Two Questions

[bullfox]

Due to the recent Orbx sale I bought a lot of scenery for the UK, and have been flying around there in the A2A C182. Its my understand that the Cessna factory is in Wichita, Kansas so I have been wondering how Cessna got their airplanes to the UK? Did they actually ferry them over there, or did they have a production plant over there, or did they take the wings off and just ship then over there on ocean going freighters?

I have a lot of Orbx true Earth scenery. I have been amazed by how many places in the UK on on our west coast have windmill farms for electricity production. To any of you who have recently been flying around in general aviation, are there really that many wind farms out there already?

[GrahamP]

I was curious and Googled it. This includes UK wind farms:
https://www.mygridgb.co.uk/map/

I've seen single wind turbines that are not included here though (possibly private ones?? - just guessing here).

EDIT:
Also:
https://www.businesselectricityprices.o ... ine-facts/

[twsharp12]

I've worked in manufacturing and we used to ship aerial work platforms all over the world from the USA. We would dismantle as needed and put into containers, which would go by rail to the coast, and by barge to wherever it needed to go in the world. This was the cheapest way to do it. It would then be reassembled at the dealer it was delivered to.

[RJordans]

Cessnas are (were?) also build under license in france.

[AKar]

Due to the recent Orbx sale I bought a lot of scenery for the UK, and have been flying around there in the A2A C182. Its my understand that the Cessna factory is in Wichita, Kansas so I have been wondering how Cessna got their airplanes to the UK? Did they actually ferry them over there, or did they have a production plant over there, or did they take the wings off and just ship then over there on ocean going freighters?

Many of the European Cessna singles still around were indeed produced by French company Reims aviation, I think up to around late eighties (though they continued producing I think models based on Cessna twins later IIRC). The French models can be identified by their model numbers with F-prefix, as in, "F172" (basic model being just 172 - of course not C172 on the plate!). They are usually just about identical to their contemporary American-built cousins. A nice exception being FR172 aka "Reims Rocket". It was basically a 172 of the era, but with 210 hp engine, giving it just enough more oomph for it to be interesting and useful, even in configurations such as on floats.

In what comes to American production, I know some examples of both having been shipped (a high-wing Cessna comes apart rather nicely), and flown over. I don't know which has been more common, probably flying.

-Esa