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Crickey, it's the Aeroplane Heaven DH.2
Posted: 13 Apr 2017, 21:52
by FlyTexas
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.
All in all a fun trip down memory lane.
Brian
Re: Crickey, it's the Aeroplane Heaven DH.2
Posted: 13 Apr 2017, 22:02
by DaveB
Nice one Brian
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.
ATB
DaveB
Re: Crickey, it's the Aeroplane Heaven DH.2
Posted: 13 Apr 2017, 22:37
by blanston12
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.
Re: Crickey, it's the Aeroplane Heaven DH.2
Posted: 13 Apr 2017, 22:48
by FlyTexas
DaveB wrote:Nice one Brian
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.
ATB
DaveB
Didn't have to drag out the CD's for that one.
Already had it installed.
Re: Crickey, it's the Aeroplane Heaven DH.2
Posted: 13 Apr 2017, 23:18
by DaveB
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
ATB
DaveB
Re: Crickey, it's the Aeroplane Heaven DH.2
Posted: 14 Apr 2017, 00:04
by FlyTexas
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.
Brian
Re: Crickey, it's the Aeroplane Heaven DH.2
Posted: 14 Apr 2017, 01:19
by FlyTexas
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?
Brian
Re: Crickey, it's the Aeroplane Heaven DH.2
Posted: 14 Apr 2017, 06:44
by blanston12
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?
Brian
Is that a real aircraft? What were they thinking?
Re: Crickey, it's the Aeroplane Heaven DH.2
Posted: 14 Apr 2017, 07:52
by FlyTexas
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
and that was the end of this very unusual aircraft.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DFW_Floh
Brian