Sorry if this is already out there somewhere, but I was wondering if anybody has tried to recreate the flight of Rinker Buck and his brother Kern from "Flight of Passage". If not it might be a little work as several of the airports no longer exist including the starting one in New Jersey and the ending one in California. It might be fun though, for anyone with a little time who likes low and slow flight. Just a thought.
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Flight of Passage
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stearmandriver
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I've actually thought about doing this in the A2A Cub. I never got far enough to realize several airports were missing, but it wouldn't be hard to throw down some simple grass strips.
My problem would be time. I'm finishing up my recreation of the first China Clipper flight across the pacific, but I'm doing that using time compression between celestial / DR checkpoints over the empty ocean. Not sure how you could use time compression in a plane that really shouldn't have an autopilot, navigating by pilotage... And I sure don't have time to sim fly coast to coast at Cub speeds ;-). It would be an interesting project though, I'd like to see someone do it!
My problem would be time. I'm finishing up my recreation of the first China Clipper flight across the pacific, but I'm doing that using time compression between celestial / DR checkpoints over the empty ocean. Not sure how you could use time compression in a plane that really shouldn't have an autopilot, navigating by pilotage... And I sure don't have time to sim fly coast to coast at Cub speeds ;-). It would be an interesting project though, I'd like to see someone do it!
blanston12
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Flight Replicas has a nice PA-11 you could use. Last year I reproduced the RTW flight of the Army team from 1924, often I ran into the problem that the airport they used was no longer there, but just took the view that I was doing flying in the current day and use the closest appropriate airport.
Naismith
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stearmandriver
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Yup sure enough, looks like someone did do the entire fight - in 2006. It's documented as a series of posts you can find in these search results:
http://mainescenery.proboards.com/board/13/flights-adventures-missions?q=Flight+of+passage
But... 2006. You really have me thinking about trying this now, with the benefit of today's scenery / weather / textures add ons, and of course the A2A Cub. Maybe once I make it to Manila in the Clipper... ;-).
http://mainescenery.proboards.com/board/13/flights-adventures-missions?q=Flight+of+passage
But... 2006. You really have me thinking about trying this now, with the benefit of today's scenery / weather / textures add ons, and of course the A2A Cub. Maybe once I make it to Manila in the Clipper... ;-).
Another one that's probably out there is from Richard Bach's "Biplane" in which he flies an open cockpit 1929 Detroit-Ryan Speedster, model Parks P-2A biplane cross country, some of it in weather so bad he was getting, he said, negative ground speed. He also ground looped it on his first cross country landing.
I just checked and the airplane still exists in Texas.
I just checked and the airplane still exists in Texas.