"Evita" Race Event Pilot Registration

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Moses03

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Please post your intended aircraft and airline you wish to represent. A screenshot with a short description or backstory is encouraged. Fictional liveries along with private business concerns are of course welcome.

Good luck with your selections,
Moses (On behalf of race committee)
 
Airline: National Airlines
Headquarters: Miami, Florida, United States
Pilot: Captain Red Green
Aircraft: Douglas DC-6B

Starting as a regional carrier in 1934 to Florida and the surrounding area, National has quickly expanded in the course of 15 years. National began service on the lucrative Miami-to-New York route in 1944, and in 1946 National became an international airline with its Miami-to-Havana route. Now in 1949, company founder and president George T. Baker is looking to expand the Airline's influence further into Latin America, and the Evita Race is the perfect way to challenge the dominance of the powerhouse Pan-American outfit.

For this task, National Airlines has selected Red Green, a former Lt. Commander of the United States Navy, where he piled up many hours flying the Douglas R5D Skymaster cargo plane. His experience with the military version of the DC-4 has been excellent preparation for flying large four-engined aircraft.

Captain Green will be in command of the Douglas DC-6B, the latest in a long line of excellent Douglas airliners. Like the DC-3 before it, the DC-6B offers arguably the best operating economics of any airliner being flown today. Passengers are assured a smooth, comfortable, and luxurious ride.

National Airlines. We are the Airline of the Stars. Watch us Shine!
 
Airline: Eastern Airlines
Headquarters: New York City and in Miami, Florida
Pilot: Captain Austin Davis (salt_air)
Aircraft: Lockheed L-049A Constellation

Eastern Air Lines was a composite of assorted air travel corporations, including Florida Air Ways and Pitcairn Aviation, the latter of which was established on April 19, 1926, by Harold Frederick Pitcairn, son of Pittsburgh Plate Glass founder John Pitcairn Jr.

In the late 1920s, Pitcairn Aviation won a government contract to fly mail between New York City and Atlanta, Georgia, using Mailwing single-engine aircraft.

In 1929 Clement Keys, the owner of North American Aviation, purchased Pitcairn.

In 1930, Keys changed the company's name to Eastern Air Transport, soon to be known as Eastern Air Lines after being purchased by General Motors and experiencing a change in corporate leadership brought on by the Airmail Act of 1934.

In 1938, the airline was purchased by World War I flying ace Eddie Rickenbacker from General Motors. This very complex deal was concluded when Rickenbacker presented Alfred P. Sloan with a certified check for $3.5 million. Rickenbacker pushed Eastern into a period of prodigious growth and innovation. For a time, Eastern was the most profitable airline in the post-war era.
 
Pilot: jt_dub, Airline: PAA, Aircraft: Boeing B377 Stratocruiser

Airline: Pan American World Airways (commonly known as Pan Am)
Headquarters: New York City, New York
Pilot: Captain Jeff Williams (jt_dub)
Aircraft: Boeing 377 Stratocruiser (Clipper America NX-1024V)

Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) was founded on October 27, 1927 as America's first international airline. The small company began flying air mail between Key West, Florida and Havana, Cuba. Pan Am would grow to serve most major Latin American cities by the early 1930s.

In 1949 Pan Am introduced the world to the Boeing 377, "Stratocruiser." This double deck piston aircraft offered sleeper seats & berths as well as a lower level lounge. The Stratocruiser was the height of 1950s flying luxury.
 
Airline: Merc Air
Headquarters: Rochford, England
Pilot: Willy McCoy
Aircraft: Boeing 307 Stratoliner

Sim: FS 1954... FS9 with Bill Lyons Silver Wings and California Classics vintage airports and a custom vintage AI set.


Merc Air is a virtual aircraft operating consortium. Its members embody the entrepreneurial spirit of such knighted heroes as Francis Drake, John Hawkins, and Richard Grenville. Not to mention Henry Morgan and Jean Lafitte. While originaly begun as a group of mercenary fighter and bomber pilots during the dark days of WWII, Merc Air has postwar applied their business principles to civil air transport while retaining their main business offices at their wartime HQ at their old airbase in Rochford, England.

Willy has been with Merc Air since it's beginning during the Battle of Britain (CFS 1) flying everything from Messerschmitts to DH Comet 4s. He has numerous hours in the Merc Air Stratoliner all over the world pursuing gold bars and contraband.... er.... Merc Air's noble pursuits. He started flying the 307 during the war hauling VIPs (and French dancing girls) out of occupied France and back to Rochford. He also developed the Merc Air Roll, where the aircraft is rolled inverted to get all the loose change out of the passenger's pockets.

