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Blackburn Beverley Uploaded

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mjahn

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Just added to the library: two FSX/P3D Beverleys (130 MB):

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The Blackburn Beverley was a four-engined, medium-range high-capacity transport. Its first flight took place in June 1953 and a total of forty- seven aircraft were built. The Beverley had an outstanding ability for packing and dropping heavy loads of up to 22 tons and, aided by powerful propeller reversing and a sturdy fixed undercarriage, it was able to land and take off at very small and makeshift airstrips. Employed on a wide variety of military and humanitarian missions, for the ten years of its active service life it was the R.A.F.'s proverbial no-nonsense workhorse. To date, only one Beverley survives as a museum piece (whose fate hangs in the balance). The model comes with an ILS and GCA-capable VC, variable intensity cockpit lighting, and propeller reversing. Two textures are included, XB261 representing a fictional reincarnation of the third production aircraft, and XM109 as painted in the 'Middle East' camouflage scheme of the final batch. Models and textures by Manfred Jahn, flight dynamics by Wayne Tudor, and soundset by Ted Wolfgang.
 
Can't wait to try her out!

Thank you so much for all the work you've put into this, it's very, very much appreciated!

Mark
 
wombat666 said:
All those rivets flying in such close formation!:biggrin-new:
Very impressive work gentleman.
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I (just) remember seeing one of these doing the reverse-up-the-runway trick. Four Bristol Centaurus radials, so it burned quite a bit of petrol along with the oil. :biggrin-new:

Great stuff Manfred and team! :applause::applause::applause:
 
So happy that you masters of freeware aircraft addons do these fantastic jobs on non-mainstream-aircraft!!!! The Beverly was often seen at RAF Gutersloh those days, what a fat bird....thank you for this great surprise! :applause:
 
NICE!

Don't have much time for simming today, but I did manage to take her up for a few laps and a look-see.

Thanks so much to all of those who were / are involve in publishing this aircraft. Very much appreciated! :encouragement:

Tommy
 
I have an affinity for large, sometimes-cumbersome, ponderous cargo aircraft so I've been looking forward to Beverly making her entrance. I'm not disappointed! She's loud, brash and a bit of a handful, but treated right she does an admirable job.

I realize that times were a bit tough in the 1950's in Britain in general and the RAF in particular, but I have to wonder if they might have carried austerity a bit too far when I discovered that the crew were not given even a modicum of comfort in a cockpit without seats... I see a VC_seat.dds in the common folder but there appears to be nothing to wrap it around... hmmm. No problem, I'll just scarf a couple of chairs from the Officers' Mess. :adoration:
 

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Absolutely magnificent :applause: :applause:

Many thanks to
Manfred & Team for this classic.

I had a quick flight this morning and I'm impressed with the visuals and handling :jump:

Pete.
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:jump: Manfred, Nigel and Team.. another superb gift for the sim community. Thank you for the outstanding attention to detail to this beast. The ambiance, the sounds, the handling all seem spot on what one would expect for an airplane of this nature. I really enjoy flying it..and will be spending a lot of time in it. Great job, gentlemen.... Much gratitude.....tp
 
Thanks guys, very gratifying to see that this ugly duckling has so many historically interested followers.

Ted, thanks for the video take and that great sound.

Srgalahad, you must have accidentally clicked on one of the yokes, which makes them and the seats disappear (probably unnecessarily, come to think of it, force of habit). BUT once they are gone you get a small red rectangle at the lower end of the main panel that says 'YOKE', and it's clickable, and gets them back.

Tom, I, too, saw her active in the flesh, and all the museum exhibits, of course. When I began developing for FSX I was torn between doing either the Beverley or the C-47 ... as it happened, the latter won out, but only temporarily.

Manfred (t'other one), yes, she did scheduled services to RAF stations in Germany, Wildenrath and Brüggen, too. Of course, I watched them from the Berlin Gatow end.

One RAF pilot once told me that Beverley pilots were much admired for the tough missions they had to fly.

--Manfred
 
Thanks Manfred and all involved for the Beverley.

As an airframe mech on RAF Transport Command in the 50's and 60's, I saw the aircraft many times when they visited RAF Colerne where I was based. I climbed inside, but never got to fly in one.

Our squadron had the HP Hastings, in which I amassed many flying hours. Sadly, although there is a model by Jens available, it has been largely overlooked by the FS developers.

Den.
 
Good God it's ugly. I mean the real plane, not the model.

I love it. Every piston powered heavy has a place here.

I guess there's no forgetting the gear in this one. Good thinking...
 
Wonderful, absolutely remarkable. I cannot imagine the level of expertise, patience and skills you have to make a model so magnificiently.
And kindness to share it for free to the community.

More over, thank you to have let us know why the hell you spent X hours on a such numerous, famous and gracious beast! :adoration::biggrin-new:
I was really wondering and was close to propose you a Farman or Amiot bomber of the 30's for next one... Just a joke of course:very_drunk:

Just hoping there will be more, thank you again
 
A beautiful model of a...less than beautiful airplane! I recall watching a video once wherein the Beverley was described as looking like a "furniture van." A quite accurate assessment, I'd say. Talk about character!

Thanks to MJ and team for another freeware beauty. I've bounced her around England quite a bit already, and she flies wonderfully. There's nothing like taking off from a small field at 135,000 pounds, flying a quick pattern (i.e. not having to reduce the aircraft's weight at all), and rumbling back into the same small airfield with room to spare. Loads of fun!
 
Excellent work Manfred and friends. Yet another classic lost in the mists of time maybe there would have been more had it ever gone into civilian hands but alas that was not to be eclipsed by the turbine era. Fidelity is excellent and the flight dynamics faultless. As far as I can see it all worked straight out of the box so to speak.

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Feathered outboard and assymetric circuits - handled beautifully. Well done and congratulations but thank you.
 
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