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Post by olderndirt on Mar 7, 2017 12:09:09 GMT -5
From ADX, the latest - the windshield looks right now.  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 12:10:27 GMT -5
Uh huh. What's with the green colour?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 15:28:48 GMT -5
It's better but it's still wrong. Wish the subject was never brought up at SOH, now it draws my eye like flies to a Colon.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 15:40:19 GMT -5
I went looking through the suppliers we have contacts with for green tinted front windscreens for the Beaver. Doesn't exist. Side windows yes, but not the main windscreen. I wonder what some of these developers are smoking half the time.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 16:01:26 GMT -5
And what's with that weird exhaust? You ever run across one that looked like that Glenn?
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Post by Bushpounder on Mar 7, 2017 16:47:20 GMT -5
I just asked over at SOH about the tint.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 17:37:42 GMT -5
Yes Bob, the exhaust stacks are like that. I never noticed it being quite so obvious but they do stick down and back a fair distance. Not all are like that. I think this one is an ex military version. The civie versions had the scoop under the cowling and then I think the exhaust stack was somewhat different, but I can't quite remember now. I may have the scoop positions reversed too, as to which was military and which was civie, but they were different. Most of the ones I flew had the scoop on the top right of the cowling, as you see it here.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 17:38:42 GMT -5
Let us know what they say Don. I'd be interested to know. If they say they modeled it after one that actually had it, ask for pictures of the real thing.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 18:48:04 GMT -5
Yes Bob, the exhaust stacks are like that. I never noticed it being quite so obvious but they do stick down and back a fair distance. Not all are like that. I think this one is an ex military version. The civie versions had the scoop under the cowling and then I think the exhaust stack was somewhat different, but I can't quite remember now. I may have the scoop positions reversed too, as to which was military and which was civie, but they were different. Most of the ones I flew had the scoop on the top right of the cowling, as you see it here. OK good to know, thanks for the info. I'd really like to have this bird and as I've blathered on about, I'm enjoying the Bobcat so much I'd like to extend that streak. Of one. |
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Post by olderndirt on Mar 7, 2017 21:15:33 GMT -5
Yes Bob, the exhaust stacks are like that. I never noticed it being quite so obvious but they do stick down and back a fair distance. Not all are like that. I think this one is an ex military version. The civie versions had the scoop under the cowling and then I think the exhaust stack was somewhat different, but I can't quite remember now. I may have the scoop positions reversed too, as to which was military and which was civie, but they were different. Most of the ones I flew had the scoop on the top right of the cowling, as you see it here. OK good to know, thanks for the info. I'd really like to have this bird and as I've blathered on about, I'm enjoying the Bobcat so much I'd like to extend that streak. Of one. Going out on a limb? Get in line, behind me, for the 350i  . |
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Post by olderndirt on Mar 7, 2017 21:24:19 GMT -5
Uh huh. What's with the green colour? That's part of DeHavilland's deluxe upgrade. The standard Beaver has no tint to the windshield. However if you shelled out extra bucks (X100 Canadian) you got the right (from the pilot's seat) windshield tinted green and the left with a red tint. This, of course matches the position light colors - DeHavilland says if they ever don't match, reduce power off, some flaps then say "Our Father, who art in..........". |
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Post by Bushpounder on Mar 7, 2017 22:02:07 GMT -5
What bothers me with many of these designers, is they base their models on a particular plane, usually an odd-ball, that has non-standard things on it. Then when something is said, they flash pictures of the one or two that look like that out of the 15,000 that don't look like that. Guess we'll see.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 7, 2017 22:52:19 GMT -5
My god, they did do it. See here. But yeah, Don's right. They do the 1 in 100,000 rather than one everyone is familiar with. It's enough to turn me off it, so I guess they don't care that the oddball one can lose them sales. What the hell, we're only the customer. We don't matter. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2017 0:58:34 GMT -5
What bothers me with many of these designers, is they base their models on a particular plane, usually an odd-ball, that has non-standard things on it. Then when something is said, they flash pictures of the one or two that look like that out of the 15,000 that don't look like that. Guess we'll see. BP;) AMEN to that!!! You hit the nail on the head. |
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Post by pivo11 on Mar 8, 2017 5:55:10 GMT -5
Well, I don't want any green windows. They be ugly!  And Bob's correct, the windshield still ain't right. |
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And Bob's correct, the windshield still ain't right.