Carvair from Mike Stone

John · Post by **John** » 29 Nov 2006, 15:25

Don't know if you've seen this but it's at all nodes...

scarvair.zip

Kind regards

John

Post by **Garry Russell** » 29 Nov 2006, 15:38

Cheers John

It was reported some days ago now..but thanks anyway

Garry

ianhind · Post by **ianhind** » 29 Nov 2006, 15:45

In fact Mike's released something else today

Meyers OTW 160

I admit my ignorance

Post by **Garry Russell** » 29 Nov 2006, 15:53

Ah........... .that's a :k:

Garry

ianhind · Post by **ianhind** » 29 Nov 2006, 16:18

Well I looked it up : 102 were built for post war pilot training. Apparently 40 are still flying.

Not exactly common this side of the pond I suspect.

Whether I have seen one or not in the US, can't remember. Certainly wouldn't have identified it.

Post by **Garry Russell** » 29 Nov 2006, 16:45

On the lighter side there are a whole host of unusual stuff in the States that we would not really know.

In fact a lot of countries have home grown oddities,

There are many older British light types that we only know because they are British and would not be widely known in many parts of the world.

So it never surprises me when something turns up that I have never heard of.

When DelP put his Dove out there were people on some forums asking what it was.

:think:

Garry

DispatchDragon · Post by **DispatchDragon** » 29 Nov 2006, 19:39

OTW is a nice little bugger

Actually had the pleasure of a ride in one at Tullahoma Tenn. in the late 80s when the Tullahoma EAA Chapter used to hold their Fly-In along with John Parrish's incredible Beech Staggerwing museum - my memories of it were it was slow and gentle and on the one landing I attempted it floated half way down the runway before sitting down

Nice job of MS to issue it.

Leif

St.Paddy · Post by **St.Paddy** » 08 Dec 2006, 20:15

Well, there's the model and paint scheme for the BUAF flights - can't remember if I uploaded the 1967/68 flights with my BUA package or not

- I'll have a look. If not, expect some over the next couple of weeks

Anybody willing to paint it up in Aer Lingus?? The plans for the EIN aircraft were definitely uploaded as part of the EIN package.

I will be uploading a 'complete package of all I've done so far' to DaveB in a little while and will then be starting on the foreign airlines in the UK in 1967. These will mostly be in a 24Hr rather than weekly format as I do not have any info on the airline timetables outside of the UK and it will help to 'populate' some of the european airports as well - the only downside being that when they are at their homebases they won't be doing a lot!

New system delivered today so back in the fold :dance:

Tim

DispatchDragon · Post by **DispatchDragon** » 08 Dec 2006, 23:32

Welcome Home Tim great to see you
BTW there is a better Carvair out there

Leif

Jonbouy · Post by **Jonbouy** » 12 Dec 2006, 19:13

DispatchDragon wrote:Welcome Home Tim great to see you
BTW there is a better Carvair out there

Leif

Well said DD, I agree

There is, I have it on good authority, an Aer Lingus paint job coming for it too by Gerry McLaughlin who was responsible for many of the early FS98 Carvair repaints and has just done an excellent Nationwide Air version which is only available on all nodes and is worth checking out just to see what a difference an experienced repainter can make. Also there is an exhaustive set of liveries by Maarten Brouwer on Classic British file as well as most of the popular D/L sites. All of them spell 'British' correctly with one 'T'... :roll:

If any one has any good photo references of any of the EI-*** Carvairs I'm sure they can be put to good use and I will forward them on to Gerry.

One other note the FDE for my Carvair was designed to be as accurate as possible and is NOT, as I understand, according to FSAviator who originated the said FDE, recommended for AI use. Having said that any AI FDE suitable for a DC4 with the contact points etc, set correctly will work fine.