Preservation of the models by David Molyneaux and textures by Peter Watkins.

[splatz]

Does anybody know of a list of all the aircraft that David Molyneaux created for FS2004?

I have all of his Austers but I am pretty sure he did other aircraft as well.

 

[AndyG43]

I don't have a list, but this is a good place to start.

 

[wolfebee89]

a good start for a comprehensive list would be to check CBFS - Developers Corner for all posts by the late Dave Molyneaux forum handle @molyned https://www.cbfsim.co.uk/cbfs_bb/viewforum.php?f=7

moreover, a search at simviation reveals https://simviation.com/1/search?submit=1&keywords=Molyneaux

 

[AndyG43]

I'd forgotten he modelled the Blackburn B-2, another hole filled at my virtual Shuttleworth Collection. Thanks wolfebee.

 

[Desert Rat]

https://sim-outhouse.org/sohforums/members/molyned.88720/#resources

 

[leuen]

With differents results. and Avism.com with one, but not the sames!

Bernard

 

[splatz]

Thanks for everyone’s help. Will try and see if I can find some of the other aircraft.

 

[splatz]

I guess all lot of the aircraft that David Molyneaux created were available on FlightSim.com till it went offline.
Just hoping to locate most of them if possible.

 

[arl]

I, and others, helped Dave with the testing of his aircraft. So I will have them all tucked away on various external drives. I found a page listing all the ones that I have in a notebook. There were about 55 in all. The Austers were about 40% of his total output.

I will try to list them all for completeness. Perhaps someone could suggest the easiest way to get the list into either a forum post or an attached word file?

I should point out that the SOH list above includes three Percival aircraft that were produced by Keith Paine, who also used the handle Dev One over at Cbfsim. I can only think that Dave posted them on Keith's behalf. He was never one to claim other's handiwork for himself.

Sadly the demise of flightsim.com has also lost us the repaints that the late Peter Watkins did for Dave's planes and so many others.

 

[splatz]

I, and others, helped Dave with the testing of his aircraft. So I will have them all tucked away on various external drives. I found a page listing all the ones that I have in a notebook. There were about 55 in all. The Austers were about 40% of his total output.

I will try to list them all for completeness. Perhaps someone could suggest the easiest way to get the list into either a forum post or an attached word file?

I should point out that the SOH list above includes three Percival aircraft that were produced by Keith Paine, who also used the handle Dev One over at Cbfsim. I can only think that Dave posted them on Keith's behalf. He was never one to claim other's handiwork for himself.

Sadly the demise of flightsim.com has also lost us the repaints that the late Peter Watkins did for Dave's planes and so many others.

I remember doing some beta testing also for Dave when BritSim was around. Hopefully I might be able to complete the full set of the aircraft he developed eventually.

Peter Watkins did some many nice repaints. He did some nice New Zealand repaints for the DH.83 Fox Moth.

 

[arl]

Make	Model	Make	Model	Make	Model
Airspeed	Courier	Auster	Mk 1	de Havilland	D.H.84 Dragon
Airspeed	Envoy	Auster	Mk 3	Fairey	Fulmar
Airspeed	Envoy Mk 3	Auster	Mk 5	Gloster	Gladiator I & II
Airspeed	Oxford	Auster	T-7	Heston	Phoenix
Auster	A2-45	Auster	T-7 Floats	Miles	Aerovan
Auster	Agricola	Auster	Taylorcraft C	Miles	Gemini
Auster	Aiglet Trainer	Auster	Terrier 2	Miles	Messenger Mk1
Auster	Ambulance	Avro	Avian	Miles	Messenger Mk2A
Auster	Antartic (Skis)	Beagle	Husky	Miles	Monarch/Whitney Strait
Auster	AOP-11	Blackburn	B-2	Parnall	Elf
Auster	AOP-6	Blackburn	Roc	Percival	Prospector
Auster	AOP-9	Blackburn	Skua	Short	Scion
Auster	Arrow	Boulton-Paul	Balliol	Short	Scion Floats
Auster	Glider	Boulton-Paul	Defiant	Southern	Martlet
Auster	J-1 Alpha	Boulton-Paul	Sea Balliol	Supermarine	Walrus
Auster	J-1 Autocrat	Chrislea	Sky Jeep	Thruxton	Jackaroo
Auster	J-5B Autocar Gipsy	Chrislea	Super Ace	Trago Mills	Sprint
Auster	J-5R Alpine	de Havilland	D.H. 51	Westland	Widgeon
Auster	J-5V Autocar Lycoming	de Havilland	D.H.83 Fox Moth	Wicko	GM-1

