C-97G Stratofreighter Uploaded

[zswobbie1]

It would be nice to have the -L version (with the jets) as well. I also found:
http://www.air-and-space.com/Boeing%20C-97.htm

[WND]

It would be nice to have the -L version (with the jets) as well. I also found:
http://www.air-and-space.com/Boeing%20C-97.htm

I won't swear to it BUT I've heard 'rumors' that there might be an "L" version eventually...

Bill

[expat]

Yeah, normally on "classic" planes (and cars) I like the clean line variants, but there is something about the "L" Strat with its added bits that looks and feels right . .

[tommieboy]

Good evening Tommy:

If you have been running the C-97G prior to todays 'update' release, I would suggest you move or delete your panel folder and then install the panel folder from the update Then load up and on the 'misc' monitor screen, put your mouse over GPU and 'click' your MIDDLE mouse button - it should then show up for you. The 'middle' mouse button controls the 'visibility'..

Hope this helps.

Bill

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Thanks Bill......

The 'middle' mouse button solved the visibility issue. So I went back into the readme text file to see what I may have missed the first time around. Turns out, I didn't take the time to hover over the GPU icon to view the "tool tips"

Regards,

Tommy

[WND]

Thanks Bill......

The 'middle' mouse button solved the visibility issue. So I went back into the readme text file to see what I may have missed the first time around. Turns out, I didn't take the time to hover over the GPU icon to view the "tool tips"

Regards,

Tommy

Glad you got it to work !! Now you can have fun !!


Bill

[dmq]

For my personal use only...Just a little decoration on the stairs texture........

[delta_lima]

Looks great!

So close to a 377 ...

[manfredc3]

For my personal use only...

Getting selfish now, are we

[dmq]

Getting selfish now, are we

No, not at all. Someone else also inquired about it. I just did not think there would be any interest in it.

Anyway I have prepared a zip file ( no instructions, just the file so you have to make do with what is written herein ) that contains the modified file.

To explain: The Pan Am modified ladder texture is painted into the C97_05.dds file. The default C97_05.dds file is inside the separate catch-all "texture" folder that is inside the Boeing_C-97 folder. So if you were to copy the Pan Am modified C97_05.dds file into that texture folder you would see the Pan Am ladder outside all of your C97s. So, instead you copy the modified PanAm C97_05.dds directly into the "texture.Pan_Am_N1038V" folder. It then overrides the one in the separate texture folder and it displays only when you have the Pan Am version in play. Other C97 versions are not affected. Make sense? Hope so. It works.

As I say I zipped the C97_05.dds file into a zip file named ladder.zip from which you can get the required texture file. Click on the link below and download ladder.zip:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/aa...bmp/ladder.zip

By the way the Pan Am logo displays correctly on the side facing the front of the plane. On the other side it is reversed - cannot help that; thats just the way the default texture was mapped. But the logo is so small that no one would likely ever notice except that now I have spilled the beans.

[TiAr]

Finished another unique USAF repaint. It shows Boeing C-97E Stratofreighter, 51-0224 in 1968. Part of the 137th Air Transport Group mission this a/c was a specially equipped C-97E, the "Miss Oklahoma City", also known as the "Talking Bird". From 1961 though 1963 the aircraft was used as an airborne command post to maintain constant secure communications between the nation's capital and President John F. Kennedy during his visits to foreign countries.

[llanning08]

Is HC-97G O-22716 missing textures at the wing root and vertical stabilizer on the port side? This previously posted picture and my copy would seem so.

[WND]

Is HC-97G O-22716 missing textures at the wing root and vertical stabilizer on the port side? This previously posted picture and my copy would seem so.

Good morning:

It does appear you are correct in your assumption !!

Manfred, I believe, is the one that did that 'skin' and I'm sure he will correct it when he returns from his vacation - it appears he missed that in his 'rush' to releasing it before leaving..

