Douglas VC-54C-1-DO 'Sacred Cow'

[Maarten]

Hi there,

Just uploaded at Avsim.com, Sim-Outhouse.com and Flightsim.com a repaint for Jens B. Kristensen's Douglas DC-4/C-54 (DC4_V21.zip) featuring the personal aircraft of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. After Roosevelt had passed away, his successor Harry S. Truman used the VC-54C till July 1947 when the aircraft made way for the VC-118 'The Independence'.
The repaint should be available within hours.





Cheers,
Maarten

[eddiejez]

nice one Maarten!

rgds Edd

[Col7777]

Hey Maaten, you'll have to stop this, you are spoiling us.

Seriously that is another great job, on my way for it, thank you once again.

[Maarten]

OK Colin, I'll hit the sack now. Glad you like it.

Cheers,
Maarten

[railrunner130]

Many thanks!

Is Columbine III next?

[Maarten]

Hey Railrunner,

The 'Columbine III' has been done already. Jean-Jacques Parel made a repaint for Mike Stone's Super Connie (see Avsim.com, cxals01.zip).

However, I did make a repaint of President Dwight Eisenhower's VC-121A 'Columbine II', the successor of 'The Independence'. The repaint, which I made on request some 2.5 years ago, is kind of a compromise because of the limitations of the Abacus Lockheed L-749 Constellation (fixed window arrangement, texture mapping, so no possibility for a freight door, no long radar nose). Nevertheless, the guy I made that repaint for was very pleased.



The 'Columbine II' repaint is available at Avsim.com (columbf9.zip).
BTW, I tweaked the aircraft.cfg a bit so the max. rpm is now 2800,
the max MAP 51.5" shown on the gauges and the compression back to 6.5. This gives the Abacus L-749 Connie a more realistic behaviour (e.g. take-off run, speed).

Cheers,
Maarten

[Harry]

Hi Maarten,

Installed the VC-54, another great one

Thanks again!

Harry