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DOUGLAS DC-3
The Douglas DC-3 has been a work-horse for airlines world-wide
for over half a century. In 1986 there were still 350 in active
airline use, mostly in North and South America.
The first commercial flight of the DC-3 was by American Airlines
on December 17, 1935. 430 of the DC-3 were delivered for civil
use prior to World War II. Wartime requirements saw about 10,200
produced for military use. The USAAF designation for the Douglas
was C-47 Skytrain and the RAF Name was Dakota. After the war a
large number of these military planes reached airline service and
frequently continued to be designated C-47 and Dakota instead of
DC-3. In the Soviet Union, the DC-3 was built under a pre-war
licensing agreement, with the designation Lisunov Li-2.
My first ride in a commercial plane was in a Mohawk Airlines DC-3
from Elmira to Albany, NY. I recall that the plane was not
painted but I can't remember how it was decorated. So, I
decorated this DC-3 to look pretty.
The DC-3 is powered by two Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 Twin Wasp 14
cylinder two-row air cooled radial piston engines each rated at
1200hp. The props are 11.5in, constant speed and feathering.
The fuel capacity is 4820lb (803 US gals). Maximum never exceed
speed is 206kts IAS, 187kts max speed, high-cruise speed is
169kts at 5000ft. Max range with max payload is 305 naut mls.
Operating weight empty is 17,720lb, max take-off wght is 25,200.
Span 95ft, length overall 64ft 6in, overall height 16ft 11.5in.
Typical passenger accommodations were 28 or 32, four-abreast with
center aisle and a crew of two.
Installation:
To use the DC-3 in FS4, copy the following files to your FS4
directory:
DOS FILE NAME MODE TITLE
DC-3.SIM DC-3
DC-3____
Fly the plane titled DC-3. All three sims reference the same
exterior view file but the DC-3.SIM file has been modified to
bring DC-3 aerodynamic performance closer to actual. The REF_DC-
3.SIM is actually the hook into the Starship Performance and the
Starship is not the ideal basis for a tail_dragger, hence the
need to modify DC-3.SIM with a HEX editor.
Use standard procedures to work with the DC-3 in AAF.
Copy the following file into FS4:
REF_DC-3.SIM REF_DC-3
AAF will produce the following file after running:
DC-3____.SIM DC-3 MODEL
You might just as well delete this file to ruduce clutter.
Continue to fly only the DC-3.SIM file for best flight performance
If any of you AAF experts out there can figure out why my
conditions on the props and proplines don't work, I'd appreciate
your letting me know. What I intended was for the right prop to
disappear and the right propline to appear on engine start, the
left prop and propline to do the same as RPM increased above
idle. I noticed that John Kelley tried to do the same thing in
his DASH8300 but that doesn't seem to work either. He had some
odd values as RPM conditions and I thought that might be a clue
but apparently not.
UPDATE:
Almost immediately, I received a reply from Rob Ainscough
[70621,1730] with the following information.
"I have fixed your prop problem. What you have to do
is assemble the prop like so:
Prop1.afs Regular Nose right Below xxx RPM
Prop1.afs Fit to Opposite Nose left Below xxx RPM
Propline.afs Regular Nose right Above xxx RPM
Propline.afs Fit to Opposite Nose left Above xxx RPM
In your files, I had noticed you had both prop1 and prop2
as regular. I removed it and added it as Fit to Opposite.
This inverts the prop, but it does work.
For some reason Fit to Opposite seems to be the Key in making
this work -- it shouldn't be, but it is"
Props are now working as intended.
A additional VHF Antenna has been added.
Oil coolers have been added to the bottom of each engine, just
ahead of the wheel well.
You can now see the Gear Up wheel position. A interesting note:
If the DC-3 was landed with the gear up, it rode on the wheels
and it was possible to use the brakes.