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Savoia Marchetti S.79CS & T just uploaded

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I take it that's the true colour of their flying suits.. not the blue (one size fits all) suits shown by the crew standing next to the S.79? Wonder if the S.79 shot was hand coloured? This was certainly popular in the UK after the war. I've got a couple of wedding phots of mom and dad.. one is B&W, the other looks like the same shot but hand coloured. Things can get a bit lost in colour translation:encouragement:
ATB
DaveB:)
 
I guess the pictures from the museum show the real colours. It reminds me to the song Baggy trousers by the band Madness......

The colour picture above is most probably made from the black & white picture below. Both were found on the internet, so I can't tell you anything more.



Cheers,
Huub
 
For those who haven't tried it yet: There is an awful lot of water between Dakar and Natal :dizzy:

I'm afraid that navigation isn't my strongest point (yet) :biggrin-new:.



 
Yup.. the poses are identical aren't they. Good effort at colouring it though. Pity whoever did it didn't know what the real colours should have been.

ATB
DaveB:)
 
Plural of mouse is mice...

Not mices... common mistake of foreign English speakers... btw... aircraft.. the plural is aircraft... not aircrafts...
another common error seen around here.. lol
and the worst of all... THIS AMONGST NATIVE ENGLISH speakers... HANGARS are for aircraft.. HANGERS are for clothes...


:wavey:
G.
 
Thanks for your wise language lessons Gaucho, but please remember that this is an international forum when you can't expect everybody to write the Queen's English.
We use language as a carrier for the message we try to bring.

Everybody has his own talents here. One can read and write several languages, others make perfect models. I would appreciate it if you could limit your comments to the model, which is the actual topic of this thread.

Thank you,
Huub
 
Lighten up!

huub vink said:
Thanks for your wise language lessons Gaucho, but please remember that this is an international forum when you can't expect everybody to write the Queen's English.
We use language as a carrier for the message we try to bring.

Everybody has his own talents here. One can read and write several languages, others make perfect models. I would appreciate it if you could limit your comments to the model, which is the actual topic of this thread.

Thank you,
Huub
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Didn't mean to offend anyone! A thousand pardons...
Not meaning to be picky... but it seems the conversation had turned to colors in photographs... and no one protested...
G.
 
No problem Gaucho, but in the three posts you made in this thread 2 contained comments about spelling. Only the last one, which was made after my request not to do this, didn't.

Cheers,
Huub
 
Hello Gaucho_59, thanks for all! If you try to speak French, i can help you ... my pleasure! :ernaehrung004:
Cheers,
JMC
 
Gentlemen! Enough said about language and spelling now. Please stay to the subject!

Thanks,
Huub
 
Prop fix? Please try it!

For those who have display problems with the prop textures I have made two alternative textures. Could you please install these textures and report back hwther the problem has been solved?

Just unzip and drop the files in the "common" texture folders form both the SM.79CS folder as the SM.79T folder.

Thanks for your feedback,
Huub
 
Merci bien, mai je le parle tres bien aussitot!

gastonj said:
Hello Gaucho_59, thanks for all! If you try to speak French, i can help you ... my pleasure! :ernaehrung004:
Cheers,
JMC
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I lived in Europe since I retired from the US Army in 1984 until the year 2000, and learned French back in 1952... as a very young boy... lol
G.
 
Manuele added a very weathered version in the package of the I-ALAN, as it most probably looked after a harsh flight from Italie to Brazil.

As I wanted to have an I-ALAN as it looked before the start, when it was among the best Italian Civil Aviation could bring, I decided to start a fresh repaint. The start is there, but as I started a fresh paintkit it will take quite some time to finish it. All shading stil needs to be applied.

There are some minor differences between this repaint and the one by Manuele as there aren't many pictures from this aircraft avaiable, which leaves quite some room for my own interpretation.

Cheers,
Huub

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Hi,
Let's hope this is roughly on-topic :pop4:

Much as I like the S-79 models, I also like to add an autopilot so I can go off and make Tea. I think some of Manuele's aircraft have a modified Sperry(?) unit, but not the I-ALAN which is the one I fly.

I have the old LAGO model to which I have added the autopilot from the Dh 104, which works well, but this does not want to function in these newer aircraft and I wondered whether there is something I can do to make this unit work.

Thanks for any advice,
Andy.
 
lemonadedrinker said:
Hi,
Let's hope this is roughly on-topic :pop4:

Much as I like the S-79 models, I also like to add an autopilot so I can go off and make Tea. I think some of Manuele's aircraft have a modified Sperry(?) unit, but not the I-ALAN which is the one I fly.

I have the old LAGO model to which I have added the autopilot from the Dh 104, which works well, but this does not want to function in these newer aircraft and I wondered whether there is something I can do to make this unit work.

Thanks for any advice,
Andy.
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Hi Andy,
ALL the planes in the package are equipped with an autopilot, also the I-ALAN !!!
The autopilot in S.79CS was an experimental installation (as reported from some RA historical writers). Smiths and Sperry systems were tested and, probably (I did a deep research and there is NO evidence in ALL the texts and photos I found), was chosen the Sperry one. The system, very similar to autopilot used by Wiley Post in his Lockheed Vega, was license-built by Italian Salmoiraghi. In the T model,modified CSs for Rome-Dakar-Rio de Janeiro transatlantic flight, instead of Salmoiraghi, was used a more advanced autopilot (derived from Siemens K4u), license-built by Italian Microtecnica (there is NO photographic evidence, BUT it is clearly cited in Biseo's reports). The I-ALAN was a CS (you can find a brief history in the pdf enclosed in the package) with all the T instruments and a little cabin for 4 passengers and mail. You can find more instructions about the use of Microtecnica-Siemens autopilot in the "Understanding the S79" txt file (by FSAviator, also included in the package).

:wavey::wavey::wavey:
 
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