Grumman Goose & Turbo Goose

The good old Goose; Grumman G21 (or navy type JRF) and the G21G Turbo Goose.

Now (2025) v1.1 for v1141

This version’s most noticeable change is a new steering/castoring tailwheel setup. Apart from that there are only minor adjustments and corrections.

V1.0 (2017)

What at first started as a new livery for my friends in the freezer, XP’s virtual Antarctica, ended in a complete revision of my Goose models... Now also available as v1051 (for possible XP11 use).

What’s different from the previous version(s)?

-The retractable floats are back. The old plugin that stopped working with v9.0 is now replaced by a simple, animated object.

-Water rudder is gone. Most real Goose’s don’t have one, I believe. Being a twin engined plane you would ‘steer’ in in the water by means of differential throttle/power.

-Minor adjustments for data and settings of the different models/subtypes; though it was more like a major overhaul for the Turbo Goose.

-Panel reworked; comes in two flavors: The Classic Goose and JRF have an older radio stack and instruments without GPS. The Standard Goose, retractable floats and Turbo Goose have a newer radio stack, instruments and the standard G430 installed on the panel.

-Yes, this still is a ‘PlaneMaker only’ model; no full 3D exterior or 3D cockpit... but you can complement the 2D panel with the simple 360º interior views.

-Apart from specific liveries and the base paint (white and/or bare metal) you can also get some ‘generic liveries’, with these you only need to add your own registration and/or details.

Download           Turbo Goose (retr.floats) v1141 v1.1 7.2mb

Goose Standard v1141 v1.1 7.9mb    Goose (retr.floats) v1141 v1.1 5.5mb

Goose Classic v1141 v1.1 8.4mb    Goose JRF (military) v1141 v1.1 6.3mb

Extras                 360 Goose interior 1.1mb        6 Goose generic liveries.zip 2.7mb

Lockheed Vega 5

We just wanted an old classic for our flights in Antarctica  Antarctica4XPlane by Maps2XPlane

A quick and simple conversion of Brian D. Ford’s original v840 model to v970 & v1051; with an Antarctic livery and a choice of landing gears.

Download     Lockheed Vega 5 v1051 5.3mb

Supermarine Walrus

You can’t always fly Spitfires and the likes; in fact you’ll be praying for this after you dropped your Spit in the drink....

An update of Jacques Brault old v864 Supermarine Walrus; with David Plunkett's new 3D parts and liveries. Further modifications to 3D parts and model, update/re-save for v970, v1051 & v1141; plus weapons (Mk8 depth charge and Mk2 marine marker) by Pedro.

3 versions included: Armed - with gunners and weapons. SAR - unarmed but with observers. Both

come with alternative acf files, in case you really can't live with Nigel seating in front of you :). The third version is a closed one (no gunners, observers or weapons) for civilian use and this one comes with a digtal version of you navigator (a G430, xp10-11 only) just in case you get lost over the drink.

Remember this has only a simple 2D panel, you'll need to switch to taht in xp11 (alt-w).

A big thank you goes out to:

Jacques Brault (original v864 model) here  Chris Wraight ‘dataroots’ (sounds)  David Plunkett ‘smellybeard’ (new v9 3D parts and liveries) here

NEW - Nigel’s got a gun!  - ‘armed v2’ update comes now with a live Vickers-K 0.303 machine gun for the front gunner.

Download        Supermarine Walrus v1141 64.9mb

Noorduyn Norseman IV - UC-64

Classic bushplane from Canada.

NEW mix-and-match version of Jacques Brault’s Noorduyn Norseman model and my own old Norseman.

- Jacques’ model for XP v864, including sounds by Dataroots; via Aerostarsim’s XP1105 re-save up to v1141.

1. -My own Noorduyn Norseman model; started already in XP v566 and kept alive up to v1141.
   

Beware, this is an ‘old school’ model with 2D panel, mostly PlaneMaker-built; with only a few 3D objects for cosmetics... and it is for XP11.

Yes, of course it does fly!

Download           Noorduyn UC-64 Norseman IV v2.0 27.2mb