Note: Purely in alphabetical order. I may have missed a version of the Messenger. Any other errors down to forgetfulness.

 

[leuen]

This seems to have been omitted: Miles M-65 Gemini done by Dave Molyneaux and repainted as Spanish CANA (Compañia Auxiliar De Navegacion Aerea) by Juan Villamor.

Bernard

 

[rohan]

Dave Molyneaux also created models of the Airspeed Envoy Mk.2, the Airspeed Consul and the Avro 707A . . .

 

[splatz]

Using arl's list above, I have worked out what I currently have and what I have missing. The highlighted aircraft in green are what I have been able to download and save. Those left white are what's missing to complete the list.

 

[leuen]

I still have some of these and could make them available. BUT, it would again raise the spectre of copyright ant author approval.

Bernard

 

[normb]

I have an "Airspeed Consul" twin in my collection. Never seen the "Short Scion Float" model. This is when I miss the old Flightsim.com and UK site.

normb

 

[arl]

As I attended Dave's funeral I can confirm that author approval could be a sticky issue. However, Dave did upload or permit upload of a number of his aircraft to Sim-Outhouse. So I am pretty sure that he would not object to their addition to the previous uploads.

Admin can choose to differ on the upload permission issue.

As with many freeware developers his main grouse was that no-one profit from his work. His readmes included the stock:

"The aircraft may not be sold or included on a CD /DVD without my prior agreement.This model is freeware - no site has permission to charge for it in any way."

He even graciously permitted a "steampunk", or whatever, repaint of one of his aircraft (on Sim-Outhouse?) and kept his opinion of the result offline. As someone who put so much work into the authenticity of his aircraft - it did not impress him!

As Dave and I were in an online flight group on Sunday nights, when I was eating a meal, I have to confess to adding an autopilot to some of his aircraft. Eating and hand flying do not always end well. He did not approve of such inaccurate tweeks, but I'm sure he could tell what I had done but was too generous to mention it. Anyway, I would only upload his original files to help fill any gaps if needed.

Apologies for missing the two Airspeeds, they are amongst my favourites too. The Avro 707 is I think a Dave Garwood plane. I'll check it out though.

The Scion Float was amongst his earliest uploads on the other british website that disappeared, so may not have been added to flightsim.

Cheers,
Allan

 

[AndyG43]

The Avro 707A is a Dave Maltby model, available in the CBFSIM file library.

 

[Tako_Kichi]

As I attended Dave's funeral I can confirm that author approval could be a sticky issue. However, Dave did upload or permit upload of a number of his aircraft to Sim-Outhouse. So I am pretty sure that he would not object to their addition to the previous uploads.

Is it possible, if you were that close to him and his family, that you could contact his next of kin and seek their permission to upload Dave's files here in order to maintain his legacy and so that simmers can continue to enjoy his wonderful creations?

If so we could even create his own section in the Library just like we did for the former GAS payware aircraft or 'Jankees' numerous repaints.

 

[Desert Rat]

As I was heavily involved in uploading most of his files here with his permission granted, I can confirm he gave his permission to upload any of his creations. I did look to see if the posting had survived the transfer to .org, but I don't think it did as far as I could see. He went by the name Molyned here, so I uploaded them under that user name. It would be clearer and maybe possible to create a 'David Molyneaux' user and attach them to that. Would make them easier to find, I did this with Lasse Lindh's uploades, but I've runo out of e-mail addressess to create another user with. Maybe easier to accomplish would be stick to Molyned, but create a sub-cattegory legacy collection.