FSX Golden Age Planes???

[RyanJZ]

What're some good Golden Age planes for FSX? I'm already aware of the excellent planes by Milton Shupe (especially his Avia 57), but what else is there? I love the Sikorsky amphibians!
Also if you could provide links I would really appreciate it! :)

[flaviossa]

Here, fantastic planes: http://www.goldenagesimulations.com/purchase.html

[falcon409]

You might take a look at the sticky above for FSX Native aircraft. There are links included and a ton of freeware aircraft listed.

[Bomber_12th]

Many great ones here: http://www.classicwings.net/

If you have FS9, you can have the Curtiss Jenny, Vickers Vimy, Spirit of St. Louis, de Havilland DH.88, and Lockheed Vega in FSX-native form, through the conversions offered at Classic Wings (all except for the Jenny) and through the library here at SOH (for the Jenny).

[heywooood]

Golden Age Simulations specializes in the era and offer a lot of FSX /P3D specific models

take a look at their website posted above by flaviossa

I have purchased many of these - the Stinson Jr, the Pitcairn autogyro..relatively unknown but a real interesting and fun flyer, their Stearman pack is great , their Pitcairn Mailwing, the Stinson Reliant, PT-19 Ryan Recruit and STA, all terrific aircraft models - they offer some Golden Age Racers too..with many of these packs containing the relevant airfields where these planes were typically operated from.

I should mention that I help out as a beta tester (thank you Paul) so I have received a few of these airframes gratis for the purpose of review - nonetheless - they are a great value and real easy on FPS as an important bonus..
attached are some pics of their lates releases - the Monocoupe and the Pitcairn Mailwing

[dhasdell]

De Havilland Cirrus and Gipsy Moth gasdh60fsx.zip (http://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/fslib.php?do=copyright&fid=168456) from Flightsim and the Tiger Moth from Ant's Aeroplanes http://www.antsairplanes.com/tigermoth.html are pretty good, and there are also Leopard Moth, Hornet Moth and similar, all free. The payware Just Flight Tiger Moth also stands up well.

[Anneke]

Don't forget to take a look at the Lionheart Creations classic aircraft. Pretty nice if you ask me!

[RyanJZ]

​Thanks for all the suggestions guys!

[JimmyRFR]

Another suggestion for you - there's currently an ongoing race from London to Melbourne going on here, in this forum:

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/forumdisplay.php?6-Around-The-World-Race-Multiplayer-Events

One version of the race, and the one with the greater amount of contestants (myself included), is the version taking place using planes produced prior to 1938. A quick perusal of the entries, along with a read of the official rules (there's a list of allowable planes in the appendix), will turn up many, many, very fine examples of golden age planes of all sorts. I myself have found several gems that I was previously unaware of.

[RyanJZ]

Another suggestion for you - there's currently an ongoing race from London to Melbourne going on here, in this forum:

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/forumdisplay.php?6-Around-The-World-Race-Multiplayer-Events

One version of the race, and the one with the greater amount of contestants (myself included), is the version taking place using planes produced prior to 1938. A quick perusal of the entries, along with a read of the official rules (there's a list of allowable planes in the appendix), will turn up many, many, very fine examples of golden age planes of all sorts. I myself have found several gems that I was previously unaware of.
I wanted to enter the Avia 57 in that race, but I wasn't sure I would have the time to dedicate to it right now :/