FD Scale Aircraft 8: The Next Generation Easy Search Thread

Fantastic work with that Shinden!

@Novice, Radome
You know that saying: "be careful what You wish for, beacause You may get it"?

eswube wrote:

@Novice, Radome
You know that saying: "be careful what You wish for, beacause You may get it"?

Soon the rest of us will ran out things to draw

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Haha... unlikely, at least that "soon" part. There are thousands of separate types of aircraft, and if You add variants, users, paint schemes etc. it goes into tens of thousands.
Another thing is, though, that if all of You want to stick to drawing only combat aircraft with limited addition of airliners, while nearly completely omitting sports planes, crop-dusters, pioneer aircraft and the like (not mentioning gliders), then yeah, list of available options is much smaller then.

Amazing work on the Shinden Radome!

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Thank you Kim for the crest

"Never fear to try on something new. Remember that the Titanic was built by professionals, and the Ark by an amateur"

More by-products of the Polish Wings thread:

http://www.shipbucket.com/forums/viewto ... 56#p113356

(I also invite You all to check - and comment on - Odysseus "Hellenic Wings 1912-1945 thread)
http://www.shipbucket.com/forums/viewto ... 7&start=10

In 1933 Airspeed Ltd built a small, modern light passenger aircraft (capacity of up to 5 passengers) AS.5 Courier. Prototype was used in an pioneer attempt by Sir Alan Cobham to fly from Great Britain to Australia non-stop, with use of aerial refueling, but unfortunately plane flew only to Malta due to throttle malfunction. Total of 16 were built.

Great Britain, Airspeed AS.5 Courier
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Airspeed AS.6 Envoy was designed as up-sized, twin engined development of Courier. First flown in 1934, it was produced in series of 52 and used by multiple operators in Great Britain and abroad, both civilian and military. On 3 June 1937 one of these planes crashed killing gen. Emilio Mola, commander of northern forces Spanish Nationalists in the Civil War. Also, this type featured prominently in 1939 British spy thriller Q Planes (also known as Clouds over Europe) with Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir Ralph Richardson.

Great Britain (Australia, Czechoslovakia, Spain), Airspeed AS.6 Envoy
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Envoy was met with significant interest from the RAF that ordered it's modified version AS.10 Oxford for use as multi-engine and bomber crew trainer. Prototype took off in 1937 and total of 8586 were produced, becoming one of the mainstays of the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) and British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP), as well as being used by many other countries both during and after the war.

Great Britain, Airspeed AS.10 Oxford
(Canada, New Zealand, Belgium, Ceylon, The Netherlands, Turkey)
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After the war significant number of Oxfords was demilitarized and sold to small airlines as local passenger planes as Airspeed AS.65 Consul.

Great Britain, Airspeed AS.65 Consul
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EDIT:
And here's the small post-script to Hellenic Wings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorand_AR

France (Serbia), Dorand AR
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Didin't liked Airspeeds and Dorands, huh?

Avro Anson was a RAF's first twin-engined monoplane with retractable undercarriage. First flown in 1935, it was originally designed as transport plane, but RAF initially used it as maritime patrol aircraft and as stop-gap bomber (before more suitable planes could be delivered in quantity), over time it was more increasingly used in support roles, mainly as trainer, but also ASR aircraft, transport (again) etc. Production lasted until 1952, with a total of 11020 being built in Great Britain and Canada.

Great Britain - Avro Anson
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