Some of screenies

[YoYo 374]

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, 2020 by YoYo

[Skywolf 992]

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 

[YoYo 374]

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

Edited November 7, 2020 by YoYo

[YoYo 374]

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

[Arklight1 140]

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

[YoYo 374]

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!

[FAC257 16]

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, 2020 by FAC257

[Skywolf 992]

@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, 2020 by Skywolf

[dragonflightdesign 98]

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, 2020 by dragonflightdesign

[FlyRudy 6]

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).

[lightwriter 7]

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

 

[dragonflightdesign 98]

Thanks you 😄

 

[gaab 111]

What a beauty 😍

[YoYo 374]

[YoYo 374]