leuen Posted July 5, 2021 Share Posted July 5, 2021 Obvisouly nobody here is aware that Christian Page does still a tremendous effort to release repaints for airliners used in the Seventies. In a way his releases belongs to 'virtual aviation heritage' too, like 'CalClassic' or 'The Old Hangar' in their respective eras. IMO it's quite a shame that this achievement has absolute no impact here! Such retro traffic certainly won't appear in any other form and for any other sims in future. That's for sure. Anyway, many thanks to Christian Page and hopefully I could see more of his nice works. At least, Actually I'm creating a whole traffic package with all releases and will enjoy it very much once done. But that might be another pairs of shoes! Bernard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyimgfrog Posted July 6, 2021 Share Posted July 6, 2021 They are indeed very nice, but for me a couple are unusable as I am unable to locate the JPAI DC6. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leuen Posted July 7, 2021 Author Share Posted July 7, 2021 It's indeed quite an effort to find all basic aircraft. So I spent some time to locate Michael Pearson's DC-6. Here the link: https://library.avsim.net/download.php?DLID=190892 As I'm still completing the whole traffic, I can't tell you, whether it's usuable or not. Hopefully yes. Finally I will try to mix it with other traffic of this era which will add some further airlines not included up to now in Page's package. Bernard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyimgfrog Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 Thanks for the link. It did not turn up in my searches, probably not using the right words. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leuen Posted July 10, 2021 Author Share Posted July 10, 2021 That's what I contributed in an other flightsim forum: Just for pleasure I created a traffic package with the traffic and aircraft files released by Christian Page at FlightSim. He uploaded a large number of airline textures in use beginning the Seventies. Than I mixed it with Oleg Tchernikov's 1969 traffic released at RetroAI. As both packages are missing quite a lot of airlines seen in 1970, they together make an acceptable retro traffic, even there are several overlaps which should be eliminated. Anyway, there is nothing else or better available. Here some screenshots: Franfkurt Main London Heathrow Hong Kong Kai Tak Chicago O'Hare At least it was a challenging attempt, and I had fun! Bernard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ussmidway Posted July 10, 2021 Share Posted July 10, 2021 Great pics, look like postcards you would buy at an airport gift shop. Looks like hell about to break loose at O'Hare! I have tinkered with my own retro packages before, but haven't done one for the 70s, surprisingly, since this was "MY" decade so to speak. I grew up then, my formative years. I'm not a stickler for accuracy, so I have been thinking about a package that would span say '68 to '83. A lot of my favorite planes, airlines, and liveries during that span. Thats a great time to fly a lot of the HJG planes also. Thanks for this post and bringing these planes from Christian Page to my attention. I think i'm about to fall down a rabbit hole. https://prostrategyfootball.com/?p=467 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leuen Posted July 11, 2021 Author Share Posted July 11, 2021 Glade that you like it! In fact it's just a matter of using a certain SweetFx setting. Some times I enjoy to fly in b/w monochrome or sepia environment. Like I would leaf through my old aviation books! Bernard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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