DH Dove at Hatfield

Video Title :	DH Dove at Hatfield
Description :	This is a virtual flight of a de havilland Dove 6 at British Aerospace Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England finished with some photos of the real thing (a Dove 8, used as the 'company hack'to fly personnel between BAe factories). I worked at Hatfield from 1981 until it closed in 1993/4. Eight years in the Flight Test hangar (featured in the vid) then four years in Technical Publications on BAe 146 Service Bulletins and Pilot's Flight Manual. 5000 people worked there, now it's all houses, Uni buildings and industrial units. The Flight Test hangar, being a listed building, is still there on the outside but is actually a sports complex inside. Shame, when considering the hangar gave birth to world-renound aircraft such as: the DH Moth range like the Tiger Moth; the DH Comet Racer, winner of the 1934 MacRobertson Air Race; the first jet airliner in the world, the DH Comet and the fastest bomber in World War 11, the de Havilland Mosquito, to name but few.
Views :	8372
Rating :	4.00
Keywords, Tags :	de Havilland Hawker Siddley British Aerospace Dove Comet BAe 146 Tiger Moth Flight Sim Hatfield
Video Length :	6 : 15

Comments :

Very nice low pass,and nice landing congratulation.

Thanks. I didn't get to fly the real thing, aopthough I used to help maintain it in Hatfield's Flight Test hangar. The Dove seen at the end shot "The Past" is G-AREA. BAe's own Dove 8 at Hatfield. It now resides at the de Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre (Mosquito Museum) (see their web site). Photos of this aircraft on " oldprops ukhome " website.

Sweet video. I was wondering where I could find the sounds. Thanks.

ATC sound is from Traffic 2004. Dove sounds come from Dove (dhlo4v2.zip) from flightsim dotcom's File Library section

Really, I downloaded it from avsim (dhlo4v2.zip) and the sounds weren't those.

I loaded all this ages ago so you'll have to say which sounds, and I'll have a wee think.

I figured it out. The sounds are from the default comet and I deleted the default comet, so the sounds are from the default 182.

Kool video, grew up living 100 meters from Hatfield airfield. One thing i will say about the site now, is that it's all been redeveloped. The hanger and control tower pictured have been redeveloped into europes biggest gym but the spirit of De-havilands lives on.

I've got photos of the empty hangar just before they started fitting it out, and some when I was working there in Flight Test. Personally I'd rather it had become a regional airport. Too late now.

I wish this plane had a Virtual Cockpit. Brillent Video.