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Apr 25^th, 2010 at 7:33pm

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One my favorite movies is "Flight of the Phoenix" with Jimmy Stewart. His C-119 "Boxcar" was brought down by a sandstorm. I thought I would try to replicate that theme with a DC-3.

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Reply #1 - Apr 25^th, 2010 at 9:17pm

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Now rebuild it. Wink

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Reply #2 - Apr 26^th, 2010 at 12:44am

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ApplePie wrote on Apr 25^th, 2010 at 9:17pm:

Now rebuild it. Wink

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #3 - Apr 26^th, 2010 at 10:27am

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Doesn't one of the c-119 DL's come with the Phoenix? I have one but I'm not sure where I got it.

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Reply #4 - Apr 26^th, 2010 at 11:16am

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I do have Mike Stone's required C-119 USAF for the following textures:

http://www.simviation.com/fs2004props147.htm

Not sure how to add texures to the aircraft. I am new at this.

Also the C-124 Provider is a neat aircraft, it was used in the movie "Air America".

It might be neat to have a movie theme of screenshots in the future.

Best, Mike Wink

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Reply #5 - Apr 26^th, 2010 at 11:59am

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zulumike wrote on Apr 26^th, 2010 at 11:16am:

I do have Mike Stone's required C-119 USAF for the following textures:

http://www.simviation.com/fs2004props147.htm

Not sure how to add texures to the aircraft. I am new at this.

Piece of cake:

1) extract contents of folder.

2) "drag-n-drop" (or copy paste) the "texture.newthingy" into the origianl aircraft folder

3)Open the aircraft.crg file (If you are using Vista or Win7, copy it to your desk-top, then open it).

4) The "Newthing" addon should have a "readMe" file. Open it, and *usually* (but not always) it should have the [fltsim.X] entry needed. Coppy the [fltsim.X] section from the add-on "readMe" and paste it under the last [fltsim.A] nimber. If you have no otehr addon's, and only one testure, that would be [fltsim.0]

5) Change the fltsim.X] to the next available number. If there is already one fltsim entry, the new one would be [fltsim.1]

6) Rename the original aircraft.cfg (in the aircraft's folder) to something else, like "originalaircraft.cfg".

7) Save and close the desktop aircraft.cfg, and then copy paste it into the aircraft folder.

That should have you ready to fly, and once you've done this a few time, it's easy as pie.

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Reply #6 - Apr 26^th, 2010 at 3:16pm

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I do have Windows 7, but still can't open the aircraft cfg. file. Adobe Reader can't open this file. Is there another program that will open this file. Windows 7 is not user friendly.

Appreciate your help. Thanks, Mike

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Reply #7 - Apr 26^th, 2010 at 4:08pm

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Open it with notepad Mike. Be sure to save the changes.

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #8 - Apr 26^th, 2010 at 10:29pm

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My 'puter crashed a few months ago so I don't have a download that shows where this came from, but it came as part of a C-119 package based on the (new)movie....fortunately I had all my freeware backed up on a external HDD....anyhoo, here's the Phoenix 'reborn':

http://www.simviation.com/yabbuploads/PhoenixReDeaux.jpg

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Reply #9 - Apr 26^th, 2010 at 10:52pm

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Very Cool, Thanks for the pic.

Best, Mike Wink

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