It's happened to you...

Glad to see that they got home safely. Not like there was any doubt, mind you.
 
I have once or twice succeeded with the cargo doors, but there is a knack to pressing three keys at once, isn't there? Besides, this is the more relaxed '50s. No hurry.

Anyway, let's have that last look round at the Houston area before unloading Sarah Elizabeth's vast collection of national costume dolls purchased during their innocent Odyssey...

This is clearly a local Convair flying by:

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And a DC-6 from Delta whose HQ is at Hartsfield, Atlanta International GA:

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This is definitely a DC-7:

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And another view of that one from your side of the USA, Tom:

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"So you dun bin an' gawn to some o' they Mohammedan lands, Egypt an' Leb'non outa the Good Book, has you, Glenmore?'

'Yup, sure 'nuff.'

'Shoot! That must'a bin mighty strange, no churches, ministers nor chapels nowhere, jus' them 'gyptian Mosquito-worshippin' boys.'

'Yup, reckon it was; diffren' strokes for diffren' folks. But at least it warn't PAGAN like that offal Californyah full o' witches an' beatniks an' bikers y'wall read 'bout in the 'papers, Tex.'

'Hell, no!'

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Apologies to all concerned.

A last look at one of Willy's anonymous Mercs doing the Orange County to Mountain View, Montana run (quite a flight up the Rockies):

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One of Delta's DC-7s:

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We'd better take an overview of Caribbean Sea:

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Still waiting for that luggage! And a last look at our magnificent DC-7C that did, after all, make it:

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With a final view her sitting in the Carters' Texas homeland:

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Sarah Elizabeth's book is called It happened to us, the thrill of winning a free trip to Europe and the Middle East on KLM Royal Dutch airlines...

...if you've read this far it's (sort of) happened to you too. Well, virtually.


THE END​
 
Great job :ernae::ernae::ernae:

just as with the Comet story...gripping all the way through. Can't wait to see what you come up with next.

As for the doors rather than leaving the FS default SHIFT+E and SHIFT+E+number I find that using a single key for the first door, I use "U" for example and then that key+number for additional doors makes it much easier to operate the doors.

Cheers
Stefan
 
What a trip!

Great story, Ralf! :ernae: I'm exhausted :sleep:

BTW, that Lone Star Airlines ship is a Martin 202 or 404.

- H52
 
Thank you so much

Thank you Ralf!

I've followed your story from beginning to end.
I will miss it.

Kind regards :salute:

Harry
 
Epilogue & Credits

Thanks, everyone who read these ramblings! glad they were liked. I enjoyed flying & writing it, though guess I now know how Dr Frankenstein felt about that pesky monster.

What happened was that I checked the net for interesting books about KLM's history and Sarah Carter's It happened to us was discovered. It seemed possible that this might contain a flight that could be recreated from the period, so I sat back and waited for the copy I'd paid a few dollars for to arrive in the post. When it came, realised I'd struck gold; though maybe not that it would take over half a year to complete in flightsim.

Promised to provide some acknowledgements & credits. Apologies to anyone who is left out, I'm afraid it's bound to happen, but hope that all the most important people whose work made the virtual version of the Carters' adventures possible get a mention. In no particular order...

...though obviously California Classics must come first! All the retro airport scenery, AI and many of the flyable aircraft came from this magical site run by Tom Gibson who has explained many things, technical and historical, along the way. As you may have gathered Mike Stevens has also done a great deal there, both on scenery and the fantastic (and sometimes witty) AI repaints. Everything at CalClassics is pretty straightforward to download, clear instructions and advice are provided if any problem needs to be sorted out. All that '50s civil AI installed without difficulty - I believe that there are now nearly a thousand different DC-3 liveries alone!

The 1963 Schiphol scenery got a good airing in the story. Hope I'm right in saying that this - and the Rotterdam, including those stunning Neptunes from Valkenburg - are the work of Wolfgang Gersch, Jaap de Baare and Harry Biard. Jaap & Harry, too, have written in during the Carter travelblog; and note that they are still making improvements, like adding the platformbus which now comes as standard when you install the latest version of that amazing EHAM. Wolfgang and Mike Stevens made a lot of the other wonderful scenery used, including the Cold War Berlin we (and the Carters) took a look at.

Some excellent scenery from beyond CalClassics was the Jerusalem mesh by Seev Khan. As mentioned, he has improved the whole of Israel, available in three parts. I also meshed Turkey (by Ugur Kenel) and seem to have done enormous areas of NE Canada which you do end up crossing a lot in this period. Have now installed the DEW (Defence Early Warning) lines (at CalClassics) - and will visit them in a future flight of a sinister military nature that I'm tinkering with.

Further credits and what became of the Carters to follow... ;)
 
Hi Ralf,

Thanks for the nice words - we appreciate it.

While the AI traffic was a huge project, it isn't quite that big. :)

There are currently 184 DC-3 liveries. No other aircraft has more than 100, although the DC-4 and DC-6B come close. There are a total of 1063 liveries in the package, from all around the world. The airline world was a lot smaller in those days than it is today.

Anyway, thanks again for a great thread. :salute:
 
This story is for the "Plane Crazy"

Hi Ralf,

Just finished browsing through your last pages of "The Carters" grand voyage.
It was a truly fun thing to follow - educational even.

Thanks also for the kind words on our various scenery pieces, appreciate that.

Groeten,
Jaap de Baare
 
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