Simviation Forum - Prototypes!

May 8^th, 2008 at 6:58am

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Prototype N757A flys formation with her closely related sister, N767BA.

767 first flew in September 1981, followed later by the 757 in February 1982.

They have a lot in common with each other, indeed, pilots qualified to fly one type can also fly the other after minimal familiarization.

Based on a real event, cruising high over the seattle area for publicity shots.........

Aircraft and associated are:-

Fs9 Posky 757-200, repaint found at avsim
Fs2002 Posky 767-200, repaint also found at avsim, altered by myself.
Fs Skyworld supplys the weather and sky
Scenery is default around the Seattle area

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Reply #1 - May 8^th, 2008 at 10:38am

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Very nice and clean shot!

excuse bad grammar; "I' bin Bayer..." - German Airforce Private First Class (war reserve)

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Reply #2 - May 8^th, 2008 at 10:54am

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Ahh, I see you found the livery you were looking for, or atleast one to modify. Looks great!

My specs... A hard drive, motherboard, graphics card, some memory, a keyboard, mouse, and monitor - in other words, nothing special.&&&&My Posky 777 VC settings - http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1218341439&&Posky 777 and FSX jetways - http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1228448408

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Reply #3 - May 8^th, 2008 at 11:47am

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nice one!

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Reply #4 - May 8^th, 2008 at 3:52pm

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gtirob01 wrote on May 8^th, 2008 at 10:54am:

Ahh, I see you found the livery you were looking for, or atleast one to modify. Looks great!

Indeed, its sadly a fs2002 767, which didnt really compliment the excellent fs9 757 repaint! But i think its worked out ok!

Thanks for the comments

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Reply #5 - May 9^th, 2008 at 7:53pm

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Great craftsmanship Horse! I really like that classic Boeing house livery a lot.

Cool shot too ... good luck!

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Reply #6 - May 9^th, 2008 at 10:41pm

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This reminds me of a book cover. (I think it was titled Airliners) It had multiple boeings in house color flying in formation.
Deja vu.

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Reply #7 - May 10^th, 2008 at 3:21am

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Ive got a very similar picture in a book that ive had some years, that gave me the idea (hence the search for the 767!) Although it is in black and white.

The books called 'Civil Aviation-a design history' and it was published in 1986...i have had it since 1986 Cheesy

The bit with the 757/767 comes late in the book, obviously they were still quite new then, the author wonders if boeing made the right decision going with the narrow body on the 757!

I guess they did with over 1,000 sold!

I certainly prefer this house colour over the later 'dreamliner' look, and have since found a gorgeous 747 repaint for the PMDG in the same colours- but i guess things move on...!

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Reply #8 - May 14^th, 2008 at 6:21pm