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Post by johnl on Jan 22, 2017 10:10:16 GMT -5
There are some interesting packages (for FS2k2, FS2k4, and FSX) at www.dc3airways.com/flights/routes/night_mail.htm for creating the early nightmail flights. Navigation is by Mk1 eyeball using a series of white/white/green beacons, supported by occasional very-low-powered (2nm range) NDB beacons (with single-digit morse identifiers) on 400.5KHz. From memory, this can be quite a challenge, especially if the weather closes in and you get lost (the challenge then is to get the machine onto the ground safely). For something a bit more sophisticated, the Indian Night Air Mail Service was launched in January 1949. Each evening, DC-3s left New Delhi, Calcutta (Kolkata), Bombay (Mumbai), and Madras (Chennai) for Nagpur, where mails were exchanged, and the aircraft returned to their home airfields in time to enable airmails to be delivered locally that morning. This was the world's first overnight airmail service (beating Federal Express by nearly a quarter of a century). Subsequent versions of the service employed DC-4s (for the benefit of the few ongoing passengers on the DC-4 airmail flights, Chennai airport opened a midnight-to-2am cinema while the mail was being transferred), and even Vickers Viscounts.
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Post by louross ??? on Jan 23, 2017 9:35:49 GMT -5
Wow! That sounds interesting! lou ross
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