February 21, 20215 yr Junker planes were quite popular in the 1930s in PNG, so it was no wonder that in the 1950s, Australian WWII fighter ace and entrepreneur Bobby Gibbes decided to further develop his PNG forwarding business with three Ju 52, which he bought in Sweden. Why did he prefer the Ju 52 over the DC 3? The Junkers had the same and on occasion slightly higher load capacity and three instead of two engines, which gave Gibbes a higher safety margin. One of Gibbes pilots once remarked: "Those JUs were terrible things, heavy as a brick, but magnificent aircraft for the job. Imagine getting into the old Maprik strip, only 1,600 feet long, with a tri-motor carrying 7,500 pounds - as much as a DC 3. They were an extraordinary aircraft for their time. Qantas were stripping down their DC 3s to try to get a bit more payload out of them to compete with the Ju 52s." This is the FS9 O. Fischer Ju, converted to native FSX standard (not by me). She flies now nicely in MSFS and almost all gauges work. Of course, being an FS9 plane, don’t expect top quality VCs. I’m just mighty happy to be able to fly this old friend of mine again. We leave Goroka, Gibbes Sepik Airways home airport, for a flight to the Bunguwat airstrip. That strip is definitely too small for us Thanks for viewing Any attempt to stretch fuel is guaranteed to increase headwinds My specs: AMD Radeon RX6700XT, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAM, 34" monitor, screen resolution: 2560x1080
February 21, 20215 yr Nice shots ! cheers 😉 08.2024 new PC is online : ASUS ROG STRIX X670E-F GAMING WIFI Mainboard, AMD Ryzen™ 9 7950X3D Prozessor, G.Skill DIMM 64 GB DDR5-6000 (2x 32 GB) Dual-Kit, MSI GeForce RTX 4090 VENTUS 3X E 24G OC Grafikkarte, 2x WD Black SN850X NVMe SSD 4 TB - Drive C+D, WD Gold Enterprise Class 12 TB for storage HDD, Thermaltake Toughpower GF3 1000W PC - Power supply, Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 EVO CPU Aircooler with 7 Heatpipes, Design Meshify 2 White TG Clear Tint Tower-Case, 3x 4K monitors 2x32 Samsung 1x27 LG 3840x2160, Windows11 Prof. 23H2 - now Windows11 Prof. 25H2 Flightsimulator Hardware: Honeycomb Throttle Bravo, Logitech Extreme 3D Pro, Logitech Flight Joke System, XBox Controller, some Thrustmaster stuff, Winwing CDU Panels.
February 25, 20215 yr Very cool. The DC-3 vs. Ju 52 discussion is almost like former FSX vs. FS9 debates 😅 Harald Geyer Gründer der Messerschmitt Freunde Dresden v. V.
February 25, 20215 yr ***Classic*** Splendid Series*** 100%75%50%d8a34be0e82d98b5a45ff4336cd0dddc Patrick
February 26, 20215 yr Excellent screenshots! Hopefully we will see a MSFS-native Ju-52 one day. Greetings Tim My files on Flightsim.to i5 12600K | 32Gb | RTX 4080
February 26, 20215 yr Author Many thanks for your comments, gents. 1 hour ago, Tim-HH said: Hopefully we will see a MSFS-native Ju-52 one day. That would be really something!! Any attempt to stretch fuel is guaranteed to increase headwinds My specs: AMD Radeon RX6700XT, AMD Ryzen 9 5900X, 32GB RAM, 34" monitor, screen resolution: 2560x1080
February 27, 20215 yr Fascinating reference to PNG Air History, Bernd...! (PNG had played many significant roles in early aviation...e.g. when I had read about the 1969 London‐Sydney Air Race, if I recall correctly, the (handicap) winner BN2 was from PNG, which, unfortunately, later crashed in the (dangerous) Kokada Track of PNG...)... Always good to see the Ju-52, here. Nice set and scenery...!!
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