Model recognition contest

[Garry Russell]

I actually had that on my first list but found it had been done for FS in the past so that threw me.

Still interesting thread.

Brian..........the main civil series didn't stop at Super G there was the "H" which I think was a cargo version of the G with a freight hatch, not sure of the details offhand.

Goping back to the turbo prop topic there was propsed a DC 7D which BOAC may have been required to buy instead of the DC 7C they did obtain. Basically a DC 7C with Rolls Royce Tynes.

Garry

[Trev Clark]

What an elegant looking aircraft , thanks for doing this one Manfred, perhaps the 'Old Shakey' may follow her one day.

[delticbob]

Which reminds me to ask, is Jens going to build a six-engined Brab?

Its been with us a few weeks now..see http://www.cbfsim.org/cbfsim/cbfsBB/vie ... =6&t=11631

Bob

[Garry Russell]

What's a six engined Brab????

The Brab II G-AIML that was almost complete was to have four coupled Proteus driving eight four bladed contra-props just like the Centaurus Mk.I


Garry

[Chris Trott]

After the third clue it took Garry hardly 10 minutes to suggest the right solution. The props did trigger some interesting excursions into various turboprop configurations. Incidentally, one of the YC-121Fs was later fitted with Allison engines serving as a testbed for the Electra project, nicknamed "Elation".

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Leif correctly identified the mighty 15ft Hamilton Standard blades driven by P&W YT-34 engines packing the then enormous power of 5,000 shp. I believe the P&W's were also experimentally fitted to a couple of C-97s and C-124s. But it was a Navy Turbo Connie which established the speed record for prop-driven transport aircraft in 1956 doing 479 mph.

The YT-34 was actually strapped onto quite a few airplanes during testing, including doing tests for the Navy aboard the XR4Y (Navy's designation for the Convair CV-340/440) before being strapped to the C-121. They and USAF considered using the T34 to power uprated versions of their C-131/R4Y but the constant reliablility issues with the T34 resulted in the selection of the Allison T56 (also being tested at the time on the YC-131H) as the new powerplant for the Convairs. The T56's 4,000SHP however was not sufficient to provide any improvement in performance in the C-121, so it was equipped with the more powerful T34 even with the problems that were occuring with the powerplant at the time.

Also, the production T34-P-3 had a base power of 6,000SHP. It was later improved to 7,100SHP and then to 7,500SHP with the addition of water injection. The latter version (the T34-P-9W) was fitted to the C-133B while the former (the T34-P-7W) was fitted to the last C-133As.

[mjahn]

Re Jens's Brab -- sorry, don't know how the "six" slipped in, I clean overlooked that thread. Many thanks, and hopefully we can have some more of the postwar heavies.

[Railrunner130]

This one will be a definate keeper!!

[ravilamir]

Hi Manfred,

Thanks for bringing this model bach to FS2004. You might like to pop in at http://www.calclassic.com and say hello to Tom Gibson and all the boys there. Tom was the coordinator for the L-049 project after John's death. They would certainly like to hear from you.

Although some of you here are "old hands", you aren't as old to remember that there was a L-1649 Starliner available for FS98. It is still available at several sites as well Tom's.

A vote of success to your next release.
Ricardo

[AllanL]

Just spotted the link to this on another forum with additional piccies. Scrummy.

http://forums.flightsim.com/dc/dcboard. ... 1490&page=

[FlyTexas]

Very nice. Thanks for the link.

Brian