February USA TOUR -- FLYING BOATS

[legoboyvdlp]

This incoming month, we will fly Flying Boats to Milwaukee (awful name).

4 things -

We have a large choice of landing grounds
[*]Scrape down the runway at Mitchell Intl
[*]Splash down in Milwaukee bay -- taxi to the coast
[*]Splash down in the mouth of the KinnicKinnic River
[*]Touchdown in Mud Lake, in Großschmidt Park
[*]Use any of the lakes in the parks
[*]Land in Muskego Lake

Which?

We have an interesting variety of aircraft
Present in FlightGear are:
very many
Only 8 choices presented here... many others... I think someone is making an aircraft too!
[*]Boeing 314
[*]Catalina
[*]Short Empire
[*]Grumman Goose (amphib)
[*]Grumman Albatros
[*]Dornier Do X
[*]H4 Hercules
[*]Dornier Superwal


I am only counting those with a hull -- not float aircraft

I don't know, but I am considering the Do X.

Whatever the chosen landingground, a suitable area should be marked in buoys and TERRASYNCed.

At 450 miles or so, this will take about 4 hours

[IAHM-COL]

rofl
If it swims, its a duck!~

Think C172p, or dhc6 for examples of other options

And speaking of someone making a plane. I already created the 3d model.
JW has been fighting to make it fly:

https://github.com/FGMEMBERS/Seedrache-JSB

[legoboyvdlp]

Ahhhhh -- consider this a sigh of relief.
My figure was from the wiki.
I have a little leaning towards doing a little work on the Supermarine S6B... but then the DHC6 is nice. Buuuuut....

[legoboyvdlp]

Hmm, nice. I wonder....

[IAHM-COL]

and did you skip the Caspian Sea Monster?



https://github.com/FGMEMBERS/KM

[legoboyvdlp]

Would she have a cockpit? (BV138)

And, wow, that is a monster all right.

[IAHM-COL]

Also the legend says that HerbyW made a Beriev200 Altair, which never saw the light of day
If you convince him to let us use it, then that's other option

[IAHM-COL]

Would she have a cockpit? (BV138)

Affirm. I have a nice interior for the Seedrache

[legoboyvdlp]

Excellent!
In that case....
But there is so much work!
I will look for a livery to make for the Seedrache to start.

[legoboyvdlp]

God save the queen:
"The older "The Captive Luftwaffe" by Kenneth West [Putnam, 1978] says that they had black upper and side surfaces, dark blue wing undersurfaces with small RAF roundels on the tail booms and under the wings." -- captured BV138 livery?