Well, release time for the HN-433/434 is occured !
The story of Menestrel HN-433/434:
Henri Nicollier, a young glider pilot, planned to build an airplane at the age of 16 after having discovered Henri Mignet’s famous book: “Le Sport de l’Air”.
He reviewed the few possible airplanes of the time, and decided to design (and build) his own airplane; he elaborated several projects, and his choice settled on an all-wooden single-seater, with curved shapes. Above the very first drawing of what will become the Minstrel. Henri launches into the construction of his prototype with confidence. His workshop: a corner of the hangar on the ground of Besançon/Thise, but he runs up against the general skepticism of the members of the local club. He will manage to finalize his construction and it is in the general indifference which will carry out the first flight of F-PKXO in Thise, on November 25, 1962. The plane has not been modified since.
The HN 433 “Ménestrel” will also be built in amateur with 6 specimens. Among the builders, two friends of work: Bernard Cintrat and Jean Claude Afflard who will build the n°37-PYJZ and n°43-PYKA (which is modelized). They completely modernize the plane to make it very attractive to the eyes of the amateurs of the time (1982). Thus modified the plane will take the name of HN 434 “Super Minstrel” (F-PGRB of Roland Lamglait included in the pack). It will be more comfortable with an enlarged cabin and also simpler to build by removing several useless wing reinforcements.
This plane, I started it in 2010 for FS2004 and then transformed it to be FSX/P3D compatible. Nevertheless, it remained unfinished in my eyes because I could not go to the end of my ideas.
With MSFS, I decided to take it back completely and make it a native addon. So here is the current version, which I call a Beta since there are two or three little things missing (radio) which should be solved in June 2021
You can find 5 livreries in this release :
- F-PYKA (HN433 model) of my friend Jean-Claude AFFLARD, who help me during 2010-2013 with a lot of documentations (he was the constructor of this aircraft),
- F-PGRB of Roland Lamglait which is a HN434.
- and three fictional livreries for the fun :wink:
https://i.postimg.cc/8DTtVf3m/Menestrel-HN433-v065a.png
https://i.postimg.cc/nH70n4p0/Menestrel-HN433-v065d.png
The direct link for download (english page): French-VFR - Downloads
Sorry, this presentation video was made for my french forum www.pilote-virtuel.com
=> Presentation du Menestrel HN 434 - YouTube
Knows bugs, in spite of numerous tests by my testers:
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the texture of the F-PYKA has some defects on the top of the fuselage (this will be corrected with Inkscape) - the movement of the ailerons is reversed
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the radio is not yet modeled (I will change the old VHF Badin-Crouzet 360 channels by an ICOM owned by the last proprietary of the plane)
EDIT: if your plane appear with gears under the runway, edit the flight_model.cfg and in the TAB [CONTACT_POINTS] remove the two “;” before " the lines static_pitch" and “static_cg_height”
=> The patch has been uploaded on French-VFR, archive for download is correct now !
If it’s not up to your eye candy standards, you can delete it and move on. But personally, I find it a fun little plane to fly and I’m looking forward to the V1.0 release!
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