Appetite whetter !

[Syrinx 13]

Having just started a project to model both versions for FSX I now know far too much about Buccaneers!

 

That's a good thing to know too much about Skip !

[+SkippyBing 8]

That's a good thing to know too much about Skip !

 

True although I worry I know more about it than the aircraft I actually fly!

[+Hinchinbrooke 36]

Having just started a project to model both versions for FSX I now know far too much about Buccaneers!

 

Skippy,

 

Any chance they'll be ported for TW? Would definitely encourage me to create a post-1964 version of Eagle............. angled flight deck, Type 984 radar, Seacat, etc., etc............. you know the routine. RN's finest fixed-wing carrier.

[The_Editor 2]

I second that!

[+SkippyBing 8]

Hinch,

 

If there isn't one available for the TW series by the time it's finished then it'll probably happen! By the way, have you ever seen the documentary Warship Eagle, filmed on-board whilst crossing the Indian Ocean to Singapore in I think '66?

[+Jug 99]

Actually it was wishful thinking thanks to GIMP

 

There isn't an SR-71 in game yet that i know of.

Actually, our Italian Ministry of CA Aircraft Production is slaving away on one and it will be sweet..............................lol

[+Jug 99]

Buccaneer is an amazing aircraft (RAF should have had TSR-2 though!) can't wait to fly it.

 

Sr-71 will be amazing... will the MiG-25s be clever enough to catch it or will the AI fly too low?

 

- Alex

If the Buc gets low, she'll wiggle her shapely hips and dissappear into the hills.................................beautiful sight coming and going!

[+X RAY 83]

 

 

aaahhh!!!....just wondering!

 

Hey What if's are available for download!!!! :yes:

 

 

 

 

 

[+Hinchinbrooke 36]

Hinch,

 

If there isn't one available for the TW series by the time it's finished then it'll probably happen! By the way, have you ever seen the documentary Warship Eagle, filmed on-board whilst crossing the Indian Ocean to Singapore in I think '66?

 

No I haven't. Any good? Perhaps I'll do a YouTube search and see if there are any clips.

[The_Editor 2]

Eagle:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NOKKah5mTTE

 

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OOkxBKmxKfc&...feature=related

 

Another good one:

 

 

Flight Deck HMS Hermes 1960

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RzFw-qsJoC0&feature=related

Edited October 18, 2008 by The_Editor

[+Hinchinbrooke 36]

Eagle:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=NOKKah5mTTE

 

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OOkxBKmxKfc&...feature=related

 

Another good one:

 

 

Flight Deck HMS Hermes 1960

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RzFw-qsJoC0&feature=related

 

The Editor,

 

Thanks for those. Great stuff!!!

[Syrinx 13]

Great links.

 

Thankyou for the heads up.

[+SkippyBing 8]

The Editor,

 

That's the one! I somehow got the whole thing on DVD which made entertaining viewing on my last ship, along with a 20 minute documentary called The Buccaneers which must have been filmed on Eagle about the same time as it uses S.1s, but is in colour. After watching it everyone wanted to join that navy, not the one we ended up in!

[+Hinchinbrooke 36]

Aside from the Vixens on Hermes........... what struck me was the sequence of Scimitars landing. Yikes! Such a large heavy plane on such a small flight deck! No wonder so many were lost during operations. And apparently, Victorious was lending aircraft, as some of the Scimitars in the take-off shots have her identification code.

[The_Editor 2]

The Editor,

 

That's the one! I somehow got the whole thing on DVD which made entertaining viewing on my last ship, along with a 20 minute documentary called The Buccaneers which must have been filmed on Eagle about the same time as it uses S.1s, but is in colour. After watching it everyone wanted to join that navy, not the one we ended up in!

 

"The Buccaneers" is part of a DVD called "Fly Navy", which I bought a few years ago. It has some great colour footage of the Eagle. The other film on the DVD is action from the Ark Royal in the mid seventies, plenty of Phantoms and Buccs.

 

The both DVDs are now rare and are not made anymore, but you might get them from here:

 

http://www.eavb.co.uk/video/dvd/rnindex.html

 

It seems "Fly Navy" is sold out there, but not here:

 

http://www.navybooks.com/asps/Extra7.asp

Edited October 19, 2008 by The_Editor