All,
I decided I needed a winter flight simming project, and settled on modeling a historic flight - the Pan Am M-130 "China Clipper's" first flight, inaugurating commercial air service across the Pacific. Winter's half over and I've finished the first leg... ok, maybe it'll be a couple winters' worth of projects ;-).
Anyway, I've found I can keep it semi-accurate, using a combination of dead reckoning and celestial navigation; and I think I've found a way to decently model the HfDf they used (though at much shorter distances). I think the rest of this trip will be interesting...
I decided to document the journey, mostly because I've found that doing so forces me to study up on the history more and I always end up learning something. For any fellow flying boat enthusiasts (are there any? Just me? I was afraid of that...), feel free to take a look and correct any inaccuracies you may find.
It turned out longer than intended (they always do), but there are timestamps in the description to skip to any part that may interest you.
https://youtu.be/upPKwl3eHPE
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