DeHavilland Dh89a Dragon Rapide

[OleBoy]

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AWESOME!!!




FSX DeHavilland Dh89a Dragon Rapide
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[Barvan40]

A golden oldie! Glad you posted this, I have neglected this one for too long.

[Naki]

Yes thanks for mentioning it. :salute: Tried it when my PC didnt run FSX too well a year or so back, so will try it again on my new set up. I just need a NZ scheme for it.

[icarus]

this remember me something:wiggle: i am still flying our and it's my favourite, hope to fly on the real one on future.

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[peter12213]

This was a great piece of freeware and very nicely done, however if your a real lover of the Rapide the Icarus version is simply stunning!

[OleBoy]

Holy smokeroonies, that icarus rapide looks like a nice package. Hows about you start by showing some snaps in sim so we get the real perspective? Meantime I'll go look for some videos on youtube to get the feel of what I'm lookin at.

Well, forget the videos. The only one I found was terrible. It looked like they filmed it using a fisheye lens

[icarus]

Holy smokeroonies, that icarus rapide looks like a nice package. Hows about you start by showing some snaps in sim so we get the real perspective? Meantime I'll go look for some videos on youtube to get the feel of what I'm lookin at.

Well, forget the videos. The only one I found was terrible. It looked like they filmed it using a fisheye lens

yes it is maked by someone and look not good..but at least he spent the time...i have soon to made a video but before there will an update for the dragon i want emprove one or two cockpit textures with few ideas i had seeing that movie...also the nice airfield maked with my dragon add needs some exclusion to avoid problems with england payware others addon...i will update you when there is the new updated version.

about snaps there is always our photogallery here

http://www.icarusgold.com/FS/infusions/pictureflow_gallery/pictureflow_gallery.php?album_id=21

[OleBoy]

Yes sir. I saw the pictures. It looks real good. Though I'm hoping for more info from those who already have it before I get too excited. I like the DeHavilland birds in general though

[icarus]

ok then i ll prepare a new video on dragon rapide with added new features too in the next days. Then will update also other stores(if they answer to my email better than during holidays lol)

alway searching ideas on new british, usa and german models. I m thinking also since many months to a new dh104 dove but i can't find good material about cockpit instruments.

[OleBoy]

I look forward to seeing your updates. As you see (if you have) I am sincerely fond of the DeHavilland aircraft. Not only that, I am so addicted to the vintage era (yes, I'm an addict) that I enjoy them all and never have enough. I'm always on the watch for something that's new to the simulator

[icarus]

addicted too to the vintage era and aerobatics(pitts sb-1 and another one are on the way too on spring), probably they sell less than jets but who cares

[Dangerous Beans]

The Rapide is a very cool plane.

That movie was from Duxford, I took a flight in there other one last summer (2010), it was a fantastic experience even though it was only a short flight and I was in one of the back seats.

http://duxford.iwm.org.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.1174
If your ever at Duxford its well worth going for a flight, just try to avoid getting put right at the back.

icarus, although I wouldn't mind a Dove for FSX what I would really love is its big brother the Heron, (hint, hint)

[jetstreamsky]

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alway searching ideas on new british, usa and german models. I m thinking also since many months to a new dh104 dove but i can't find good material about cockpit instruments.


Ask the chaps over at CBFS, I'm sure they will have what you need.

http://www.cbfsim.org/cbfsim/cbfsBB/viewforum.php?f=6

[Matt Wynn]

The Rapide is a very cool plane.

That movie was from Duxford, I took a flight in there other one last summer (2010), it was a fantastic experience even though it was only a short flight and I was in one of the back seats.

http://duxford.iwm.org.uk/server/show/ConWebDoc.1174
If your ever at Duxford its well worth going for a flight, just try to avoid getting put right at the back.

icarus, although I wouldn't mind a Dove for FSX what I would really love is its big brother the Heron, (hint, hint)

good fun flying in the Drag Rap ain't it? i got first seats up front so i could see out front during the (slightly) crosswind landing, was really interesting to be sat pretty much with the pilot...

[Roger]

Love 'em both. Dave's was the first FsX aircraft I downloaded when I built my first FsX rig. Flew it everywhere. Icarus' version is likewise a very nice aircraft with a super vc.
I fly 'em both often:engel016:

[icarus]

and you will fly with another update soon roger :jump:

[quantumleap]

good fun flying in the Drag Rap ain't it?
Yes it is. I took a flight around Duxford in it just last year and can still remember the sound of those piston engines - reminded me of a tractor engine on a farm.

Got a good picture of it after the flight and it is up on one of my web-sites (http://www.huskyplanes.com/Photos/DragonRapide.jpg for just the Rapide (or http://www.huskyplanes.com for others as well). I also blew it up to a 13 by 19 inch print and my wife liked it enough to allow me to frame it and hang it on the wall!

Jeff

[icarus]

an all metal, have you also tail's photo? searching for new skins photos to add to new pack but seems difficult find new ones different than 19 skins in the dragon's pack, i am especially interested on military skins...or airliners

[icarus]

ok seems i find some more skins...there will be 4 or 5 new ones included this one i like it

http://pic.wpalette.com///camms/ar/110/pics/21_2.jpg

seems i missed also this one...needs to replace too

http://pic.wpalette.com///camms/ar/110/pics/5139_1.jpg

[quantumleap]

an all metal, have you also tail's photo?
Yes, but looking through the product shots for the Icarus series you already seem to have this one. It is registration HG 691.

Jeff

[icarus]

yes infact, there are some others still to do

[OleBoy]

I was searching after seeing that excellent representation. It is polished aluminum. Although my efforts to find that same aircraft came up with nothing. I honestly don't think it has been done because HG 691 is painted silver. But, looking under the wing it appears to be one in the same. I'd say the FS repainter got it wrong.

[icarus]

i'm working on a new paracuthe effect from airplane(there is one but is bidimensional) this will be in 3d for the military version of dragon but if works (just making first test) it will apply to all future models that were able

http://www.icarusgold.com/images/parachut.jpg

[quantumleap]

I was searching after seeing that excellent representation. It is polished aluminum. Although my efforts to find that same aircraft came up with nothing. I honestly don't think it has been done because HG 691 is painted silver. But, looking under the wing it appears to be one in the same. I'd say the FS repainter got it wrong.
I dug through my set of photographs from my flight on HG 691 in addition to the one I linked earlier. From what I can see the nose cone section with the light plus the engine and wheel coverings are metal. The rest of the fuselage and wings seem to be covered in a form of canvas, maybe over metal, which is painted a silver grey. The angle of my posted shot, plus the processing of it, do make it look like it is all metallic when it is not.

Jeff

[peter12213]

Most of the wing frame was wood and doped fabric, the fuselage and it's sides were plywood with I think some aluminium parts, the only real metal skinning was over the engines in the cowls! I think that's right most of them were built by carpenters and joiners and not by aircraft engineers the way we think of them today!

[icarus]

http://www.casmaintenance.co.uk/upload/Dragon-Rapide-G-AIYR-2.jpg

a link about dragon restoration

http://www.casmaintenance.co.uk/index.php?pageid=6

[icarus]

this is from where we started for vc

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/9/2/0/0682029.jpg

http://www.icarusgold.com/FS/images/photoalbum/album_21/dragscree9.jpg