Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.
Jag
This particular Russian site is a pretty solid site. Yes, there has been payware hosted to it...but they are very quick to remove those packages once a piracy claim is made....I found an Alphasim/Virtavia payware package on that site a year or so ago, notified the folks at Virtavia, they contacted the site....the package was taken down and the uploader was banned. This is the only Russian site I will download from.
Concerning the contact points.....when Swingman first sent me the beta package, the plane would bounce like a wild horse and nose over like a drunken sailor (no insult meant toward those members of SOH who were sailors, drunken or otherwise). I did what I could to get the plane to behave better on the ground.....I was not able to get it fully dialed in.....sorry about that.
Tim
I need to contact Swingman to see if there is any way he could add the ability to open the engine cowling....you all should see the Menasco engine he modeled for this plane...best looking engine I have seen modeled in a long time.
Very weird that some have bouncing problems !
Video proof "No Bouncing"![]()
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I don't know if SWingman will revisit the FS9 version, but, that looks to be an FSX reality.I need to contact Swingman to see if there is any way he could add the ability to open the engine cowling....you all should see the Menasco engine he modeled for this plane...best looking engine I have seen modeled in a long time.

I loved the look of the red single cockpit Ryan. I added it as a texture to my Ryan STA/PT16 folder. I overwrote the FS9 prop blur with the FSX ones and it seems to work great. Is there anything else I should have done to port it over to FSX??
Obie
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I asked Swingman about that, and he responded that the FSX "Special" is WIPThe Special is not included in the FSX version download.
...Don