Aircraft - what is missing?

[Frogiton]

Would the A350 or any other various new plane made be inserted into the game if it has already started. Like say if Boeing starts producing the 797 in 3 years from now will you add it or just keep the old planes

[Sami]

Not sure what you mean exactly .. but adding the planes depends only if there is enough reliable and detailed data available so that it can be added. B787 has all the data and it's added already but as A350 will fly somewhere in 2013, there's not nearly enough weight and range data for example yet (what I saw, only MTOW from A350 but the system would need much more data). But when more data becomes available it's of course easy to add them, or change some existing plane.

[Mahon]

Given the inclusion of the Cessna 208, the Britten-Norman Islander, Piper PA-31 and PA-42, and other similarly-sized aircraft, I am going to suggest the inclusion of the DeHavilland Canada DHC-3 Otter. It was a fairly important aircraft in terms of early airline service in Canada and Alaska, and certainly isn't a minor model in terms of number of airframes built (446, if my memory serves me correctly), and there seems to be no shortage of them still flying in commercial service today (albeit mainly with small regional airlines serving seaplane (which I suspect won't be relevant to your game, but boy would that ever be neat) and short/rough field airports). I would suggest breaking it down into three major engine variants:
*Pratt & Whitney R-1340-S1H1-G Wasp radial, 600 hp (447 kW): the original DHC-3
*Pratt & Whitney PT6A-27 turboprop, 662 shp (494 kW): the 'Turbo Otter'
*Pezetel PZL ASz-62IR radial, 1000 hp (745 kW?): a commonly offered 're-engined' variant from AirTech Canada, introduced in 1983 as a means of keeping Wasp-equipped Otters in service in the face of the original engines wearing out.

[Mahon]

Canadair North Star/Argonaut. A heavily redesigned offshoot of the DC-4 with Merlin engines, pressurization, airframe refinements. Used, by BOAC, Trans Canada Airlines, Canadian Pacific, British Midland and others.

[Alien]

CASA C-207 Azor
Antonow An-10
Antonow An-14 Ptschelka
Antonow An-32
Antonow An-38
Avro York
Avro Lancastrain
Avro Tudor
Bristol Wayfarer
Bristol Barbazon
Convair 110-440
Convair 880
Convair 990
Ju52/3m
Lockheed 18
Tupolev TU-104
Sud-Ouest Bretagne
Sud-Ouest Armagnac

BG
Alien

[blumentopf28]

And what about the:   Tupolev TU-114?

[gigosandro45]

what about the Cessna Citation X

[gigosandro45]

Tupolev Tu-104
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-104

[Pilot Oatmeal]

The Diamond DA42 is a twin engined piston aircraft.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond_DA42

It is used as an air taxi in today's world.  - http://www.diamond-executive.aero/showtopic.php?org_id=514&kb_header_id=250

If you believe this aircraft is "right" for AWS I can start to search for information regarding it's performance.

Thanks

[Flightman]

DC-8 Super 70 series is missing!


The DC-8-72 and the DC-8-73 were straightforward conversions of the -62 and -63, replacing the JT3D engines with 22,000 lb (98.5 kN) CFM56-2 high-bypass turbofans in new housings built by Grumman, along with new engine pylons and fairing of the air intakes below the nose. The DC-8-71 achieved the same end but required considerably more modification because the -61 did not already have the improved wings and relocated engines of the -62 and -63. Maximum takeoff weights remained the same, but there was a slight reduction in payload because of the heavier engines. All three models were certified in 1982 and a total of 110 60-Series DC-8s were converted by the time the program ended in 1988.