed Cook.

BB686

[HorusJ]

Another Edward Cook masterpiece!

[Navtech]

I like it ...

[Cees Donker]

Yeah, I like it too. Great flyer!

Cees

[huub vink]

The Fairey Battle is an odd aicraft. There is one on display in the Royal military museum in Brussels. The aircraft as actually huge compared with the small fighters with the same engine.

Cheers,
Huub

[stuartcox]

Great plane to fly!
Thanks Ted!

Is it normal not to have a spinner though? It looks like something incomplete.

[Dev One]

Not sure about the Battle, but at one time in the late 30's the spinners on V-P & C/speed props attached to DH Gipsy sixes/Queens were removed because they kept falling off. Did DC2's & 3's ever have spinners? There are lots more too - P47's for example.
Keith

[SSI01]

I believe there is a quote in Gavin Lyall's book, "The War in the Air: The Royal Air Force in WWII," that says posting of a pilot from a fighter squadron to a Battle squadron was frequently threatened as a punishment for particularly stupid moves by inept fighter pilots, and was considered quite an insult due to the Battle's marked lack of performance; no doubt this was due to the size of the airframe mated to a powerplant that would have considerably overtaxed in this arrangement.

[Navtech]

http://translate.googleusercontent.c...5TFhW1yV635YkA

http://www.freebelgians.be/articles/...2-mai-1940.php

[Motormouse]

Great plane to fly!
Thanks Ted!

Is it normal not to have a spinner though? It looks like something incomplete.

IIRC they were discarded at prototype stage on the Battle to gain more performance from prop, ie the weight of spinner and attachments plus prop as originally installed vs weight of larger, more complex 3-position variable pitch prop without spinner, when mated to an engine (albeit a Merlin 1) of modest power output.

There was a rather neat benefit to this, in that the gap betwixt shaft and cowling was used to direct airflow around front of engine for oil cooling.

'Flight Global' archive has a rather good description of the 'Battle' from @ 1937
if you 'google' it.


ttfn

Pete

[Volker Böhme]

Hi,

just dug into my files archive and found the old Battle by Jed (last name?) that was quite nice as well.

Best regards,
Volker

[Navtech]

Another one ...

FS2004 (ACOF) - FS2004 Warbirds FS2004 Royal Hellenic Fairey Battle
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FS2004 Royal Hellenic Air Force Fairey Battle Mk1 single engined light bomber. The Battle marked the end of the light bomber designation in Service squadrons. Designed in 1937, the Battle was seriously out gunned at the start of WWII. Repaint textures only for an aircraft of the 33rd Bomber Sqdn. of the Royal Hellenic Air Force (E.B.A.). Requires the original model by Carlos Josi Lagioia (BATT_CJL.ZIP). Repaint by Manuele Villa.

[SSI01]

If you climbed into one of these things in France in May, 1940 to attack the German Army you had more than your share of courage!

[Draenog]

Here's a very short flyby video i made of 'Ted's' Battle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idGkP...1&feature=plcp

Thanks for this gem Ted

[Cees Donker]

Here's a very short flyby video i made of 'Ted's' Battle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idGkP...1&feature=plcp

Thanks for this gem Ted

Nice!

Cees