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The MSFS PMDG DC-6 Livery Thread

Especially for Manfred and Kent:
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Hope to release it within a few day.

Marcel
 
Soot !

I saw requests for Everts Blue Canoe passing by. Looked it up. Lovely livery indeed. Possibly good chance to talk about soot for a minute.

Everything is top of the bill regarding the default PMDG DC-6 external texturing. It's only aft of the cowl flaps that the painting artist seems to have lost interest or didn't want to get his hands dirty... Usually it's quite a palet of blackish, brownish, blueish and whatnotish matt colors all over the place there behind the cowl flaps because of the trillions of explosions coming from the 18 cylinders of a P&W R-2800 for many, many hours, day in day out. The result f.i. on the Everts Blue Canoe DC-6 looks therefore like this :

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The soot coming from the PMDG DC-6 engines however looks like only 4 cylinders have been working very inefficiently for just a few hours :

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Some more evidence that there really are 4 hard working, oil dripping, fuel slurping, hot glowing, firebreathing monsters there in front of the cowl flaps that leave their excrements behind all over the nacelles behind the cowlflaps in a most not to be misunderstood way.

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Working of the PMDG DC-6's engines have been replicated to the utmost fidelity, it is just a pity this has not exactly been forwarded to the external texture department...

Just saying, guys... :)
 
Hi Jan,

Javis said:
The soot coming from the PMDG DC-6 engines however looks like only 4 cylinders have been working very inefficiently for just a few hours :
Some more evidence that there really are 4 hard working, oil dripping, fuel slurping, hot glowing, firebreathing monsters there in front of the cowl flaps that leave their excrements behind all over the nacelles behind the cowlflaps in a most not to be misunderstood way.
Working of the PMDG DC-6's engines have been replicated to the utmost fidelity, it is just a pity this has not exactly been forwarded to the external texture department...
Just saying, guys... :)
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Hear yah :) Tried to dirty up the Martinair's engines. Like you say it's evident on most pictures (only the repaintkit, does not supply the effect so is left out in most repaints.)
Making good looking dirt is not so easy as it looks :)

PS How would it be on the inner side of both the engines? The engine-exhausts are not present there, however the cowl-flaps are open there, so should this side be as dirty or less or none?

Marcel
 
Found also a good one, shows indeed the "inboard" side was lot cleaner then the "outboard"
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Honestly, I think I'd be hesitant to fly on a plane with that much creosote and soot caked onto the nacelles. If fleet management can't even manage to wash a bird now and then, what other issues are hidden? For instance, "Is that hydraulic stain new, or is it left over from the last time I checked that fitting three years ago?" In addition, that much crud on the skin causes excess drag, which ends up costing more in fuel - all the more incentive to get the plane into a wash pit now and then.
 
Seeing the photo of the crashed Everts DC-6 N451CE that Jan posted, and thinking about all of the DC-6's which have been retired since the 90's, it got me looking into just how many DC-6's are still flying today.

Currently, these are the only DC-6's flying in the world (7):

- Red Bull/Flying Bulls OE-LDM, Based in Austria
- Florida Air Transport N70BF, Based in Hawaii
- Everts Air Cargo/Fuel N100CE, Based in Alaska
- Everts Air Cargo/Fuel N251CE, Based in Alaska
- Everts Air Cargo/Fuel N747CE, Based in Alaska
- Everts Air Cargo/Fuel N7780B, Based in Alaska
- Everts Air Cargo/Fuel N9056R, Based in Alaska

Additionally, it was in the aviation news last September that James Mac Ivor, of San Antonio, TX, has been working on getting his DC-6 V5-NCG flying again, which has been in storage in Namibia since last flying in 2010, and it will be flown to Texas when ready. I unfortunately haven't heard/seen any updates since then, and it sounds like once it is in the US, it will likely be parked again and put up for sale.

Another DC-6, N151, was acquired from Everts by the Flyhistorik Museum in Norway and ferried to Norway last year, but will now remain a static museum display. There are tons of DC-6 airframes in storage, so certainly no shortage of spares or airframes that could be returned to the air if someone wanted to/has the resources. Everts' parent company has more than double its flying fleet of DC-6's in stored DC-6 airframes.

Additionally, there are only three Douglas DC-4's/C-54's flying in the world, all of which are based in the US - N3054V, N460WA, and N9015Q. Those that had been flying in South Africa have all been parked for at least a few years or more, and those owned by Buffalo in Canada are also in storage. With the retirement of N838D last October, the last DC-7 tanker operated by Erickson, there are no longer any DC-7's flying in the world at all (the Historical Flight Foundation's Eastern Airlines DC-7 N836D has been out of commission for several years now, with no recent news).

There is only one additional 4-engined propliner flying in the world, that being the Constellation operated by HARS in Australia (there are of course efforts underway to return a few other Constellations to the air). And the Berlin Airlift Historical Foundation is in need of significant monetary donations to get their C-97 back in the air again.
 
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Currently, these are the only DC-6's flying in the world (7):

- Red Bull/Flying Bulls OE-LDM, Based in Austria
- Florida Air Transport N70BF, Based in Hawaii
- Everts Air Cargo/Fuel N100CE, Based in Alaska
- Everts Air Cargo/Fuel N251CE, Based in Alaska
- Everts Air Cargo/Fuel N747CE, Based in Alaska
- Everts Air Cargo/Fuel N7780B, Based in Alaska
- Everts Air Cargo/Fuel N9056R, Based in Alaska
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I was under the impression that the owner of PMDG flew a DC-6 and based the addon after that one. Am I mistaken?
 
They've done a pretty good job creating that image. PMDG's Robert Randazzo owns a gorgeous DC-3 (N33611), but not a DC-6.

The color scheme of the flight sim PMDG 'house' DC-6 is based on the color scheme of V5-NCG in Namibia, which is owned by James Mac Ivor (Nighthawk Air Systems Inc.), and which hasn't flown since 2010, but there have been plans to get it flying again and to ferry it across the Atlantic to Texas.
 
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