Red Mountain Airlines

Sunday, September 05, 2010

1964 & More Imagined

Yes, writing this VA is the funnest part. We're dying on SimFly, once again, and will never try that client again. We thus go back to a state of dormancy, but that lets me get to painting, and imagining what other periods of RMA might have looked like.

In my last post, I examined what direction the airline would have taken, moving forward in 1960. The carrier is a young, regional phenomenon, not positioned to go after the big boys yet, and the bread & butter run remains back to the Midwest. In 1960, the Connies would have started looking dated, but were still serviceable. I have now imagined what a transition to DC6Bs would look like:

The route map of 1964 has been re-imagined too:

In writing the story of RMA in the 60's, it was easy to settle on the DC-6B, but with a view towards transitioning to turboprops. The Britannia would have been a great next aircraft, mid-decade, but there would still be tremendous pressure to get into jets, and the 727-200 by the start of the 70's. I have given thought to a 737-200 paint. The 722's (and possibly 732's) would carry the 1970's, and the first MD-81 (the new CLS payware model for FSX) would be in service at the time of the recession of 1982, and the collapse of the original airline. Here's the route map for that era:

I did not stop there. I went with an artist's rendering of the CLS 767-200ER:

This lovely beast is part of a modern expansion, and may be seen as the aircraft that began the transition to Mauna Rua Air, the fabled Hawaiian division of RMA. There are no plans to paint Pele on the tail...yet. I have envisioned this bird running RJAA-PHKO-KLAS-MMUN, in a modern RMA. Thus, the next incarnation of RMA might be some sort of amalgamated time-warp, as we tried doing on SimFly, with a balance striving for one freeware craft, and one payware craft per era.

Cap'n H| 9:37 PM

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