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Leif O recreates flights to/from Sweden in XP11.
He mixes planning, flying, historical facts, airfield data,
and also creates XP11-addons to increase realism. He publishes new texts successively, several each week. - Interesting! Read! His flights during April-June 2019: • ABA Swedish air lines company flights 1940, at Forums.X-Plane.org |
Downloads for XP11: NEW 2019-06-06
• DC-3,C-47 by Aeroworx, X-plane.org, 106MB free.
- Soon also Leif's old airfield sceneries. • Repaints: Swedish ABA and SAS, by Leif Ohlsson, 43MB zip And Leif has plans to use my Light-beacon-addons - and recreate mail flights! |
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- One flight was from Torslanda to Oslo/Fornebu: - click for larger images - 
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X-Plane 11 with addons - Flight: with C-47/DC-3 and Airports "1940s"
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| DC-3 Aircrafts - Leif O's XP11-liveries | Facts | Recreated Flights |
ABA "Höken" (Eagle), pre WW2, 1937-
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ABA "AB Aerotransport" was founded in 1924. The first years, ABA used aircrafts from Junkers: - Ju F13, Ju G23, Ju W33/34, Ju 52/3m. In 1937-1940 one bought five DC-3: - 1937 SE-BAA "Örnen" (Eagle) - 1937 SE-BAB "Höken" (Hawk) - 1937 SE-BAC "Falken" (Falcon) - 1939 SE-BAF "Gladan" (Kite) - 1940 SE-BAG "Gripen" (Griffin) |
• KLM 1930s routes to Scandinavia. - Leif's flights from Jan-Feb 2019. - Read it! |
| ABA "Höken" (Hawk), WW2 1939- text SWEDEN + flag  |
ABA continued with some international flights during WW2, see Refs.
Aircrafts were painted to show they came from neutral Sweden. From 1939 with large text "Sweden" + painted flag. For "courier flights" in total orange, see Refs. Variant: no flag 
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• The ABA Swedish air lines company flights 1940 - Leif's recreated flights, began April 2019 and ongoing in May/June - Read it! |
| ABA "Falken" (Falcon), WW2 1940-(?) neutrality orange (on Ju 52 1939-) 
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Two Swedish DC-3 were shot down by German fighters during WW2. Despite the orange colour: - On 27/28 of August 1943 "Gladan" disapperared over the North Sea, when flying from Scotland to Sweden. - On 22 October 1943 "Gripen" was shot down close to the Swedish west coast, Only 2 out of 15 persons onboard survived. After that, planes flew fully lighted. |
• RAF "Balchen Operations" flights 1944-45 to and from Sweden. - A military DC-3 tested different routes to UK. Purpose was to get emergency landed UK and US pilots back to UK. - Leif's flights from Jan 2019 - Read it! |
| ABA "Örnen" (Eagle) post WW2, 1945- (?) ABA logo and blue lines  |
After WW2 ABA painted its aircrafts with blue lines and an ABA logo.
Variant: blue-yellow fin 
| QUESTION: Years for paint schemes, are they correct? |
| SAS "Daisy", post WW2, SAS dragon paint scheme, 1948- (?)  |
SAS "Scandinavian Airlines System" was founded in 1946 as a cooperation
of airline companies in Sweden (ABA), Denmark, and Norway.
They used many DC-3, and soon also DC-4 for routes to USA. - Click for larger images! - |
Daisy is a preserved and flight-worthy DC-3 stationed in Västerås.
Read about present flights: • Flygande Veteraner, sve, • GT: Flying Veterans, eng, GT=Google Translate Congo Queen. Åke Jansson's DC-3 with flights organized by • Vallentuna Aviators. Real photo + In sim over NY:  
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Remark: Some details in the paint schemes were slightly different for the real aircrafts, e.g. during WW2 there was a large text "SWEDEN" also under the fuselage. It is difficult to change textures for 3D-models! Leif and Bo Ju have as goal to get an "old-time feeling" when flying, and that still works! |
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Zip-files for Leif O's addons are found in his pages, with links to Mediafire.
- I will add some of his zip's here soon.
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• Book "ABA 20 years" ("På säkra vingar. 20 års lufttrafik"), 1944 p 32 Routes to Helsingfors, Copenhagen, Berlin were open some years during WW2. p 148-150 on DC-3 for courier flights. Gripen, Gladan, Falken were used. • Book "Kurirflyg", L-A Nilsson, L A Sandberg, 1994 p 77 "Gripen" orange when it started its courier flights in 1942. • Newspaper notice 1939-11-21, via Lars Sundin. Courier flights to begin in 1939, with Ju 52 in orange colour. These fact updates via answers in • SFF Forum: ABA colour schemes?, sv. • Book "Flyg i natt", Marshall Lindholm, 1952 p 15-16. The route to Amsterdam was upheld 1939-1940, during WW2! . 1939 with text SWEDEN plus flag. From 1940 DC-3 orange painted. p 32. The orange colour was kept when "courier flights" started in 1942. • Scanned pages: 7-17, 30-46, 9 photos. |
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