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I got this e-mail from Flyaway Simulation today:
FS2004 Martin Seamaster P6M-2
Only $2!
A swept wing,4 jet, transonic flying boat. What a handful! Entirely new aircraft and effects made with FSDSv2.
Click here to pay/download this aircraft now!The Martin P6M Seamaster prototype, which made its first test flight on 14 July 1955. During flight testing, speeds in excess of 600 mph (966 km/h) were claimed. It embodied all the design features developed during World War II and immediately after the war. In 1952 Martin was awarded a contract, first, for a design study, and then a production contract for two prototypes known as Model '275. They would be modern in almost every way, despite their untimely destruction during tests.
! They were effectively seagoing B-52 s, having a small crew of fo ur and a gross take-off weight of 160,000 lbs (72,575 kgs), the same as the Convair Tradewind. The technology involved in its design was the latest known and included four Pratt & Whitney J75-P-2 turbojet engines of 17,500 lbs (7,938 kgs) thrust mounted on top of a highly swept shoulder-mounted drooped wing which had a span of 100 ft (30.48 m).
It had a T tail configuration and a high length-to-beam ratio of its 134 ft (40.84 m) hull. The engines were mounted in such a way as to prevent ingestion of the water spray pattern into the engine air-intake ducts and the wing-tip floats were integral, enlarged parts of the drooped wing configuration. These floats served additionally as wing-tip plates and in the mooring and docking of the Seamaster they played an important role in picking up the mooring buoy which was the key to swinging the aircraft, almost automatically, into the floating beaching gear or into a dock, whichever system was being used at the time. Also i! ncorporated in the design of the P6 Ms was a watertight rotary bomb bay. This could be flipped over in flight to expose the bomb racks which could be loaded on the inside of the hull with bombs, mines, cameras or other ordnance stores.
Click here to pay/download this aircraft now!Progress was encouraging, however during flight tests, both XP6M-1s crashed. On December 7,1955 the one thing the flying control designer feared most happened. The actuator controlling the horizontal stabilizer ran to full travel. The huge aircraft, traveling at high speed, pitched down sharply. The engines tore away from the wings, which, under the high airloads, bent down and actually touched beneath the hull, before the aircraft broke up, killing the crew of three.
Trials continued with the second prototype, but during special vibration checks, this too went out of control and executed a tight loop before breaking up. On this occasion, happily, the crew managed to escape from the stricken aircraft. A modification was incorporated in the second ship to allow the crew to escape through a tube like hatch just aft of the flight deck. When the second XP6M-1 crashed the crew was saved because of the escape system installation.
Click here to pay/download this aircraft now!
Has anyone bought this? Are there any screen shots of it?
I just checked, I didn't get that e-mail. Are you sure it was from here.
Ive replied elsewhere about this,saying I dont know
Just looked and I have it 😳
RadarMan wrote:
I just checked, I didn't get that e-mail. Are you sure it was from here.
Yea, I think you have to be signed up for the news letters to get them. Here is the e-mail that I got:
From: Fly Away Simulation <downloadable@flyawaysimulation.com&g...
To: *********@earthlink.net
Subject: FS2004 Martin Seamaster P6M-2
Date: Feb 27, 2006 3:23 PM
FS2004 Martin Seamaster P6M-2
Only $2!
A swept wing,4 jet, transonic flying boat. What a handful! Entirely new aircraft and effects made with FSDSv2.
Click here to pay/download this aircraft now!
The Martin P6M Seamaster prototype, which made its first test flight on 14 July 1955. During flight testing, speeds in excess of 600 mph (966 km/h) were claimed. It embodied all the design features developed during World War II and immediately after the war. In 1952 Martin was awarded a contract, first, for a design study, and then a production contract for two prototypes known as Model '275. They would be modern in almost every way, despite their untimely destruction during tests.
! They were effectively seagoing B-52 s, having a small crew of fo ur and a gross take-off weight of 160,000 lbs (72,575 kgs), the same as the Convair Tradewind. The technology involved in its design was the latest known and included four Pratt & Whitney J75-P-2 turbojet engines of 17,500 lbs (7,938 kgs) thrust mounted on top of a highly swept shoulder-mounted drooped wing which had a span of 100 ft (30.48 m).
It had a T tail configuration and a high length-to-beam ratio of its 134 ft (40.84 m) hull. The engines were mounted in such a way as to prevent ingestion of the water spray pattern into the engine air-intake ducts and the wing-tip floats were integral, enlarged parts of the drooped wing configuration. These floats served additionally as wing-tip plates and in the mooring and docking of the Seamaster they played an important role in picking up the mooring buoy which was the key to swinging the aircraft, almost automatically, into the floating beaching gear or into a dock, whichever system was being used at the time. Also i! ncorporated in the design of the P6 Ms was a watertight rotary bomb bay. This could be flipped over in flight to expose the bomb racks which could be loaded on the inside of the hull with bombs, mines, cameras or other ordnance stores.
Click here to pay/download this aircraft now!
Progress was encouraging, however during flight tests, both XP6M-1s crashed. On December 7,1955 the one thing the flying control designer feared most happened. The actuator controlling the horizontal stabilizer ran to full travel. The huge aircraft, traveling at high speed, pitched down sharply. The engines tore away from the wings, which, under the high airloads, bent down and actually touched beneath the hull, before the aircraft broke up, killing the crew of three.
Trials continued with the second prototype, but during special vibration checks, this too went out of control and executed a tight loop before breaking up. On this occasion, happily, the crew managed to escape from the stricken aircraft. A modification was incorporated in the second ship to allow the crew to escape through a tube like hatch just aft of the flight deck. When the second XP6M-1 crashed the crew was saved because of the escape system installation.
Click here to pay/download this aircraft now!
That is for the most part the e-mail, the one I got had some hot links in it, one screen shot of the plane, and some color too.
There was a small picture of it in the email I received.
Found this on Google.
http://www.aero-web.org/specs/martin/p6m-1.htm
Scroll down to see the pictures.
Mail I allow from FAS is normally prefixed -"webmaster@.... " or "newsletter@....".and normally comes in to my Inbox - the subject messgae "downloadable@.... " went in to my bulk mailbox. I doubt its a genuine FAS mailshot.
The plane is freeware and can be found at flightsim.com by searching for seazip.zip. It is under the Feb 22 top 100 downloads.
If you can't find it there, http://omega-air.org/files/p6m-2.zip should do the trick. I've flown it. It isn't bad, at all. Only two flaws. The skin of the plane has no seams and appears to be all one piece of metal, and the wing tip lights are about a not quite on the wing tips.
Look in the posts in Flyaway/General under the subject "Is this email real?" for more information.
If I disappear, you will know that someone didn't like my opinion of selling freeware. 😳
I dont think that it is bad to enlighting people.
If they want to sell i have no problem,but at least,they have to find something that its worth the price and of course something that cant be found for free.
I know about this craft too...i have flown it and i agree in most points with Crash's description about it.
