I decided to do the skin for Cub "Liberty Girl II" of the one of the most eccentric and crazy pilots (I suppose) of Piper Cub ever: Maurice Kirk . Its not only skin, its a interesting story of the man - flying vet with big love to Cub (he had few).
A few quotes from his a little crazy life:
"In the spring of 2001, Maurice Kirk threw a monkey wrench into a re-enactment of the great London-Sydney Air Race, first flown in 1919 and again in 1969. But nobody expected the self-proclaimed "flying vet" to enter the race with a 60-horsepower Piper Cub that came from the factory with a 12-gallon fuel tank."
"A 72-year-old British pilot, who went missing for a second time while attempting to fly a 1940s plane the length of Africa, has been found. Maurice Kirk, who lives in Bristol, was part of a vintage air rally flying from Crete to Cape Town. He was reported missing for the second time on Friday after taking off from Ethiopia. His plane suffered engine failure but he managed to land safely, rally organisers said..."
"Pensioner Mr Kirk first went missing on a three-hour leg of the cross-African flight from southern Sudan into western Ethiopia earlier this week. He was later found and reunited with rest of the competitors at the airport in Gambela, Ethiopia."
"Flying Vet held after dropping in at Bush ranch: I realised that I was right near the ranch of George W and I thought I could knock on his door and leave a note to thank him for the US Coastguard saving my life".
"All his life, it seems, Maurice broke the rules and trusted that his wits would see him through. He was repeatedly rebuked and occasionally arrested for landing on golf courses, flying under bridges, making a citizen's arrest of a court officer, and other offenses against the public order, including -- finally and fatally -- the purchase of a Lewis machine gun from the First World War. First he lost his veterinarian's license, then he lost his freedom."
/Pictures from his FB/
Hard to tell how many he had "hard" landings and crashes on his Cubs but he visited on this Piper a lot of countries on long distance also, you can read this article about his life - https://www.pipercubforum.com/sydney.htm - Around the world in a Piper Cub (more or less).
His last trip was Africa (not finished) so ... maybe You want to finish it with new ORBX Open Landclass for Africa on A2A Cub? Why not! Just idea!
Here you can find a little more about this planned trip: http://www.vintageairrally.com/9-event/210-pastevents (or http://www.pilotspost.co.za/arn0001122 ).
/and about his trrip https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-new ... ng-9321509 /.
A little about skin for P3Dv4.4+ : it will not be repaint 1:1, his (the last and present Cub) its G-KURK but its L-4 Grasshooper but I wanted to celebrate these interesting adventures of Maurice Kirk. I decided to do new "silver" repaint with all techniques that the current A2A's Cub allows - so PBR, shadowing, material mapping (as I can), new weathering (like Leak, dirty, scratches, worn tires, bugs ;>, trash ect.), just for fun but I prefer this kind of outside and inside textures.
Here is preview only (but soon, this week I think).
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G-KURK, the new repaint incoming (+ trip over Africa)
G-KURK, the new repaint incoming (+ trip over Africa)
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Smashing stuff YoYo, cannot wait to get this in the sim and give her a flight
thanks,
Lewis
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Re: G-KURK, the new repaint incoming
Thx Lewis.
Next step for cockpit (More Slowly > Slow on Throttle) and colours like in the real one:
Regards!
Next step for cockpit (More Slowly > Slow on Throttle) and colours like in the real one:
Regards!
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Very cool and full of neat character!
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Todays update, not a big changes but important things - bump mapping inside, imitation of leather meterial ect (so polishing ).
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Re: G-KURK, the new repaint incoming
Great stuff YoYo - this looks very original. Did you steal that throttle plate off a mobility scooter?
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Re: G-KURK, the new repaint incoming
Awesome! Love the throttle plate
Re: G-KURK, the new repaint incoming
Episode for today - glass/windows but not of Mr.Gates.
The repaint is on final way.
btw.
So as You can see, it isnt very clean aircraft, but ... his style, his office for examle looks like this:
So this was my inspiration to give away of the spirit of this pilot and his plane.
The repaint is on final way.
btw.
So as You can see, it isnt very clean aircraft, but ... his style, his office for examle looks like this:
So this was my inspiration to give away of the spirit of this pilot and his plane.
