Coming up: Kiwi Kansan!

Wild Bill Kelso

Wild Bill Kelso

Charter Member 2011
This is my way to say "Thank you!" to Milton, Damian and all the others involved in this awesome Kansan release:

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"The Beechcraft AT-11-BH Kansan ZK-AHO, c/n 3691, was built for the United States Army Air Force and allocated the serial 42-37208. It had a date of manufacture of 05-04-1943 and was test flown on 12-04-1943. This flight ended with a wheels up landing at Wichita, Kansas.
It was shipped to New Zealand during August of 1943 having been sold to the NZ Government for 13,000 pounds. Assembled at Hobsonville and modified by Union Airways for survey duties at Palmerston North.

It served well with N Z Aerial Mapping Ltd based out of Bridge Pa at Hastings until being withdrawn from use on 31-12-1980. From late 1963 onward it had been assisted by the Aero Commander 680F ZK-CDK. AHO was flown from Hastings to Hobsonville on 19-01-1982 for delivery to the MoTaT where it can be seen to this day. Its registration being cancelled on 16-06-1988."
http://nzcivair.blogspot.com/2010/06/mention-of-piet-van-asch-in-blog-on-zk.html

Don't miss to hop over to this site: Some very nice pics over there!

For those not too accustomed to NZ abbreviations:
MoTaT is New Zealand's Museum of Transport and Technology:
http://www.motat.org.nz/

Time for packing - should be available soon!

Cheers, :wavey:
Markus.
 
Thanks Markus!! Another outstanding job - thanks for sharing. Take care. BTW: no joy SERVER BUSY msg all day today.

Ed
 
We've been undergoing a denial of service attack all day. Ickie's whupping up on 'em.
 
Kia Ora Markus!

The Kiwi Kansan looks very beautiful. I'm looking forward to downloading her and then take her up to all the places I've been exactly one year ago (North Island from Cape Reinga and Coromandel Peninsula via Waiheke Island and Auckland City to Rotorua).

Cheers,
Maarten
 
Thank you for your kind feedback, guys! :wavey:
It's much appreciated.


@ Claudius:
Nice shots there - but it looks like you're experiencing some blurries on the upper wing textures (pic #2). That's strange, for I omitted mipmapping. Did you by chance convert them to DXT3 with mipmaps?

Cheers,
Markus.
 
Hi,

but it looks like you're experiencing some blurries on the upper wing textures (pic #2). That's strange, for I omitted mipmapping. Did you by chance convert them to DXT3 with mipmaps?
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You have eagle eyes :)
Yes is my answer .....
I will try a conversion with no mipmaps and resume my flight around Auckland :)
 
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