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Game Data / Sud Aviation Caravelle

« on: November 29, 2007, 10:52:24 pm »

How about just scanning the whole book in and email us at staff?

Umm... lets see... 1020 pages in the 70-71 one alone... so at 2 minutes to scan and process each page... 2040 minutes... so if you wanna pay me for 34 hours work at $95 an hour+expenses (going consultant rate for me)... well anyways i dont think my poor scanner would take the work... the book alone would probably crush it.

And then i have 75-76, 80-81, 85-86, 91-92, 94-95... and a reproduction of 1945 AND i have a bunch of other sources. See if i had the time i would of applied for the aircraft editor position, i just don't have the time reliably nor really the desire...

But i can type some in for ya...

Like the other Constellations, the Canadair DC-4M, The Viscount 800, etc...

When i get home tonight  

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Game Data / Sud Aviation Caravelle

« on: November 29, 2007, 09:34:40 pm »

ok i'll give it some though  

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Game Data / Sud Aviation Caravelle

« on: November 29, 2007, 06:37:30 pm »

BTW if there any other data you guys want out of Janes' let me know.

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General Chat / Biggest Terminal

« on: November 29, 2007, 01:34:57 pm »

still at 5 (at PHF), but im thinking of building a lot at BOS (like, say, 170?) :twisted:

if you can find enough routes to use 170 gates from BOS... be my guest.  

Its hard enough from O'Hare  

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General Chat / Biggest Terminal

« on: November 29, 2007, 04:10:11 am »

Ok, so i wanna toot my own horn a bit...

Anyone else anywhere... can you match or beat 150 gates???

Biggest i can find is 110.

And if you just built it to beat me, ill just return the favor so lets not go there ok  :wink:

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Game Data / Sud Aviation Caravelle

« on: November 29, 2007, 02:07:35 am »

ok here we go:

Caravelle VI-N:

Range: 2500km
Speed: 845kmh
Engines: 2x Rolls Royce Avon 533R Turbojets, 12600lbs st each
Cockpit Crew: 3 or 4
Max passenger capacity: 89
Entry into Service: January 1961


Caravelle VI-R:

Range: 2560km
Speed: 845kmh
Engines: 2x Rolls Royce Avon 533R Turbojets, 12600lbs st each
Cockpit Crew: 3 or 4
Max passenger capacity: 89
Entry into Service: July 1961

Caravelle 10-R:

Range: 3295km
Speed: 800kmh
Engines: 2x Pratt & Whitney JT8D-7 Turbofans 14000lbs st each
Cockpit Crew: 3 or 4
Max passenger capacity: 89
Entry into Service: Sept 1965

Caravelle Super 10B:

Range: 2655km
Speed: 800kmh
Engines: 2x Pratt & Whitney JT8D-7 Turbofans 14000lbs st each
Cockpit Crew: 3 or 4
Max passenger capacity: 104
Entry into Service: July 1964

Caravelle 11-R:

Range: 3365km
Speed: 800kmh
Engines: 2x Pratt & Whitney JT8D-7 Turbofans 14000lbs st each
Cockpit Crew: 3 or 4
Max passenger capacity: 99
Entry into Service: April 1967

Caravelle 12:

Range: 2740km
Speed: 800kmh
Engines: 2x Pratt & Whitney JT8D-7 Turbofans 14000lbs st each
Cockpit Crew: 3 or 4
Max passenger capacity: 112
Entry into Service: November 1970

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Bugs / 0 Pax

« on: November 28, 2007, 04:52:52 pm »

Because you sending people from your departure to there so you get cash.

It's where they make Soylent Green  :twisted:

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General Chat / Do You name your aricraft?

« on: November 28, 2007, 03:12:40 pm »

I name some... mostly after mythological beings/things (Apollo, Minerva, Persephone, Zephyrus etc) or birds.

But now mostly i just name planes that i bought used that are already named.

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Game Data / Sud Aviation Caravelle

« on: November 28, 2007, 01:54:22 pm »

AS from Janes All the Worlds Aircraft 1970-71:

Caravelle I :

Range: 2000km max payload, 2600km ferry
Speed: 805kmh max, 762kmh typical
Engines: 2x Rolls Royce Avon 522 Turbojets, 11000lbs st each
Cockpit Crew: 3 or 4
Max passenger capacity: 80
Entry into Service: Feb 1959 (SAS*)

Caravelle IA :

Range: 2150km max payload, 2700km ferry
Speed: 815kmh max, 775kmh typical
Engines: 2x Rolls Royce Avon 522A Turbojets, 11800lbs st each
Cockpit Crew: 3 or 4
Max passenger capacity: 80
Entry into Service: May 1959 (Air France)

Caravelle III:

Range: 2300km max payload, 2800km ferry
Speed: 845kmh max, 785kmh typical
Engines: 2x Rolls Royce Avon 532R Turbojets, 12600lbs st each
Cockpit Crew: 3 or 4
Max passenger capacity: 89
Entry into Service: April 1960 (Alitalia)

Ill see about posting the VI-R/VI-N, 10R, 11R, 12 and Super 12B specs later today...

*= this is an interesting trivia tidbit... SAS flew a commercial flight 3 days before Air France with a demonstrator... Caused a diplomatic incident at the time.

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General Chat / Massive Airlines

« on: November 25, 2007, 09:13:11 pm »

All it took me was time and aggressive expansion.  

3 tips i can give you:

1> Stick with the DC-3 until you can afford either the Martins or Curtis or Convair. The smaller stuff just isn't worth it... especially with the market for DC-3s right now.
2> Try and avoid competing with ACTIVE larger airlines, they tend to have a lot more money than you can afford to compete with (in other words if all of a sudden you find your 1x DC-3 set up against 8x L1049... i would quit the route...)
3> Lots of 1x or even 0.5x (though don't overdo the 0.5 thing, its considered by some to be "cheating" or at least "cheap lamer tactics") to lots of places is better than a few 3/4x to fewer places.

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Game Data / Aircraft introduced in 1951 and 1952

« on: November 23, 2007, 03:40:12 pm »

not what i really meant... but thanks anyways  

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Game Data / Aircraft introduced in 1951 and 1952

« on: November 23, 2007, 02:47:01 pm »

well i guess no one care about fixing this...
 :cry:

Talk to Stephen or our new Aircraft Data Officer about it (if you could get hold of him).
I don't have the ower to change it.

Who's the new Aircraft Data Officer then?

And how does one contact them???

And my reasons for not having the 707 out in 1954 are 2 fold:

1> It will just result in every single route switching to 707s, a massive (and i mean MASSIVE as in THOUSANDS) glut of propliners on the market and 5 years of complete boredom afterwards.
2> The 707 didn't come out until 1957... so why should the game have it out 3 years early???

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Game Data / Aircraft introduced in 1951 and 1952

« on: November 23, 2007, 02:39:47 am »

well i guess no one care about fixing this...
 :cry:

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General Chat / Would you rather buy a... Comet 2, Viscount or Convair 340?

« on: November 19, 2007, 03:25:41 pm »

"Says the biggest operator of the Curtis   "

Who me? nope never was, but i am the biggest Convair (135+105) and Viscount (100) operator...

So if you wanna    at that well  

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General Chat / Would you rather buy a... Comet 2, Viscount or Convair 340?

« on: November 19, 2007, 02:54:53 pm »

Pick the Convair unless you need the extra seats of the Viscount, otherwise it just doesn't compete that well...

The Comet, well... its smallest so i tend to discount it... gates are becoming too much of a premium