De Havilland Dh-106 Comet

De Havilland Dh-106 Comet Coming soon ...

#1 guym-p

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Posted 02 December 2007 - 05:07 PM

I am delighted to announce that I have a de Havilland DH-106 Comet in an advanced state of development.

For details, please follow this link:
DH-106 Comet

Final development is continuous now, and I'll update the web site over the next few weeks.

Guy.

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Posted 02 December 2007 - 05:21 PM

QUOTE(guym-p @ Dec 3 2007, 12:07 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

No words left... i do not see forward!!
Excellent work dude

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Posted 03 December 2007 - 07:15 PM

QUOTE(guym-p @ Dec 3 2007, 12:07 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Guy:

Looking forward to seeing this one. I attempted a Comet & Trident back in X-Plane versions 4 & 5 (?) but could not find a way to get the Comet's engine nacelles to look good. With your work (and Wilson's new Trident) we are looking good for the classic British airliners. Just need a similar, high quality, VC-10!

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Posted 04 December 2007 - 01:22 AM

as i said in my email a few weeks back, just let me know if theres anything i can do

it is looking fantastic!

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Posted 04 December 2007 - 02:07 AM

what a great plene!

looking foreward to it..

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Posted 04 December 2007 - 03:44 AM

QUOTE(robinpeel @ Dec 4 2007, 01:15 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Looking forward to seeing this one. I attempted a Comet & Trident back in X-Plane versions 4 & 5 (?) but could not find a way to get the Comet's engine nacelles to look good. With your work (and Wilson's new Trident) we are looking good for the classic British airliners. Just need a similar, high quality, VC-10!

Thanks for everyone's encouragement!

As you've no doubt read on my web site, all credit goes to Austin Meyer for making the Comet possible. Like you, I struggled for ages trying this way and that way to make the nacelle shape work in the ACF – even resorting to manual entries using a hex-editor. It's amazing to think that certain kinds of aircraft were simply not possible, or at least not possible accurately, before version 8.

Version 9 is a whole new game again! The kind of Marconi radios in the Comet do not fit the stock radios in Plane Maker. They can be customised, of course, but the click-zones can't be changed. So, with version 8, I've had to accept that the Cockpit will have certain inaccuracies. I can get away with it in a Comet 4C, because many of them had modern radios retro-fitted in the 1970s, but as I move back in time and develop a Series 4 (BOAC), Series 2, Series 1 – modern equipment will look more and more out of place. Version 9 will enable these earlier aircraft to be even more accurate.

I agree about the VC10. A really good one would be a tremendous addition.

Guy.

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Posted 04 December 2007 - 04:12 AM

QUOTE(guym-p @ Dec 4 2007, 09:44 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Thanks for everyone's encouragement!

Version 9 will enable these earlier aircraft to be even more accurate.

I agree about the VC10. A really good one would be a tremendous addition.

Guy.

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Brilliant! And to eventually [perhaps] get a VC10 to the same standard will be fantastic! Looking forward to the 4/B/C

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Posted 04 December 2007 - 11:02 AM

Your website is awesome and your Comet looks absolutely sensational.

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Posted 05 December 2007 - 05:38 PM

I enclose the latest progress on metallic textures for the Comet wings. I wrote to Ben Supnik this morning about whether the new water effects in Version 9 herald polished metal on aircraft, and the answer is no. Nothing in the near future, anyway. For a full explanation, follow this link:

http://xplanescenery.blogspot.com/2007/12/...-airplanes.html

So I have pressed-on with a kind of "pewter sheen" (see below).

Guy.

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Posted 06 December 2007 - 01:28 AM

Really nice texturing!

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