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Sticky: Plum Island Airport Contest
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tigisfat
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This looks like a whole bunch of fun. It's a little steep for my blood, but I am getting more and more into tooling around localized high fidelity scenery as opposed to seeing the world in FSX. We're at a point where fields like plum island are possible, but I'll bet global scenery at this level will never be available because there's too much to be done to produce it.
Just extrapolating the amount of time I took on Plum Island to the 26,000 or so airports around the world yields a total man-hour dev time in the neighborhood of 7,800,000 hours. If we don't mind waiting another 890.4 years for FSXI, I think I can manage it. :costumes:
Oh surely not, Bill! You forgot to add that as you get better, then you will get quicker. I think I can wait the 800 years (after about an average 10% improvement?)
We should have enough memory available by then...
And the winners are....
Drumroll please!
Third Place
This was the last pic attached, but by no means the least. I like the time of day, that orange sky, and the low angle of view. But most of all, I enjoyed that the outhouse was the only scenery object fully visible. That's a pilot with his priorities in place! Well done, Tim.
Second Place
This is a pretty daring angle! It has the feel of a casual photo snapped during day-to-day operations at a small airfield. It's not glamorous, but neither is that old workhorse being serviced. Me like. Bravo, Scostman!
The Winner!
This is probably the only time you'll see Delta Air Lines landing at Plum Island.
The shot has a classy composition that features the scenery first, but combines it with the expected (a 172) and the gloriously unexpected (that DC-2). Just looking at it makes me want to fly! What more can you ask from a shot than that? Congratulations, Paul.
Excellent work, everyone! I loved all the shots, and it was freakin' tough to whittle them down to just three. And many thanks to Helldiver for setting up the contest in the first place.
Drumroll please!
Third Place
This was the last pic attached, but by no means the least. I like the time of day, that orange sky, and the low angle of view. But most of all, I enjoyed that the outhouse was the only scenery object fully visible. That's a pilot with his priorities in place! Well done, Tim.
Second Place
This is a pretty daring angle! It has the feel of a casual photo snapped during day-to-day operations at a small airfield. It's not glamorous, but neither is that old workhorse being serviced. Me like. Bravo, Scostman!
The Winner!
This is probably the only time you'll see Delta Air Lines landing at Plum Island.
The shot has a classy composition that features the scenery first, but combines it with the expected (a 172) and the gloriously unexpected (that DC-2). Just looking at it makes me want to fly! What more can you ask from a shot than that? Congratulations, Paul.Excellent work, everyone! I loved all the shots, and it was freakin' tough to whittle them down to just three. And many thanks to Helldiver for setting up the contest in the first place.
This is probably the only time you'll see Delta Air Lines landing at Plum Island.
Indeed a great set of pics to choose from, and a great idea from Helldiver. My personal favourite was CBris's pimped "The Dude" sitting on the porch.
Minor issue :d That Delta is a DC2. :friday:
Cheers, R
You know what's really funny? I thought it was a DC-2, and even put that in the original post. Then I looked at it again and decided I was wrong. For the record, what's the easiest way to tell a DC-2 from a -3 for the uninitiated?
SolarEagle
Charter Member
Excellent pick for first place!
I had to answer this one ;-)
Also the DC-2 had a smaller cabin (only 7 rows of 2 seats (the DC-3 had 3 seats in 7 rows)), and vertical sides of the fuselage, opposed to the round DC-3 fuselage.
Below some pics of the tail developed through the years, until the DC2 had a complete DC3-like horizontal and vertical tail. This is indeed due to the notorious lateral instability of the planes. I would say that the DC2 tail was a continuous prototype for the DC3.
Here you have tail 1
Original DC1 and DC2
This is tail 2 and 3
Tail 2 had only a bigger vertical stabalizer,
Tail 3 also has adapted balance areas.
This is tail 4
The rudder is already like the DC3, with a further development of balance areas and hinges, but no dorsal fin.
DC2-145 / C-33
This is the final construction
Dorsal fin present
DC2-243 / C-39 Also called DC-2 1/2, but I think the CNAC (<---click here) example is the true DC-2 1/2 ;-)
Cheers, Rob
There was one tail modification that you forgot Robcop and that was the one for the military DC-3 (C-47) The little "titty" at the end of the tail was left off so they could tow gliders.
I can remember DC-3s, flown by Eastern Airlines, that were reworked C-47s because of this tail modification.
I can remember DC-3s, flown by Eastern Airlines, that were reworked C-47s because of this tail modification.