Anyone interested in recreating the 1934 MacRobertson Race?

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What is your favorite MacRobertson racer category?

Poll ended at 29 Jul 2004, 01:34

DH - Comet, Puss Moth, or Dragon Rapide
5
45%
Douglas - DC-2; Boeing - 247D
2
18%
Miles - Falcon or Hawk Major
1
9%
Airspeed - Courier or Viceroy
1
9%
Desoutter - Mk II; B.A. - Eagle
0
No votes
Fairey - IIIF or Fox I
1
9%
Granville Brothers - QED; Lockheed - Vega
1
9%
Lambert - Monocoupe 145; Pander - S4 Panderjager
0
No votes
 
Total votes: 11

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Here's a nice site about the Comet and the race...

http://www.pjcomputing.flyer.co.uk/comet/
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And here's another good site about the race...

http://www.dc3airways.com/1934-1.html

And here's the results......

http://www.dc3airways.com/1934-results.html
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Hello Calypsos:

I found this other post under "OOPS" in the forum....

quote="Sav M"]Hi Kev,

All is not lost. :)

The DH.88 panel stuff is on Disc 1.

Just open 'MSGAME1.CAB' with winzip or whatever, and look for 'comet_background.bmp', then get 'Dehavilland_Comet.cab', and finally the 'panel.cfg', there are quite a few of these, but if you have a look at the 'paths' tab of winzip you can see which one is pointing to the DeHavilland comet folder. It's 6,043KB's in size. :)

Hope this helps.

Sav :wink:[/quote]


I tried to zip the Comet folders. It is 6MB plus. It will take me several hours to attach it to an e-mail. If the above suggestion doesn't work, maybe I can send it in pieces.
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Post by Trev Clark »

Thanks Lee,
I'll give a go, not sure where it went! I am very careful about deleting default stuff! It is this interest in the air race that made me want to try her out!
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Post by Bonden »

I would definetly be up for this - in a Comet.

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Post by Boeing464 »

Ok, i'm warming to the idea of building a 247. Assuming a few other aircraft become available(ie DC-2), a race could be done.
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Here's what's available now, as far as I know, for either flying or AI competitors.....

DH88...

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DC2 Uiver...

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Boeing247D...

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DH88...

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DH85 Leopard Moth to represent the DH80 Puss Moth???...

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Miles Hawk Major...

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DH89 Tainui ...

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DH88...

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Vega...

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Monocoupe...

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GeeBee QED...

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