Zurawski

Excellent... Now I can actually work in native Windows instead of through Virtual PC! Thanks for the heads up FC!

File Name: XFY-1 Pogo File Submitter: Zurawski File Submitted: 07 Dec 2009 File Updated: 08 Dec 2009 File Category: Fictional Aircraft, Experimental and UAV's XFY-1 POGO / Release 2.0 The Convair XFY-1 "Pogo" emerged from the same VTOL-research competition that produced Lockheed's XFV-1 "Salmon.". The aircraft was similar in design to the "Salmon," except that it eschewed its competitor's conventional wing-and-tail configuration in favor of a single--albeit it larger--set of delta-shaped wings. Like the "Salmon," the XFY-1 "Pogo" boasted counter-rotating propellers, but unlike its cousin, it actually clocked numerous vertical lift-offs before the Navy terminated its experiments in 1955. XFY-1 POGO is intended for use with Thirdwire stable of flight simulations. This release of the POGO is not entirely coded to work 100% in the game. As is… it MUST be air-started or it will explode upon mission start. Sorry, the expertise of modeling the flight-model to allow it to land and take–off from its tail is way beyond my pay-grade! (Well... maybe not. I might be able to apply what I learned from the Osprey to make it work...) INSTALLATION Unzip the archive and copy and past the POGO folder into your \aircraft directory. NOTE: I’ve included the 3D StudioMAX file in the event someone wishes to try their hand at getting the plane to work properly in the game. All I ask is that you give credit where credit is due… Namely place my name somewhere. New to release 2.0: 1.) Texture mapped (I'm sorry... I have since forgotten who did me the honor of texturing this bird. Fly, have fun… appreciate the difficulties in getting a bird like this to fly in a game. Click here to download this file

ikon71, Hold tight... I have it off-site and should have the website back up by tomorrow night. I started cleaning the website and didn't get it repaired before I left for Tennessee for Thanksgiving.

Don't know if this is typical internet/email tripe, but it was a good read all the same... > Marine stakeout > > Here is a U. S. Marine who is not afraid to tell it like it is. > Political correctness doesn't mean beans to this tough young > warrior...... > > It's freezing here. I'm sitting on hard, cold dirt between rocks and > shrubs at the base of the Hindu Kush Mountains along the Dar 'yoi Pomir > River watching a hole that leads to a tunnel that leads to a cave. Stake > out, my friend, and no pizza delivery for thousands of miles. > > I also glance at the area around my ass every ten to fifteen seconds to > avoid another scorpion sting. I've actually given up battling the > chiggers and sand fleas, but them scorpions give a jolt like a cattle > prod. Hurts like a bastard. The antidote tastes like transmission fluid, > but God bless the Marine Corps for the five vials of it in my pack. > > The one truth the Taliban cannot escape is that, believe it or not, they > are human beings, which means they have to eat food and drink water. > > That requires couriers, and that's where an old bounty hunter like me > comes in handy. I track the couriers, locate the tunnel entrances and > storage facilities, type the info into the hand held and shoot the > coordinates up to the satellite link that tells the air commanders where > to drop the hardware. We bash some heads for a while; then I track and > record the new movement. > > It's all about intelligence. We haven't even brought in the snipers yet. > > These scurrying rats have no idea what they're in for. We are but days > away from cutting off supply lines and allowing the eradication to > begin. I dream of bin Laden waking up to find me standing over him with > my boot on his throat as I spit into his face and plunge my nickel > plated Bowie knife through his frontal lobe. But you know me; I'm a > romantic. > > I've said it before and I'll say it again: This country blows, man. It's > not even a country. There are no roads, there's no infrastructure, > there's no government. This is an inhospitable, rock-pit s**t hole ruled > by eleventh century warring tribes. There are no jobs here like we know > jobs. > > Afghanistan offers two ways for a man to support his family: join the > opium trade or join the army. That's it. Those are your options. Oh, I > forgot, you can also live in a refugee camp and eat plum-sweetened, > crushed beetle paste and squirt mud like a goose with stomach flu if > that's your idea of a party. But the smell alone of those 'tent cities > of the walking dead' is enough to hurl you into the poppy fields to > cheerfully scrape bulbs for eighteen hours a day. I've been living with > these Tajiks and Uzbeks and Turkmen and even a couple of Pushtins for > over a month and a half now, and this much I can say for sure: These > guys, all of 'em, are Huns...actual, living Huns. They LIVE to fight. > It's what they do. It's ALL they do. They have no respect for anything, > not for their families or for each other or for themselves. They claw at > one another as a way of life. They play polo with dead calves and force > their five-year-old sons into human cockfights to defend the family > honor. Huns, roaming packs of savage, heartless beasts who feed on each > other's barbarism. Cavemen with AK47's. > > Then again, maybe I'm just cranky. I'm freezing my ass off on this > stupid hill because my lap warmer is run ning out of juice and I can't > re-charge it until the sun comes up in a few hours. > > Oh yeah! You like to write letters, right? Do me a favor, write a letter > to CNN and tell Wolf and Anderson and that awful, sneering, pompous > Aaron Brown to stop calling the Taliban 'smart.' They are not smart. I > suggest CNN invest in a dictionary because the word they are looking for > is 'cunning..' The Taliban are cunning, like jackals and hyenas and > wolverines. They are sneaky and ruthless and, when confronted, cowardly. > They are hateful, malevolent parasites who create nothing and destroy > everything else. Smart... Pfft. Yeah, they're real smart. > > They've spent their entire lives reading only one book (and not a very > good one, as books go) and consider hygiene and indoor plumbing to be > products of the devil. They're still figuring out how to work a Bic > lighter. Talking to a Taliban warrior about improving his quality of > life is like trying to teach an ape how to hold a pen; eventually he > just gets frustrated and sticks you in the eye with it. > > OK, enough. Snuffle will be up soon so I have to get back to my hole. > Covering my tracks in the snow takes a lot of practice but I'm good at > it. Please, I tell you and my fellow Americans to turn off the TV sets > and move on with your lives. The story line you are getting from CNN and > other news agencies is utter bulls**t and designed not to deliver truth > but rather to keep you glued to the screen through the commercials. The > worst thing you guys can do right now is sit around analyzing what we're > doing over here because you have no idea what we're doing and, really, > you don't want to know. We've got this one under control. We are your > military and we are doing what you sent us here to do. You wanna help? > Buy bonds, America . > > > Saucy Jack - Recon Marine in Afghanistan . Semper Fi.

