The Soviets are invading!

[Charl]

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FSD payware .. SUPER CHEAP .. and comes with a C17[/quote]
Y'know, I swear I have that Talon as a freeware model. I remember thinking it is way too good not to be payware.
It was originally for FS2002, payware for FS9, you have it running in FSX?
Why they'd package it with a C17 is a little strange, but then FSD business practice is possibly second only to that madcap Russian who does the Ariane BBJ as if you are a KGB suspect.
And I have Andrew's B-47 above in freeware form too! Same model, brilliant, may have been a little tweaked for sale.
Just shows, if you get in early...
Nice shots Ian, shows the clean lines well in that paint too.

[Charl]

Thought I'd get this one in...
Not a very glamorous aircraft, but does an important job; "The Eyes of the Fleet"
Ever since the FSFrance website closed down, their freeware models and repaints have started appearing on flightsim.com
This E-2C Grumman Hawkeye model is by Pierre Marchadier.
This results in shots of an American aircraft in French colours flying off a Yankee flattop pretending to be a Frog...



Curiously, more than any other plane, this one resembles a plastic model being photographed at 1/72nd scale.



I didn't do the landing shot because there is a stunning one at Wikipedia.
It shows the fuselage wrinkilng under the strain of the landing forces!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:DN-SD-07-00030.jpg
Click on the picture for the hi-res version.

[hugh]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Nov 27 2007, 09:13 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hugh , looking forward to your new (THREAD - DC1 to DC3) post on at that DC2

Some shots up now :
http://nzff.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5149
Your brother looking at helping restore a DC-2 in Aussie? Is that the former RAAF one?

[ardypilot]

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this one resembles a plastic model being photographed at 1/72nd scale.[/quote]
Yeah, I'd agree with you there. I think it's something to do with the shine, or matt texture paint maybe.

Great landing shot too, thanks for the link. It looks like a mini-orion from the front.

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[Charl]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Nov 16 2007, 11:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

......Guess ..Sabre and MiG 15 equivalent from France looking forward to introduction .......... D...... M...... ?

Yessirree, Dassault had an eye on the developments in the US and Russia.
It took 3 tries to get close, here's the Dassault Mystere IV, together with the competition:



A little porkier than the others, top end was much of a muchness, high subsonic.



In a fight the other two would've outmanoeuvred it, and of the three, the MiG was the one that could CLIMB.



Technical aside:
Matthias Neusinger has just released a beta of his .frc/txt converter, and this was used to generate the above flights...entirely in an ASCII file!.
Yes folks no carbon was added to the atmosphere in this production...no pilots required.
The Recorder Module is one of the "Greats" in FS, up there with the likes of AFCAD and FSUIPC.
Mathias also has a wonderful approach to doing this stuff: it's free, but if you want to support further development, toss him a donation.
I never fail to do so.

[Ian Warren]

Charl Brilliant set ! and 'Vic' ......... seeeee they all made the same thing ... just like today

[ardypilot]

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Matthias Neusinger has just released a beta of his .frc/txt converter, and this was used to generate the above flights...entirely in an ASCII file!.[/quote]
Huh? Sound cool, but I don't get it... care to explain a little further please?

[Charl]

QUOTE (Trolly @ Nov 25 2007, 10:20 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Huh? Sound cool, but I don't get it... care to explain a little further please?

OK...it's easier just to do an example, this is one of those tools that is limited only by your imagination.
Basically Recorder makes a data file containing aircraft position information, and saves it to the .frc file we know.
Now his converter allows you to import that data into a text file which can be manipulated.
Here's a sample data set:
#Aircraft: "Cessna Skyhawk 172SP Paint 2"
#Data: latitude longitude altitude pitch bank heading timestamp
49.5 11.5 1050.0 -2.1 0.0 278.0 0.0
49.5 11.5 1050.0 -2.1 0.0 278.0 1.0
By changing bits in here, you change the flight track.
Now comes the cute bit: you can add multiple tracks in the same data set for additional aircraft.
If you copy down the original numbers for the second plane, and apply a little offset, the two will fly exactly the same track, just separated a little - Perfect Formation!
Download it and see, the manual has step-by-step examples.
It's absolutely brilliant.

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Nov 25 2007, 09:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Charl Brilliant set ! and 'Vic' ......... seeeee they all made the same thing ... just like today

I do suspect that the German aerospace scientists were shared out among the allied victors at the end of WW2.
They were in many respects, way ahead, and this may have had a lot to do with the common design approach in the early Cold War years.
As late as the Victor bomber, the German designs were still being put to good effect.
'Course the Americans got von Braun for their space programme, but the Russians got I know not who, and beat them to it...

