Every recip airplane model has two propellors. One is a prop with blades and the other is a transparency that simulates the blur of a rapidly spinning prop disk. You set the RPM in the INI to determine when the "slow prop" gives way to the "fast prop". While the solid prop will rotate, it won't go fast enough to be convincing. What you are seeing is an airplane whose engine RPM is below the range of the fast prop. And this happens usually when the airplane is running on AI. They retard throttle to stay behind a target where you probably would not. It's easy to do away with altogether in the INI. We usually set and idle RPM that will look right during taxi but go to blur as soon as the throttle is advanced.

Here's the final VP14 version of the PBY. All planes are done except for the Hurricane. Hard to believe we are this late but we are almost ready to go now.

























Maybe an announcement on Monday.

Great Work!

Regards,

J. P. Kelly

I don't think the PBY had a bomb bay during WWII It used wing racks from all of the references I have seen, now there are the forest-fire bombers that do have the "belle tank bomb bay" but I'm purty sure that was a custom add-on

It had an internal bomb bay. There may have been models without them but the people I know who have done the conversion for fire fighting used what was there originally.

No.
Internal bombbay is 100% BS.
Bombs, Torpedos.. all was hung from wing racks outboard of the struts.

If you believe that to be so, all you have to do is eliminate the animation command. Anyone who believes that they had an internal bomb bay has one.

Zero & team thanks for your hard work, I was just trying to help with Authenticity nothing more.

I was talking to some guys who were converting two Cats into tankers once a long while ago. I asked about tankage and they said they would use the bomb bay. I didn't think they had one since the bottom of the aircraft was a boat keel. So they showed me one. It looked pretty much original manufacture to me but then the airplane was 35 or 40 years old already. It could have been installed any time in that time and grown to look old in the interim. I have also read that they hauled "4 bombs in their bomb bay" while trying to confirm if they had them or not in the models we are going to use for stories. So rather than not have them, we put them in. If it turns out they were not in 1940's era Catalinas, it's no problem to make it not be there. But if it turns out they did have them...or a later version did have them and someone wants to play that way, it would be a major problem installing it, now wouldn't it?

I will eventually call some friends at Aero Union and ask...if anyone knows any more in the real airplane business.

We are not into 100% BS. This stuff isn't free so we have to find ways to use it efficiently. Like I said, you can always choose to shut your bomb bay.

It's Friday. Last test flight of the day.

Nobody can paint like Sundowner but I can smear grease, oil, fuel, hydraulic fluid and bug splats with the best of them.



Not just testing the paint but the butterfly flaps, too.



Just when you think he is going to beat your turn, hit F and suddenly you're pulling lead.



But you had better check six.





Very un-Japanese. I'm going to run for it.



Have a nice weekend.