The Soviets are invading!

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Charl @ Jun 25 2008, 11:47 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Great shots Ian - all these freeware releases are brilliant AI fodder, you realise?
Look forward to squadrons full of good-quality Mean Machines...

, Jags all over the place ... you might be able to park one in Ashburton south of CHCH , last i heard the,r trying to get one there to go with their HarrierGR3
A nice little Museum

[Ian Warren]

TIM CONRAD ... this guy is a machine another superb FSX model .. yeah yeah .. was a FS niner a Vietnam winner






PS: the door gunner 'Rambo' - M60 dose not fire

[Naki]

Ha - Mt Egmont pretending to be Mt Fuji - now where have I seen that done before.....aha..The Last Samurai

[Ian Warren]

Paul .. The Last Samurai heck ... sounds like a movie i need to see ... WWII Kamikaze? I hope so

[Charl]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Jun 26 2008, 12:22 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Paul .. The Last Samurai heck ... sounds like a movie i need to see ... WWII Kamikaze? I hope so

Nooo...just Cruise cruisin' in Medieval Japanase rags, swinging a sword.

Ian, off the photoreal, that is the GREENEST FSX NZ I've ever seen!
How's the rest of the world looking?

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Charl @ Jun 26 2008, 08:57 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Nooo...just Cruise cruisin' in Medieval Japanase rags, swinging a sword.

Damm! had my fingers and toes cross

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Charl @ Jun 26 2008, 08:57 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Ian, off the photoreal, that is the GREENEST FSX NZ I've ever seen!
How's the rest of the world looking?

I had to have a look this 100mg FSX terrain colour change and topo , be good to ask the Harris couple why they did a super hi dayglo green , stark contrast to the sandy beach,s of Iwo Jima , the good ? would be how come they did not use a hi-res as Robin pointed out .

[SUBS17]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Jun 30 2008, 01:03 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I no the USS America (CV/CVA) entered Wellington in 1966, missed that , I had no influence on my parents at the age of 4 to get me to the capital .... i don,t understand why , but a visit by a Carrier in the 80s .. Jeepers I thought i had a good memory , I recall the USS's Truxtun ,Whipple, South Carolina , and maybe the Long Beach , SUBS Pintado and few others but a Super Carrier , maybe it stayed well out in international waters and and flew 14s from , never saw them over CHCH ... 1981 their was an join military , USAF F15s over NZ in concert with KC135s , E3WAs and the RAAF , fun times spent more time on the factory roof than in the plant , so close to Wigram

Yeah the F-14s flew over my school I also remember an exercise over the central North island with US and Aussie jets where I saw F-16s, F-15s, KC135s, E3, F111, Mirage and A4s dogfighting and doing bomb runs. Very cool to watch life was certainly less boring at airports back then.

[Ian Warren]

The RAF's Tornado ..1991 .. smack on the deck .... speeds a 840 mph on target - Beep Beep .. CLIP ... up we go , CLUNK CLUNK ..
we hit .. we are hit .. the Gulf War ..

Not these .. the Interceptor .. based on the mid 80s F2

and in Concert with Flt Lt Hayden

off limit fly zone .. detect and direct

[h290master]

Just to add to ya post...
The Tornado F3 made its maiden flight on 20 November 1985 Entering service in July 1986, 152 F3s were ordered.

The Tornado made its combat debut in the 1991 Gulf War with 18 aircraft deployed to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. However, they did not get the opportunity to engage any enemy aircraft. The F3 lacked modern IFF and a full suite of defensive aids, thus they flew patrols further back from Iraqi airspace where encounters with enemy aircraft were less likely.

After 21 years, the replacement for the Tornado F3 is now on the horizon, as production of its successor, the Eurofighter Typhoon, has started.

[ardypilot]

The Tornado's my favorite military aircraft- I posted screens of it a few pages back (around January time)- what model are you using there Ian? The detail looks exceptional!

[h290master]

The model is the alphasim tornado F3, dont be fooled by the external model the cockpit is cr@p,nothing works and its quite poor quality and overpriced yet again by alphasim.

[ShadowMystDK]

The SAAB JA-37 Viggen (Thunderbolt) was the mainstay of the Swedish Air Force from it's manufacture in the 1970's until it was retired in 2005. The Viggen was used for a multitude of tasks - fighter, attack, reconnaissance, and trainer. The Viggen was one of the first canard design fighters to see production and active service with a national air force, and these canards along with other unique design features allowed the Viggen to operate from road bases as well as conventional air bases. Despite actively marketing the design, SAAB never found an export buyer for the Viggen.

[Ian Warren]

That is one amazing aircraft MYST'c ....more character than any Grippen any day !

[ShadowMystDK]

Speaking of character, here are a few shots of the Viggen's predecessor: the J-35 Drakken -

[ShadowMystDK]

A late Cold War era jet, this one of French origin - the Dassault Mirage 2000N/D

Fielded as a temporary replacement for the Mirage IV's, the 2000N (N=Nuclear) and it's conventional strike version the "D" model entered service with the ADA in the late 1980's and saw action over Bosnia and Kosovo during the Balkans wars. The 2000N/D differs from the 2000C in having two seats, and the 2000C's radar is replaced by a Thales Antilope ground attack radar with TFR capability. The Mirage 2000N/D now forms the backbone of the French Air Force's long range precision strike fleet until the Rafale can come into full service.

This one is by Roland Laborie, and is of payware quality despite being freeware.

[h290master]

Thats an awesome freeware mirage 2000

[Ian Warren]

The Douglas B-66 Destroyer Unsung Vietnam Warrior .. EB66 to ECM .... Igloo white ...evesdropping


ok .. Nail2 on inatac ..

time to spilt defences , comtac2 Nail 3 inatac .. rolling

comtac2 Nail 3 inatac ..... feet dry

Igloo White rider ...... Ghost Ghost .. go


we'v been painted - out .... dump


Igloo White rider.... clear way-point joint

Igloo is white ... return to base

Mission Complete

[h290master]

My wingman 'Squeeky' taking off at a rate of knots in the Rafale


20 seconds and 20,000ft and iverted over the runway

The Rafale A technology demonstrator was rolled out in late 1985 and made its maiden flight on 4 July 1986. The SNECMA M88 engines being developed were not considered sufficiently mature for the initial trials programme to be conducted without risk (though their development status has often been underplayed), so the demonstrator flew with General Electric F404-GE-400 afterburning turbofans as used on the F/A-18 Hornet. Production orders were placed in 1988.

The Armee de l'Air received its first three Rafale Bs (to F2 standards) in late December 2004. They went to the Centre d'Expériences Aériennes Militaires (CEAM) at Mont-de-Marsan for operational evaluation and associated pilot conversion training.




Heathrow??

The total programme cost is around €28 billion, which translates to a unit programme cost of approximately €95 million.
The unit system cost is €91 million, or €88 million including development cost per aircraft.
The unit flyaway price as of 2006 is €51.8 million for the Air Force version, and €56.6 million for the Navy version.

[Ian Warren]

The Rafale , Super Hornet , Typhoon , Grippen and the Sukhoi's Supers ... a legacy ... the COLD WAR ! .. 1946 - 1989 now becoming a memory .