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Post by Nilsfr91 on Jan 30, 2021 5:38:04 GMT -5
Thank you for these, also for die FS9 textures. Werner You're welcome !
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Post by Nilsfr91 on Jan 30, 2021 11:20:08 GMT -5
Next up will be the very short lived "Air Inter Europe", the "swan song" of of the french domestic airline Air Inter after being purchased alongside UTA by AF thus forming the "Groupe Air France". This transition between Air Inter's own livery and brand and the full absorption into Air France in 1997 was because of the strong will of ITF's staff to keep their company's name, brand and autonomy around for a little more. This "era", from 1996 to 1997/1998, saw the introduction of the "Air Inter Europe" livery, using the basic 90's Air France logo and colors (still with the Groupe Air France stickers) and the titles "Air Inter Europe" in the same font as AF's, but in blue AND red, and was applied on the at the time brand new A319's originally ordered by ITF (F-GPMA to F-GPMI), 3 former ITF A300B2, all of the 5 ITF A321-100, same thing for all of ITF A320-100 (F-GGEA to F-GGEG), some of the A320-200's and all of the Fokker 100 delivered to Air Inter in 1995 (F-GPXA to F-GPXE, later transfered to AF subsidiary Brit Air) Here's a quick look of the livery: There's going to be just one livery per type of aircraft, given that the very short time this livery was around didn't allow changes/variations to it. For the A300 I'll make a paint for FS9 and FSX by using the only paintkit for the TFS A300 that I have which is for the original model, as I couldn't find the one for the P3Dv4 converted model. Hope everyone is having a good day, Kind regards Nils
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Post by Nilsfr91 on Jan 31, 2021 14:49:38 GMT -5
Here we start with the A300's and the A319's. Only 3 A300's of Air Inter were kept and repainted: F-BUAH, F-BUAO and F-BUAP (all B2 series). For the A319's it's rather simple: all of those originally ordered directly from ITF some time before the brand change, so F-GPMA to F-GPMI. The A300's remained in those colors from early 1996 to July/August 1997 and the A319's were all delivered in Air Inter Europe's scheme, so those colors were seen on them from early-mid 1996 to the end of 1997. Here are the previews: A300B2
A319
Next will be the A320's and the A321's, I've just finished the A320's but I stumbled on some photos and I want to add 1/2 new variations, and then there will finally be the Fokker 100.
Good day/evening to everybody !
Regards, Nils
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Post by Nilsfr91 on Feb 1, 2021 13:42:53 GMT -5
Fresh from the paintshop today are the A321 and the Fokker 100. Air Inter took delivery of 5 F-100 and 5 A321-100 in 1994/1995, all being in the airline's own colors before being repainted in 1996. The Fokker 100 were registered F-GPXA to F-GPXE and were later transferred to AF's regional subsidiaries, either RĂ©gional or Brit Air, and flew within the AF Group until 2010/2011. As I was searching threw photos of Air Inter Europe around 1996, I saw that some of the narrowbodies (A320 and A321's) were still during the summer/early autumn in ITF own colors, 1 or 2 of the A321's , and at least 2 or 3 A320-200, these A320's remained in the fleet in those colors or in basic white colors until mid 1997. So yeah, surprise ! There's an extra variation for the A321 in full Air Inter colors ! The same is in the works for the A320, with 3 more variations being a Air Inter livery, same but with grey engines, and the last a basic white livery with grey engines (circa spring 1997). Here are the previews: Fokker 100
A321-100
They are available alongside the A300 and the A319 in my Google Drive in the file "Air Inter Europe" (link here: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1xfEJWbBtUiiOyf2A6Mi7U9SkoG1qZqC7?usp=sharing)
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Post by Nilsfr91 on Feb 2, 2021 9:31:18 GMT -5
Here we go with the A320's ! I've added 4 variations on top of the regular Air Inter Europe A320-100 and the -200, there's a Air Inter Europe variation with a slightly different tail only wore by F-GJVZ, 2 Air Inter liveries as some A320-200 were still wearing it until late 1996 or even early/mid 1997 for some (including both of the grey engines ones, F-GJVY and F-GJVX), and finally a ful white-grey engines livery circa early/mid 1997 until the end of the same year wore by F-GJVX and F-GJVY. They are now also available on my Google Drive along th other aircrafts. Here is the preview:
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Post by garko on Feb 2, 2021 12:19:40 GMT -5
Nice repaints. It's a shame we don't have a model of the Dassault Mercure, the French skies are really missing it.
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Post by Nilsfr91 on Feb 2, 2021 12:54:50 GMT -5
Nice repaints. It's a shame we don't have a model of the Dassault Mercure, the French skies are really missing it. Thank you very much! Yes I very much agree,I would love to have a good AI model even if only Air Inter flew the model the, french airports especially Orly were filled with them along with the caravelles.
