rkk01 Posted October 28, 2021 Posted October 28, 2021 Time to get every air-worthy and ground running warbird into the sim… Crazy…? Of course … but how long is left to capture the flight characteristics, sounds and pilot experience for these aircraft? Every year sees more airframe losses (and aircrew sadly). Even for scrupulously maintained aircraft like the BBMF, each year add airframe hours - how much longer before the Lancaster follows the Vulcan into “retirement”? And, whatever individual position we all hold on climate change and fossil use, how long will society allow or justify the use of powerful, high octane fuelled aero engines? In 10 years time many of us will be unable to buy a fossil fuelled car - a similar timescale could see Merlins, Double Wasps, DBs etc relegated to static display So, as an “archival project” - digitally capture all that is required to preserve the flying attributes of these historical artefacts before they are all grounded..! More than can be expected for a single commercial entity, but might work as a public-private heritage partnership…!? Posted to provoke thoughts…
Callsign112 Posted October 28, 2021 Posted October 28, 2021 I think there is merit to your thought provoking, but sadly not enough time. At least not on ED's current time schedule.
Mogster Posted October 28, 2021 Posted October 28, 2021 5 hours ago, rkk01 said: Time to get every air-worthy and ground running warbird into the sim… Crazy…? Of course … but how long is left to capture the flight characteristics, sounds and pilot experience for these aircraft? Every year sees more airframe losses (and aircrew sadly). Even for scrupulously maintained aircraft like the BBMF, each year add airframe hours - how much longer before the Lancaster follows the Vulcan into “retirement”? And, whatever individual position we all hold on climate change and fossil use, how long will society allow or justify the use of powerful, high octane fuelled aero engines? In 10 years time many of us will be unable to buy a fossil fuelled car - a similar timescale could see Merlins, Double Wasps, DBs etc relegated to static display So, as an “archival project” - digitally capture all that is required to preserve the flying attributes of these historical artefacts before they are all grounded..! More than can be expected for a single commercial entity, but might work as a public-private heritage partnership…!? Posted to provoke thoughts… WW2 aircraft are a lot easier to maintain than Cold War jets. The BBMF Lancaster is good for now. The Vulcan was retired from flight mostly because BAe chose to withdraw regulatory and engineering support that would be expensive to find elsewhere. The airframe and engines are supposed to be in good condition and the aircraft is still maintained to airworthy standard.
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