Edgley Optica now released! (21.December)

[scotsman]

Craig,
Creating a peculiar twin tail plane for Christmas will at least make you a kind of "honorary Piglet":ernae:

Mike

 

[full]

Thanks guys ! here is a request from Pam....

 

[DaveWG]

Nice! looking forward to this lone.

 

[IFlySWA]

Neat!!

Brian

 

[Dave Torkington]

I can see why there were very few made... Forget you've left the engine running, exit left and get sucked into the fan

Found an interesting article from archived Flight International May 1979 HERE

Superb modeling work! I'll be watching for the release :salute:

Dave.

 

[Milton Shupe]

Wow! Excellent modelling and textures!

 

[full]

Many thanks everyone ! here is a VC shot, I don't think I've posted one yet.

 

[full]

A few more shots before I release her...

 

[warchild]

I love that last shot of the bird in the mist.. Maybe its just because i watched "Slipstream" once, but this bird seems to look right at home in these mysterious and almost other worldly environments.. Great Job Craig..

 

[falcon409]

I love that last shot of the bird in the mist.. Maybe its just because i watched "Slipstream" once, but this bird seems to look right at home in these mysterious and almost other worldly environments.. Great Job Craig..

Yep, Looks like it could be a "Lunar Lander", lol

 

[warchild]

I can see why there were very few made... Forget you've left the engine running, exit left and get sucked into the fan


Dave.

Not sure there was enough force to pull someone into the fan or not.. But the real reasons for so fewmade are even more tragic. First there was the crash of a police model that bankrupted the original Brooklands Aerospace ( builders of the optika ) and Edgley himself. He sold the design to another company and well, that company burned to the ground, Then the FAA stepped in and placed a grounding order on it because of cracks appearing ( though the order is unenforced as there are still two of the aircraft flying ). Then Edgley bought the design back,hoping to start building it again..

 

[Bomber_12th]

Everything looks superb, Craig, and what a cool project! I don't know how rare it really is to see one of these, but I've seen this one several times at local events here in Minnesota (it is based at the Anoka County/Blaine airport, north of Minneapolis): http://www.vaq136.com/blaine/optica.html

 

[full]

Thanks guys. Here is the download link

http://www.classicwings.net/freeplanes/Edgley_Optica/Edgley Optica.zip

It should be on avsim and flightsim soon as well.

Many thanks to Pam for tweaking the flight model

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[jeansy]

Thanks guys. Here is the download link

http://www.classicwings.net/freeplanes/Edgley_Optica/Edgley Optica.zip

It should be on avsim and flightsim soon as well.

Many thanks to Pam for tweaking the flight model

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thank you very much

you might might to make a new thread title released, as many will over see your post above

is there plans to release a paint kit?

 

[Bruce Thompson]

Thank you to all involved for this Great Christmas Gift.

 

[Roger]

Wonderful! Thanks very much Craig and Pam

 

[gradyhappyg]

Thanks, for this one and all the others you have cranked out.


:salute::salute:

 

[skyhawka4m]

very cool plane....but is there anyway to make the glass more shiny or reflective? On my system its almost as if there's no glass showing at all. I love the ambient shading...I wish more dev's would use it.

 

[RKinkor]

Thank you very much for this. I have been wanting one of these for quite a while!

 

[kilo delta]

Thanks Craig!