Bill

EDIT: After reviewing the 'texture sheet' it does give me the indication that it was purposely painted like that however when Manfred returns I'll bring it to his attention..

[DaveB]

Agree Bill.. it's not a missing texture but painted that way. Can't fathom what the reasoning behind the black area is but I'm sure there is one

ATB
DaveB

[Lawman]

Agree Bill.. it's not a missing texture but painted that way. Can't fathom what the reasoning behind the black area is but I'm sure there is one

ATB
DaveB

Could it be those are dielectric panels so electronic signals can pass through? Much like the nose cone of a fighter, which is of a different material than the rest of the aircraft.

[DaveB]

I was thinking along those lines too Lawman.. either to help something get out or to stop RF (maybe) interfering with what's behind the panel. It seems likely

ATB
DaveB

[viper1977]

It looks like areas where HF radio transmit and receive antennas would be.

[hae5904]

Not only the HC model had those, also many of the KC and vanilla C-97 had them, especially the one on the fin. Some had them coloured more gray.

HC-97G


C-97G


KC-97L



Hank

[Duckie]

I believe these painted areas over the port wing and v-tail side are protective paint coatings for exhaust/vent outlets. This paint served 2 purposes. One was to help protect the skin from heat and the black color was to hide the staining. On the Fuselage just above and aft of the left wing leading edge is an exhaust fairing and on close inspection of photos of this area you can see in some cases heavy dark exhaust staining on the fuselage. On natural metal aircraft this area was painted gray on many aircraft. On one of the overall white Red Cross birds this area over the left wing is painted silver/gray.

On the port side v-tail near the base front quarter are 2 fairings stacked vertically but their staining is much less evident than that over the left wing. I have several photos showing these areas and the associated staining. I can post if you like I just didn't want to take the space if this is just a passing interest.

Cheers

Edit: Here are a couple photos

[DaveB]

This shot (and others) confirm the presence of an exhaust of some kind there..

http://data3.primeportal.net/hangar/...r_08_of_50.jpg

Not sure what it might be for though?
ATB
DaveB

[gray eagle]

This shot (and others) confirm the presence of an exhaust of some kind there..

http://data3.primeportal.net/hangar/...r_08_of_50.jpg

Not sure what it might be for though?
ATB
DaveB

Don't know just a guess.... some kind of on board aux power unit?

[DaveB]

Could be. I've also found shots of the main APU and that showed a flat, circular exhaust with a grid. Couldn't tell where the hell it was from the angle of the shot though!

ATB
DaveB

[Rallymodeller]

I thought the APU was in the forward lower lobe on the starboard side. Might the exhausts in question be for a combustion heater setup?

[viper1977]

i did some research last night with some cutaways...turns out the 2 small holes on the vert. stab. are exhausts for the anti-ice heat exchanger.....could it be the same for the wing root?

[DaveB]

I guess it's possible Viper. I know little of the Strat's construction but back in the days of the Vickers Vanguard.. I know the heating matrix in the fin could overheat and this born out by pictures on the web of a new fin LE having been fitted. This may have been a way around such problems on the Strat. The main heat exchanger on the Vanguard is below the flightdeck and is fed by intakes either side of the nose. I can't recall where any exhaust for it may be though (if any). It's not clear from Strat shots online if all aircraft have this exhaust and if not.. why?

A very small thing but a very interesting topic
ATB
DaveB

[HvyEng]

The areas mentioned are indeed protective coatings for exhaust areas. The vertical stab is for the empennage anti-icing heater, which burned fuel from the cross-wing manifold. The left forward fuselage is the exhaust for the cabin heaters, which both exhausted through the same pipe on the left side. The APU/APP was in the forward lower lobe in all but the EC-97. It did not need the protective coatings because it could not be operated in flight. The EC-97 had the APU in the aft lower lobe to make space for a side aimed camera in the forward area. The wing leading edges were heated via fuel heaters in the outboard engine nacelles, which also had protective coatings.

--Dan