Truly a big disapointment. The aircraft looks nice and flies ok but not overall right. It very quickly looses speed with engines at idle so it gets slow and very nose heavy quickly. It certainly has too much drag. Other than that it flies nicely and plausibly. What is very disappointing is the low quality of the gauges. They are very hard to read as well as some writings in the cockpit. Worst are the sounds. These mighty radial engines should sound mighty but they are more like a sewing machine. You hardly hear any flaps or gear sounds and touching down sounds like Micky Mouse. This very much ruins the experience for me. Very big disappointment especially for that amount of money!
Got this from the Marketplace but wanted to chime in here. I was skeptical about this aircraft considering its real world history and not really ever getting much real world air time.
It does however look like a very special aircraft and has that “what if” factor that really leaves one to wonder.
The texturing is really nice everywhere I have looked. There are a bunch of Easter eggs throughout the plane so give it a walk around and look in all the corners for some cool bits.
As far as how well its flight model is designed, nobody can really know but it behaves as described on paper. It’s fast and about as maneuverable as described (see Wkiki) giving it a believable pitch and roll behavior. Won’t be doing any loops or rolls on this. Not safely at least.
It cruises nicely at about 389mph, FL350 at about %80 throttle giving some room for some extra escape speed and whatnot.
It’s unique and fun, it doesn’t feel like anything else that can pin down which is nice.
The night lighting is excellent and the sounds are great IMO. The start up smoke is quite a sight.
Best to read the manual a bit as the plane can bite back with certain aggressive inputs. I have had to restart the engines several time during flight because I did not read up or fully understand its systems.
Overall this “what if” bird is truly different and clearly crafted with love.
What a Gas!! Just complex enough to be interesting, and just simple enough to avoid studying a 500 page manual. I don't know of any twin engine props that can fly 300 kts at 40 000 feet. Really enjoying it. Watch the crash scene in the Aviator movie and you'll see haw accurate the aircraft's modeled.