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Postby deeknow » Mon Mar 05, 2012 8:11 pm

Great news for Swearingen fans (no, not the one from Deadwood smile.gif looks like IRIS simulations are well down the track on a physical model for the Metro and I guess some time this year will release the full package. Pics are on their profile page on FaceBook following, nothing on the website yet...
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1...2415&type=1

this is one machine I've waited patiently for, love the look of these things, the ultimate pencil-plane tongue.gif



Was just looking over at the BSMP site to see if Dan and co still have their project up, seems like it might have lost a little momentum?
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Postby Splitpin » Mon Mar 05, 2012 8:42 pm

Looking forward it as well Dean, one of the few airliners that looks fast sitting on the ground. Thanks for info .
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Postby Ian Warren » Mon Mar 05, 2012 10:33 pm

One plane i banged my head on , got a special tour in the old days when they first operated with Albatross , Ripped over my place on a quick city demo .
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Postby connor » Tue Mar 06, 2012 6:18 am

We all know that Iris is now capable of producing superb looking products, but I hope the get the flight dynamics accurate on this. winkyy.gif
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Postby SeanTK » Tue Mar 06, 2012 6:21 am

YES!

This has moved to the top of my must-have list!
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Postby FlyingKiwi » Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:28 am

Awesome, will be good to have a really high quality FS model of the Metro - lots of potential for NZ repaints too!
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Postby SA227 » Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:33 am

Ha ha, love the way you guys get excited over the Metro. After 6 years of flying the Metro I must admit that it is a fun aircraft for the pilots but I do prefer my 2 motor fokker smile.gif
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Postby cowpatz » Tue Mar 06, 2012 11:01 am

You enjoying the butterbox then?
Remember the 50-50-90 rule. Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong!

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Postby FlyingKiwi » Wed Mar 07, 2012 5:47 pm

SA227 wrote:
QUOTE (SA227 @ Mar 10 2012,11:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Ha ha, love the way you guys get excited over the Metro. After 6 years of flying the Metro I must admit that it is a fun aircraft for the pilots but I do prefer my 2 motor fokker smile.gif


I was going to say that for some of us an aeroplane you can stand up inside is something to be excited about, but perhaps that's not a good analogy for the Metro. winkyy.gif
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Postby SeanTK » Fri Mar 09, 2012 1:32 pm

I've been looking and I didn't realize that there were that many in New Zealand at one time!

http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.sear...umbnails=noinfo

http://3rdlevelnz.blogspot.com/search?q=metroliner

Numerous airlines and air service companies used them for a variety of purposes, so this addon will definitely fit in well!
Hopefully we'll see some New Zealand-based liveries appear during further development!

Note: A few more pictures were added to Facebook showing air stair deployment.

I'm probably more excited about this upcoming addon than anything else that will be coming out within the next year!
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Postby Ian Warren » Fri Mar 09, 2012 1:48 pm

The origins of the Metro in NZ was with Air Albatross started out around 1982
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Postby cowpatz » Fri Mar 09, 2012 5:30 pm

Also Yates seeds had a Merlin (a shorter and earlier) form of the Metro.
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