Took a moment away from work/lunch to catch-up with everything I've been missing... I've noticed a slow-down in development quantity (Yeah... I know pot calling the kettle black eh?) but I HAVE noticed the quality of the recent projects taking a jump upward (Not saying past stuff wasn't quality stuff...) We are talking SFX stuff within the past 8 months or so... Innovation too has taken a few steps forward. Just saying I really appreciate the work being done and the obvious love of this series. Kudos!

I tend to concentrate on annoying the moderators with very subtlety couched innuendoes that border on being offensive... Oh, and I do the 3D model thing pretty well, albeit sporadically as of late.

If that doesn't look like a photo direct from Afganistan, I don't know what does...

MY GOD MAN!... I beg you please go download the release version of the MV-22! I saw the alpha release console in the last pic and almost heaved!

I use my neighbor... Step 1.) "Hey Fred! Checkout this cool website / download this awesome app!"... Step 2.) Wait to hear a scream ... Step 3.) Surf and or download with complete confidence. Yeah, I know... Not sure why he stays my friend either. :lmaosmiley:

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/80682193/ If anyone can appreciate this... this would be the place to find them.

Great... Now I have to tolerate people genuflecting. FWIW... If anyone is using the P.11c in the SF2 series... use the one that was adapted for use in First Eagles. This one has the cockpit mod of the open pit aircraft so the cockpit view doesn't shift while on the ground. Hell... here it is: http://www.zur-tech.com/files/FE_P11c.zip

Sigh... I know there's a joke about Dave releasing his Bone somewhere here but I refuse to be the one to say it for fear of being banned.

Love to help, but my plates full... Glad you like the P.11c. Anyone here can tell you it was a labor of love...

Re: OFF:Pffft!... From the work I see around these parts, I'd be a drag on the quality level. Good to see ya back around... Should we start a pool on how long it'll take you to twist someones knickers? Man, those chin wags we used to have in the old days were priceless....

Hey Siggi... Long-time-no-see! Yeah, I'm still around. Not nearly as vocal as I once was... Now I'm content STFU and doing the due-diligence dance. As of late (Well... if you call 7 years as of late...) I've been beholden to the Thirdwire series. Did a series of F-86 Sabres, the F/A-37 Talon from the stealth movie, and the P.11c (Of coarse I did the PZL... who else would do it!) Last project was the MV-22 Osprey... Finest work IMHO. Still got a few irons in the fire, but I've slowed down lately due to real-life conflicts mainly. How you doing? where ya been hiding?

Seriously? After a hard cold flight... Ivan wants to play paddy-cake with a scarf?

dziekuje we przyjaciel!!!

LOL! Thanks Guys... It's 8:47am Central Time and I've already had my fill of chocolate cake here at work (Yes.. I'm reading forum at work.. sue me) Not sure that the rest of my day holds, but I'm sure I'll be full and or eventually mildly inebriated.... Speaking of presents... (Non-related segway) Dave, I'll have a gift coming your way over the weekend!

When I worked loss prevention for a local Best Buy... There was a Michael Hunt who worked in the audio department. ... I have to confess... It took super human restraint to not page him as Mike...

Yeah... well... the "lack-there-of"... tends to make my hyper-sensitive...

Hmmm.... "Spooky Maplecrest" doesn't really give much of a feeling of virility or sexual prowess...

FJ-3 and -4 Fury F-86H ... I here tell someone is working on them... and when I find out who, I'm gonna kick his arse for lallygagging!

Hmmm... Wep, you sound taller in your posts.