Isn't This Beautiful

[tgycgijoes]

I have mentioned before about the beautiful desk calendar I got for Christmas from my daughter. Here is another one and this IS available for FSX and P3D (probably works in P3D V4 too) the de Havilland D.H. 89. According to my calendar it was first flown on April 17, 1934 it was manufactured in many different civilian and military versions. It was a rugged, serviceable and versitle eight-to-ten seat 150 mph transport.

Here is the link I found at Flyaway Simulation. It features fully working VC with smooth gauges. Sixteen paint schemes included. Complete aircraft, no other files needed. Includes custom panel and FX. By Dave Garwood and CBFS design team. I looked in Google for other sources but they only had other repaints for it which are probably part of the 16 repaints here. Be sure to CAREFULLY read the README about the name in the Title in the aircraft.cfg and not complain that it doesn't work. I usually don't read them and just rush right in but there is a caution in this one not to be ignored.

I'm downloading it right now and will give a full report later.

https://flyawaysimulation.com/downlo...dragon-rapide/

[AndyG43]

It is in the Library here, along with a few tasty repaints.

I loved Dave's DH.89 in FS2004, but the FSX version takes it to another level. Mr Garwood is a true master of these arts, I would doff my hat to him if I had one. Thanks Dave.

[paul day]

I think there is still one based at Duxford that you can book a flight on.


Regards Paul Day.

[tgycgijoes]

I just finished the download but had to restart it twice. I use the free download area and am not a subscriber. I looked everywhere I could think of beside Flyaway Sim to get a faster download and it is nowhere else I found. From what I hear it's worth the trouble to download it.

I support SOH but am not a paid subscriber anywhere else. I don't think that is a bad thing to do if you can to support them. I had a few websites in the past and I have to pay each month to have my Christian Radio Station on the air so as the admin here know, airtime or bandwidth on websites is expensive. If you can afford it and are led to help out the sites that give us stuff for free with no catches it's good to do. That's my tuppence or two cents.

[Dangerous Beans]

I think there is still one based at Duxford that you can book a flight on.


Regards Paul Day.

There sure is.
I took a flight in it at one of their air shows a few years back. It was a very fun if short flight, just one circuit of the airfield with a full load of passengers.

[tgycgijoes]

For a flavor of the time, I was able to find airports in England and France of the 1930's to upload and do some flights to and from.

[huub vink]

The Rapide by Dave Garwood and CBFS team has always been available at the Classic British Flight Sim site. However the site is not really working anymore, but Dave's model is pretty much available at every large Flightsim site:

In the library here at Sim-Outhouse : http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforum...tid=34&id=9656

At Flightsim.com : https://www.flightsim.com/files/file...dragon-rapide/

At Avsim.net : https://library.avsim.net/search.php...sxac&Go=Search

At Simviation : https://simviation.com/1/search?subm...ackage&x=0&y=0

And when you want to book your flight:

https://www.classic-wings.co.uk/dragon-rapide-flights/

Cheers,
Huub

[Mike71]

I have this and reworked some stuff for P34 - works well.

When I was much younger (teenager), a local grass strip in Maine had one. The Franklin engine was loud as hell and the plane had a cruise speed like a blimp. However, I loved watching it anyway.