The Boeing Stratoliner was developed at the same time as it's famous sister the B-17 Flying Fortress and utilizes the same wings and tail surfaces. It was the first 4 engined airliner to fly scheduled flights in the US and also the first pressurized airliner. Unfortunately WWII broke out and Boeing was forced to cease production and concentrate on it's military aircraft. However the few Stratoliners that were built gave long and economical service to it's operators.

Stock photo's of the Merc Air Stratoliner at Merc Air's Worldwide HQ in Rochford, England.
 
Airline: Chicago and Southern Airlines
Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois
Pilot: Captain Dan Nelson (whitehawk_2009)
Aircraft: Douglas DC-4

Chicago and Southern Airlines Started out flying Air Mail Route 8 between Chicago and New Orleans by way of Peoria, Springfield, St.Louis, Memphis and Jackson. Chicago and Southern expanded to smaller markets such as Evansville, IN and Paducah, KY.

C & S will be represented by 1st Lt Dan Nelson, USAF Ret. Nelson is a veteran of a combat tour flying B-17's with the 15th AF and recently retired after a close call with Russian MiGs while flying C-54's during the ongoing blockade of Berlin.

Nelson will be flying a Douglas DC-4. C & S flys the Dixieliner to provide a more cost effective alternative to the newer airliners, while still providing the luxury and saftey our customers have come to expect.
 
Qantas Empire Airways / Boeing 377 Stratocruiser

Airline: Qantas Empire Airways
Headquarters: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Pilot: Mike Beckwith
Aircraft: Boeing 377 Stratocruiser

Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Service Ltd was formed in November of 1920 in Winton Queensland, but moved to Longreach during the following year. After a modest beginning delivering mail and passengers across outback Queensland the company was becoming an international concern by 1931, and changed its name to Qantas Empire Airways in 1934.
 
Hey All,

There I was minding my own business getting plowing and cultivating done on my farm just outside of Three Hills Alberta which is South southwest of Two Hills Alberta which is East of Hairy Hill Alberta when the phone - as phones will do - rang out.

It was Wop May and with him were Punch Dickens and Grant McConachie - 3 legendary Canadian bush pilots and all high ups in Canadian Pacific Airlines - in fact Grant was the President. All were trying to talk at once wanting me to fly a DC-4 NorthStar to where? Buenos Aries. Bueno what? I asked. Aries like in Argentina in South America. That's a long way an I got seeding to do... What you'll get it done and it's a contest. What I owe you guys for flying me outta Hay River that time when I crashed landed a load of "spirits" - none of which survived - the residents were mighty peeved... You had to bring that up didn't you. Well I guess I can unretire just this once...

Calgary tomorrow to get the plane set up - it's parked next to some new fangled stuff that'll never fly? Well OK just this once...

EasyEd
Canadian Pacific
DC-4

-Ed-

PS Note in the second Canadian Pacific Ad - the routing to Argentina - Looking into the future I musta won this thing. :bump:

PSS Just in case you think MSFS and X-Plane are the only flight simulators - Check out the youtube in the first post - it's being built for a farming simulator!

http://new.ls-uk.info/index.php?topic=868.msg5410#new

PSSS On a more serious note though - I may or may not be able to get this done in time as this is a busy time of year for a fire management specialist.
 
Western Airlines

Western Airlines was a large airline based in California with operations throughout the western United States.

In 1925, the United States Postal Service began to give airlines contracts to carry air mail all around the country. A company named Western Air Express applied to be awarded the air mail route from Salt Lake City in Utah to Los Angeles. In April of 1926, Western's first flight took place with a Douglas M-2 airplane. The month after, passenger services started.

In 1930, Western added two Fokker F32 aircraft, and merged with Transcontinental Air Transport to form TWA. However, Western Air Transport soon broke off from TWA's structure, and in 1934, it changed its name to General Airlines. In 1941, General changed its name to Western Airlines.

Here you can see our DC-6B en-route to Montreal from Omaha.
 