[Naki]

Nice combo shots Charl - I'll be back shortly - after a lot of time reinstalling scenery, aircaft etc and EVEN more time fiddling with the blasted fiddly Nvidia settings I am finally happy with what I have got. I just need to install some minor tweaks & utlities - FRAPS, FSX trees & new runway textures then I will be there.

[ardypilot]

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Ever since the FSFrance website closed down, their freeware models and repaints have started appearing on flightsim.com
This E-2C Grumman Hawkeye model is by Pierre Marchadier.[/quote]
gmaxace2hawkeye.zip has just appeared on avsim this month, 3197 downloads already.]

This and a load more of awesome looking aircraft, authored by the 'Gmax Academy - JP Langer - B. Dubé - JP Bourgeois - Pierre Marchadier' can be seen here: http://library.avsim.net/search.php?CatID=...;Go=Change+View

[Charl]

Just to finish the "Mystere" thought: by 1953 the Sabre had become the F-100 and could go supersonic in level flight.
The French, playing catchup, came up with the Super Mystere B2, but only after 2 more years had passed.
The evolutionary pattern is clear, flattened snouts were in:



But hot on the heels of the Super Sabre, within a year the Russians had the MiG 19 up and flying, and marching to a different design drum



The French plane lagged in every aspect of performance





Of the three, the MiG again was top of the heap.



But things moved fast in the early Cold War, within 2 years there would be new names: Crusader, Mirage...
But the Russians were prepared, already the next MiG was lurking in the shadows...

[Ian Warren]

'O Boy" Those RUSSIANS they really did get something going here

[K5054NZ]

Fantabulous shots Charl! Love the Super Sabre! Let's see a Wild Weasel one in SEA!

Ok, can't hold it in any longer, just HAVE to post a brief couple of shots:

Just Flight's superb Vulcan, XH558, pictured departing Woodbourne after Classic Fighters 2009 and tracking for Whenuapai





and Kazunori Ito's freeware EE Lightning, practicing a scramble climb



Probably load up some more, better and more exciting shots after lunch. Catcha til then!

[Koyunbaba]

How do you do that Charl, your formations are awesome!

[Naki]

Love the Vulcan Zac!

Charl the last series are the best yet! -awesome!

[Ian Warren]

Republic F105 Thunderchief ..Vietnam Casualty in numbers down,d , COLD WAR ? Hi-Tec in Low-tech enviroment

Starting to get warm where these were based 'Thailand' - STRIKE - WILD-WEASEL - MIG EATER

We all say it , "that is my favourite best aircraft ever" , yip the 105 was shadowed by the F4 , But history and the respect for the aircraft is due to the people who crewed them ,











BRILLIANT AIRCRAFT .......... Amazing aircrew

WHERE IS THE MOVIE .... REAL LIFE ...

[Charl]

K5...let it all out, man! Great headon Vulcan, but hey, have a little respect for the old lady - Overspeed??

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How do you do that Charl, your formations are awesome! [/quote] Just scroll up this thread and all will become clearer.

Ian what a brilliant weave of the sim and the yarn!
Even if only half of what they say is true, you have to admire the professionalism and courage of those flyers.
Can you imagine going in loaded to the gills with all that SEAD ordnance...FIRST??
The MiGs must've seen them as the answer to a prayer they never thought of making.
Great stuff.

[Naki]

Nice post on the "thud" Ian!

The Tupelov TU-160 Blackjack
The Soviets built about 20 of these monster (heaps bigger than the B-1) swing wing bombers before the cold war ended and they haven't seen much service untill recently. The Tupelov-Tu-160 Blackjack is now back in production - another cold war coming?

The Ukrainians inherited a few after they split from the Soviet Union but they have since scrapped theirs.

Pretty basic avionics with steam gauges and unusually for a Russian bomber it sports a joy stick not the usual yoke.

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Charl @ Dec 2 2007, 08:53 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Even if only half of what they say is true, you have to admire the professionalism and courage of those flyers.
Can you imagine going in loaded to the gills with all that SEAD ordnance...FIRST??
The MiGs must've seen them as the answer to a prayer they never thought of making.

mm Wonder if we could have "RAMBO" playing the part of 'Major Leo Thorsness' ...... I don't Think So
Very different sort of era both pilot , people and times , - professionalism and courage , all sides , fear ... For some reason this particular tale, writing , i have always recalled , the 105 , a very early model by Alphasim , a new model incoming just for me ok ... no really, for all

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Naki @ Dec 2 2007, 01:24 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Nice post on the "thud" Ian!

The Tupelov TU-160 Blackjack
The Soviets built about 20 of these monster (heaps bigger than the B-1) swing wing bombers before the cold war ended and they haven't seen much service untill recently. The Tupelov-Tu-160 Blackjack is now back in production

Paul , it nice to them in the news again flexing there wings , "Slap BUSH in the MUSH" .... 'ye ha'..... Texas Style