Wow the liveries keep coming.  This one by DHesquire.  Now I can fly the DC-6 on some British routes!

Beautiful British countryside.

Edited July 3, 20214 yr by Todd2
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Nice livery and shots!

3 hours ago, Todd2 said:

Now I can fly the DC-6 on some British routes!

There's nothing stopping you from flying some routes in the UK in the PMDG DC-6 with any livery you like to be honest, since British Midland never actually operated the DC-6. They did however operate the visually fairly similar Canadair North Star/Argonaut, which was a hybrid variant of the DC-4 and the DC-6 which was equipped with Merlin engines and was built in Canada. The type wasn't very successful, but they were cheap to acquire because they were very noisy and not as good as the DC-6. That's why British Midland had them, because they were cheap. If you want one of those, Flight Replicas make one and it can port over to MSFS, although the PMDG bird will of course be better.

One of these Argonauts belonging to British Midland crashed in the centre of my home town one Sunday morning in summer 1967 whilst flying a charter flight of holidaymakers back from Spain to land at Manchester Airport. It suffered multiple engine failures after going around in bad weather owing to a poorly-designed fuel selector system which cause the crew to not properly select the correct fuel tanks. The pilot thought he was going to be able to put it down in some fields, but as he broke through the clouds, he found that the town of Stockport was right ahead of him and he had no choice but to put it down there. Remarkably, nobody on the ground was harmed and in fact only one small garage was demolished in the crash, but only twelve people of the eighty-four on board survived the imp-act as many were trapped in the burning wreckage.

Together with a policeman who was on a motorcycle parked alongside what later became Strawberry Studios which is right next to where the crash occurred, my dad and that cop were literally the first people on the scene of the crash because the thing very nearly hit them when it came down, one wing stalling and veering the thing away from them at the last second before it impacted. The two of them began rescuing people from the burning wreckage including getting thee pilot out and putting out flames on his clo9thing, but their attempts to rescue everyone were hampered by the flames in spite of them trying very hard to get to people in the wreckage. For many years afterwards my dad refused to get on board an aeroplane as a result of what we would now recognise as PTSD from having been one of the rescuers.

That's a shame about that flight and your dad's a hero for saving people.

Nice shots, just fine to fly her..

cheers 😉