Airline: British South American Airways (BSAA)
Headquarters: London, UK
Pilot: Captain K. Moore (Moses)
Aircraft: Avro Tudor IV G-AHNK “Star Lion”

BSAA

A committee was set up in November 1937 under the chairmanship of Lord Cadman to look into the state of British civil aviation. Its report was published on 8 February 1938 making several recommendations and resulting in the formation of British Overseas Airways Corporation in June 1939. Cadman had also noted that there was no British airline flying to South America and proposed that this omission should be rectified as soon as possible. The directors of the five shipping companies decided to explore the possibilities of starting their own airline to cover the routes they knew well, between Britain and South America.

Although the shipping companies were unable to do very much during the war, by 1944 there was hope that the tide was turning for the Allies and so, on 25 January 1944 British Latin American Air Lines Ltd. (BLAA) was formed.
A government White Paper published in March 1945 recognized some of the proposals outlined in the Cadman report. It set out policy for three main British airlines with clearly defined routes. The first was to operate on what was called the Commonwealth air routes, serving nations such as Kenya, Uganda , South Africa, India, Ceylon , Australia, New Zealand and Canada, as well as the USA, the Far East and China. The second would serve the capitals and major cities of Europe and internal British destinations and the third would operate to South America. It also recommended that the company formed by the shipping lines should be assigned the routes to South America.

When the war in Europe ended on 8 May 1945 the directors of British Latin American Air Lines began work in earnest to develop the airline. After much discussion it was decided in September 1945 that BLAA would become British South American Airways Limited.

In December 1945 another White Paper was presented to Parliament by Lord Winster. It said that His Majesty's Government proposed to establish three separate corporations with responsibility for:
Routes between the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries, the United States and the Far East (the existing BOAC).
Routes between the United Kingdom and the Continent and internal routes in the United Kingdom.
Routes between the United Kingdom and South America.

And so, after nearly a year of discussions, anxiety and fears that BOAC would succeed in its efforts to stop BSAA from operating on its chosen routes, it received the news, for the second time, that it was to be the Government's choice to fly to South America, as British South American Airways Corporation.


Avro Tudor

When the Tudor I made its maiden flight on June 14th 1945 it was Britain’s first pressurized airliner and gave Avro optimism that the aircraft would be a sales success for the company. Unfortunately things didn’t work out that way. There were handling issues which took some time to resolve, the range was not as good as had been hoped, and the cabin heating system (vital for an aircraft capable of cruising at 25,000ft.) proved to be unreliable. Also, the profitability of the aircraft was doubtful considering in its initial form the capacity was for only 24 day or 12 sleeper passengers.

Unfortunately BOAC caused many problems for Avro by continually changing their design requirements, which in turn led to many delays in the aircraft entering service. On January 21st 1947 the first BOAC Tudor I G-AGRF ‘Elizabeth of England’ was officially christened by Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth, but it was never to enter scheduled service with BOAC and shortly afterwards BOAC cancelled their order.

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BSAA believed the aircraft could be operated profitably and approached Avro to produce a version for them with no Flight Engineer’s position and a slightly reduced seat pitch to allow a greater passenger load. Four of the original Tudor I airframes were converted to this specification for BSAA and designated Tudor IV. They were fitted with 32 seats, and the first of them (‘Star Panther’) flew on April 9th 1947.

Text and photos courtesy of: http://www.flywiththestars.co.uk/index.htm
 
Airline: BOAC
Headquarters: London Heathrow , UK
Pilot: Captain Bry Rosier
Airplane: Handley Page HP81 Hermes

The British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) was the British state airline from 1939 until 1946 and the long-haul British state airline from 1946 until 1974 when it merged with BEA to form British Airways ( my employers for the last 20 years ).
The Handley Page Hermes joined the BOAC fleet between 1949 and 1950, replacing the last of the non-pressurised types on passenger services.

Bry Rosier Team Avsim
 
Airline: Air France
Headquarters: Paris
Pilot: Mike MacKuen (MM)
Aircraft: Lockheed L-1049 Constellation

Air France was formed in 1933 from a merger of the legendary Aéropostale and four other companies. The airline thenoperated a network spanning the globe from Europe to Africa to the Orient to the Andes. After the War, the French government collected all air transport companies into a largely nationalized company operating out of Le Bourget. Almost immediately, the company started service between Paris and New York with DC-4s. And by 1948 it was operating one of the largest fleets in the world.

Air France bought its first Lockheed Constellation June 1946 as L-049 F-BAZA and operated the type for the next two decades. What airplane other than the Constellation could have symbolized the luxury of air transportation in the era? Little by little, the "rich and famous" clientele would abandon the ocean liners for this new mean of intercontinental transportation, which was in harmony with their idea of modern luxury. Most certainly, the gracious line of the Constellation had something to do with it.

