Attention all DC-3 fans !

[paiken]

I keep checking this thread for updates and am continually amazed by the work you are doing on this. Your attention to detail shows the love you have for this project. You have my utmost respect for doing this for the community. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

 

[Ian Warren]

That is looking so nice, all those subtle details, I could almost hear the tunes from my place

 

[chet twowolves]

What outstanding work!!

 

[roger-wilco-66]

Fantastic stuff!

 

[manfredc3]

Wow looking ...... Ah don't think there are words for this level of quality.

Jan, make sure those Volendammers are not kicking dent's with their wooden shoes

 

[cavaricooper]

Jan-


The Dakota will be irrevocably linked with the work of Manfred Jahn, Jan Visser, Gman and Ted Tu Fun. Your MAAM SIM work while brilliant in it's own right is now a tad bit dated. This VVC is going to transform the C-47 experience from lovely to unbelievably perfect! Each precious glimpse you provide only creates additional anticipation, and only increases my love, respect and admiration for the Old Girl- who has not only withstood the test of time, but single-handedly obliterated it!


Manfred's work is amazing and the BASIS for the rest. Tu Fun's sounds add to the immersion and provide the audio experience of wonder that only round engines provide. The amazing painters (Gman, Jankees, Hanni, Huub, Bernard et al) provide visceral links to passionate reminisces. Your VVC, however, will provide the daily enclosure within which a Dakota aficionado will finally be able to spend time aloft- in the sacred space always dreamt of! Speaking for myself at least, it is there, in your chair that I will celebrate watching St. Elmo's Fire dance over the Himalayas, or looking for that slim ribbon of earth in the dense canopy of the Amazon. It is where I shall haul tired soldiers out of Rangoon into Cox's Bazar and where I shall look down into a small hole to spirally descend into Yellowknife, after spending time VFR on top.

Your VVC is shaping into exactly what I imagine my personal DC-3 to be. An old but beautifully and carefully preserved and attended to aeroplane. One that shows the marks of countless hands manipulating controls, levers, knobs and switches. Some reverent, some less so- yet managing to charm and captivate with the timeless elegance of form following function- superbly.

I await your release- to begin my journey to Kunchengunga!


With deepest admiration and respect,


Carl

 

[Alky]

The entire immersion experience wouldn't be complete without some beautiful WWII music to fly by.....

http://www.6thcorpsmusic.us/

 

[Bruce Thompson]

The entire immersion experience wouldn't be complete without some beautiful WWII music to fly by..... http://www.6thcorpsmusic.us/

Thanks for that Alky you just made my day.

 

[doublecool]

Love checking this thread... with its updates

Thank you Jan, she's gone be somthin special

 

[robcap]

Very nice Jan.
btw, every time you post an update, SOH goes out of business... Any relation to that.
Looking forward to that 3D plugin view.
And, I notice, those defogging hoses need a few internal poly's.

Cherio, Rob

 

[Javis]

Thanks for the comments, gents, much appreciated !

Quite an inspirational story there, Carl. That's what it's all about. Thanks!

And thanks for the link, Alky ! Right with you there, love flying the B-17 or Lanc low over the British Isles accompanied by 1930's/40's music from a small CD player. Benny Goodman and music collection from Dennis Potter's amazing TV drama series The Singing Detective and Pennies From Heaven.

Anybody with a taste for 30's/40's music should see these. TV drama at its very best. Particularly The Singing Detective is an unsurpassed masterpiece. The way Potter mixes 1940's music with life in the 1980's is absolutely brilliant. Has all to do with hallucinations, caused by medication, of a man who suffers from a severe case of psoriasis ( Dennis Potter himself suffered from psoriasis ). His real life ( in hospital) and his youth and imaginative life as a detective ( because he is writing a detective book) is brilliantly mixed together. The hallucinations, accompanied by original 1940's music and impersonated by the characters, are the highlights of the series.

The main character is played by the awesome Michael Gambon. To compensate for the terrible look of Michael there's always Joanna Whalley....

Here's a clip ( don't worry, this is the first episode, he gets a bit better in the next ) :

He gets better : http://youtu.be/DKrC9Tu8gpo

Sorry about going OT, but talking about music from the 1940's i can't help being carried away about The Singing Detective ( coincidently i was in hospital myself, hallucinating from medication, when i watched it for the first time... ) It is, and probabely will always be, the most impressive and overwhelming TV drama series i have ever seen ( that is until i saw Breaking Bad..... now there are two.... )

Rob, my eagle eyed friend, yes, i'll put a piece of inner tube in that demist hose, don't worry.


