FSX Boneyard rescue

[Chock 17,769]

Rescuing a very worn-looking ATL-98 from the boneyard at Mojave to join my Air Hauler fleet...

 

[Holdit 551]

Aaargghh...my eyes!!!   

[ErichB 3,643]

Ugly as sin.  But great pics 

[woodhick 504]

That's one that can't be unseen.  Sheesh!  LOL

[Murmur 3,941]

Must be the same designer of the Sikorsky H34. :-)

[weeksy 45]

Makes the Blackburn Beverley look glamorous!

[HighBypass 2,339]

1 hour ago, weeksy said:

Makes the Blackburn Beverley look glamorous!

Going a bit far there Steve!

Speaking of boneyards, I'm hunting around for a C46: Tinker Belle and China Doll are too valuable to fly the Hump again...

[HighBypass 2,339]

All this hate over Alan's livery. Nothing wrong with the big yellow lettering straight to the point   I refuse to believe that the Carvair is being labelled with the same words reserved for the F-35.... 

[Holdit 551]

17 hours ago, HighBypass said:

All this hate over Alan's livery. 

I'm fine with the livery. The shape of the aircraft, on the other hand...

[Chock 17,769]

Yup, it's undeniably fugly, yet in a strangely compelling way; the aeroplane itself was a fairly inventive solution to a problem. As far as the sim goes, it's actually very practical to fly in Air Hauler, with a range of over 4,000 miles carrying around 16,000lbs of cargo.

I usually spend a long time getting it up past 20,000 feet for trips in Air Hauler and so managing the engines is fun, and at about 250 knots cruise it can make for some pretty long flights in terms of hours in the air, but it does a great job of linking up my triangle of cargo operation bases in the UK, France and Russia.