Pics from WT2 Erfurt to Rotterdam

[pegase]

My Breguet 763 Provence on parking


Ready for cargo payload


Taxiing to rwy, Erfurt was so busy thid day that some planes had to load in the grass around




Slow climb




At such speed, the passengers have time to enjoy the landscape


Meters after meters, my heavy flying fish reaches cruise level








Cloud dancing session


Getting over de vlakke land




This will help the spotters to reconize the subtile differenced between the Connie and the Breguet 763




And Vegas closes the flight




Preparing again


for a post flight ride

[Dutch64]

wonderful pics Pierre, i like the b/w ones a lot

[xhado13]

Wonderful shots! I love that plane

[pegase]

Thanks for your feedback fellows

This plane is not a celebrity although it had a quite long career between 1948 and 1972. This FS2004 freeware is very nice but a bit tricky
to fly.

There is "something somewhere" to do to get full PA function. In some 6 flights, Once I had all functionalities (alt, heading, nav).
Otherwise, just the nav function was available. This make things quite difficult as any wind change, turbulence or heading change mess
up the trim balance and then it is quite a job to restore a constant altitude and speed.

The performances are slightly below what they should be. The theory gives
Maximum cruising speed............225 knots
Long range cruising speed.............185 knots
Ceiling………………..………….24,000 feet
Best climb speed………………130 Knots

It is OK with the climb speed but wrong with the cruise. At 16000 feet, the overspeed threshold is at 170 kts. Or perhaps even less, during
last flight I am almost sure I was always below 165 kts, did not get overspeed warning but however had the -600 pens

Perhaps some ;air tweaking specialists can help me how to restore the theorical specs above ?

[DSW334]

Nice Pics Pierre.. Especially those black and white. They give an extra dimension to the use of "oldies"

[DBE]

Great stuff Pierre!

[Canada_Boy]

Very nice screenies

Cool prop too, what is it's range?

[Joeflyer]

Beautifully done, Pierre! I finally figured out how to monochrome my screenies,too. Looks really good!

[pegase]

Canada_Boy wrote:
Very nice screenies

Cool prop too, what is it's range?

Depending on the versions and the web sources it goes from 1300 to 3000 nm. So it was not a "transatlantic" but mainly in use over
Europe , mediterranean countries, Magreb

http://jnpassieux.chez-alice.fr/html/Provence.php

http://avia.russian.ee/air/france/breguet-763.php


Here is a Super 8 movie of an air show flight. Don't be affraid, what you hear is not supposed to be the engines of the plane but of the
movie projector
http://www.le65.com/info/tv/breguet.php3

[Joeflyer]

Loved that 8mm footage

[dannyboy2005]

Nice... Looks like the plane should beflying up side down... or even not at all lol.

[ste9889]

nice shots!

but that thing is just plain fugly!