As the title suggests does anyone know of an FsX 314 in the making? I'm sure it would be a good seller for a payware vendor (see my avatar).
As the title suggests does anyone know of an FsX 314 in the making? I'm sure it would be a good seller for a payware vendor (see my avatar).
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Rather than another of something I'd love a 314; imagine one with Accusim. At one time one of the higher end freelance developers mentioned it as a future project; Piglet????
I kept FS9 installed on my old FS computer primarily because of the Pilot's 314. It's dialed back to the 30's and is mostly used for Pan Am period aircraft and routes.
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Roger, I don't know if you've explored this possibility, but someone did an 'FSX upgrade' to Mike Stone's B-314 Clipper at one point...
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The issue is that as I run FsX in Dx10 an Fs9 model would not work well in Dx10. Maybe when we finally get Steve Parsons Dx10 fixer program, an Fs9 model might not look so bad? If that were the case I would try an install of the Pilots B314 that I still have on disk somewhere.
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when freeware developers fade away you will only get what will sell.
I'm with you Roger...I would love to see a very thoroughly done 314. I read Night Over Water by Ken Follett and that really got the juices flowing. I would like to see a full tour even a cabin or cabins with lower deck diner, a crewman seat in the engines compartments, a full engineer and navigator compartment, etc...I know I'm dreaming!
http://www.clipperflyingboats.com/pan-am/boeing-b314
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More likely that in time, payware will drift away and we'll be left with the freeware developers we started with...
As for the clipper... Mikes is... showing its age now, its a simple low poly model, no vc... questionable flight model, but hes fairly clear on that note... he made it for himself and shared it, and credit to him for that.
I'd love a good clipper Really one of the big classics we're missing... A2A Captain of the ship Boeing B314? Oh yes please.
Here's a link for 314 fans. A full sized replica.
http://www.flyingboatmuseum.com/b314_replica.html
Two years ago this was a topic of interest with the folks at the Boeing Museum of Flight; they hadn't been aware of the Foynes project.
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Roger,
Ahhh, I understand.
At a flea market recently I picked up a collection of Airpower magazines from 1977, and at that time they did a series of articles on the Boeing 314, with tons of photos showing Assembly and Testing, including several tail configurations (single and twin tails ala B-24/25) until deciding on the tri tail config.
BTW... have you ever read The Long Way Home, by Ed Dover? An awesome read about Robert Ford's around the World trip in NC18602.
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Wouldn't it be nice, along with the 314, to have a detailed scenery of the LaGuardia Marine Terminal: "the only active airport terminal dating from the first generation of passenger travel in the United States—the "Golden age of the flying boat."
http://airchive.com/html/airplanes-a...new-york-usa/7
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At last year's fly-in at our local grass airstrip, I saw this old gentleman sitting under this small tent with pictures of flying boats. He was sitting there basically by himself with no one looking at his stuff. I had to know, so I stopped and introduced myself and started talking to him.
His name is Bill Nash and retired not far south of here. He started flying clippers for PanAm back in 1942. By the time he finally retired he was flying 727's. While driving away, after looking at the aircraft that had arrived, I couldn't help thinking about all the folks walking past living history and not even taking the time to talk to him.
BTW, Doing a search on "Bill Nash, Flying Boats, Clipper Ships" etc., will turn up some cool info on him and pictures in his youthful days as a pilot.
FAC
...a highly detailed 314 would be AWESOME!
K
Fascinating man (thanks for the post).
I did the search you suggested and it sounds like he was one of the pilots who continued flying Clippers during the war.
Juan Trippe created something unique with the early Pan Am. The Long Way Home (book recommended by ViperPilot2) provides a very good explanation of the special relationship that Pan Am had with it's pilots and other employees. The exploits they had getting their people out of harms way, and seconding many of them and their aircraft/materials to the military, makes interesting ready.
Whenever I see an old timer at an air show I make sure to stop. I had the pleasure of spending some enjoyable time with George Gay at a Wright-Patt airshow in the mid 80's.
I was going to say, then I realised I'm in the FSX forum not FS2004. Though I seem to remember "Pilots" the folk who distributed 'Global Mesh' for 9 & X did a Clipper. No clue if it is still available or even if it would work in X.
Edit found it.
its really old now so unlikely to work in FSX
http://secure.simmarket.com/pilots-b...nline-v2.phtml
Plus looking links it seems any support it ever had has dried up.
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A couple of years ago I asked Mathijis Kok, of Aerosoft, if there was any chance of Aerosoft doing a Boeing 314, in the same vein as their Catalina. He stated that although he personally loved the plane he could not foresee Aerosoft producing such a model. Most simmers he believed bought simulations of aircraft that still existed in the real world. As there are no existing 314's he did not think it made sense, at least from a business viewpoint, to produce such a model.
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Well, none of the originals are still intact (but that may change) but there is a very good full size replica at the Foynes Flying Boat Museum, a visit here is definitely on my to do list!
Andy
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