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Post by sunking on Feb 2, 2021 16:20:46 GMT -5
I always used the A320-100 to substitute for the Dassault Mercure, as it is closest from the appearance. But, yes, it's a shame. Let's hope that ai will wind up for the next generation simulators with a variety as huge as it was back then for FS9/X. Brings back memories to see the IT aircraft, as I remember them from my 1996 transit at CDG. Miss them almost as much as a pre Groupe AF fleet sans AIA. Merci beaucoup pour le AF/IT peintures. Kind regards.
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Post by Nilsfr91 on Feb 2, 2021 17:03:52 GMT -5
I always used the A320-100 to substitute for the Dassault Mercure, as it is closest from the appearance. But, yes, it's a shame. Let's hope that ai will wind up for the next generation simulators with a variety as huge as it was back then for FS9/X. Brings back memories to see the IT aircraft, as I remember them from my 1996 transit at CDG. Miss them almost as much as a pre Groupe AF fleet sans AIA. Merci beaucoup pour le AF/IT peintures. Kind regards. I've personally never had the chance to see ITF in it's full glory since they disappeared before I was born, even though I've been able to visit 2 of the "preserved" Mercures (1 was next to Orly alongside a Concorde, the other is at Le Bourget next to an AF 747-100), but I'm very passionate about the history of aviation especially in France, and ITF was considered as a pioneer here in how they operated and advertised themselves as they basically invented what could be considered later as a low-cost airline at least here (or in Europe). I've always heard or read that they were extremely popular (same thing about UTA) and the (forced) merger within AF wasn't what would be called a celebrated event and are still missed. But they're kind off still around since even today some of their aircrafts still fly for AF using the same flight program created by ITF from LFPO to most of France's major cities called 'La Navette' so hey And a big "merci" to you for the kind words Regars, Nils
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Post by bensplanes on Feb 2, 2021 18:14:37 GMT -5
I think there is a flyable Mercure model on HJG that could temporarily fill that slot for you guys, there are a couple repaints on that site too.
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Post by FSMuseum on Feb 2, 2021 21:33:24 GMT -5
I think there is a flyable Mercure model on HJG that could temporarily fill that slot for you guys, there are a couple repaints on that site too. I actually tried to use it as AI, it unfortunately crashed my sim every time it tried to load it.
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Post by chasensfo on Feb 3, 2021 5:04:28 GMT -5
Awesome!!! Thank you very much for taking to time to "date" these paints, I know how much research goes into that stuff. When I was using P3Dv3(so 32bit like FS9), I used the HJG Mercure with no issues, so I am not sure why FS9 crashes. You never see more than 10 or so at once, anyway. chrisP any interest in that bird for your model series?
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Post by Nilsfr91 on Feb 3, 2021 6:01:23 GMT -5
Awesome!!! Thank you very much for taking to time to "date" these paints, I know how much research goes into that stuff. When I was using P3Dv3(so 32bit like FS9), I used the HJG Mercure with no issues, so I am not sure why FS9 crashes. You never see more than 10 or so at once, anyway. chrisP any interest in that bird for your model series? Thank you very much! And yes it took some time and caused some headaches as they're wasn't a lot of photos of those IT A320's in 96/97 (by that I mean that all 30 of their A320 weren't represented sooo I guessed I little bit lol) Even now I saw some photos of at least 1/2 IT Fokker 100 still in the airline's own livery in late 96/almost 97, same for the A330 đŸ˜…, so I am currently making an extra livery ITF for the F100, surely one for the FSPX A330 and also a Caravelle 12 since one of them got repainted in the pre-merger livery before being retired.
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Post by chrisP on Feb 3, 2021 11:30:49 GMT -5
chrisP any interest in that bird for your model series? I don't think so, for the following 1) In-service date was 1974, which is about 4 years too late for me 2) My Air Inter environment is complete with the Nord 262, Caravelle, F.27 and Viscount 2) If I'm building anything French, there'd be a far better chance of it being a Bréguet Deux-Ponts, Dassault Flamant or the Bretagne or Languedoc or Armagnac. Even a Toucan would be still have had some uses around 1969/70 Sorry for the let down, but, given the considerable time and effort involved, making a model that can only be used for a single airline just doesn't make sense to me. Exit runway when able Christian
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Post by chasensfo on Feb 3, 2021 15:04:49 GMT -5
chrisP any interest in that bird for your model series? I don't think so, for the following 1) In-service date was 1974, which is about 4 years too late for me 2) My Air Inter environment is complete with the Nord 262, Caravelle, F.27 and Viscount 2) If I'm building anything French, there'd be a far better chance of it being a Bréguet Deux-Ponts, Dassault Flamant or the Bretagne or Languedoc or Armagnac. Even a Toucan would be still have had some uses around 1969/70 Sorry for the let down, but, given the considerable time and effort involved, making a model that can only be used for a single airline just doesn't make sense to me. Exit runway when able Christian No worries!
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