A few pics of the BYRON Flexwing and Mainair Blade flexwing. (Thanks Ozzy)... ...!
(From Flightsim.com).
Beautiful models with animated pilot moving the wing.
Also Virtual Cockpit, and real engine sounds on the Blade!

Taking off from Byron Lake in the BYRON Flexwing.


A few close-ups of the BYRON...




Overflying San Mateo Bridge and lining up for San Francisco International in the Mainair Blade...



Cheers...
Paul.
(England).

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Hi Space... ...!
...us 'bikers get used to wind in the hair and flies in the teeth...  8)...!
LOL...!

It's quite an experience to fly a flexwing....
As there is no rudder, it is not possible to yaw, so close  approaches to the runway must be made accurately, straight-in.
A horizontal change in direction can only be made by banking.
Give it a try, something new.... ...!
...you can only die once... ...!
LOL..LOL..LOL...!

Cheers all...
Paul.
(England).

Nice shots there Fozzer, glad to see you're enjoying the Blade. Happy flying.

Ozzy

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lol,i never use the rudder ,even in a 747...

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I would like to interject a little something here..........when I fly my models on approach in a cross wind, the use of rudder is left until its absolutely necessary to input with that control.............you can use ailerons lightly all the way to the threshold since you are very close to the centreline of the runway anyway.  Rudder is only used at the point of touchdown to square the wheels to the direction of flightpath.......rudder on approach, is only used for a no-wind situation on a plane without flaps, and is used to bring the side of the fuselage into the airflow for the purpose of adding drag in a forward slip (slideslip in  more commonly known terms) slipping can also be used into the crosswind factor but if the wind is at all on the nose, I would allow the flaps to give me the speed reduction and allow the aircraft to follow its flight path to the  threshold and then square up the wheels with a quick and judicious application of rudder input............only my thoughts.........may not be as taught by flying instructors in full-size, but it works for me, and have been doing it for 15 yrs without a hitch.

some nice shots there Mr fozzer:)
as for the rudder, i use auto rudder personally because i dont have a rudder equiped joystick or pedals and there are enough keys to press during landing that adding two more in continus corrections would make it darn near impossible:) when flying helos though i reasign two of my joystick buttons to rudder to make it easier, but those buttons are needed for the planes for gear and flaps so they cant be used there

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will do!! now the hummie is going through beta testing, two hummel pilots are helping out.... i posted sum pix a whle ago here to see how it is coming along try this www.geocities.com/thedrachensnest/hummel/hummel.html

i got to go now...... ill talk to ya later

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Hello Sean... ...!

..just for you, I downloaded the BYRON flexwing file again and un-zipped it...... ....!
It came up with a report "at least one of the files un-zipped failed its integrity check (CRC)". but after I unzipped it, all the files seemed to be present, the folder was complete, and it all works OK...!
Try downloading it again.
Under "Search" select FS 2002 Aircraft and type "flexwing", it should lead you straight to it... ...!
(For downloads I use and old version of Go!Zilla, which also contains a lovely, simple, program called "ZipZilla", ideal for easily un-zipping/installing programs).

Re: John and Martha...
I've got some of their flying instruction videos, excellent to watch if you've had a bad day... ...!
Their enthusiasm knows no bounds...they have me in stitches.... ... ... ...!

Cheers Sean.... ...!
Paul.
(England).