I do it because I love it, the money is not the reason. Actually how could it be .. there is no money in this racket...LOL!!!
But if I can get a bit here or there and buy the kids and the wife a treat here and there for letting me do this its all good in the end.
I decided to finish this one and then look at making a new one with a single yoke and the wings the way the plans up above show it for fs9. I spent the after noon looking at the two differant drawings and they look so close except for the wing design on the tips, but its all water under the bridge now, we will get this ol gal spruced up and out there and then we will get flying on the fsx one.
Its a great project as it has some very nice variants to play with and over the next year or so I can make them all. Its harder now that my partner decided to retire from flight sim, but its ok, I can do it all any ways but now I have to be patient because I can only do one plane at a time...lol which is good.
In this time in flight sim I had two fantastic design partners , Mark Dyson and Norm Gorn, both of them were incredible designers. I will miss them both for a long time . But things happen for a reason and I will be ok. :0)
Im glad the new liveries dont have mass amounts of chrome all over them like the last ones...LOL that is not happening on this one. In many ways I wish fsx never came here, aside from designing I just cant get emersed in that sim, I can fly fs9 for hours at a time but only 20 minutes in fsx.. I dont know why, it just dosent connect with me. Im looking at ways to make new planes for fs9 and make them super detailed, they would never get to the level of fsx but I can get them darn close thats for sure.
Thanks all for the support and the great pics!
Tom Wood
Lead Designer