Certainly my favourite Boeing product. Having recently watched "Out of the Clouds" (and Sky +'d it!), I'd quite like to have a go in one. Sadly I fear I'm 55 years too late. Hey-ho.
Nice shots there Eddie :tab: that plane looks to me like its sucking on a lemon :roll: How do you get engine fires I try to get them but never works or is it an FSX thing :think:
They are modelled in and setup up in th CFG. Since this is an FS.X thing using extras developed using what FS.X offers I think you can accept this sort of instance at least as being an FS.X thing.
Garry
Garry
"In the world of virtual reality things are not always what they seem."
I love seeing pictures of this model, and look forward to the day I can fly it.
Eddie, and everyone else too, one thing that strikes me in this picture is the number of rivets in the trailing half of the wing. There seems to be a row of rivets every few inches , and I wonder if thats accurate ? It looks very effective...but were there that many rivets ? :think:
Paul K wrote:Eddie, and everyone else too, one thing that strikes me in this picture is the number of rivets in the trailing half of the wing. There seems to be a row of rivets every few inches , and I wonder if thats accurate ? It looks very effective...but were there that many rivets ? :think:
The only decent photo I could find online at the moment shows a C-97 (or possibly KC-97) which was of course the military version of the B377. If you look closely at this photo you can just make out how close the rivets were.
They are modelled in and setup up in th CFG. Since this is an FS.X thing using extras developed using what FS.X offers I think you can accept this sort of instance at least as being an FS.X thing.
Larry, looking at the rows of rivets running forward to aft in the screenshot, it implies that beneath every row, there is a former or frame ( forgive my aeronautical terminological ignorance )that the skin is riveted too. Surely they weren't that close together, were they ?
I just flipped through all 460 pages of the C-97 manual I have here and nowhere does it give a cut-away shot of the wings to check the spacing of the ribs/longerons. A quick online search came up with this shot where you can clearly see the fuselage ribs and longerons and they are obviously very close together and one would only assume the wings were constructed in the same manner.
I certainly wouldn't like the job of counting the number of rivets used that is for sure! :o
You was the best there ever was.
;-) 
thansk anyway Garry.
