Jimbib

Hey Ed, is the whole model mapped onto those UV bitmaps?

Cool stuff, I think that went over near my house many eons ago before my time also, albeit on the back of a 747. Some sort of a round trip to over-fly a near by American memorial. An eye to the sky can sometimes be quite rewarding.

An F-102 Deuce is being worked on. As are a few F-101's.

http://news.stv.tv/uk/32002-pilot-missing-...r-jets-collide/ Fingers crossed for the second pilot.

Interesting, Marine One has gone over my house too, and yes I live in the UK It was accompanied by two Black Hawks and another H-3.

Nice work Ed

Hey Kreelin, in that vid, just as the wheels hit the floor at the landing, is that a small amount of wingtip vortex or a tire touch smoke effect?

At the end of the day, that's the bottom line.

Dam nice skin it is too.

WIP

Really, what razgriz31m said is not rivet counting, there's no aggravating or harmful intent, the guy just made a statement concerning the scale of the intakes on the Foxhound. Perhaps it would have been better with a link to some reference material or orthgraphic projections for comparison, but all the same. All of us notice and do not notice different things respectively. Personally, I see nothing wrong with the intakes, but that's just my own opinion. If you want an example of real 'rivet counting', look here... http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?showtopic=18191

Brand spanking new, check it out. http://www.creech.af.mil/

The Sea Vixen alone in a full NF campaign would rock some serious socks.

Does Chuck Norris therefore have infinite mass?

Junction 102 on I-95. Mighty Eighth AF Museum.

I don't think that was what he was asking. If the wings sweep on an aircraft at all, then most likely there is an animation slot added by the modeler in 3DS Max. The action of the wings sweeping in the Thirdwire series doesn't really make a difference to the flight model, as the series does not support different flight characteristics at variable geometry phases of the wings. See, if you take a look inside the data.ini of one of the aircraft, or any sweep wing aircraft for that matter, there should be an animation ID that is linked to a swing wing 'component.' For simplicity's sake, this component is usually set as a highlight device, allowing it to automatically sweep as velocity increases or decreases past a certain point. Take the third party MiG-27D mod for example, what you could probably do to make it a manual operation is change the current wing sweep data entries... [LeftSwingWing] SystemType=HIGHLIFT_DEVICE DeploymentMethod=AUTOMATIC_MACH Setting[1].Angle=45.0 Setting[1].DeployValue=0.80 Setting[1].RetractValue=0.85 Setting[2].Angle=72.0 Setting[2].DeployValue=0.40 Setting[2].RetractValue=0.45 MaxDeflection=72.0 MinDeflection=0.0 ControlRate=0.2 AnimationID=1 CLiftdc=0.0710 CDdc=0.0200 [RightSwingWing] SystemType=HIGHLIFT_DEVICE DeploymentMethod=AUTOMATIC_MACH Setting[1].Angle=45.0 Setting[1].DeployValue=0.80 Setting[1].RetractValue=0.85 Setting[2].Angle=72.0 Setting[2].DeployValue=0.40 Setting[2].RetractValue=0.45 MaxDeflection=72.0 MinDeflection=0.0 ControlRate=0.2 AnimationID=1 CLiftdc=0.0710 CDdc=0.0200 To something like [LeftSwingWing] SystemType=ANIMATION InputName=ANIMATION_1 DeploymentMethod=MANUAL AnimationTime=6.0 AnimationID=1 CLiftdc=0.0710 CDdc=0.0200 [RightSwingWing] SystemType=ANIMATION InputName=ANIMATION_1 DeploymentMethod=MANUAL AnimationTime=6.0 AnimationID=1 CLiftdc=0.0710 CDdc=0.0200 Only problem with this is you would not get the intermediate wing sweep angles of 45° and 72°, however, you can see that manual wing sweep is possible.

If anyone makes a Bloodhound, let me know, I have a couple of decent walkarounds and can get further pics easily.

It's a bit surprising that they're tearing them up this easily, I thought previously that a big issue had been made about the materials in the paint they are covered in. I had heard they were just going to be stored in the hangars at Tonopah with their wings taken off.

Carnage of a wobbly goblin. Clicky

Absolutely agree, the ability to extract multiple files to a designated folder would be great and very useful. EDIT: Here is a thread where someone was working on a new extracting utility, with some very handy features as said here.

Happy Birthday mate!

Nice shots mate!

Straight from the horse's mouth http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123114543

It looks like a good book indeed. I've been following the progress over at http://www.fjphotography.com/constantpeg/index.htm which is Steve Davies' site. There's a good load of pics over there and a decent forum with even a few bods who used to work on the program. A few of interesting tidbits about Soviet aircraft in the US... Evaluation of MiG-21 by USAF http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=reVZ9aPYi9A This site has some possible evidence of flankers at Groom... http://lazygranch.com/groom_lake_birds.htm This video shows the same thing, but the bird(s) in action... http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3l08tgVSjIU A few interesting things can be seen on flightaware too, every now and again.

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