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New York to Paris...?

Postby Groundbound1 » Tue Jul 03, 2007 8:42 pm

I was just wondering if anyone has done this whole trip in the sim yet? You know, the HARD way. No pausing, slewing, or cheating of any kind.
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Re: New York to Paris...?

Postby JBaymore » Tue Jul 03, 2007 9:05 pm

Yeah... the "Holy Grail"......... real long haul in real time.  :P

One of these days I'm planning to do the KJFK to RJAA hop in real time.  When I have a whole day to kill....and a good book to read while on the l....o....n....g alaska/BeringSea/Pacific part of the trip.

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Re: New York to Paris...?

Postby beaky » Tue Jul 03, 2007 9:42 pm

Funny you should mention this- I just saw The Spirit of St. Louis (again) on TV, and was amazed (again) that Lindbergh managed to pull that off by dead reckoning alone.
That's the hard way... ;D

I thought about doing the same thing in FS9, but it took three tries just to get the overloaded Ryan off the ground, and by the time I got to St. John I was exhausted.  ;) :D
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Re: New York to Paris...?

Postby Groundbound1 » Tue Jul 03, 2007 10:01 pm

[quote]Funny you should mention this- I just saw The Spirit of St. Louis (again) on TV, and was amazed (again) that Lindbergh managed to pull that off by dead reckoning alone.
That's the hard way... ;D

I thought about doing the same thing in FS9, but it took three tries just to get the overloaded Ryan off the ground, and by the time I got to St. John I was exhausted.
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Re: New York to Paris...?

Postby G-Fire25 » Tue Jul 03, 2007 10:15 pm

I'd be happy to do it. :P
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Re: New York to Paris...?

Postby Isak922 » Tue Jul 03, 2007 10:23 pm

Never done it myself, although I might try it. I wonder if I can beat the SR-71's record in an SR-71  :P

JFK to Heathrow in what? 3 hours? Worth a shot. My longest non-sped up trip was from JFK to KMIA in an A320 (About the same length, time wise for an SR-71 to go to Heathrow from JFK
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Re: New York to Paris...?

Postby FSFLYER2 » Wed Jul 04, 2007 5:53 am

Well, I never thought there would be a cult in FS design .But: oh boy! I have found one in the person of Eugene Heyart and his wizardry design.
Want to take on long flights then go for this craft> Hu16 Albatross.

File> grumman_hu16_albatross_2.0.zip. Comes with several textures, and with wheels.
The file noteded has floats so easy to practice landing, speed, nose and flaps and your down.
Now my problem now is to watch me spellin?

                                                     
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Re: New York to Paris...?

Postby Boca » Wed Jul 04, 2007 12:34 pm

Never done it myself, although I might try it. I wonder if I can beat the SR-71's record in an SR-71  :P

JFK to Heathrow in what? 3 hours? Worth a shot. My longest non-sped up trip was from JFK to KMIA in an A320 (About the same length, time wise for an SR-71 to go to Heathrow from JFK



Try 1 hour 54 minutes and 56 seconds London to New York in the Blackbird, and a trans-American 'coast to coast' time of 68 minutes 17 seconds.  ;)
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Re: New York to Paris...?

Postby FlightSimKid » Thu Jul 05, 2007 11:23 am

My longest flight has to be a Milan - Florida - Los Angeles in a A380. It took 5 hours to hop across to Florida and about 1hour 30mins to Los Angeles so altogther a 6hour 30min flight. I had the whole day and night to myself so i thought "Why Not". I didn't touch my PC for about a week :D
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Re: New York to Paris...?

Postby JA 37 Viggen » Thu Jul 05, 2007 1:09 pm

My fastest was Edwards AFB to Shuttle Lading Facility: 1 hour and 2.3 minutes.
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Re: New York to Paris...?

Postby Stubbedtoe18 » Thu Jul 05, 2007 1:25 pm

There's plenty of people out there that have done so, just not here.


Dude, look at how low my post count is :( sorry admins
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Re: New York to Paris...?

Postby Cessna93 » Thu Jul 05, 2007 1:27 pm

There's plenty of people out there that have done so, just not here.


Dude, look at how low my post count is :( sorry admins



What happend to the count?
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Re: New York to Paris...?

Postby JA 37 Viggen » Thu Jul 05, 2007 1:28 pm

What... did you do?
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Re: New York to Paris...?

Postby Stubbedtoe18 » Thu Jul 05, 2007 2:54 pm

I mistakenly called the other mods lazy for not helping Fly2e at all in the screenshot contest.  I got taken down 100 posts I think.  I hope they'l help him out now.  Ugh.   ::)

Man I'd try the New York to paris with the Concorde or Chronos, bt it'd obviously take too long.  Maybe an Sr-71 would do.  Yah, an Sr-71 would beat you to Chicago from London if you took off from D.C. at the same time.  I dunno, that wouldn't take too long.  Only an hour and 4 minutes is the speed record from L.A. to D.C. in an Sr-71.  I know this is true cause I just went to another Air and Space Museum up by Dulles.  Got off topic there...   :P
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Re: New York to Paris...?

Postby haroldkip » Thu Jul 05, 2007 4:02 pm

[quote]I mistakenly called the other mods lazy for not helping Fly2e at all in the screenshot contest.
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