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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

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Pasped Skylark by Lionheart Creations, Released!

Lionheart

SOH-CM-2014
Hey all,

Time to roll open the hanger and let another child out into the world.

This is the 1936 Pasped Skylark, a sleek classic of the Golden Age of Aviation. This exotic Hot Rod was only a two seater and was equipped with 2 doors for easy access as well as a top slide forward canopy that could be flown with it open. The aircraft featured phenomenal lift at low speeds, almost making it a STOL aircraft. It also featured a rather large air brake panel (some might call it a giant mega-flap) that was actuated with an electric servo mechanism which also featured a state of the art electric instrument that showed the pilot what position the flap was in. Armed with but the bare essentials of an aircraft of that era, ASI, VSI, Whiskey Compass, and a couple of other instruments, you were left with an uncluttered panel void of a radio stack, but equipped with a handy map box instead.

This aircraft ships with 3 versions of paint schemes, full animations throughout, a tie-down mode that deploys wheel chocks and a nice canopy cover. The airfile was created paintstakingly by Pam Brooker (Warchild) and Paul Frimston and having been given detailed flight feedback by the restorer of the aircraft himself, Tom Brown, they leave you with a very near handling plane as the real one. The only thing that couldnt be replicated was the 37 MPH stall speed, which is a bug with FSX, but we got it pretty darn close, making it a very nice bush plane to land on short grass strip runways which was one of the reasons the gargantuan two seater had such huge landing gear for was the rough airstrips of that time, usually fields...

There is a multi-function Kneeboard, Shift-6, which has your performance and specs, checklists, and a neat little Runway Visualizer which helps you navigate via the Whiskey Compass when doing pattern touch and goes. There is also a hand held mini Nautical compass (popup) also for easier compass navigating (for people like me that has issues reading the Whiskey Compass in patterns).

Her air speed indicator is in MPH which was common back then. She will cruise along smartly at about 125 to 130 MPH at cruise. She will spike over 145 MPH at redline, and faster if you go past redline. The Warner Super Scarab is equipped with only a Tachometer (and PSI and Temp gauges), but for speed, only the RPM is used, no MAP gauge. She doesnt have a variable pitch/adjustable prop, so you are clear of having to fiddle with prop RPM and MAP settings in flight. Just give her the gas and go.

No MFD... No PFD... No MVD-50 engine readout screen with multi page function. No retractable landing gear. No smell of resinated matrixed carbon fiber... (that was hard to put into a flight sim model by the way! )... Just a clean old, radial powered classic with a loud engine, a Whiskey compass, some neat leather seats, and a range of 475 miles on a tank of gas! hooo rah!

The PDF Manual is free to download seperate, download here;
http://lionheartworld.net/ps/Pasped_Skylark_Owners_Manual.pdf

Webpage is here;
www.lionheartcreations.com/Skylark
Wait a moment as it loads up the graphics.

Some screenshots of the girl...

The white version was when she was finished, white with black stripes. The Red version was done later in her life, probably for the movies she was in. Then when restored by Tom, it was back to white. The Blue Stripes version is Pams baby. She sent me a sketch in color and so thats hers, the Brooker Speedster.

I hope you like it.

The last detail. Price tag is $12.00 USD. This is a simple machine designed for lots of fun, no technology. This should help people out who are under the economy crunch.

Happy flying...

Bill

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lol no more warp core eh? LOL

Looks beautiful Bill, will put it on my 'too get' list, just spent a bit on some computer upgrades but its definately on my get list :)


Cheers
TJ
 
Congratulations Again Lionheart Creations!

Congratulations, Bil land Team!

:ernae:

Very Very Cool Shots, Nick! I Love it!
 
Congrats on the release of yet another great model! I am way impressed with the detail work. Awesome! :salute:
 
Bill,

I just bought myself a Father's Day present! Great work as always. I'm looking forward to spending some time flying tomorrow.
One thing I noticed on the website... The link to the paintkit is missing the last "k" in Skylark so a page not found error shows up. Once I placed the "k" at the end of Skylark in the address bar the link showed up and the PK downloaded. I figured you'd want to know.

Mike
 
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