Stephen Posted February 4, 2022 Report Share Posted February 4, 2022 NEWS! - New Aircraft from Thranda Design - Cessna Caravan! Thranda Design have announced their next project. It will be a Cessna Caravan in two different variants, a C208 Caravan 675 and a C208B Grand Caravan. Nice! The Cessna 208 Caravan is a utility aircraft produced by Cessna. The project was commenced on November 20, 1981, and the prototype first flew on December 9, 1982. The production model was certified by the FAA in October 1984 and its Cargomaster freighter variant was developed for FedEx. The 4 ft (1.2 m) longer 208B Super Cargomaster first flew in 1986 and was developed into the passenger 208B Grand Caravan. The strutted, high wing 208 typically seats nine passengers in its unpressurized cabin, is powered by a single Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A tractor turboprop and has a fixed tricycle landing gear, floats or skis. By November 2017, 2,600 have been delivered and 20 million flight hours logged. Caravans are used for flight training, commuter airlines, VIP transport, air cargo and humanitarian missions. There is an old version Carenado Caravan in X-Plane, but it is now highly dated. No word on if a CargoMaster variant will later become available, but I am very confident it will be added on as a upgrade. Production images have been released here. Dan Klaue notes... "all the Thranda Dynamic Generation Series goodies... dynamic liveries, dynamic panels, dynamic dirt controls, DynaFeel flight dynamics enhancement, dynamically configurable for cargo, passenger, and executive version, and a whole lot more things that can be altered and configured without the need to restart the plane." Release time, who knows but Thranda note that "but we are now entering the final stages of production... and it's feeling great! " Notable is that Thranda has in a previous life did the developer management of the Carenado Caravan, so Thranda are not new to the design or dynamics of the Cessna Caravan... Put it on your wish list now! Developer thread is here.... Thranda Cessna 208 Caravan / Grand Caravan ___________________________ News by Stephen Dutton 4th February 2022 Copyright©2022: X-Plane Reviews (Disclaimer. All images and text in this review are the work and property of X-PlaneReviews, no sharing or copy of the content is allowed without consent from the author as per copyright conditions) All Rights Reserved Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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