Freeware Sikorsky S-42 "Brazilian Clipper"

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FS2004 (ACOF) - FS2004 Early Aircraft
FS2004 Pan Am Sikorsky S-42

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Name: s42nc822.zip Size: 9,050,776 Date: 03-18-2009
FS2004 Pan Am Sikorsky S-42 "Brazilian Clipper" NC-822M. Sikorsky 4-engine flying boat flown by Pan American Airways 1934-1944. Used in Caribbean and South America, carrying up to 32 passengers and 5 crew. Range 1200 miles at cruising speed of 150 mph. At the time it was the largest plane built in the United States. NC-822M was the first of ten S-42s delivered to Pan Am. FSDS3.5 model with virtual cockpit, passenger compartment, custom XML gauges including prop synchronizer. Animated fore and aft hatches. Model based on Sikorsky documents from New England Air Museum and photos from U. of Miami library. A flying boat, not an amphibian. No true landing gear, but beaching gear provided. Can be taxied in and out of water. By George Diemer.


Images are those included with the download, not mine.


Cheers! Mike :rapture:
 
I've been waiting for a S42 for ages! And it's one of Georges too. Can't get much better than this :ernae:

Off to go get it now!
 
What a beauty! :applause: I just love the cabin interior...a real work of art. :medals:

Brian
 
Installed the "Brazilian Clipper" and did a quick tour of the San Francisco area. She's a keeper!
 
Finally got around to taking her up. WOW!!!!
Great plane. Amazing detail.

Just wondering if anybody has an idea for a better sound set?
Anything from Cal Classics?
And any repaints in the works?
 
I'll be tinkering together a sound set for the S-42 this week (I hope). Need to do some head scratching and some sound file tweaking to come up with something unique that matches the plane. I have no idea what Pratt and Whitney R-1690 Hornets sound like, so what ever I come up with will just be a plausible guess. Odds are good that I will start with one of Lawdog's sound packs and make tweaks here and there....so it will be based on good stock.

OBIO
 
OBIO said:
I'll be tinkering together a sound set for the S-42 this week (I hope). Need to do some head scratching and some sound file tweaking to come up with something unique that matches the plane. I have no idea what Pratt and Whitney R-1690 Hornets sound like, so what ever I come up with will just be a plausible guess. Odds are good that I will start with one of Lawdog's sound packs and make tweaks here and there....so it will be based on good stock.

OBIO
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I know that Ralf Kreibich's W-34 used Lawdog's Bristol Mercury sound for its engine and that one is a BMW license built copy of the Hornet. Displacement-wise the Hornet is slightly smaller than the Jupiter that was the basis for the Mercury (which is a de-stroked and supercharged Jupiter, closer in displacement to the Wasp). I would probably start with Lawdog's Mercury sound and mix it in with a Wasp sound. Of course there is this really nice Cyclone sound:

FS2000 - FS2000 Sound FS2000 Generic Warbird Sound Set
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[SIZE=-1]FS2000 Generic Warbird Sound Set. Features the Wright R-1820-30 750 hp engine. Warbird enthusiasts will enjoy this set, it's loud and accurately reproduces this powerful engine's sounds. Sampled at 22,050 16 bit mono. A FlightSim.Com FS2000 Gold Seal Approved sound set. By Mike Hambly.[/SIZE]

[SIZE=-1]This might also make for a good jumping off point for finding that unique Hornet sound.:wiggle:[/SIZE]
 
I have a sound pack the Lawdog created but did not upload....it is for the BMW 132...which is the German built version of the Hornet.....same displacement, same horse power....I will be building the S-42 sound pack around that original pack.

OBIO
 
OBIO said:
I have a sound pack the Lawdog created but did not upload....it is for the BMW 132...which is the German built version of the Hornet.....same displacement, same horse power....I will be building the S-42 sound pack around that original pack.

OBIO
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Forget what I said previously...go with that:ernae:
Lookin forward to seeing that come out...would probably work well with Ju-52s, W34's and certain Lockheed Air Expresses (IIRC Roscoe Turner's 'Gilmore' was Hornet powered) among other aircraft.
 
LouP said:
I wound up aliasing it to Bill Lyons S43 package. :gossip:

LouP :wavey:
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I was thinking about that earlier today. I forgot about the S43 because I forgot to reinstall Golden Hawaii when I reinstalled stuff on my new computer.
Still gonna wait on Obio's new package.
 
Brilliant model, but the float points are off a bit when you're movin and looking from the outside. Maybe one of the FDE gurus here can tweak this a bit?
 
Right now the wife has me giving my office/flight room a thorough cleaning...and she means THOROUGH! Already have one 33 gallon trash bag full of stuff, a medium size box, a burnt out computer, and a pile of unneeded computer power cords cleared out...man I had a TON of worthless stuff sitting around collecting dust.

Once I have my office clean, I have to get the new wireless router set up so my wife can get her laptop on line.

After that is done, I should be able to get to the S-42 sound pack....will only take me 5 to 10 minutes to tweak the sound config file and add in some FS2004 specific coding (canopy open and close, coding for the water loop sound as the flying boat taxis along in the water...that sort of stuff).

It should definitely be uploaded sometime tomorrow and available shortly there after.

Well, Deb just pulled out the cattle prod again and looks like she is ready to use it to motivate me to finish cleaning up my flight room.

OBIO
 
OBIO said:
Right now the wife has me giving my office/flight room a thorough cleaning...and she means THOROUGH!

Well, Deb just pulled out the cattle prod again and looks like she is ready to use it to motivate me to finish cleaning up my flight room.

OBIO
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:a1089:OBIO:violent:

OBIO:faint:

Been there, done that, got the marks... 3 weeks before the RTW Race.. or else....
 
The room is clean....and it is only 3:14 AM! Ended up with 3 33-gallon trash bags and 2 medium sized boxes worth of junk and trash....well, it wasn't junk and trash originally. It started out as stuff I "needed" and wanted to keep...until Deb opened my eyes (and a few patches of skin) and made me see that it was in fact trash. Four buckets of water with Murphy's Oil Soap and the flight room no longer smells like a giant ashtray and stale farts. My desk is actually pretty nice looking now that it no longer has a half inch of dush, ashes, potato chip crumbs and paper on it....I forgot that it is a nice cherry wood...well, cherry wood looking vinyl glued to partical board.

I have the basic work done on the S-42 sound pack. Need to tweak, tweak, and tweak, and when I am done tweaking, I will finish off by tweaking some more. To give you all fair warning, it's going to be a pretty big sound pack as I plan to give each engine a slightly different sound....just like real life as no two or four engines sound exactly the same.

OBIO
 
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