FSX and FS2004 Bristol Brabazon 1
By Jens B. Kristensen, October 2007.
This huge and good-looking aircraft was planned as a
transatlantic airliner for BOAC. It was powered by
eight Bristol Centaurus radial engines, and flew for
the first time in 1949.
The Brabazon was unable to compete with aircraft like the
Douglas DC-6/7 and the Lockheed Constellation, so only
one prototype G-AGPW was built. It was broken up after
three years of flight testing.
Far from a failure, as it is often described, the Brabazon
taught Bristol what to do, and what not to do. The machine was pleasant in flight,
and met all of it's design criteria as a prototype.
The suceeding Britania still has one of the highest payload fractions of any airliner, for instance.
Numerous engineering and systems innovations advanced the state of the art,
and 60% of the capital costs went into modernized plant and airport infrastructure that
served for decades.
For more details and flying instructions, please see the
pdf document installed in the \Documentation folder.
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*To install for Flight Simulator X:
Just run the included setup program.
*To install for Flight Simulator 2004 - A Century of Flight:
1) Run the included setup program. When you get to the "Destination
Folder" dialog, click the 'Browse' button and locate your
Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 9\aircraft
folder.
2) Continue the setup!
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The gauges are to some extent standard gauges of Flight
Simulator, others are by me, but with much inspiration
from gauges by Microsoft
Magneto switches, starter buttons, prop feathering buttons
and some engine gauges are based on public domain gauges by
Mike (MoparMike) Wagner, converted to XML by myself.
The ILS indicator is based on xml code by
Saviero Maurri (Vickers Varsity panel), bitmaps by me.
The autopilot is by myself, but part of the xml code (the turn button)
is inspired Saviero Maurris autopilot for the DH Dove.
A number of gauges (mostly switches) are, with permission from
Tom Gibson, www.calclassic.com, based on work by Tom himself,
Kevin Trinkle, Ernie Kennedy and Ken 'Mitch' Mitchell. I have used
complete gauges from them (cowl flap switches), or used the
bitmaps from their c-style gauges and made xml-versions of them.
Hans-Joerg Naegele has kindly given me permission to use gauges
from his Lockheed 049 Constellation panel (VNConnie049.cab),
directly or modified. I have used a few of these directly;
in other cases I have combined Hans-Joerg's xml-code with
gauge bitmaps from Tom Gibsons gauges. A good example is
the starter gauge.
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Sounds: The sound files are by Mike Hambly, updated to
FSX / FS2004 format by myself. I would have liked to
have Mike Hambly's permission to include them, but
the email adress in his files apparently no longer works.
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This plane was made with FSDS 3.0, finished with with FSDS 3.5.
Textures with Paint Shop Pro and DxtBmp.
It is freeware and must stay that way.
I hope you like flying the Brabazon!
Jens B. Kristensen, 10. October 2007
Jens.B.Kristensen@mail.tele.dk