After replying to a QW post in the P3d Forum, I realized I handn't flown her in a bit...so took her on a short hop from KMSP to KDEN.

This is at the end of the flight where I got out and took a walk around the big girl.

Tried to capture some interesting vantage points where I could also showoff FlightBeam's excellent scenery....the best of all the devs in my opinion!

Here is the nose, with my weathered GPUs giving her ground power.  Love the detail of the AC unit under the jetway, the small placards you'd normally never see from the cockpit, but are there nonetheless.  Caught a flight's contrails flying high above Denver's sky in this pic.

 

Another shot, with a highly detailed baggage cart in the foreground.  Most devs would not add the bolt detail you see on the jetway stanchion, plus the wear...just looks good! 

 

fine modeling job by QW, the exterior is just superb!  Captured a little CRJ on departure in this screen.

 

Perspective shot showing how tall the tower is at KDEN.

 

Wow Steve... gorgeous screenshots.  Thanks for sharing!

Excellent images, Steve!

I forgot to ask about the ground power carts - if they are from GSX, are your repaints available for d/l?

Miss the Northwest livery and flying on them, they were the airline I flew to Tokyo and Guam as well as to Minneapolis and Detroit quite often when I commuter by air for my job back in the 90's.   When I flew home from Guam via Japan, I flew business class, also flew business class inbound to Guam from Tokyo, Northwest always upgraded transferring passengers because their Tokyo-Guam route was always fairly empty, nice to do on their part, helped relieve stress from the long SFO-Tokyo leg.  Also, Northwest had an unadvertised perk a fellow passenger told me about.  On layovers in Tokyo of eight hours or longer they comped a local Narita hotel, a very nice one, plus a meal, so passengers could get some rest prior to flying back to the states.  The flight from SFO to Guam via Tokyo was the longest series of flights I had ever taken, more than seven thousand miles in all, adding up to more than sixteen hours of airtime plus a two hour layover going and a ten hour layover going home.  Second longest series of flights I took was from Munich to Vienna, then back west to SFO via Shannon, Gander, JFK, and DFW, about 6300 miles, perhaps a bit more than that when you factor in the layovers we had.

John

I should add a week prior to going to Guam I was in Orlando on a vacation, was invited to Guam for a job interview after I flew home from Orlando.  In one week's time I thus flew more than 10,000 miles via SFO from Orlando to Guam, unexpected travel that year, more than seventeen thousand miles in ten days, longest flying time I ever had in such a short span of time.

Edited September 2, 20187 yr by John_Cillis

Must have been some kind of jet lag after that week!

Bowling shoe was my favorite livery

Nice paint

Thanks guys!

 

On 9/3/2018 at 8:03 PM, ryanbatcund said:

Bowling shoe was my favorite livery

Nice paint

Yeah Ryan, NWA was one of my favorite airlines and it was sad to see them leave the skies.

 

On 9/2/2018 at 12:29 PM, beechcaptain said:

Excellent images, Steve!

Thanks Senior Chief!  One of these days I'll get you the 737-900 paint...just been taking a small hiatus from painting...too fun to fly! 

On 9/2/2018 at 2:32 PM, beechcaptain said:

I forgot to ask about the ground power carts - if they are from GSX, are your repaints available for d/l?

They are the carts that come with the QW 787, you paint them separately.  They'll show when you call the GPU from within the 787, most painters will paint them with the company logos, I just added a lot of wear as she mostly hangs out at KMSP and those winters are tough on the poor GPUs, hehe.

On 9/2/2018 at 11:57 AM, dpergau said:

Wow Steve... gorgeous screenshots.  Thanks for sharing!

Thanks Dan....she's a photogenic bird, and there is no such thing as a plane that looks bad in the bowling shoe paint (I think the DC-10 looked the best).

On 9/2/2018 at 3:04 PM, Cactus521 said:

Miss the Northwest livery and flying on them, they were the airline I flew to Tokyo and Guam as well as to Minneapolis and Detroit quite often when I commuter by air for my job back in the 90's.   When I flew home from Guam via Japan, I flew business class, also flew business class inbound to Guam from Tokyo, Northwest always upgraded transferring passengers because their Tokyo-Guam route was always fairly empty, nice to do on their part, helped relieve stress from the long SFO-Tokyo leg.  Also, Northwest had an unadvertised perk a fellow passenger told me about.  On layovers in Tokyo of eight hours or longer they comped a local Narita hotel, a very nice one, plus a meal, so passengers could get some rest prior to flying back to the states.  The flight from SFO to Guam via Tokyo was the longest series of flights I had ever taken, more than seven thousand miles in all, adding up to more than sixteen hours of airtime plus a two hour layover going and a ten hour layover going home.  Second longest series of flights I took was from Munich to Vienna, then back west to SFO via Shannon, Gander, JFK, and DFW, about 6300 miles, perhaps a bit more than that when you factor in the layovers we had.

John

I should add a week prior to going to Guam I was in Orlando on a vacation, was invited to Guam for a job interview after I flew home from Orlando.  In one week's time I thus flew more than 10,000 miles via SFO from Orlando to Guam, unexpected travel that year, more than seventeen thousand miles in ten days, longest flying time I ever had in such a short span of time.

Yeah John I miss them too.....I never got to fly on them (unless you count the Delta planes still reg'd with NWA N numbers), but always loved seeing them come and go.

That is some serious butt-time in an airline seat! I bet you ALMOST got tired of it in the last few hundred miles. 😁

Nice paint Steve!

On a different subject, any chance on Aerosoft A320/A321's repaints... 

 

 

21 hours ago, SP2472 said:

Nice paint Steve!

On a different subject, any chance on Aerosoft A320/A321's repaints... 

 

 

Thanks SP!

Not sure yet, hard to say until I get the paintkit and see what I'll be flying that has not already been painted.  From what I'm hearing the old paints will work with some mods, so we'll see how that works out before I build master templates to paint (that is always the hardest thing when painting).

If I do any paints, I'll post previews and let the community know when they're available.

Nice work sir! The cp window frames and posts are normally painted.

Back in the day when this livery was previewed to employee's, it created a roar in relation to the

leveraged buyout by Alfred Checcki and crew. But I won't go into that...