27-06:

Mig-19 Farmer

Pumpyhead heeft ook de Mig-19 onder handen genomen en is aan de laatse afwerking bezig.
Hier zijn airbrakes en flaps toegevoegd.
Wat een lelijke bak, zo lelijk dat hij mooi is.

Frugals Forum

26-06:

Virus warning

We hebben er weer een. Deze keer is het W32.Sobig.E@mm.
Voor verdere details --> Symantec

Hires terrain tiles tutorial

Voor wie het nog steeds niet gelukt is om de HighRes Terrain Tiles van Thomas "Tom2" Walti te installeren, Paladin heeft een zeer uitgebreide tutorial geschreven.

Turorial.

F/A-22 cockpit

Preview van de nieuw te verwachten F/A-22 cockpit van Cobracab.
Lees meer op Frugals.

USSR Knights

Het Russische stuntteam, voor de snelle lezers, en zolang de link up is:

Russian Knights

25-06:

Tail pack

Onze eigen Fitch is een tail pack aan het creëren op de skin bases van Panther.
Meer is te vinden op Frugals forum.

Falocn wallpaper

Guyver heeft een paar wallpapers gemaakt gemaakt met screenies van Falcon 4.
Have a look.

Star Wars in RL

Zap! Air Force eyes Star Wars-style lasers
By SUE VORENBERG
Scripps Howard News Service
June 24, 2003

- "Star Wars" laser battles might have happened a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, but for the U.S. Air Force they're just now starting to become a reality.

A new high energy laser weapon and F-16 flight simulator, designed by the Air Force Research Laboratory and the Theater Aerospace Command Control Simulation Facility at Kirtland Air Force Base, will let pilots test technology that could put the United States far ahead of its enemies.

The F-16 model is a smaller version of the airborne laser weapon already under development for use on a Boeing 747 for shooting down missiles. It could be ready for use in 2012, but before that happens, pilots will test the system in the simulator to see how useful it is and suggest ways it could be improved to help them in combat.

"Essentially what we're looking at is that this laser can hit a target at the speed of light, almost instantly compared with the time of flight of a missile, which can take several seconds," said Jono Tyson, a contract employee from Scientific Research Corp. and assistant project manager at the simulation facility. "The laser is also a much more cost-effective weapon versus firing a missile that costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. Firing the laser will likely only cost a couple hundred dollars."

This fall, the two Kirtland agencies will attach the system to flight simulators in Arizona at the Fighter Weapons Training Branch. Pilots at the facility will tell the Air Force whether they think the laser is worth further development, said Rudy Martinez, the simulation facility's project manager.

The laser system is a renewable weapon, another advantage. When missiles fire, they are completely destroyed, but a laser needs only to be recharged before it can fire again, said Rick Garcia, a spokesman at the research lab.

The high energy laser weighs about 5,000 pounds and can fire on targets up to 10 miles away - a short distance compared with the 40-mile reach of air-to-air missiles. If the pilots like the simulation, scientists at the research lab, which developed the technology, will try to make the weapon smaller and more powerful, so it can fire greater distances and take up less space on an F-16.

"What we're also trying to figure out now is how long it takes for our laser to take out a target," Tyson said. "It's not like 'Battlestar Galactica,' where you just fire, and they go down. It has to hit the target for a second or two."

The system can also fire at targets on the ground, such as enemy lines or tank columns, Tyson said.

To build the simulator, scientists and technicians at the simulation facility added an extra firing button on the pilot's stick and developed extensive software programs that realistically simulate the targeting instrument panel and visual firing of the system on two video screens.

The one unrealistic thing about the laser is the sound it makes. When fired, the simulator makes a noise that sounds a lot like a "Star Trek" phaser blast. In real life, the laser makes no noise at all.

"The problem is, pilots don't know when the weapon has fired if it doesn't make a noise," said Suzanne Baker, a software engineer who helped develop the system. "We got the noise for this one from Tactical Air Systems. I think they got it from 'Star Trek' or something, but I'm not sure. You'd think a bunch of nerds like us would know that."

The system has been fully developed and tested, but it must be adapted for the much more advanced flight simulators in Arizona. Its developers will spend the next several months tweaking it to work on those systems and hope to finish late this year.

Bron: KnoxStudio.Com

..... er is meer dan Falcon 4.0

Have a look.

23-06:

Homebuild Aces-II

Maakt ik vorige maand al melding van de homebuild Aces-II van Richocet, deze week een update met meer detail foto's.
En voor de bezoekers van de LLTM in November dit jaar, de LLTM site gaat zeer binnenkort online en ook Richocet zal aanwezig zijn tijdens de LLTM 2003 met zijn homebuild stoel.

Sorry

Sorry, dit is way Off Topic, maar het moest even.
Geweldig.

Veel plezier.

11-06:

Panther en Pumpyhead

Het was al een tijdje te krijgen. Het nieuwe model van Pumpyhead en de antastische skin van Panther.
Nu heeft Ender Wiggen er een F4Patch install van gemaakt voor SP3 gebruikers, zodat niet alleen de beta-testers van SP4 er van kunnen genieten.

F16CG_and_CJ_package,zip (5.034KB)

07-06:

SP4 preview

C3PO beta-tester SP4, heeft enkele van zijn missies opgenomen en openbaar gemaakt.
Let in deze preview vooral op de "geparkeerde" toestellen op de bases. Deze worden er met CBU's uit gehaald.
Ook de airdefences zijn van een andere klasse.

SP4_preview_byC3PO.zip (35.8MB)

06-06:

Falcon V / OIR

Na veel voorspellingen en doembeelden dan eindelijk het "verlossende" nieuws, te lezen op de G2i site:

The announcement of the release date for Falcon: OIR is delayed. We will publish news here as it occurs. Falcon:OIR and Falcon V arealive and well . Events do not always transpinre as planned. Please accept our apology for the delay

The soap continues ..........

05-06:

Lomac

De nieuwe Lomac teasers zijn uit. Video en screenies.
Deze sim kun je als recht geaarde simmer niet meer negeren.
Ziet er allemaal geweldig uit.
De nieuwe film en de geweldige screenies.

Aeyes

Er komt een nieuwe 3D pit aan voor de Hornet.
Lees in de A lounge op VFF meer over deze comming release.

02-06:

SP4

Een voorbode ......... ?

Meer lekkers

Op Frugals laat Panther ons dit zien.
Ben benieuwd of we het nog zullen meemaken .....

Morgen is D-Day.

01-06:

G2i kondigt aan .....

Lees op de site van G2i het volgende ............

An announcement of the future of Falcon: OIR and Falcon V will be made Tuesday, June 3, 2003.

Keep ya posted.