Author: Shane Strong Date: 31 Mar 2008
FS2004 Airbus A-319-111, Bahamasair. The aircraft model includes most of the standard features including animated control surfaces, wingviews, flaps, full lighting configuration, and highly detailed, reflective textures.
Author: A. F. Scrub Date: 31 Mar 2008
FS2004/FSX Yak-11 Racer, Czech Mate. Hanging a big American engine on the front of a relatively small airframe like the Yak-11, a former Soviet Yak-11 trainer, makes this diminutive Russian trainer go very fast indeed. At the 2003 National Championship Air Races Sherman Smoot clocked 445.617 MPH in the Gold Final Race.
Author: Richard Alexander van Hien Date: 31 Mar 2008
FS2000/FS2002 De Schelde DS-21. Dutch company called Koninklijke Maatschappij De Schelde started an aviation department with the collapse of Pander & Zonen picking up that company's chief engineer in 1935. The aircraft had some unusual features. It was all-metal in construction, a reverse gull wing with twin booms. De Schelde S.21 single seat fighter It was powered by a 1,085 hp Daimler-Benz DB 600G 12-cylinder inverted V liquid cooled engine driving a pushed propeller via a shaft, which could be jettisoned in flight if the pilot had to bail out. The cockpit was extensively glazed giving the pilot a good field of view. Heavy armament was proposed for the aircraft with four 7.9 mm machine guns mounted on the side of the forward fuselage, a 23 mm forward firing cannon and one rear facing 23 mm cannon firing through the propeller hub, although how this was aimed is unclear. Only one prototype was built as the Germans occupied the factory in 1940. The aircraft was transported back to Germany where it was tested to destruction; it was never flown. It was calculated by the designer that the aircraft would have had a maximum speed of 590 km/h.
Author: Wolfgang Gersch Date: 31 Mar 2008
FS2004 VECC, 1960 Calcutta Dum Dum. Dum Dum is an airport located in Dum Dum, West Bengal, India, near Kolkata, Calcutta. The civil airport was originally known as Dum Dum Airport before being renamed in the honour of the Bengali Indian patriot Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. Kolkata airport has a distinguished place in the history of world aviation in general and the history of Indian aviation in particular. The following are some key milestones.
