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- Thread starter luckydog
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Looks "shooped" to me.
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tigisfat
Guest
looks like a shoop to me, but I've been wrong before.
Ferry_vO
Retired SOH Administrator
Toastmaker
Charter Member 2016
SEVEN engines to move 22 people across the Urals. . . ?? That's about three people per engine !
Did they have no concept of diminishing returns ? No, actually, they didn't.
:isadizzy:
Did they have no concept of diminishing returns ? No, actually, they didn't.
:isadizzy:
Cameljockey
Flame On!
I count TEN engines.
CJ
CJ
Terry
SOH-CM-2016
No, but here is a look into the cockpit.
michael davies
Charter Member 2012
michael davies
Charter Member 2012
Its a Max render, a very good one mind you but the back ground gives it away, oddly I kinda like its qwerkyness, very Indiana Jones esq or League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, sort of thing Capt Nemo would use....if he flew of course, maybe a touch Crimson Skies too
.Best
Michael
Cool CG art! The power of electronic graphics. One picture can look so real..
Anyone ever seen that movie from ages ago, black and white movie that depicts the future world war, travelling to the moon in a rocket, helicopters, etc? In the movie, during the 'great world war', one side has these huge flying wings that can fly all the way around the world. They were much bigger then this with exterior walkways, etc.
Bill
Anyone ever seen that movie from ages ago, black and white movie that depicts the future world war, travelling to the moon in a rocket, helicopters, etc? In the movie, during the 'great world war', one side has these huge flying wings that can fly all the way around the world. They were much bigger then this with exterior walkways, etc.
Bill
My favorite never-made "monster plane" is the Bel Geddes No.4
http://home.att.net/~dannysoar/BelGeddes.htm
http://home.att.net/~dannysoar/BelGeddes.htm
Paul Clawson (PutPut) did the 1933 K-7 Bomber for FS2002. Not sure if it will work in FS2004 or not, but will give it a try. It can be found on Simviation.com
http://www.simviation.com/fs2002vintage5.htm
OBIO
http://www.simviation.com/fs2002vintage5.htm
OBIO
srgalahad
Charter Member 2022
My favorite never-made "monster plane" is the Bel Geddes No.4
http://home.att.net/~dannysoar/BelGeddes.htm
Forget about global warming.. if the BG No.4 ever made a hard landing several hundred miles of coastline would be swamped! Even icebergs would want to get out of the way.
But on flights (cruises?) to the Caribbean it would make an excellent shadeee umbrella
Rob
My favorite never-made "monster plane" is the Bel Geddes No.4
http://home.att.net/~dannysoar/BelGeddes.htm
That is one of my projects. The exterior is basically finished; need to "guess" what the VC would have looked like. For FS2002/FS2004.
Here is a slideshow of it making a "flyby". It looks like it is just a few hundred feet off the ground; but I never went below 1000 ft.
http://good-times.webshots.com/slideshow/569237136tCBWkx
It's been a chore trying to reconcile the "floor plans", front and side views with the image you linked to. I think it is pretty close.
Someone showed me how to reprogram the cockpit view keys; have them reprogrammed to show various locations aboard. I left the "minor" walls (such as between rooms) out; but have the major walls along the passageways, and a crude model of the interior of the auxillary wing (I am afraid I was going to run out of polygons before even starting on the VC.)
The scary thing is that some of it begins to make sense; when you study it. Carrying spare engines sounds silly -- until you find out that Boeing 314s carried a spare. Those thick columns holding up the auxillary wing could have held fresh water, oil, and fuel surge tanks along with stairs, pipes, and control lines; in typical flying boat fashion, the floats would have held the main fuel tanks. The lifeboats would have been stored on the "tank deck" just on top of the fuel tanks; fuel pumps would have been there as well. There appears to be another deck just above that and below the pod; it could have held mail and cargo.
-James
James,
Excellent job on the Bel Geddes, that's a very ambitious and detailed project. A giant plane like that really needs a couple different view options. Good possibilities for animations too. The .fx file for the wakes will be similar to that of an aircraft carrier.
Excellent job on the Bel Geddes, that's a very ambitious and detailed project. A giant plane like that really needs a couple different view options. Good possibilities for animations too. The .fx file for the wakes will be similar to that of an aircraft carrier.
James,
Excellent job on the Bel Geddes, that's a very ambitious and detailed project. A giant plane like that really needs a couple different view options. Good possibilities for animations too. The .fx file for the wakes will be similar to that of an aircraft carrier.
That's a good point about the wakes; right now I am getting a single wake between the two floats.
I don't know how to create effects file; maybe someone will be able to help me with it.
-James