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Captain Kurt's Alphasim conversions

Thanks for the "Bamboo Bomber", Captain Kurt!

I´ve never seen the Sky King TV series, but from what I´ve read in aviation magazines, the airplane that appeared later was a Cessna 310.
 
Thanks everyone.

Yes, the T-50 Bobcat was the original type flown in the Sky King show.

Here's what Wikipedia has about the planes flown on the series:
At the beginning of the television series, Sky flew a Cessna T-50 twin-engine "Bamboo Bomber." The plane, a World War II surplus UC-78B, was owned by legendary Hollywood pilot Paul Mantzand flown by employees of his Paul Mantz Aerial Services for filming of the flying sequences. At least two other T-50s are known to have been used for on-ground and in-the-cockpit scenes.

The best-known Songbird was a twin-engine Cessna 310B. The airplane used was the second production 310B (N5348A), which was provided by Cessna at no cost to the producers and piloted by Cessna's national sales manager for the 310, Bill Fergusson. Fergusson got the job after the motion picture pilot already selected was deemed unqualified to land the airplane at some of the off-airport sites required. Some months after a library of stock footage had been compiled, additional sequences were filmed using a different airplane. The original 310B was eventually destroyed in a 1962 crash at Delano, California, that killed its owner-pilot. Cockpit sequences were filmed using the static test fuselage, also provided by Cessna.
A byproduct of the use of the Cessna 310 as Sky King's Songbird was the name becoming attached to the 310 series. Cessna has never given the 310 a type name (though most Cessnas are given such names, e.g., the Cessna 180 "Skywagon"), but because of their use in Sky King, 310s have become known as "Songbirds" within the aviation community
 
Sky King

If any of you have FS 9 installed, you can fly from the Sky King Rang with a file called:

skykingv2.zip

You can get it by searching the FS 9 scenery at: flightsim.com

It makes for some fun while flying about Arizona. With Calclassic AI installed, you can also have the period airliners flying about too.
 
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