We all saw the 3 talking heads Twitch, and vintage plane fans will probably rejoice.

Jan. 31 WU7: the Fokker VII associated with Admiral Bird flying to the pole (his book was "Alone"), Amilia Earhart in the flight which first made her famous, and Charles Kingsford Smith, Australia's great flight pioneer hero.

A month later, March 1, SU8...Fernando Carenado announcing SU8 will be accompanied by his Beech Staggerwing.

Late March, WU8, Iberia, we have the Dornier flying boat ( the 1920's crew flew from Spain to Buenos Aires a year before Limbergh's famous solo).

Asobo 'Default Plus' doesn't necessarily mean paradise but lets see. I'm sure they will look nice. 

The same guy who produced the Ju-52 is doing the Dornier Val flying boat. It also made a famous flight to the North Pole (Roland Amundsen in 1925).

This is a real life panel:

A movie about Roald Amundsen's later 1928 flight to the pole where he died was The Red Tent staring Sean Connery, Claudia Cardinale, and Peter Finch.

37 minutes ago, Fielder said:

The same guy who produced the Ju-52 is doing the Dornier Val flying boat.

Hope he gets the propeller direction correct with this one! The Ju spins the wrong way! All 3 of them, And I pointed that out on release day over at the MSFS forums and no one cared. If you are replicating classic aircraft(which I love) at least spend some time researching the finer details. Plenty of YT videos online showing the real Ju to compare! Great video of one in Switzerland pops to mind from Matt's Aviation channel.

Wow, thanks, I did not know that. Backwards, LOL!

I like Oliver Mozart's JU-52. Happens to be my favorite and most flown. I put a cold start up sequence in Tips and Tricks long time ago.

But Asobo planes have no documentation at all, There's one gauge in the Asobo JU that people still argue about what it is. Mozart made the gauge, so he knows very well, but everybody else I think is guessing.

 

There should be a databse of historic routes. Last night I followed Franklins Nort West passage route. It was a bit lonely but nice scenery and you could get a feel of how isolated they were. I would have liked to have seen iceburgs though.

1 hour ago, MSFLYER5856 said:

There should be a databse of historic routes. Last night I followed Franklins Nort West passage route. It was a bit lonely but nice scenery and you could get a feel of how isolated they were. I would have liked to have seen iceburgs though.

Have you got a reference for a map showing his route? 

Sounds like an interesting trip for something vintage, & a Twin Otter.

T45

26 minutes ago, Treetops45 said:

Have you got a reference for a map showing his route? 

Sounds like an interesting trip for something vintage, & a Twin Otter.

T45

This should do.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/arctic/expe-nf.html

The ships have been located in 30 ft of water just south of King William Island. #6 on the photo

Love to have Northern Lights in this sim.

Edited January 28, 20224 yr by MSFLYER5856

6 hours ago, 6297J said:

Asobo 'Default Plus' doesn't necessarily mean paradise but lets see. I'm sure they will look nice. 

Yeah they're basically very good looking and less bug free than Carenado hehe.  I'm curious if their own D17S will be any good?

3 hours ago, MSFLYER5856 said:

There should be a databse of historic routes. Last night I followed Franklins Nort West passage route. It was a bit lonely but nice scenery and you could get a feel of how isolated they were. I would have liked to have seen iceburgs though.

Good news, that is happening with the Fokker VII. Specifically the Southern Cross' route across the pacific.

Edited January 28, 20224 yr by Tuskin38

I hope they are much better than the mediocre (but beautifully modelled) junk Asobo has released in previous updates. 😬

I released a historic flight tour for FS2002 that you can still download and reproduce in MSFS if you want.  The Elcano Flight ... Madrid to Manila in 1926.

You can read a bit about it here in english: https://second.wiki/wiki/escuadrilla_elcano

Here is a Google Map of the route I created: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1KyX_Ufe2g402bB6IvjyF3UCO5FVJ2IlE&usp=sharing

 

Here is the download link at flightsim.com of the original package that has the PLN files (which should work with LittleNavmap or MSFS just fine), the route maps, etc.

https://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/fslib.php?do=copyright&fid=48562

ZipDiver link, if you want to read and look at things first: https://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/fsview.php?do=list&fid=48562

 

While the download includes a repainted Brequet XIX plane for FS2002 that is useless in MSFS, the flight plans, maps, etc. should allow for this historic flight to be recreated in MSFS with a replacement plane of your choice. 

Here is my ReadMe from that package:

FS2002 Plane/Flight Plans - Breguet XIX.
This plane was part of the Elcano Squadron of Spain which flew from Madrid to Manila in 1926, a historic landmark in Spanish Aviation. Full flightplans and map included in FS2002 GPS, ACS-GPS, FSNav and PDF and TEXT formats.

ABOUT THE FILES
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This tour/plane package really takes you through the "old world" and is a fantastic example of the early adventures of "old school" flyers. They flew this with nothing but a compass and the usual old instruments.

The tour is recreated in full in the accompanying documents found in the Flight Plans folder. There is a map with the route traced on it. Three different printable versions of the route legs and distances. Flight plans in FS2002 format. An informational file regarding the tour is also in that folder.

Simply use the plans to recreate this historic tour with the included Breguet plane. Or if you want to do a more contemporary thing, you can use any modern plane that you wish!

In the additional stuff folder inside the Flight Plans folder, you will find additional information regarding the tour and the Breguet XIX plane. There is a historic photo of the squadron getting ready to leave Cuatro Vientos airport. A link to an article in a spanish newspaper (you can use Babelfish or Google to translate it, if you wish.) And other various goodies.

Well Salasnet, from reading your link it looks like the month long Elacano historic flight certainly had  a multitude of troubles along the way. "When leaving Saigon, a cloud of mosquitoes blocked the engine". It's hard to believe everyone survived the multitude of troubles.

It was surprising how dangerous the early distance flights were. I remember reading an Amelia Earhart biography and before each flight there was a page about those who had tried the same flight right before her. Most of those were fatal. Famous former world war I aces disappearing and never seen again. But off she went none the less. Eventually her good luck streak ran out.

In the Q&A Jorg held up the book by M. Michiel van der Wey "A Light Coming Over the Water". van der Wey also uploaded to Youtube a video all about the same  plane as the book, the Dornier Wal (whale) that is coming in March to MSFS.

The class of flying boats were the largest airliners of the first half of the 20th century, but they also flew very low, giving passengers VFR views of the scenery. The Shorts flying from England to Africa usually gave airline passengers a real close look at heads of large beasts. But the Wals weren't flying in Africa, and the video is Europe (Italy, Holland).