“One customer did come and he had developed his own air conditioning system for his personal P337,” said Crews. “But he still didn’t have the air conditioning that customers wanted,” Crews pointed out. The paint scheme for these 337s was the same as what Riley was doing on the P210 Riley Rockets. Riley marketed his creation as the Skyrocket. “After a couple of years he came up with pressurized mags and inflatable door seal,” Crews explained. He also upgraded the radios to state-of-the-art and put in an S-TEC 65 autopilot. “One very big thing he did was soundproofing all of his aircraft,” said Crews. Everybody hated that plastic panel, but Riley was the first one to do away with it. ![]() “A metal panel is so much nicer because the instruments are actually attached. “The original plastic overlay would vibrate because it never seemed to fasten on correctly,” Crews said. “I helped him with finding derelict aircraft-by derelict, I mean they had low total time, all logs, zero corrosion and no damage history-but he didn’t care about engine times, paint and interior, because he stripped them to the fuselage, starting over.”įor the P337 conversions Riley International was creating, Jack Riley added the same Horton STOL kit as he used on the Riley Rocket conversion for P210s, and also came up with a metal panel. “He was getting tired of doing partial conversions installing his intercooler modification and a STOL kit and wanted a total conversion,” he explained. Never satisfied, Jack Riley was back on the phone to Crews. Riley soon began doing partial conversions to P337s at his California facility. Riley’s testing worked, and he was able to secure his intercooler STC for the P337. “His first mod was an engine intercooler system, and he needed an aircraft to test it on,” Crews explained, “so he bought an airplane from me. The turbocharged engines on the P337s were known to run hot. “He did conversions for all kinds of different aircraft, and he was looking for a Skymaster.” “Jack Riley called me around 1988, maybe ’89,” recalled Bill Crews, owner of Skymasters International. By 1962, Riley had been assigned the patent for an Engine Supercharging Apparatus, and it would prove to be one of his most important contributions to General Aviation. Riley came to the airplane business only after retiring from his first career in blueprinting. Cessna Flyer recently talked to Skymaster authority Bill Crews to get a brief history of the various P337 conversions.Įntrepreneur, innovator and master salesman Jack M. TowerMadness HD was the winner of the 2011 Pocket Gamer Readers’ Choice iPad Game of the Year.Cessna’s pressurized Skymaster has a number of STCs developed by Jack Riley, of Riley Rocket fame. In August 2009, Wired described the game as “addictive, time-sucking fun”. ![]() TowerMadness received generally positive reviews. This mode also includes a Sandbox option, which starts off the player with 10,000 coins and a speed boost of adding and upgrading towers before sending the endless waves of aliens. In Endless mode, the waves of enemies are endless. In Normal mode, there is a set number of enemy waves and a set amount of coins to win. There are two game modes: Normal and Endless, in which both contain maps with easy, medium, hard, or madness difficulties to choose from. Once all waves of enemies are destroyed or all sheep have been abducted, the game ends. Each enemy destroyed provides the player with more in-game coins to obtain new towers and upgrade existing towers. ![]() The player destroys the aliens by building towers. The goal of each alien is to abduct one sheep. Each wave arrives in 20 second intervals, or all waves of aliens can be sent in at once. UFOs drop invading aliens on landing pads and the waves of enemies make their way to the base to abduct the sheep. The objective in TowerMadness is to defend a base filled with a flock of sheep from waves of aliens by destroying the aliens with diverse weapons in the form of towers. On January 23, 2014, Limbic released the sequel to TowerMadness, TowerMadness 2. ![]() The Android version of TowerMadness launched for Google Play on December 5, 2013. Three iOS versions of TowerMadness exist: TowerMadness, the original version released on TowerMadness Zero, the ad-enabled version released on Octoand TowerMadness HD, the version enhanced for iPad that includes split-screen multiplayer mode released on May 23, 2010. TowerMadness is a 3D tower defense strategy game for iOS and Android, developed by Limbic Software.
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