GAS Super Stearman

Spad54 said:
Working on whether or not I can provide the option for stock wings in the config manager. I think so. Stand by.
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Awesome! Stearmans was a workhorse... training, barnstorming, crop dusting, and forest service.

Well looky here... a model of Bradley's floater.

Sometimes modelers have good resources for painting.

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What a beauty, why I painted one like this... love the red and gold!

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Bunch of Stearmans in this movie. The Aviator with Christopher Reeve. Now I just have to find my copy and watch again!
Painted up one of these movie planes also.

 
Btw.
please to add external 3D model of pilot in cockpit from beginning (not like with PT-17 package) and in configurator "remove pilot" as option (so opposite from now).
I take off always without the pilot :biggrin-new: (when I dont open external views).

 
lol - I've done this a few times too...when trying to stay 'in the cockpit' for immersion sake
 
Duster update

It is now fully configurable. Its default is clean open cockpit with stock wings



Other configurations as the user wishes





 
YoYo said:
Btw.
please to add external 3D model of pilot in cockpit from beginning (not like with PT-17 package) and in configurator "remove pilot" as option (so opposite from now).
I take off always without the pilot :biggrin-new: (when I dont open external views).
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Easy enough to do. Will consider it for all models in the final release. Thanks However one should always do an exterior walk around before entering the cockpit, then one would not forget the properly configure the aircraft for flight (including the pilot) :wink-new:
 
Spad54 said:
Easy enough to do. Will consider it for all models in the final release. Thanks However one should always do an exterior walk around before entering the cockpit, then one would not forget the properly configure the aircraft for flight (including the pilot) :wink-new:
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oh - Snap! got me there...lol - what's a checklist ??
 
Twice43 said:
Is your pic a sprayer with the booms removed?
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Retired Stearman Duster with it's spraying equipment removed and sometime later converted back to two seater.



Were any Stearman's used to top dress super phosphate?

T43
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Far as I know it was the Tiger Moth's in NZ if that's what you are asking.

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Bi-Plane Phosphate Top Dressers

I think the Tiger Moth looks like a sprayer.

I was thinking more along the lines of powdered superphosphate distribution from a hopper, such as carried out by these Deane Baunton Fletchers, but from a Stearman.

https://flyawaysimulation.com/downloads/files/1778/fsx-aerospace-fu24-950-series/

However, here is a Wikipedia extract about aerial top dressing - its genesis appears to have been by way of dropping seed into a swamp from a tethered hot air balloon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_topdressing

T43
 
As far as I know we didn't have any Stearman doing ag work in NZ. A lot of Tiger Moths (prior to the introduction of the Fletcher) were converted for topdressing super etc with a hopper in place of the front cockpit.

I know Stearmans were used for ag work in the US, so I would guess that would cover liquids and solids.

Pete.
 
Well, I have this WIP version for the GAS freeware model I could work on.
 

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That scheme is great for many reasons.....

I had read "The Aviator" novel by the Late, Great, Ernest K. Gann in 1982 while I was in High School. ( bought it at Woolworth ) I had discovered Gann's books and spent about a year really devouring them one by one. When the Motion Picture staring Christopher Reeves hit the theatres, I went and saw it right away and thought it quite interesting the way the story came to life on the Big-Screen. Always a Lover of the Stearman...and Superman - The scenes in that movie were always great although this was not the same model Stearman that would have been flying the mail (if you squinted your eyes real tight....you could kinda see an M2 and it was believable!) As this new GAS Stearman package was discussed and the Post Military versions of the Stearman were discussed. I saw your postings of the repaint...got excited! Broke out the DVD and watched it again. Remebered that Christopher Reeves supposedly did his own Flying in the Movie. I was under the impression that it was going to be a part of the release, and then sort of forgotten about it until "The Aviator" and Air Mail Pilots came up in a conversation I was having the other day. This reminded me of your work and I started looking to see what happened to it! That and the Stearman I pinned into this thread on Dec 22nd, of N4734C when it was painted in 1960's Frontier Airlines paint are two of my favorite post War schemes on a saved sprayer/banner towing Stearman airframe.
 
Here's a really quick workup of the Mail aircraft with bumped ribs on the fuselage as seen in the movie. I'll spend more time on it this weekend to add more detail.

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