
British United Air Ferries - ATL98 Carvair (1960's -1970's)

Recently I downloaded a Carvair from Tom Gibson's Classic Airliners great site. This
aircraft, in the guise of Custom Air Services N98FA based at Clayton County, Georgia proved a most excellent model, flying well and really looking the part!

I decided that I had to have a British example so, after searching through a few books and in particular 'Vintage Glory' by Adrian M. Balch, I decided to make this one.

BUAF used the aircraft, along with quite a few others, for car ferry services from England to Ostend, Belgium. Apparently it could carry up to 5 cars and 22 passengers.

How they got five cars in  I dont know, but I suppose they must have been rather small ones!

The original model was made by David Henderson and the designer was Tom Johnson. Since it was made from a DC4, it has a complicated pedigree, involving Kevin Trinkle, Tom Gibson, Rich Boehinger and Les Penridge as well, but I only painted it. Thanks to all the clever people who were responsible for making this great model and permitting me to repaint it - and to Chuck Dome, whose TEXBMP utility allowed me to carry out the work. 
This is a FS98 aircraft. It doesn't need conversion.

INSTALLATION
Unzip the ZIP file into a temp file. If the aircraft files are in their folders then move
the folder(and contents)into the Flight Simulator98\AIRCRAFT folder. The path should be:
FS98\AICRAFT\Carvair(or whatever you name it) That's it!

***IN CASE FILES ARE SEPERATE AND NOT IN THEIR FOLDERS:***
you should have the following folders:
MODEL
PANEL
SOUND
TEXTURE

If this is not the case, then you need to put the .MDL file in MODEL, .af files in TEXTURE, panel.cfg in PANEL, and sound.cfg in SOUND. That should do it.

On my FS I used DC-4 sounds and Christian Conesa's generic propliner panel.
 
This is freeware. Upload it, download it, but don't sell it !!! If you alter or improve please give your predecessors credit.


PLEASE VISIT THE FLYING COLORS WEBSITE!!!
http://pages.prodigy.net/davidstacy/zeusfs/home.htm

SOME OTHER FS98 PLANES DAVID HENDERSON HAS PAINTED:

DC-3 : Eastern Express
       Air Atlantique ( 3 variations of their 3-stripe livery)
       Air Sunshine
       Monroe County Mosquito Control District
       Orange Hat Tour Plane (very colorful with a big smiley face)

M-404: Air South/Florida Airlines
       Marco Island Airways
       Ocean Airways
       
DH-114 Heron: PRINAIR (5 versions:blue,green,yellow,orange,biege)

YS-11: Provincetown-Boston Airline (PBA)

SOME OTHERS I HAVE PAINTED

Not many, a few for my own amusement but I'm working on an Icelandair DC6 at the moment

Happy flying,

Gerry McLaughlin
16 February 2000

gmcl122@aol.com