Cheers,
jan

 

[cavaricooper]

The entire immersion experience wouldn't be complete without some beautiful WWII music to fly by.....

http://www.6thcorpsmusic.us/

George-

I have been flying all around LON CON at 8000 or below, watching the countryside stream by, with period appropriate ADF radio streaming through my headset.... the feeling is incredible. I can now say I know what it felt to fly a Dakota in 1942. The detail in the scenery detail in Orbx EU is something I have been OBLIVIOUS to (usually streaking by at FL370). Coupled with EZCA motion it is altogether a wonderful change from my normal "flying". When Jan releases his masterpiece.... it will be nirvana. Thanks mate- fantastic find.

I have to marvel at this amazing flight-sim program almost a decade old now. Say what you want, choose the sim experience you want- FSX is still doing it for me all these years later.....

Carl

 

[airattackimages]

Jan-The Dakota will be irrevocably linked with the work of Manfred Jahn, Jan Visser, Gman and Ted Tu Fun. Your MAAM SIM work while brilliant in it's own right is now a tad bit dated. This VVC is going to transform the C-47 experience from lovely to unbelievably perfect! Each precious glimpse you provide only creates additional anticipation, and only increases my love, respect and admiration for the Old Girl- who has not only withstood the test of time, but single-handedly obliterated it!Manfred's work is amazing and the BASIS for the rest. Tu Fun's sounds add to the immersion and provide the audio experience of wonder that only round engines provide. The amazing painters (Gman, Jankees, Hanni, Huub, Bernard et al) provide visceral links to passionate reminisces. Your VVC, however, will provide the daily enclosure within which a Dakota aficionado will finally be able to spend time aloft- in the sacred space always dreamt of! Speaking for myself at least, it is there, in your chair that I will celebrate watching St. Elmo's Fire dance over the Himalayas, or looking for that slim ribbon of earth in the dense canopy of the Amazon. It is where I shall haul tired soldiers out of Rangoon into Cox's Bazar and where I shall look down into a small hole to spirally descend into Yellowknife, after spending time VFR on top.Your VVC is shaping into exactly what I imagine my personal DC-3 to be. An old but beautifully and carefully preserved and attended to aeroplane. One that shows the marks of countless hands manipulating controls, levers, knobs and switches. Some reverent, some less so- yet managing to charm and captivate with the timeless elegance of form following function- superbly.I await your release- to begin my journey to Kunchengunga!With deepest admiration and respect,Carl

This passage has to be recognized simply on the basis of romantic eloquence. Get this man a Douglas, stat!

 

[huub vink]

Beautiful wark Jan, however one remark, I noticed the all the paint of the handle from the emergency exit has been worn away. I don't know whether that is a good sign.....

Cheers,
Huub

 

[Rudyjo]

Beautiful wark Jan, however one remark, I noticed the all the paint of the handle from the emergency exit has been worn away. I don't know whether that is a good sign.....

Cheers,
Huub

For me, the more worn out it looks, the better.

 

[stansdds]

Beautiful wark Jan, however one remark, I noticed the all the paint of the handle from the emergency exit has been worn away. I don't know whether that is a good sign..... Cheers, Huub

It was probably in a hot weather climate and the crew routinely opened the hatch in order to cool the cockpit. Nothing to worry about, kind of like oil dripping from the engines. You worry when you don't see oil dripping because that would mean all of the oil has leaked out.

 

[Javis]

Beautiful wark Jan, however one remark, I noticed the all the paint of the handle from the emergency exit has been worn away. I don't know whether that is a good sign.....

Cheers,
Huub

Sorry i might've givin you the wrong impression here, Huub...But i believe i did say somewhere above that the cash flow is very,very low and we'll have to settle for a used but well kept DC-3 rather than a factory fresh specimen ( for all i know even Basler makes use of old DC-3's for their turbo upgrade... )


A lot of ingredients shown here in screenies above are just examples, NOT what we're eventually going to end up with. Better get used to that, matey. Here's a screenie of the throttle pedestal (WIP) that is actually fitted in our DC-3 vintage cockpit.

By all means, if you can't live with a few paint scratches here and there, you will find a crate in the back filled with paint cans according to Douglas standard cockpit colors. Spray away to your hearts content.

 

[cavaricooper]

Jan-

I PROMISE- I'm flying her as much as possible to become familiar with her idiosyncrasies... getting all the flows and procedures correct for your VVC. However she arrives, she will be perfect... we wait...surviving despite the teasers....

Carl

 

[ncooper]

I read Huub's post to mean should we worry that the escape hatch had been used so often
not that it should have virgin paint on the handle, perhaps that's just me.....

 

[Alky]

I read Huub's post to mean should we worry that the escape hatch had been used so often
not that it should have virgin paint on the handle, perhaps that's just me.....

That's the way I read it too.