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Icarus Rapide released!!

Roger said:
S'pose we'd better explain that the paint in your shots are NOT the Aviation wing of Alcoholics Anonymous....but the Automobile Association of Great Britain.:engel016:
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Next you will tell me the
RAC is not the Royal Alcoholic Club
IM stumped!:kilroy:
LOL
H
 
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another skin will be maked during week end and added to release
 
Cazzie said:
All the more reason to purchase it! :ernae:

How is Manuele? We miss him here. Haven't heard from him in quite a while. Hope all is well with him.

Caz
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Hi Cazzie,
I'm OK, but, unfortunately, I haven't a PC at home at this moment and my works proceed very slowly because I'm working at office during the pauses.....:angryfir::angryfir:
However I just finished the skins (6 liveries for 4 different versions) for the Stefano's FIAT G.12 and I'm working on the Breda Ba.65 I started a loooong time ago (at the end of the FIAT G.18V development).
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ah the ba65 that had it's better period during scw...i know it . nice to see you are working on and i know the quality..very very good.
 
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i missed many skins...just finding them now...good for version v1.01 of the rapide
 
Hi Icarus, I have downloaded your Rapide yesterday evening: it's a beautiful aircraft and flyies very well and stable (in my opinion of course!).
In Italy the Dragon was built from Breda:
"The Breda Ba.44 was a biplane airliner developed in Italy in the mid-1930s and which saw limited military service when impressed into the Regia Aeronautica as transports.
The design of the Ba.44 was developed from that of the de Havilland Dragon Rapide, for which Breda had purchased a manufacturing licence. Breda engineers believed that making some changes would better suit the aircraft to the company's manufacturing techniques, the biggest differences in the prototype Ba.44 being the design of the cockpit and empennage, and the change to locally-produced Colombo S.63 engines. In production, however, these were changed back to the same de Havilland Gipsy Six engines as the Dragon Rapide." (Wikipedia)

I hope sincerly that you will build S55... It will be fantastic!

Best regards,
Luca
 
it's a beautiful aircraft and flyies very well and stable
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seems a customer's common opinion the 90% love the aircraft.

oh yes i remember the breda 44 too peritas....thanks for your comments on dragon...if gera can help me as we talked on pm here about virtual cockpit sm55, i will build for sure..i have draws, plans and infos but no resources about the virtual cockpit. sm-55 was the first i wanted build...but missing infos about vc blocked development. if we can build one and gera can make some italo balbo's mission could be a nice thing.
 
Not my cup of tea, however, if I was at all interested in the subject I would be first in line. Beautiful job on the exterior and especially on the VC.

Hope you sell thousands!

Bob
 
Peritas said:
Hi Icarus, I have downloaded your Rapide yesterday evening: it's a beautiful aircraft and flyies very well and stable (in my opinion of course!).
In Italy the Dragon was built from Breda:
"The Breda Ba.44 was a biplane airliner developed in Italy in the mid-1930s and which saw limited military service when impressed into the Regia Aeronautica as transports.
The design of the Ba.44 was developed from that of the de Havilland Dragon Rapide, for which Breda had purchased a manufacturing licence. Breda engineers believed that making some changes would better suit the aircraft to the company's manufacturing techniques, the biggest differences in the prototype Ba.44 being the design of the cockpit and empennage, and the change to locally-produced Colombo S.63 engines. In production, however, these were changed back to the same de Havilland Gipsy Six engines as the Dragon Rapide." (Wikipedia)

I hope sincerly that you will build S55... It will be fantastic!

Best regards,
Luca
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Hi Luca,
The Breda Ba.44 history in Wikipedia is WRONG !!!!!
Breda, probably, NEVER purchased the manufacturing licence from De Havilland.
The '44 was simply inspired to Dragon, the differences between the two planes were very big. As for Fiat G.18V, for example, Gabrielli visited the Douglas's factory and his plane was very similar to Douglas DC.2, but absolutely NOT the same.

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Not my cup of tea, however, if I was at all interested in the subject I would be first in line. Beautiful job on the exterior and especially on the VC.
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yes of course...me too don't love all aircrafts..modern for example are not my favourite. thanks for your words bob

just for curiosity...which are your preferences? we could add some on our list if we able to do...each new idea or model is welcome and if we can we will build
 
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if i knew before about breda i could build too...actually i m busy with the v1.1 of the dragon(not to correct something but for more skins and few minor features ...freely downloadable for old customer of course, i will upload also the new camera view suggested by peritas)
 
@ Manuele: your report is very interesting. Of course Wikipedia is not ever affordable, but however I find it a good point to research in aviation's history.

@ Icarus: I'm looking for your 1.1 version (new textures!)...

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hope to publish for sunday/monday evening max, then i have to work on the grumman duck and the others.
 
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i have seen that with some skins as this one..the dragon paint looks a little more metallic so i m adding also another dragon with more reflection, so with v1.1 version models will be four.
 
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