The Rocketeer Flight Simulator

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WonderCon 2012: Waid and Samnee Take Flight with the ROCKETEER Posted on 03/16/12 at 4:20 PM in Articles, Items by Paul Montgomery This summer, everybody’s favorite hood ornament is headed back to the stratosphere in an all new mini from IDW. The Gee Bee Z replica owned by Kermit Weeks/Fantasy of Flight is not the one used in the Rocketeer movie. The one that Kermit Weeks/Fantasy of Flight owns was built by Kevin Kimball and Jeff Eicher in the 90's and was test flown by Delmar Benjamin for the first time in 1996 (he would go on to complete 12 flights in all, which Delmar claims to be the most fun he has ever had flying an airplane, and that the Gee Bee Z is his favorite aircraft of all time) - I believe Kermit Weeks flew it 2.

Screenshot of Gee Bee Z From The Film 'Rocketeer'.Rocketeer version Gee Bee model Z made for the movie ' The Rocketeer'. This plane is shown at the end of the film and although there is very little documentation left I did manage to find enough to make this skin as accurate as possible.To install:You have already unziped the main folder and now look for a folder named 'texture.Rocketeer' - put this folder into your 'GeeBeemodel Z' folder located in the 'Airplanes' folder in your main FSX folder. This is the file structure to find the GeeBeemodel Z file; Microsoft FLight Simulator X/SimObjects/Airplanes/GeeBeemodel Z.You will also need to copy the following text into the 'aircraft' CFG file also located in your 'GeeBeemodel Z folder'. Open it with notepad and copy/paste the below text just under the first section named fltsim.0 and ending with 'atcidfont=Verdana,-11,1,600,0' Make a space after the last entry 'atcidfont=Verdana,-11,1,600,0' and paste it there. This will add the new texture to your FSX plane list for selection.fltsim.1title=GeeBeeModelZ Rocketeersim=GeeBeeZmodel=panel=sound=texture=Rocketeerpanelalias =soundalias =kbchecklists=GBZcheckkbreference=atcid=NR77Vatcidcolor=0x00000000atcparkingcode =atcairline=Airwaveatcflightnumber=uimanufacturer=GeeBee Rocketeeruitype=Sporster Zuivariation=Rocketeerdescription=This version is the plane that was at the end of the film 'Rocketeer'visualdamage=0atcheavy=0atcidfont=Verdana,-11,1,600,0Thanks to Warwick Carter for this great aircraft and for permission to paint it. Carter request please do not add this to any payware uploads as this is free to use and must remain so.

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The Gee Bee Z replica owned by Kermit Weeks/Fantasy of Flight is not the one used in the Rocketeer movie. The one that Kermit Weeks/Fantasy of Flight owns was built by Kevin Kimball and Jeff Eicher in the 90's and was test flown by Delmar Benjamin for the first time in 1996 (he would go on to complete 12 flights in all, which Delmar claims to be the most fun he has ever had flying an airplane, and that the Gee Bee Z is his favorite aircraft of all time) - I believe Kermit Weeks flew it 2 or 3 times shortly after he got it. It is a far more accurate/true to the original reproduction than the replica built by Bill Turner and used in the Rocketeer movie - that one is on display at the Museum of Flight in Seattle.BTW, if you're as much a Gee Bee fan as I am, you'll really enjoy this Youtube channel, with tons of fantastic, rare videos from the 90's featuring some really candid insights and great footage of both the Steve Wolf/Delmar Benjamin Gee Bee R-2 and the Kevin Kimball/Jeff Eicher Gee Bee Z (both of which are now owned by Kermit Weeks and not flown). Aside from such notoriety.there have been several books with that title, the only one worth looking at is the one by the late James Gilbert.Like the books on 'the world's worst cars'.most are written by hacks with no real experience in the types and just promote half-truths, rumor and hangar talk.I have a book on the Travel Air but would like a book on all the great American racing planes from the 'golden age'.anyone have a recommendation?Or for you authors out there.a suggestion for a book.

Yes, that's the Travel Air book I mentioned. I also have a book on Howards which has a section on Mr.

Mulligan, a racing aeroplane in the form of a large cabin tourer.Now what I'd like is a book with details on the Gee Bees, Laird and the like.It was a fascinating period where a few individuals could privately build an aircraft faster than military fighters of the day. They weren't inexpensive back then as the engines cost a fortune in period money, but they demonstrated real design work and innovation.