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Thank you Roger, Paul, and Bill!

There's actuallytwo different Bleriot's in the screenshots. One is powered by an Anzani, where-as the other is one of those that were powered by a Le Rhone rotary engine (various examples of both of these fly today).

There are three different Bleriot variants for FSX (the two above included), available here, as you will notice through the tabs: http://bleriot-11-en.blogspot.com/

When installing all of them, you have to re-name the main folder names for the individual aircraft, as well as re-title the individual title lines in the different aircraft.cfg files, otherwise those are written all the same. I also didn't quite like the textures for the pilots, so I made some changes.
 
Is that a Bleriot with the rotary engine in the later shots? Seen a replice flying twice at Hahnweide, looked like awesome fun!
 
Mr.Mugel said:
Is that a Bleriot with the rotary engine in the later shots? Seen a replice flying twice at Hahnweide, looked like awesome fun!
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I believe that would be one of the examples owned and flown by Mikael Carlson, which is an example that was manufactured by Thulin, in Sweden, under license from Bleriot. If it wasn't for Mikael Carlson's Bleriot performances, I wouldn't have nearly the amount of interest in the aircraft as I do.
 
This is my idea of good weekend flying. This is one of the new-build reproductions, built all to original plans, with a modern Rotec engine on the front (you can actually order one of these Bleriots to be built for you, to your own specifications). One of the options for these reproductions, is whether to have the original wing-warping or to have ailerons fitted - with this example, owned by Eric Preston, it was decided to keep the original wing warping. According to Eric, just about all that the wing warping is good for, is just to balance the aircraft enough through turns, which are guided/done primarily with the rudder, otherwise the wing warping really doesn't do much.

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It's one of the three default FS9 schemes (though the model is one of the FSX-converted types). I did black-out the alpha channel for the decal texture file, so that the markings on the side of the rear fuselage weren't present - I like the over-all look of it a lot better, and it changed it from being a scheme I didn't like and didn't use, to being the one I use the most.

Here's a very nice, real-life, red-painted Jenny (with many other videos of this aircraft found under the uploader's account):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HVe4OjAr7Y
 
John is there any chance WARBIRDSIm could do a flying porta potty? Because I truly believe that your screenshots would sell hundreds..............friggin awesome work!!! :salute:
 
I love this Jenny, but I never managed to make it look so good on screenshots. Great job, thanks for sharing.
 
When I was younger, did not pay much attention to the bi-plane era. But now that I am a bonifide senior citizen, they are as slow as I am getting! Great screen shots, Keep them coming, Don
 
That is a great model of the Jenny, too! I know the designer kept the wings semi-transparent so as to show-off/display the internal wing structure that he went through the pain to produce. Thank you for posting the screenshots, too! I think Dirk made a very nice Model T for FSX that came with one of his Jenny's, that I had installed at one time - I'll need to track that down again.

I'd actually like to see this thread continue to be expanded, with screenshots from many others! None of that 1, 2, or 3 picture business, but 10+ images, and perhaps even a story behind the images or the flight - and keep it all to the 1900's, 1910's, 1920's, and 1930's, military and civilian aviation.
 
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