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Post by jensbk on Jan 4, 2009 14:54:15 GMT -5
I uploaded the C-74 to avsim a few hours ago, and it's already available there. Hope you like it - a commercial freighter version is included. A company called Air Systems, run by Orvis M. Nelson, the former chief of Transocean Air Lines, aquired three C74s for charter cargo flights around the world in the early 60's. That's actually why I got interested in the C-74, because one of Air Systems Globemasters crashed into a mountainside near Marseilles, France, while it was carrying a load of live cattle from my local airport (EKAH) to the Middle East. I don't think it was big news at the time - the crew was not danish, and the passengers were 'only' cows  - but it is still remembered. Anyway, an interesting aircraft both to model and to fly. I got Tom's permission to use the Calclassic B377 sounds for it, and I think it works well. Try for yourself! The download includes separate setups for FS9 and FSX, the FSX version uses dds textures. Best regards Jens PS: My Xmas/newyear holidays are over now, but I hope to release an update of the Canadair C5 shortly. |
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Post by dave mcqueen on Jan 4, 2009 21:06:12 GMT -5
Flies like a dream, Jens. I noticed though that when selecting the aircraft from the FS2004 aircraft list it is referred to as a " C97 Globemaster " and in the aircraft cfg also:
"description=This ex-USAF C-97 Globemaster was, together with two others, owned by Air Systems in the USA. The aircraft were registered in Panama. For a time they were used for ferrying cattle from Denmark to the Middle East.\nHP-379 was scrapped at Turin in 1970, Italy, after being used in the film 'The Italian Job'.
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[fltsim.1]
title=JBK Douglas C74 MATS
sim=JBK Douglas C74
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ui_type=C-97 Globemaster
ui_variation=MATS
atc_heavy=0
atc_id=265400
description=USAF C-97 Globemaster 1, with the modified cockpit canopy. MATS (Military Air Transport Service) had 14 Globemaster 1's.
ui_typerole="Military Transport"
ui_createdby="JBK" "
easily correctable by the user
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Post by Col7777 on Jan 5, 2009 5:01:02 GMT -5
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Post by rpjkw11 on Jan 5, 2009 8:15:47 GMT -5
She flies as good as she looks. A nice stable, 'heavy' feel; just what one would expect. Thanks, Jens!
Bob
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Post by jensbk on Jan 5, 2009 15:21:03 GMT -5
Hi davethemac,
>easily correctable by the user
Yes, but I should have seen it myself. Don't know how it happened...
Jens
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Post by tcreed on Jan 5, 2009 16:21:18 GMT -5
thanks Jens...downloaded the DC-6s also...but am really enjoying this C-74..!!! cheers..!!
rgds
t.creed
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Post by dutch11 on Jan 5, 2009 17:44:36 GMT -5
Thanks again Jens for some great aircraft! You've been spoiling us lately; the Hermes, the Tudor, the C-74, and an updated DC-6, I'm enjoying it.  |
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Post by eddiejez on Jan 6, 2009 11:45:33 GMT -5
Hi Jen's, I think the c74 is great  ,thanks for another great aircraft although little known one ,do you have any plans to do a Lockheed Constitution? rgds Edd |
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Post by jensbk on Jan 6, 2009 15:52:04 GMT -5
Hi Edd,
>do you have any plans to do a Lockheed Constitution?
Nope!
rgds Jens
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2009 17:47:03 GMT -5
Hi Edd, >do you have any plans to do a Lockheed Constitution? Nope! rgds Jens Then ("sarcastic humour warning") I'm guessing that the Bristol Brabazon is out of the question also. |
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Post by Maarten on Jan 7, 2009 17:49:36 GMT -5
The Briston Brab is there for about one year (thanks to Jens , I would say.) A wonderful bird so she is.
Cheers,
Maarten
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Post by ashaman on Jan 7, 2009 21:32:24 GMT -5
Bristol Brabazon... I was reading on Wiki about it just before coming here... though IRL was a failure, would make a beautiful FS plane. |
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Post by emfrat on Jan 8, 2009 1:46:11 GMT -5
It does - thanks to Jens ! MikeW   |
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Post by johnhinson on Jan 8, 2009 5:16:49 GMT -5
Bristol Brabazon... I was reading on Wiki about it just before coming here... though IRL was a failure, would make a beautiful FS plane. Not so much a failure as a victim - like so many British aircraft designs - of erratic political decisions, I think. John |
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Post by ashaman on Jan 8, 2009 7:36:01 GMT -5
A failure, I meant, not for any structural problem ( like instead the unlucky Comet), but of backward thinkings of the people who built it. I mean, a plane almost as big as a 747 for only 100 passengers? Not even in the thirties would have had a great market, figures after the war, with airplanes becoming accessible to more people than only the filthy rich.  Remains surely an imposing plane, and a very interesting one as well. Beside the B52 ( that would come later, would remain military and would be engined with jets) one of the few with 8 engines with ( I guess counter-rotating, ala TU-114) double propellers. Beautiful plane, the one in the screenshots. Hope to see it soon. PS By the way, anyone knows where I could find a C-124 Globemaster II for FS9? The only one I can find around is for FS2002.  |
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- but it is still remembered.
,thanks for another great aircraft although little known one ,do you have any plans to do a Lockheed Constitution? 
