[Lars_Roennig]

As a further step to the completion of the 747V4-series, Project Open Sky is pleased
to announce the release of the Boeing 747-123 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft



Model Designers:.............................Hiroshi Igami & Lars Roennig
Flight Dynamics Designers:..............Brandon D. Henry & Warren C. Daniel
Master Texture Designer:................Corey Ford
Livery and Shuttle painted by:.........Luiz Perina & Lars Roennig
Test Pilots:.......................................Project Opensky Members & Donators

N905NA w/o Shuttle will follow shortly.
Also the work on N911NA will be started soon.

[Dom]

Woo, thanks! Great work, much appreciated.

[N. Chapman]

You lied to us! (not really though ) great job on the release Lars!

[Bizub4]

Cool! One step closer to completeing the 747!

[Lars_Roennig]

ndude737, on May 18 2008, 10:23 PM, said:

You lied to us! (not really though ) great job on the release Lars!

Lol...well...call me speedy gonzales

Thanks for the nice comments!

[Hiroshi Igami]

Lars .. It's your first release here!
Really nice and you made it!

[Tom Clayton]

The new php method for downloads never works for me. If you have the same problem, try this link:
http://www.projectop...S741V4A_SCA.zip

[DeltaAVL]

Nice. This is the best model for this aircraft. I can't wait to load it and fly it.

[Tom Clayton]

Now that I've had a chance to fly it, I can say it's very well done right "out of the box!" My only question is on rollout after landing. with 20% fuel, I had the plane off the runway in something close to 4000'. This was with full flaps, full reverse until 60 knots, full spoilers, and full brakes. Weather was the "Fair Weather" stock theme. This thing's carrying quite a bit of weight, so I'm wondering if the brake scalar may need to come down a bit more. But besides that, I'm quite happy with the release!

[flightsimer]

nice to see it out... but what happened to "it wont ever be done because it would require to many polys and wouldnt look right"?

[NWilkinson]

flightsimer, on May 26 2008, 01:12 PM, said:

nice to see it out... but what happened to "it wont ever be done because it would require to many polys and wouldnt look right"?

Obviously we managed to find a way to make it work

[Lars_Roennig]

You will notice that the 747 has only one opening door. We were able to gain some polys by removing the
cargo doors, L1 door, and therefore the interior and making a simple new one.
Also this version was not that tight in polys, as it hasn't the blower doors in the engines.
Additionally the shuttle is done in very few polys (about 1600 I think). Textures play a big role to make a model look
good and we achieved a lot detail by textures.

[Dom]

flynryan692, on May 28 2008, 06:40 AM, said:

Nice job. Looks great...if you want ANOTHER project look into this:

http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.sear...inct_entry=true

Wow thats strange

[Nader]

Plainplane, on May 28 2008, 06:51 PM, said:

flynryan692, on May 28 2008, 12:40 AM, said:

Nice job. Looks great...if you want ANOTHER project look into this:

http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.sear...inct_entry=true

Come on, don't give them more suggestions - give them time to work on the 777 and finish the Air Force Ones!

Plainplane

I got the 777 beta and the Air Force One beta, man I love being a POSKY donator. All I can say is that they are both AWESOME.