vintage aircraft and scenery screenshots

Motormouse said:
That Avro is a Blackburn monoplane Huub, the Avro F is by Dennis Simaintis (Sp?)

Ttfn

Pete
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Oops, sorry! My fault.....

Craig did not only share the wheels, but the used the semi-transparent fabric on both models as well.

Cheers,
Huub
 
Caudron G4 flying above the Yser polder
From Wikipedia
The Caudron G.4 is a French biplane with twin engines, widely used during World War I as a bomber. It was designed by René and Gaston Caudron as an improvement over their single-engined Caudron G.3. The aircraft employed wing warping for banking. The first G.4 was built in 1915, and it was manufactured in France, England and Italy. It was the world's first twin-engine aircraft to be widely used, starting in March 1915.
The Caudron G.4 was used as a reconnaissance bomber against the German Empire. Later, when Germany developed a fighter force, the aircraft was used for night bombing.
The G.4 was in use in Belgium, France, Finland, Italy, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

During the Battle of the Yser in the First World War, by opening the sluices, part of the polder west of the Yser was flooded with seawater between Nieuwpoort and Diksmuide to provide an obstacle to the advancing German Army and keep westernmost Belgium safe from German occupation. The Yser river itself never overflowed its banks
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Great minds think alike :LOL:

I just shot these two screenies from Stuart Green's Caudron yesterday, but I didn't have the time to post the earlier.

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The model is available in our library :
I have visited the Westhoek several times. Always very impressive. I can remember I took my wife to the Last post ceremony in Ieper for the first time. She thought there only would be a few people to watch...... there were hundreds!

Cheers,
Huub
 
@huub vink Hundred of people every time.
I have a second residence in Nieuwpoort. I m deeply attached to this region and its history
 
I already knew as I used to cycle there with a group of Belgian military. As we all had a military background we could sleep in the barracks at Ieper.

When we were cycling there we always visited the ceremony. When I told my wife to hurry she was annoyed, but I knew already you had to be in time to find some room inside the Meenenpoort.

As we Dutch didn't participate in the first world war, it is not something we grew up with. But when you visit the Westhoek you really get an idea about the enormous amount of people who lost there life in a terrible war.

Cheers,
Huub
 
This plane is not a 1st April fish. Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-8 leisure flight near Dover.
First flight: 13 August 1945
She was used as for developing the swept wing of the MiG-15, and afterwards continued to fly as a communications/utility aircraft.
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jgf said:
Bleriot, 1909, the plane that crossed the English channel
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Also from 1909, the Demoiselle from Santos-Dumont
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The White No. 2 floatplane from 1913
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The Dunne, a 1913 flying wing. The RAF turned it down because it was too stable to be a fighter and too small to be a bomber.
(I liked this serendipitous juxtaposition so much that it became my FS2004 splash screen, lol.)
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And a Victorian fantasy
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concerning the 1909 Bleriot Type XI 'La Manche' by Joe LoGrasso, just as a heads-up, while the older version circa 2002/3 is hosted at the likes of Simviation https://simviation.com/1/search?submit=1&keywords=grasso+bleriot or FS2000 https://www.fs2000.org/2002/08/16/fs2002-1909-bleriot-xi/ , LoGrasso's updated release - update by Paul Beardsley, circa 2005 and native for FS2004 is only currently available (to the best of my knowledge), thanks to the wayback machine at the archived page of the Golden Eagles Squadron https://web.archive.org/web/20050606012123/http://windrfters.com/planespage.htm

cheers!
 
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jgf said:
Rummaged around in the dark recesses of my hangar and found some more antiques, fun to fly briefly ...if you have the patience ..and the time. None of these planes have instruments or brakes, a couple have no discernible rudder action, the engine is either on or off (half throttle is an "idle", any less and the engine may die), and there's no more than 12-15kt between overspeed and stall. so landing is a balancing act of getting a decent rate of descent without overspeeding

The 1909 Goliescu Avioplan
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This was a real aircraft. Goliescu was a Romanian inventor who squandered his resources on this plane; it made numerous flights in Europe, the first tubular fuselage to fly, a concept not pursued again til Caproni built one twenty years later. While awaiting a public display in Paris the Avioplan was destroyed when a storm demolished the warehouse it was in. Destitute, Goliescu became a spy for Russia during WWI; caught and sentenced to prison, he was released in the early thirties and returned to his aeronautical studies. He passed away in 1942, never building another airplane. (Don't let speed drop below 40kt, it will stall instantly and plummet like a rock; the engine isn't responsive enough to save you.)

The Wright Model B of 1910. Slow, cumbersome, as maneuverable as an arthritic hippo in a mudhole, but quite stable. Little more than a powered glider.
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The Handley Page H.P. 5 of 1912. The most advanced of these, only a step from the aircraft of WWI and the first successful airplane from HP. It flew thousands of miles around England during 1912-1914, and gave hundreds of people their first airplane ride. Eventually it became a prized display at the company headquarters til 1940 when a manager decided he needed the space and ordered it chopped up and incinerated.
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And the airplane that is still controversial as possibly the first controlled heavier than air flight. The Santos-Dumont 14bis first flew publicly in 1906, but there is, arguably, evidence it had been flying a couple of years at that point. (The Wright brothers threatened to reclaim everything they had given to the Smithsonian if the latter even mentioned the accomplishments of Santos-Dumont.) Not easy to fly, is nose heavy, stalls at 30kt, overspeeds at 40, apparently only has pitch and roll control, requires utmost attention. And notice the pilot stands in the cockpit.
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A flight from Dannelly Field to Maxwell Field, 8 miles apart, took over fifteen minutes, mostly maneuvering to land ...
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First Class Simulations' Early Years of Flight https://www.simshack.net/products/early-years-of-flight-fsx-fs2004-129
 
michaelvader said:
Hallo friends,
as I see more and more modern airliners and sceneries (some look to be payware) in the "normal" or official screenshots
I would like to propose an vintage aircraft and scenery screenshots thread. It should be for aircraft and scenery from the beginning to
lets say to the sixties. My idea is to show how FS2004 is a living history from the beginning of flights. When flying was still an adventure.
And give a place to rember some aircrafts and scenery designer which are no longer active or had gone to fly in other skies.

Happy landings

Michael

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la mer est si grande et mon appareil si petit
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Jean-Michel Castagné's Bleriot XI https://web.archive.org/web/20161213153612/http://bleriot11.pagesperso-orange.fr/

J-M C's blog https://www.blogger.com/profile/01981591079971924666 --> any of the posted files pointed to by the download links in the blog may potentially have been preserved by the wayback machine @ web archive
 
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Surtout lien inaccessible. Un de plus! Mais présenter un appareil pour FSX, ne veut pas automatiquement dire qu'il ne soit pas utilisable avec FS9. Il faut consulter le fichier, pour autant qu'il n'y ait pas de MDL incomptabile.

Bernard
 
michaelvader said:
Hallo Wolfebee,
just had a look at J-M C's blog, sadly the interesting birds are only for FSX
So nada for me.

Kenavo

Michael
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Hallo Michael,

There is an email addy for J-M C posted on his blog, and accordingly, perhaps consider contacting him at that address, and request for any unpublished FS9-compatible precursors / betas / WIPs of his FSX releases that are not already available through the wayback machine - i.e. as @leuen remarks, any FSX-port-overs that may still potentially function in FS2004. J-M C may yet oblige given the continued interest in FS2004.

cheers!
w.
 
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