May 7, 20215 yr I like to dig around looking for rare or unusual liveries & that is how I stumbled upon the Historic Jetliners Group, (HJG). Over the years they have produced a wide range of freeware aircraft & liveries for FSX & earlier versions of MFS, focused on the early jetliners, such as the DC-8's, Boeings & Tristar. A backgrounder on them is here: https://www.avsim.com/home/articles/hjg-biggest-ever-21st-anniversary-update-r6169/ There website with Forums & Downloads is here: https://simviation.com/hjg/main.htm The downloads come in the form of a "Base" aircraft D/L, to which you can add Panels & Sounds specifically created for that Base, & you can also D/L Effects files for the various aircraft, plus Liveries, many of which are rarely seen these days. Putting it together only requires you to be able to use Notepad & be able to edit & save files such as Aircraft.cfg. What you get is a custom aircraft with excellent flight characteristics, panel & Sounds, & hard to find liveries. Model Designer: Dee Waldron, Flight Dynamics: Michael Verlin, Mike Monce, Mark Cranston. The DC-8-33 below is clad in a Aeromaritime livery by Tony Madge. The Panel is by M. Balzarotti, M. Verlin, S. Weiher, G. Carty & J. Detrick. The Sound for the P&W JT4A TURBOJET is by Benoit Plamondon. The P&W JT4A produced a lot of noise & smoke on take off. The shot below shows some, but I have the HJG DC-8-11and that generates a lot more. T45 Edited May 7, 20215 yr by Treetops45
May 9, 20215 yr Nice...(always loved those mid-series DC-8 variants)... Glad you put it all together to enjoy this HJG plane...and, agree, unknown/forgotten/unusual liveries are always great fun to explore...! (HJG taught me about jets...)
May 9, 20215 yr There's definitely something about these old beasts. Great livery on a great aircraft. Ryzen 9 7900X, Corsair H150 AIO cooler, 64 Gb DDR5, Asus X670E Hero m/b, 3090ti, 13Tb NVMe, 8Tb SSD, 16Tb HD, 55" Philips 4k HDR monitor, EVGA 1600w ps, all in Corsair 7000D airflow case. Sims in use - 2020, 2024, XP-12 and -11, FSX/SE, P3Dv4.5 and v5.4. DCS and AFS2 installed but rarely used
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