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C-97 wip

I'm loving the progress so far!

Is there going to be a regular C-97 variant? And will there be a pop-up notepad screen that allows you to monitor the engines and adjust cargo on the ground like the C-47 and C-117?
I'm excited to run cargo in the C-97!
 
Yup, I am keeping the variants options open, including the early ones without radar nose. The aft freight doors have already been modelled, you can see the dents in the Sketchfab view, and I have been supplied with pictures from the manual showing how they opened. Same for the big forward starboard door.

I, too, would like a detailed Control Panel like the one for the C-47 V2, and a slow engine start, but this may not work out quickly or at all. I had hopes for hitching up the C-97 exterior model with the B377 A2A interior model, why reinvent the wheel etc, but have been told it's no-go. Sorry, Accusim lovers...

I am afraid at the moment it's all a bit in the air.
 
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I'm happy to hear there's a good chance for multiple variants!
At least the A2A Model is a good reference point for building a new cockpit model. There seems to be plenty of pictures from a google search regarding the cockpit and the differences, like the A2A model having two gauges for the engines MAP and RPM, one for e1+2 ans another for 3+4 while the C-97 had 4, one for each engine

As for the slow engine start and cargo control panel, I wish there was some way to help.
 
Maybe, subconsciously. Anyway, she's got some wheels now:

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Update - still at it!

Here is the current version of the Monitor gauge (based on Rick Federmann's "TextInfo Gauge"). It makes things a little too easy, obviously. On the other hand you can make her fly according to the numbers on the original power charts if you are so inclined.

Any flight dynamics experts out there to help with tweaking the FDE?

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Yikes Manfred! Just when I thought things were getting a bit summery-sleepy here (I had to counter the FSX doldrums recently by flying your Starliner), I had forgotten entirely about your C-97 project, and then you come back with this! This will be absolutely tremendous. :jump:
 
This is looking very good so far. Will be a wonderful addition to all your other highly detailed models Mr. Jahn :)
 
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No use, he's already declined, being busy on other stuff, like the PMDG DC-6...
Click to expand...

Sorry to hear it but am not surprised - was half expecting it given his other commitments. A shame he can't build two quad props alongside each other, sort of like the Olympic and the Titanic...

I guess the question now becomes, who's the next Dr. Metzger...?
 
I am very happy to announce that we have found somebody already highly experienced in dealing with Stratocruiser flight dynamics. Welcome aboard, Wayne Tudor!
 
Hi Manfred. I just stumbled on this thread. This looks AWESOME. Last post on this looks like it was in July. its now Mid September...any further news? :untroubled:

As stated by many, highly appreciate your awesome work.

Eric
 
Here's a video of latest startup/engine run of "MJ's KC-97" TW PW R4360. Wip build with basic startup smoke.

 
"'Spirit of Corpus Christi"

Very nice. Although it sounds good, I hear pasteurized/homogenized DC-3 tones in the TW Radial works startup

Now here is a real one starting up.

Sunset start up of Grace Air Ltd Boeing C-97G Stratocruiser N117GA (s/n 52-2718) she departs for yet another salmon freight run to Bethel Alaska. ( Kenai Airport - June 1994).


This one is a real "smokie" like the Tufun video. I hear more of prop blades whipping the air; more so then the FSX version less engine combustion then the FSX video.
. Don't see jet pods on the Corpus Christi. Will the FSX version have jet pod sounds too?

 
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