Simviation Forum - Boeing 221A Monomail return home

Nov 26^th, 2011 at 2:58pm

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I got Tim Conrad's Monomail for FS2004 several months ago and recently I had the idea to fly it 'home', as in to Boeing Field in Seattle Washington. I am avoiding slewing and time compression so its taking a while! Average IAS of ~115mph at ~5,000ft. I keep it below 10,000ft since it is open cockpit. So far its been an interesting trip. Currently near Sunday Creek Air Park in Montana. I started out at my local airport (Kalamazoo/Battlecreek International in MI). My first stop was at Oshkosh for obvious reasons (greatest aviation gathering in the world).
Anyways, just sharing my voyage. I think next I am going to use the A2A B-17 and B-29 doing the same route.

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Reply #1 - Nov 27^th, 2011 at 9:26am

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As much it may sound a boast, I've done more than that. Cheesy

Together with a bunch of friends, some years ago (three?) we've re-created the first flight from Rome to Tokyo made in 1928 by A. Ferrarin on Ansaldo SVA. We started one day on a field near Rome. We were over 20 pilots in taking off with the SVA9 for FS or the SVA5 for X-plane (and some other even using other biplanes, but it was OK, since the rules allowed for the flight to be done in whatever plane, as long a biplane and more or less of the same era of the SVA). Some 8 months later of weekly on-line flights one only 8 of those who started the flight, the manliest and toughest and those using only the simulated SVA (the user of other biplanes renounced along the way), after having braved the ice of the steppe the heights of the Himalaya, the crossing of big bodies of water and other hardships, finally reached Tokyo. Cool

I must have still a clip celebrating the arrival made by one of us, somewhere.

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Reply #2 - Nov 27^th, 2011 at 6:53pm

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Strategic Retreat wrote on Nov 27^th, 2011 at 9:26am:

As much it may sound a boast, I've done more than that. Cheesy

Together with a bunch of friends, some years ago (three?) we've re-created the first flight from Rome to Tokyo made in 1928 by A. Ferrarin on Ansaldo SVA. We started one day on a field near Rome. We were over 20 pilots in taking off with the SVA9 for FS or the SVA5 for X-plane (and some other even using other biplanes, but it was OK, since the rules allowed for the flight to be done in whatever plane, as long a biplane and more or less of the same era of the SVA). Some 8 months later of weekly on-line flights one only 8 of those who started the flight, the manliest and toughest and those using only the simulated SVA (the user of other biplanes renounced along the way), after having braved the ice of the steppe the heights of the Himalaya, the crossing of big bodies of water and other hardships, finally reached Tokyo. Cool

I must have still a clip celebrating the arrival made by one of us, somewhere.

nice, yeah I wasnt trying to boast (frankly my wife thinks I have a problem for doing it). With so many wonderful aircraft available to download one cant resist trying some adventures with them, after all, thats the heart of flying! Goin' up and going into the unknown Cool

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