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Re: G-KURK, the new repaint incoming
I live in bristol too, and this man looks very familiar...i do wonder if i ever past him ?Maurice Kirk, who lives in Bristol,
I just been looking up at the gun court case.....he's been fighting that for about 10 years!
It was a very 'dirty' case it seems ...lying judes ect
https://twitter.com/kirkflyingvet/with_ ... r%5Eauthor
BTW nice paint!
Re: G-KURK, the new repaint incoming
Ok, skin is finished. Here is preview the final result.
This is next idea for new release - Orbx Africa Landclass - for new adventure on A2A Cub. I started to do recreation of 2016 Vintage Air Rally "Crete2Cape" - what it was in 2016.
Few days ago (2.04.2020) I started this Air African Rally. Now after me its 12h of real time of flying, rules:
- solo flight,
- real time (so no any compressed option),
- real weather (Active Sky)
- compass and clock only,
- VR flight,
- no A2A 2D map ;>.
- every flight can be saved after parking the Cub,
- youtube music from this country where I am .
Now Im near to end of border of Egipt. The journey continues ... (the goal is to do whole Maurice Kirk trip or... maybe the whole race ).
Below are some photos from a trip over Africa (with new LC for sure) and Mr.Kirk G-KURK plane:
Skin was uploaded Today on SOH Forum, soon on Avsim and FlightSim (next week).
This is next idea for new release - Orbx Africa Landclass - for new adventure on A2A Cub. I started to do recreation of 2016 Vintage Air Rally "Crete2Cape" - what it was in 2016.
Following in the footsteps of the pioneering flights in the 1920s – we connected some of the most beautiful and evocative points in Africa. We flew low along the Nile from Cairo to Khartoum, past the highlands of Ethiopia before the plains of Kenya and the home of African aviation in Nairobi. Then we went off again past Kilimanjaro into the Serengeti – and on to the spice island of Zanzibar. After a short pause we enjoyed the Indian ocean, we continued, crossed Zambia to Victoria Falls, before we continuied to Bulawayo in Zimbabwe. Our final days took us across Botswana and into stunning South Africa – to the Cape, journey’s end.
Few days ago (2.04.2020) I started this Air African Rally. Now after me its 12h of real time of flying, rules:
- solo flight,
- real time (so no any compressed option),
- real weather (Active Sky)
- compass and clock only,
- VR flight,
- no A2A 2D map ;>.
- every flight can be saved after parking the Cub,
- youtube music from this country where I am .
Now Im near to end of border of Egipt. The journey continues ... (the goal is to do whole Maurice Kirk trip or... maybe the whole race ).
Below are some photos from a trip over Africa (with new LC for sure) and Mr.Kirk G-KURK plane:
Skin was uploaded Today on SOH Forum, soon on Avsim and FlightSim (next week).
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Smashing stuff, lovely jubbly. Looking forward to getting it into my sim. Always happy to have more G reg liveries for pottering around the UK in.
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From Today G-KURK is ready to download from AVSIM and FlightSim also, not from SOH only.
btw.
The journey continues, in the last 4 days I did next 1325 km (9:03h) ... Now I'm near the Ethiopia's border but still over Sudan.
Im near where Mr.Kirk finished his race:
Here some of pictures from this part of African journey:
Next day, next fly .
Id like to finish it in P3Dv5 so come on boys, I'm waiting for Cub update .
btw.
The journey continues, in the last 4 days I did next 1325 km (9:03h) ... Now I'm near the Ethiopia's border but still over Sudan.
Im near where Mr.Kirk finished his race:
Here some of pictures from this part of African journey:
Next day, next fly .
Id like to finish it in P3Dv5 so come on boys, I'm waiting for Cub update .
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Hope I am not hijacking the thread, have come across a good video of Maurice Kirk and his L-4 he flew from London to Australia.
https://youtu.be/V2yLlBunsrc
https://youtu.be/V2yLlBunsrc
Re: G-KURK, the new repaint incoming (+ trip over Africa)
For sure not! Its a free and for users Forum ;D.convair wrote: ↑16 Apr 2020, 08:21 Hope I am not hijacking the thread, have come across a good video of Maurice Kirk and his L-4 he flew from London to Australia.
https://youtu.be/V2yLlBunsrc
Thx, very nice found!
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