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In real Hellas tourism is mostly connected with summer, so the lower rows are the things come to one's mind when thinking real Hellas.

AU Hellenic Kingdom provides and advertise all year round tourism, with a large variety of activities. Of course, culture tourism is a significant part due to many museums and archeological sites, followed by sea sports/beaches and also nature activities/sports together with winter sports. Also through an extensive research to Ancient Hellenic cuisine many forgotten dishes discovered and recreated, providing a unique food experience. Finally, the older, classic regional/city buses (mostly of local design) in service on Islands (were also several hotels own and operate classic buses) and the fleet of Hellenic Railways attract bus and train fanatics.

Hellenic Kingdom has also an extensive hydroplane service both in Aegean and Ionian Sea together with passenger ships, provided by seven companies. In future passenger ekranoplanes will appear, both small and large (latter will connect Thessaloniki with Crete in about 2 hours travel time*).

* I have a design to do in FD-scale when finish with Hellenic Wings.

And a small quiz:

How you can distinguish an RHAF VC10 from a RAF VC10 except of roundels/markings?

Well, earlier You wrote that these were all AU models, but other than that I have no idea.

Yes, RHAF VC10 are AU, I have also post some AU British VC10. The most visible difference is the lack of refueling probe and that smoke/noise are reduced compared with RAF VC10, because before passing to RHAF, Hellenic VC10s were on operational service with Olympic Airlines.

The Hellenic Railways "HST200". Which livery to choose?




In early 1980's Hellenic Railways needed a new high speed passenger train. One choice was to rebuilt and upgrade the famous "Aeolus" and the other choice was a completely new, modern diesel powered train. Funding for the program was split between HR own funds and state money, like the Locomotive Manufacturing program. After searching, the British HST125 was chosen as a design base. Total 36 built, in two batches of 18 each, named "9AK 52## or simply 520 Class DMU/HS (High Speed) and 10AK 55##/550 Class DMU/HS. The "AK" in Hellenics is "ΑυτοΚινητάμαξα", translates to something like "Self Propelled Carriage" and first appeared in mid 1930's. Units numbering are 5201 to 5218 and 5501 to 5518. Also both are referred as "HST200".

The 520/550 Classes have some differences from their British cousins, such as twin windscreen wipers and extra lights built in under glass above the windscreen (taken from HR MLW/ETA locomotives). Driver cabin was based on first generation HST with metric instruments of same design with the Aeolus (both round and tape like instruments and a large speedometer at right corner), plus control levers mounted together not separately.

Carriage arrangement is usually MU (motor unit)-FCC (First Class Car)-RC (Restaurant Car) or Bar/SCC (Standard Class Car)-SCC-SCC-SCC-MU, while second batch added one more FCC or SCC.

A variant of the Mk3 Cars built in late 1990's to early 2000's for the Siemens/ETA H561 series, because these cars were capable of 200kph. All previous HR cars were capable of 120-160kph, not enough for the Siemens.

In late 1990's the 520/550 were the first trains which received the new Signalling/Information System designed and built by ELS Works and a LCD screen was added to instrument panel. The rebuilt program finished recently for all units and among changes was new instruments/SIS screen with HDU for speed limits/alarms and VP185 engines. Also HR copied a feature of German ICE trains and added a large screen inside the FCCs for monitoring newspaper headlines, advertisements etc together with the train speed. All trains provide also free Wi-Fi network in cars for passengers, but there is a Wi-Fi jammer in driver cabin to prevent accidents like that recently occurred in Spain.

The helicopter HC-120 was based on the Agusta A.102, but was powered by twin license built Turbomeca Artouste. It entered service with Navy in 1962 and later with Army Aviation, about together with the HC-240. The final design seems capable for an ASW variant with equipment from Alouette III. Army variant had more powerful engines (1560hp total instead of 1280hp).

What do you think?

Looks nice, though the details of main and tail rotors could be slightly more refined IMHO.

Except for that, does the design seem capable for creating ASW variant?

Its single-engined and probably not as ideal as a helicopter designed for ASW, bur it should work.

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The helicopter is TWIN-engined, two engines are side by side. A single engined ASW helicopter was the Alouette III, of which equipment I would use.