Crickey, it's the Aeroplane Heaven DH.2

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Crickey, it's the Aeroplane Heaven DH.2

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Was wading through some dusty backup CD's today and came across the old Aeroplane Heaven DH.2. I couldn't resist installing her into FSX to see how she's held up over the years. Apart from...*deep breath*...replacing the prop blur texture with one from a native FSX Vickers Vimy, all instruments replaced with ones from a FSX compatible Sopwith Camel, and my own little addition (the pièce de résistance) a Spandau MG effect nicked from Stuart Green's Pfalz DIIIa model...she's held up pretty well. The Hun is in for a surprise with the Spandau MG effect. :lol: All in all a fun trip down memory lane. :)

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Nice one Brian :thumbsup: Have a look to see if you have their Bulldog too. Fairly recent pictures of this old model show it to be a fair looker. I don't have it myself so I can't add any more.

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Looks very nice! Hopefully you will make your mods available!

similarly, I was recently playing with the freeware FSX alpha sim SE5a, she looked pretty good, just had to tweak the flight model to reduce how aerobatic she was down to a more realistic level.
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DaveB wrote:Nice one Brian :thumbsup: Have a look to see if you have their Bulldog too. Fairly recent pictures of this old model show it to be a fair looker. I don't have it myself so I can't add any more.

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Didn't have to drag out the CD's for that one. ;) Already had it installed. :)

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Ahhh...

Huub Vink has done some nice textures for it but.. I'm not sure he ever released them. Looks a treat in his screenshots. I'll have a look in the library to see if they're there but I doubt it.

EDIT: No.. can't see them :(

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Interesting. *-) I'll look in my backup CD's too, Dave. Would love to have some new skins for the DH.2. Huub does excellent work. :)

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Well...poop. Didn't find Huub's repaints in my CD's, DVD's, thumbies, etc. :( But I did find this bit of forgotten payware. What was I thinking? :doh: :lol:

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FlyTexas wrote:Well...poop. Didn't find Huub's repaints in my CD's, DVD's, thumbies, etc. :( But I did find this bit of forgotten payware. What was I thinking? :doh: :lol:

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Is that a real aircraft? What were they thinking?
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blanston12 wrote:Is that a real aircraft? What were they thinking?
Yep, it was real. From what I've read the prototype crashed on its first landing :doh: and that was the end of this very unusual aircraft. :lol:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DFW_Floh

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