I see the new corner here :). It was long way for flying this legendary bird in P3D so congratulations on finally making it.

CRG for this release!

This model its a full of part of great history!

 

Edited November 6, 20205 yr by YoYo

For the whole planet - this is the only way to fly this bird.  There is no model surviving except for 2 under the sea.

Any pilots alive who flew this bird from history.

Can you share some more of your experiences with this addon especially the complicated bits 

Prototype 3 (we have 3 version of Clipper here).

Edited November 7, 20205 yr by YoYo

Sunset flight and some of night lighting effects outside and inside.

Wow!! She's lovely. I had the original B314 from Pilot's and loved it. More screens!! Lol

47 minutes ago, Arklight1 said:

Wow!! She's lovely. I had the original B314 from Pilot's and loved it. More screens!! Lol

Thank You! 😀 yep, its a big adventure again!

On 11/6/2020 at 6:11 PM, Skywolf said:

For the whole planet - this is the only way to fly this bird.  There is no model surviving except for 2 under the sea.

Any pilots alive who flew this bird from history.

Can you share some more of your experiences with this addon especially the complicated bits 

Skywolf,

I feel really fortunate that I actually met and talked to one of the last 314 Clipper pilots several years back. There is an annual breakfast fly-in held at our little local grass airstrip. Back in 2012, while checking out the small display tents they had set up, I came across and old guy sitting there by himself with a display of flying boat images and info. There wasn't anyone around him when I walked up, so I asked him what it was all about. Turned out he was Capt. Bill Nash, one of the Pan Am 314 Clipper pilots from the beginnings of WWII. Realizing I was talking to an important part of aviation history, I stayed and at talked to him a bit. He also showed up the next year at the 2013 fly-in. 

 

Bill's Obituary:  https://clipperpioneers.com/william-b-nash/

A report he wrote about the crash of the Yankee Clipper:  https://clipperpioneers.com/william-b-nash/

Mentioned in one of the comments at the bottom:  https://www.clipperflyingboats.com/

 

 

 

 

 

Edited November 10, 20205 yr by FAC257

@FAC257 Just Amazing you actually met him.

This is pure Aviation History Gold.

Even now, all we have for the legendary plane is pictures & video and now in a virtual craft.  Completely different era in world's commercial international aviation, This plane brings whole different meaning to ETOPS to ETPS (Engines turn or plane swims).  

 

Meeting a Captain from this era is just whole another level of wow.  

 

Thank you for sharing this pic.

 

Edited November 9, 20205 yr by Skywolf

Somewhere on panam.org (of course I can't find it) there's a picture of seven B-314 captains, of which only three are named. If I'm not much mistaken, Bill Nash is second from the left.

Also, just in passing, one of the gentlemen I spoke to for this project (Andrew Christensen) flew as a passenger on two Atlantic crossings by B-314. He did comment that he was a bit too young to remember much about it!

Edited November 14, 20205 yr by dragonflightdesign

Bill Nash was a regular contributor to the Airways Magazine. In the January 2011 issue he presents more than a dozen of "Pan Am's Flying Boat Pilots" (pages 48-53), among them well known names such as Robert Ford (first around the world flight) and Marius Lodeesen (flying the uranium for the nuclear bomb from Africa to the USA).

Yes. It has some little bugs at the moment, but it is really great! Thank you PILOT'S!!! 🍻

 

Thanks you 😄

 

What a beauty 😍