starting a new model

[icarus]

someone could choice to build an aircraft starting from here:

http://www.angelfire.com/il2/aphs/wheels/wheels.html

[icarus]

the sikorsky 44 interest me

[krazycolin]

That is a great site! thanks for that ref!!!!

KC

[Lionheart]

Thanks Icarus for that link! Brilliant photos. You could actually map some of those photos right onto a yoke model.

:ernae: :applause: :ernae:



Bill

[icarus]

yes infact we did it with a de havilland dragon rapide coming out next month.

[icarus]

you can see a mapped yoke in our new dragon rapide i have posted here the pics

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?t=1512

[txnetcop]

the sikorsky 44 interest me

I second that. The only remaining one I know of was donated by a 40s-50s movie star named Maureen O'Hara, a favorite actress and close friend of John Wayne. It is at a museum somewhere on the East Coast. It was a fascinating airplane during a time when ocean travel by flying boat was quite an experience and only done mostly by the affluent. Someone did one for FS2004 as freeware and it was actually quite good, but FSX really needs this baby in the inventory.

vs44aea.zip (http://www.flightsim.com/cgi/kdl/main/77/vs44aea.zip?2z0wI035) at flightsim.com

There are also a couple of repaints complete aircraft-worked in FSX SP-1:
vs44aat.zip (http://www.flightsim.com/cgi/kdl/main/74/vs44aat.zip?2z0wI035) at flightsim.com
sikorsk.zip (http://www.flightsim.com/cgi/kdl/main/77/sikorsk.zip?2z0wI035) at flightsim.com
Ted

[icarus]

i find good external pics also virtual cockpit pics but i can't find a 3-view draw ...i have checked on most famous 3-view website but no success if someone find a good one for sikorsky 44, i really like it and i think it deserve an fsx model. i remember Maureen O'Hara, beatiful woman. She maked many movies with John Wayne, i remember at least five

[icarus]

I find a good 3-view of the Sikorsky XPBS-1: The Sikorsky XPBS-1 was a large four-engined flying boat ordered by the Navy in 1935. Although never ordered into production, the NACA evaluated the craft in 1938. Many aircraft were flown at Langley to give an appraisal from the highly experiences staff. These appraisals often meant that the aircraft was with the NACA only briefly.

it seems to me exactly the same as the sikorsky 44, 4 engine etc.

some curious notices about sikorsky
Further Financing

Some Russian immigrants who did not work for Sikorsky helped with the financing. The famous Russian pianist and composer Sergei Rachmaninoff supplied $5000 and his reputation to the project. This earned him a position as the company's vice president.
Sikorsky became a leading designer and builder of seagoing aircraft. His S-37 seaplane was a candidate for a pioneer nonstop transaltantic flight until it was upstaged by Charles Lindbergh's historic solo flight in 1927.

i find what i want in this part..
The last fixed-wing aircraft to carry the Sikorsky name was the S-44. This flying boat evolved from a Sikorsky experimental patrol bomber, the XPBS-1, to become perhaps the most successful commercial flying boat. This four-engine aircraft was capable of flying the Atlantic non-stop and versions were used by the Navy for patrol duty. The last S-44 was built in 1942.

so the XPBS-1 3view are ok to build sikorsky-44, added to model list. Fun that all started from the yoke's website.

[icarus]

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/83/268205747_58713db065.jpg?v=0

http://www.geocities.com/athens/forum/4553/Turfield_vs44c.jpg

http://www.sikorskyarchives.com/vs-44.jpg

[txnetcop]

Isn't she a beauty???? What a great project that would be.
Ted

[icarus]

yes yes, i have also downloaded many pics about virtual cockpit and other parts inside the aircraft...it is definitively one of the next we will build.

[Bandit]

yes yes, i have also download many pics about virtual cockpit and other parts inside the aircraft...it is definitively one of the next we will build.

FANTASTIC! :applause:

[srgalahad]

yes yes, i have also downloaded many pics about virtual cockpit and other parts inside the aircraft...it is definitively one of the next we will build.

Uh Ohhhhh... I may yet be drawn to the Dark Side....

:kilroy:

Rob

[srgalahad]

i find good external pics also virtual cockpit pics but i can't find a 3-view draw ...i have checked on most famous 3-view website but no success if someone find a good one for sikorsky 44, i really like it and i think it deserve an fsx model. i remember Maureen O'Hara, beatiful woman. She maked many movies with John Wayne, i remember at least five

This may be a help:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1891268023/ref=sib_dp_pop_bc/102-5228404-1603330?ie=UTF8&p=S024#reader-link

if you don't see the 3 view click on the "back cover" link at the left.

Might be worth the price of the book since the image can't be copied from Amazon

[icarus]

interesting book yes it worth the price, thanks for the link