Here I'd like to pay a tribute to the early Aéropostale heroes such as Jean Mermoz, Henri Guillaumet and Antoine Saint Exupéry who pioneered the long links between Europe and South America. And will pause a moment in reflection for those who just fell over the South Atlantic.

Here is a salute to the elegant wings of the Lockheed Constellation.
 
Here I'd like to pay a tribute to the early Aéropostale heroes such as Jean Mermoz, Henri Guillaumet and Antoine Saint Exupéry who pioneered the long links between Europe and South America. And will pause a moment in reflection for those who just fell over the South Atlantic.

Here is a salute to the elegant wings of the Lockheed Constellation.[/QUOTE]

Very thoughtful of you Mike,,,,,

Perhaps we should all take a moment to reflect.

Good Luck!
 
Pilot: PRB
Aircraft: Lockheed L-1049G
Airline: Qantas
Route: Pacific

After much deliberation and consultation with the American Lockheed Corporation, the Australians with Qantas Airlines have decided to field a second aircraft in this event, this time, a Lockheed L-1049G. Primarily funded by the American aircraft company, this second entry for Qantas is rumored to be awaiting the arrival of Lockheed test pilots Tony Levier and Kelly Johnston, as well as other Lockheed engineers. There has been much speculation surrounding this unusual move by the American company, and the reason behind the high profile pilots joining the flight. Race entry paperwork and other documentation obtained by the Brisbane Times suggests there are other sources of funding for this entrant, including Merc Air, Virtual Lockheed, and PRB Systems. The precise business of these firms is not known at this time and is still under investigation. It is known that the flight crew for this aircraft will be regular Qantas personnel, and that the Lockheed personnel will be observing the operation and providing technical assistance if needed.
 
Airline: Aer Lingus
Headquarters: Dublin Airport
Pilot: Harvey Rosier ( arrvoo)
Aircraft: Boeing 377 Stratocruiser (Accusim On)

Aer Lingus was formed in 1936 with money advanced from Blackpool and West Coast Air Services under the name of Irish Sea Airways. The name Aer Lingus is the English version of the Irish Aer Loingeas, which means Air Fleet.
In 1946 Aer Lingus ordered 5 Lockheed Constellations with the intention of beginning transatlantic flights. However financial difficulties and a lack of backing from the government prevented this from going ahead and the planes were sold on to BOAC.
Aer Lingus focused on flights to several Europen destinations and didn't operate their first transatlantic flight until 1958.

This is a fictional repaint of the Stratocaster.
 
Airline: Delta Airlines
Headquarters: Atlanta Ga.
Pilot: Capt S. Wakefield {NS38th_Aristaeus}
Aircraft: Lockheed Constellation L1049.



