C-97

[Splitpin]

Manfred is the Man .....

[Bugdani]

Oooh yeh !

[omitchell]

To me this just doesn't look right not wearing Pan Am colours...

[Ian Warren]

That really looks the part , tho with those cowl flaps open ... they act a little like speed brakes on takeoff , only ground use only

[Splitpin]

Thanks for looking guys .... but all credit to the team who made it (C-97)
And , Ian , i will keep those cowl flaps shut when airborne........

[Ian Warren]

Again still a bloody great freeware .. now to MP it

[Kiwia1spad]

I reckon it would be awesome to MP it, has anyone else figured out that when using the boomers view, and the Boom Master ON, boom down and with ready selected, the boom is flyable? I was flying it last night and seen it using the monitor board (Shift+4) the boom is flyable left to right from the boomer station.

[Kiwia1spad]

That really looks the part , tho with those cowl flaps open ... they act a little like speed brakes on takeoff , only ground use only

The takeoff checklist has the instruction for the cowl flaps to be open to setting 3

[Ian Warren]

That is true and also depends on altitude and air temps, on its roll and then the engineer adjusts to closed but never wide open , they are like air brakes, care also required so you don't break them above specific speed limits.

[emfrat]

I scanned this page from Mac Job's "Air Disaster" (Vol4)
http://postimg.org/image/4lf1uegkf/

You can read the CAB report here:
http://specialcollection.dotlibrary.dot ... ect+623%29

[Ian Warren]

Mike thanks for scanning and posting that , aircraft types like that, its the very reason the engineer is the busiest member on board always adjusting and twiddling, it a good show with the how the airflow is affected , when they break, the cowl flaps, 'boy your in trouble', the B-29/50/377 was one of the first high aspect ratio wings, least the Boeing design was more technical and supercritical , soon as those cowl flap were in the wrong setting its a bit like today spoilers.