C-124

Hi there,

Just downloaded 'Old Shakey' from Avsim.com. :jump:

Thank you so much Jens! Once again you fulfilled a great wish of mine. Fabulous!:applause::applause::applause::applause::applause:

Cheers,
Maarten
 
Downloading now. Such a big "beautiful" plane....beautiful in the way a flop eared Bloodhound is beautiful to those who cherish the breed.

OBIO
 
WAHOOOOOOOO! This big bird is NICE! But, then again, what else would be expected from Jens B? Everything he does is golden.

OBIO
 
C-124 has gone missing over the triangle!

Most folks have heard of The Bermuda Triangle. What is seldom mentioned is this.... the largest single loss of personnel happened in 1951 when a C-124 Globemaster with 53 passengers disappeared without a trace. ***
 
Libyan flght of the C-124

I just flew the C-124, two flights in hard settings, one in fs9 from LGAT Hellenikon to LGAV Venizelos and the second in FSX, in Libya from Marsa Brega HMLB to Zueitina HLZU. For the latter flight I had real weather in the internet, 12 noon time, and had winds and sand in the air. Twice I stalled on takeoff but managed to life off very slwoly with trim the 3rd time and when I had gained some height, around 500 feet, I put the a/c on autopilot and turned around a a bit trying to decide where to go. By this time it was 3.15 am my time and I thought 'better land, so you can go to bed" so I landed at Zueitina, due north-northeast of Marsa Brega. The runway was short, or my approach too bad, and I over-ran the far end and shut engines and put on parking brakes to stop. The sea was a short distance ahead.

:wiggle:The airplane is fantastic in all respects. You should try Libya with an aircraft like Manuele Villa's wonderful Sparviero and high scenery settings if your machine can handle them, plus internet real weather.

My own reason for flying in Libya is that when I was a teenager I would listen to the US Air Force Station in Athens all day and I often heard the speakers speaking of flights to Libya, usually Tripoli, and I had seen these monsters on my way to the beach in the summers, when the road passed by the Hellenikon Air Base, and had sometimes wonder how such a big aircraft could fly.

The flight in Libya will lead me to downloading the scenery for it, two files so far, Benghazi and Tripoili, tomorrow, and to try with the Villa Sparviero.

Cheers:salute:

Nick Tselepides
 
Superlative work Jens. You spoil us constantly with your contributions.

The McChord Air Base Museum has a C-124. At the air shows they open it up and you can walk through the plane and inspect just about all of it.
 
anyone fancy doing a 94th AW paint for Dobbins AFB around ohhhhhhhhh 1968 -- used to sit on the balcony of of apartment on PowderSprings and watch them lumbering out.


Leif
 
RyDraiggoch said:
anyone fancy doing a 94th AW paint for Dobbins AFB around ohhhhhhhhh 1968 -- used to sit on the balcony of of apartment on PowderSprings and watch them lumbering out.
Leif
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Got a photo? I just looked on the web and Mr. Google couldn't find one for me. If you can get me a photo I'll see what I can do.

I have similar memories. After having "outgrown" my childhood interest in airplanes, I rediscovered it after college. Part of the stimulus was standing on the dam at Quabbin Reservoir and watching New Hampshire Air Guard C-124s heading for their home at Pease AFB, or seeing MATS and SAC Globemonsters coming and going to and from Westover AFB. I just painted myself a NH ANG plane to commemorate those memories.
 
Repaints

I've been fiddling, and I've come up with some skins.

One item is a set of texture tweaks. I added better quality national insignia to all the paints, flipped the upside-down USAF on one of the wings, changed MATS to USAF on the wings of one plane (not sure Jens was "wrong" for that particular plane, but I couldn't find a photo to back up his choice, and other planes in the same livery had USAF there,) added arctic red to the outer wing panels and/or wingtip pods, as appropriate, for the paints that had arctic red on the tail, and a few other minor items that I can't recall right now. While I was at it I saved all the external textures in 32-bit format for better display quality, and I saved a set of generic textures to make repainting easy.

I also made some completely new paints. One is a SAC plane, complete with star spangled blue fuselage sash. Also a New Hampshire Air Guard plane (mentioned in my post above,) and since that one had a rather plain vanilla look, a more colorful one from the North Carolina Air Guard. Finally (?) I painted one in overall Aircraft Gray (aka "ADC Gray," aka "Dorsey Gray) from a photo I found on the web.

Now all I have to do is catch up on the time I lost while repainting the Globemonster, and package up the paints for release. Maybe later today... Maybe...
 
Moses03 said:
Interesting. Didn't know they turboed up a version of the C-124.
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The "48 Group Program" in effect for Fiscal Year (FY) 1949 authorized the purchase of giant Douglas C-124 Globemaster IIs. The procurement schedule called for the first to reach the flightline in May 1950. Manufactured by Douglas Aircraft Corporation at Long Beach, California, deliveries of C-124As began in May 1950. The USAF bought 448 C-124s before production ended in 1955. A total of 204 C-124As were built, to be followed by 243 C-124Cs. In July 1950 Douglas received a letter contract to begin work on the YC-124B. The turboprop-powered KC-124B tanker variant was considered, which emerged as a single YC-124B transport prototype that flew in 1954.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/c-124.htm
 
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