Delta Air Lines’ long history of service actually began in agriculture, when the company was founded in 1924 as the world’s first aerial crop dusting organization -- Huff Daland Dusters. In fact, if the boll weevil had not marched out of Mexico prior to the turn of this century to devastate the cotton fields of the South, there might not have been a Delta Air Lines. When the weevil’s relentless destruction reached the Mississippi Valley, such a serious economic threat faced the South that the Bureau of Entomology operated a laboratory in Tallulah, Louisiana, as the base for an intensified cotton insect investigation. Directing the activities at the laboratory was Dr. B. R. Extension Department of Coad, assisted by a young district agent with the Louisiana State University, C. E. Woolman. Woolman, an agricultural engineering graduate of the University of Illinois, was also an aviation enthusiast. Since the airplane was little more than a novelty with an uncertain future then, Woolman settled for the more certain future of agriculture. By 1916, Dr. Coad and Woolman had their first promising weapon -- lead arsenate, a dry powder. What was needed was a method of application that would be faster and more effective than hand sprinkling. Application by air seemed most practical, and Dr. Coad obtained a small appropriation from Congress to pursue this experiment. For more long years, Coad’s entomologists and Woolman worked with two Army-furnished Jennys, experimenting and perfecting dusting procedures.
In 1923, fate gave the experiments a new future. George Post, an executive of an Ogdensburg, New York, airplane manufacturer, was forced down in Tallulah when his plane developed mechanical problems. Post was so enthusiastic about the aerial crop dusting activities he discovered while in Tallulah that he convinced his company’s management to form a separate division -- the Huff Daland Dusters. Huff Daland Dusters started operations in 1924 at Macon, Georgia, but a lack of
experience and the small number of cotton fields in the area resulted in an unsuccessful first season. Dr. Coad, an interested observer from the Louisiana government laboratory, suggested the Dusters move there. Thus, in 1925 headquarters were established at Monroe, Louisiana.
On May 30, 1925, Woolman left the Agriculture Extension Service to take charge of Huff Daland’s entomological work as vice president and field manager. To the company he brought a genial personality, integrity and a stubborn resistance to failure -- traits which have endured at Delta. The parent company, Huff Daland Manufacturing in New York, built the first planes
ever specifically designed for dusting, and Huff Daland Dusters’ fleet became the largest privately-owned aircraft fleet in the world with 18 planes. The number soon grew to 25 small planes and some larger planes, called "Ton of Dust."
Since the dusting company had an income only during summer months, Woolman decided to shift operations during non-productive months to Peru where seasons are reversed. It was in Peru that Woolman first visualized the future of passenger service by air, and he successfully secured South American airmail rights over stiff competition to become the first American airline operator south of the equator in the western hemisphere. Service from Peru to Ecuador, a 1,500-mile route, was inaugurated in 1927.
Returning to Monroe in 1928, Woolman found the parent company, Huff Daland Manufacturing, attempting to sell the dusting division. He quickly aroused the interest of Monroe businessmen who purchased Huff Daland’s equipment. The company’s name was changed to Delta Air Service ("Delta" for the Mississippi Delta), with D.Y. Smith as the first president and Woolman retaining his title of vice president and general manager. Back in Peru, a revolution was erupting, and as the few planes and equipment remaining there attracted revolutionaries’ attention as military tools, Woolman sold his South American dusters in 1928 to a Peruvian firm. He sold the airmail route to Pan American Grace, forming the nucleus of Panagra.
The company’s U.S. dusting operations continued until 1966, but new undertakings were underway in 1928 as Delta Air Service purchased three five-passenger, 90-mile-per-hour Travel Air monoplanes. On June 17, 1929, over an original route that stretched from Dallas, Texas, to Jackson, Mississippi, with stops in Shreveport and Monroe, Louisiana, Delta
operated its first passenger flight. As additional planes were delivered from the factory, service was extended eastward to Birmingham, Alabama, and westward to Fort Worth, Texas.
This represented a bold financial venture since the route was operated without benefit of a mail contract, and revenue from airmail was needed to supplement passenger operating expenses. The year 1930 brought news that the Post Office Department had awarded the badly needed airmail contract for the Southern route to a rival airline. Dusting operations were expanded and Dr. Coad joined Delta as chief entomologist. In 1934, Delta had an opportunity to win back the route it had pioneered from
Dallas/ Ft. Worth to Birmingham as the Post Office cancelled all airmail contracts and called for new bids. Delta’s bid won the airmail contract for the route from Fort Worth to Charleston, South Carolina, via Atlanta. Delta’s first airmail flight on July 4, 1934, was flown by Stinson T aircraft. The planes were capable of carrying seven passengers and the mail at speeds of 100 miles per hour. From this point the airline’s climb to prominence in air transportation was firmly established.
While Delta was busy developing its Southern route, three other pioneer airlines, each destined to play key roles in Delta’s future, were developing: two in the West and one in the Northeast. Chicago and Southern Air Lines (C&S) became part of Delta through a merger in 1953. Northeast Airlines merged with Delta in 1972. Western Air Lines was merged into Delta in 1987.
www.century-of-flight.net/Aviation%20history/coming%20of%20age/usairlines/Delta%20Airlines.htm -

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Airline : Air Charter Ltd
Headquarters : London UK
Pilot : Flyin Bull
Aircraft : Avro Tudor IV


Air Charter Limited was formed in early 1947 with two Dragon Rapieds and in early 1948 these were joined by an Airspeed Consul to operate light passenger and freight charters. Operations with these twin-engined aircraft continued until February 1951.

In February 1955 the airline imported their first Douglas DC 4 into the United Kingdom for use on internal German services, general charter work, and later on trooping flights on behalf of the Ministry of Defence (MoD).

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/#cite_note-2
The airline operated freight charters mainly for the MoD and acquired Avro York and Avro Tudor aircraft as freighters. The last of Air Charter's Tudors was withdrawn in July 1959, having been employed on charter runs as far as Christmas Island in the western Pacific. These were the last flying operations of the type.

In January 1959 Air Charter became part of the Airwork group the holding company that later formed British United Airways.

 
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