HS 748

[Charl]

I was just going to shoot a few at NZNV, and move on, but I got stuck looking at the scenery.
Rick Piper's superb HS 748 is a great model in Mt Cook colours.
For some reason the port engine quit but that didn't stop me flying around and enjoying the view.



And even with an engine out, it wasn't too hard to grease this bird in.
Great aircraft and I wish I had time to learn all its bits to do it justice.

[Ian Warren]

Hey Screenies Charl
Murray Hall really did a Fantastic of the Invercargill area
Rick Pipers 748s superb

[Charl]

Thanks for coming up with Murray's name Ian I couldn't remember.
The movie clip was just to get the turbine soundtrack, beautifully done in that model, no?
Was it a RR Dart like the Viscounts?

[FlyingKiwi]

Nice shots! I believe the HS 748 engines model failures from overheating and so forth, perhaps that was what happened to it?

[ZK-Brock]

Yeah, that bottom-right screenie is the mutts nuts.

[Ian Warren]

Smack on the nose there Charl as with Argosy,Andover and many others

[Charl]

... engines model failures from overheating and so forth

Thanks!
Yes I was playing Jack the cameraman and not paying any attention to the aircraft.
Rule No 1: FLY THE AEROPLANE B)
In a model of this quality I'm surprised I even got it down.
EDIT: Actually in the screenshot you can see I'd been doing stupid stuff one-handed like <CTRL-E> because the prop became unfeathered!

[Ian Warren]

Brilliant Aircraft for a Freeware , and so Suits NZ Scenery even with an engine out

[Snowman]

Smack on the nose there Charl as with Argosy,Andover and many others 

Ian, you forgot to mention the most common site (and sound) around NZ and the rest of the world in the 70s and 80s for the RR Dart.........................



The Fokker F27 Friendship......................
Ok, ok, i admit a bit of a bias there.............. its my favourite twin turboprop

Lawrie

[Snowman]

I was just going to shoot a few at NZNV, and move on, but I got stuck looking at the scenery.
Rick Piper's superb HS 748 is a great model in Mt Cook colours.
For some reason the port engine quit but that didn't stop me flying around and enjoying the view.

Really nice screenies Charl, and you are right. Ricks 748 is an incredibly beautifully detailed model (good cockpit too), and it flies beautifully.

Lawrie

[JonARNZ]

Rick does amazing work, nice screenies as usual Charl, I gotta get me hands on that scenery!

[Charl]

Thanks!
And the video link has been fixed in the original post so you can hear a bit of Dart