GREAT 48! Grand tour of US states. Week #28: Illinois - WEIRD STUFF!

[Storm]

It's April Fools' Day! Let's fly in appropriate style...

Week 28: Illinois KDBQ>C73>3MY>KMQB>KHAE FLIGHT PLAN All legs are GPS direct. We'll change course on approach, according to surface wind. Download the PLN flight plan file here. Flight plan in tabular form, flight maps and airport diagrams here. CRUISE Speed: 150 knots Altitude: 3000 ft, nominal AIRCRAFT Weird stuff = Odd looking aircraft, or... Odd looking paint schemes on a normal aircraft, or... Odd looking aircraft with odd looking paint schemes! Both fixed wing and rotary wing are OK. Examples from my OneDrive include the Rutan Quickie and the Rotodyne. I will be flying the doubly odd "Quickie" (see picture below). Pilots are encouraged to post screenshots and download links for their aircraft before the flight, to allow others to install and see them in all their glory! RESTRICTIONS No 'normal' looking aircraft! WHICH VERSION, CLASSIC OR STEAM? We will be using Classic, not Steam. We will continue to use Classic in future weeks for the Great 48! until more critical add-ons are working, at which point we'll include Steam in joint Classic/Steam flights, leaving no one behind! WEATHER To be determined. SCENERY Default OK. Highly recommended: FSgenesis US landclass (inexpensive payware). FTX Global 1.30 and Vector 1.20 good but optional (expensive payware). Vector users please see recommendations here. RECOMMENDED SCENERY ADDITIONS FOR FTX GLOBAL USERS You can download the whole series of freeware FTX global airport packs here. Dubuque (KDBQ) and Mt Hawley, Peoria (3MY) are Orbx airports.:eagerness:

[Razor]

I will be flying the Rutan Boomerang

Pics:



Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutan_Boomerang

Download: http://simviation.com/1/download-fil...Rutan_boom.zip

[Lazerbolt]

I will be flying this cardboard beauty:http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforum...7&linkid=17953

[Karl]

I will be flying this cardboard beauty. Hope she can keep up!

Please provide links to the aircraft so that we can all enjoy the sights.

[Karl]

I feel the need. The need for .... Blade.

[Travis]

HAHAHA That is amazing Lazerbolt. That made me laugh so hard!

[Lazerbolt]

I originally downloaded the cardboard spitfire from sim outhouse, but it has been taken down now (maybe by the author?). The readme file doesn't say anything about redistributing it, not sure if it would be OK to share.

[Razor]

this looks like the cardboard spitfire http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforum...7&linkid=17953

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[Storm]

Flight plan, flight maps and airport diagrams.

Download the PLN flight plan file here.


Flight plan in tabular form:




Flight maps:






Airport diagrams:

[Coast]

Virgin launches glass-bottomed plane

This technological innovation coincides with the start of Virgin Atlantic Airways first ever domestic service to Scotland.

[Coast]

Over the last 3 years the frustration with all those 747's types flying in our vintage prop group flights has finally got to me! I will be flying the 800-1000 passenger Boeing 797 aka. X-48. It's considerably faster than 150 kts, but that has never deterred those that fly the 747. So too I will fly faster (and presumably farther) just to keep up with the group.








April Fools!

-Coast

[Storm]

Reminder: Bring your weird and foolish aircraft to KDBQ for a 9pm eastern departure.
Trivia: What has this picture to do with our flight tonight? Answers and guesses during the flight itself.



Don't forget to take pictures of your plane and post them to this thread!

[Travis]

I will be flying the Edgley Optica from Storm's Onedrive. And maybe try Lazer's Cardboard plane for a leg too : P

[edd2287]

Im going to attempt to fly the pelican.
You can download it by clicking - http://free.flyawaysimulation.com/HALO_Pelican.zip

[Lazerbolt]

A few April fools snaps: