April 16, 20242 yr Today I dived again back into the 1930s. The Zeppelin is just great fun and after watching a couple of YT videos at my leisure, I can now handle it to some extent.    Of course, the King Air doesn't fit in there at all 🙂     Above the Bieler lake    Above the Neuchâtel lake  Place of the navigator  Liquid sustenance keeps the spirit up on these long journeys  We got maps of all parts of the world   Lake Constance, we have reached the Mainau island  Friedrichshafen gradually comes into sight  Getting the other zeppelin out, when I try to land doesn't make my landing any easier   Done 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
April 16, 20242 yr Very nice set Bernd and interesting shots of the interior of the big thing, also the hangars they build for the zeppelins. Â PC: Ryzen 7 3700x AM4, 16 GB RAM, RTX 3060 12GB, Storage SSD 3TB, HDD 8TB, USB 8TB, 2 Screens, Win10-64 SIMs: FSX SE, P3d 3.4/4.5/6.1, Xplane 10/11/12, MSFS 2020/24, Aerofly FS 4
April 17, 20242 yr Must be a wonderful SIM experience...and a beautiful set of pictures to boot ...Looks like you're now a Pro with this one ...🙂... (From Bern, Switzerland to Friedrichshafen, Germany...the city where the Zeppelin was born...🙂.... Nice...) Â
April 17, 20242 yr Fine set from that "flying Cigar" ! 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.
April 17, 20242 yr Author Many thanks for your comments, gents !! 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
April 18, 20242 yr Interesting post. Nice pics. What is the cruise speed of that thing? | My Liveries | FAA ZMP | PPL ASEL | | Windows 11 | MSI Z690 Tomahawk | 12700K 4.7GHz | MSI RTX 4080 | 64GB 6000 MHz DDR5 | 500GB Samsung 860 Evo SSD | 2x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 | EVGA 850W Gold | Corsair 5000X | HP G2 (VR) / LG 27" 1440p |  Â
April 19, 20242 yr Author Thanks a lot Patrick and Ryan. On 4/18/2024 at 2:59 AM, ryanbatc said: What is the cruise speed of that thing? Modern airships today can reach up to 70 mph. These older, much bigger rigid airships could go up to 80 mph under full throttle and maximum thrust in still air. The highest estimated ground speed an airship (the Hindenburg, which crashed 1937 at Lakehurst) ever achieved was 188 mph. That was because of a very favorable tail wind of over 100 mph ! 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
April 20, 20242 yr Beautiful stuff Bernd! I guess that's the Redwing setup? I'd paused with my acquistion of the 1930s things of late but this may drive me back to it again. Although I don't have any kind of conceptual problem with flying that thing around modern day NYC, for instance. In fact, that sounds rather interesting . . . 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
April 20, 20242 yr Author 8 hours ago, andy1252 said: In fact, that sounds rather interesting . I fully agree with you, my friend. I have only bought selected airports from Redwing like in Germany, France and a few on the US East coast. But I have also bought all their airports in Northern Africa, which were important in the 1930s for the French poastal route. I plan to do this trip too, as it looks very interesting. 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
April 28, 20242 yr Can you imagine how travelling with these huge ships at low altitude must have been? Amazing. I have got this book at home...: https://www.amazon.de/sah-die-Welt-von-oben/dp/3813208508 Cheers, Gerold Spoiler Hardware: Intel i9-13900K @ 4.2 Ghz, BENQ EW3270U (3840*2160), 32 GB RAM DDR5-6000, Gigabyte Gaming OC Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 16 GB, Samsung 980 Pro M.2: 1 TB (Win 11-System), Samsung 870 QVO SSD: 2 TB (MSFS), 2 * Samsung 850 EVO SSD: 1 TB (P3D 4.5 HF3) & 500 GB (spare). Scenery / Add-Ons: Lots of commercial & freeware sceneries. Plus ActiveSky_MSFS - and for P3D: FS Global Mesh 2010, ActiveSky_P3Dv4, ASCA, EzDok v3, Pro-ATC/X and REX 4 Texture Direct. Â
April 28, 20242 yr Author No, I can't imagine, but it must have been awesome. Even mnore awesome, in those days people still had time to enjoy such journeys. No smartphone, no tv, no internet, no nothing 😄 That book looks interesting, Gerold. Thanks for the tip, I'm going to buy it! 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
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