Classic British Flight Sim

Context:
On February 26, 1949, Lucky Lady II, a Boeing B-50 Superfortress flew the first-ever nonstop aerial circumnavigation flight from Carswell AFB, Texas, during which time, the aircraft was refueled four times before returning to base. The flight lasted 94 hours and 1 minute, and covered a distance of 23,452 mi (37,742.34 km).

Sir! Sir! I have questions, Sir!
Is the aircraft taking off; unlikely, or landing; more likely?
Did you simulate the entire flight?

Great shot of a great model!

Lovely screenshot, wonder how many they had to crew the aircraft for that flight?

Regards
Nigel.

Never mind, a quick google brought this up!


https://www.history.com/this-day-in-his ... bal-flight

Regards
Nigel.

Gear down, Flaps down, not right over the runway, I would say your coming in for a landing?

I assume you are using Manfred Jahn's B-50 model? Its pretty nice, especially if you join it with the VC from the Virtavia B-29.

Did you actually do the RTW flight? If so are there more screen shots? And how did you simulate the in-flight refueling?

blanston12 wrote: ↑

28 Jul 2018, 15:56

Gear down, Flaps down, not right over the runway, I would say your coming in for a landing?

I assume you are using Manfred Jahn's B-50 model? Its pretty nice, especially if you join it with the VC from the Virtavia B-29.

Did you actually do the RTW flight? If so are there more screen shots? And how did you simulate the in-flight refueling?

Yes, this picture shows the approach. And yes, this is Manfred Jahn's model.
I did circumnavigate, out of boredom, and thanks to unlimited fuel, time acceleration, and FSUIPC's autosave function (for safety). Because of the former, I didn't simulate the refueling.

I plan on getting Virtavia's B-29 for the VC (to replace the C-97 panel that comes w/ the B-50) and refueling segments for an upcoming video project. The refueling segments will be complemented by actual refueling footage of Lucky Lady II to make up for the lack of a gravity-hose refueling system in that add-on.

As for screenshots, here you go:

Airspeed wrote: ↑

28 Jul 2018, 09:50

Sir! Sir! I have questions, Sir!
Is the aircraft taking off; unlikely, or landing; more likely?
Did you simulate the entire flight?

1. The picture shows the landing phase.
2. Yes. Last week, I did decide to try it out of boredom, thanks to some help from unlimited fuel, time acceleration, and FSUIPC's autosave function just in case loadshedding happened.

Sorry to hear about the boredom!
Instead of using time acceleration, you should have asked a lovely lady to be cabin crew.
Four days at 30,000ft may have potential in a cosy cockpit.

I had considered doing that flight before but the refueling part made me pause, was figuring I would just land at the airports the tankers came from but never got around to it.

BTW if you are thinking of the Virtavia B-29, the FSX version is 50% off at pcaviator (and has been for ever) and it works great in P3D4

blanston12 wrote: ↑

29 Jul 2018, 06:04

BTW if you are thinking of the Virtavia B-29, the FSX version is 50% off at pcaviator (and has been for ever) and it works great in P3D4

Perfect. Still half off to this day, and purchased. Thanks!