Major Lee

I took a ride in a HUEY UH1 "Greyhound" two summers ago, flown by the Michigan Flight Museum. They travel around to different airports and museums, offering an opportunity to flying their aircraft. The pilot felt the need to drive like it like he stole it and they were shooting at him for doing it. Bank angle was 60°+ from vertical multiple times during the flight. You're basically looking straight down at the ground in a side seat. This Huey flew in Viet Nam with the 240th Assault Helicopter Company, known as the “Greyhounds, Mad Dogs, and Kennel Keepers.” It is the real deal, with pilots and crew mostly made up of Army aviation veterans. Awesome ride, my video does not really capture the essence of sitting on the edge of nostalgia, recalling the days of my mis-spent youth, hoping to find somewhere to get a refund (thanks Dave S, hope you don't mind my borrowing that). I had a few rides in Hueys when I was stationed in Germany, so many years ago. Great to see the world from the air once again, with nothing between myself and earth, but air... https://miflightmuseum.org/aircraft-collection/

That is some awesome looking work you've done there! Well done!

Congratulations! My prayers for the little fella until he is out of NICU... Keep us posted on his staus... :)

That silver one just want to turn left... ;)

Happy birthday!!!

Some turkeys wandered through my neighborhood earlier this year, caught them on my FZ150, and crashed a little video in Sony Vegas... Turkeez...

Really??? Where did you live? I am a Northeast sider now... Just love it up here... :) And fates has captured some very dramatics shots, excellent as always!

I like Cocas' idea of a WWII forum...

Looks good, we defintiely need solid, well done core aircraft for a better WWII set up... Decals are easy, btw...

James, been there, done that, life is hard. Help is out there, you have to look for it and ask for it. Only on rare occasion, does it lands in front of us and offer itself... Faith helps, but you have to believe. Some years ago, that was all I had left. It's better now, because of grace, but still difficult, mostly because of myself. But by the grace of God, there go I...

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Very nice!

Yeah, what Flogger said... :sohappy:

I have been flying SF2 and using Stary's euro tile set... Just amazing work! Imagine, a city with a park in it!

Very nice! Looks like an early "C" model with the short cowl vents. Let me know if you need any reference materials...

Cocas, you will be the Man of the Hour for this...

Yeah, someone... anyone... please...

Nice to see you back and by the way, picture three is really interesting looking... :)

Wrnech, does this involve an intercept mission with P-38s???

Russ, you are unbelievable... , Yeah, something like that, except, we'll need a damaged and destroyed LOD too ;) I was thinking more along the lines of a target for a sub base in Brest or St Nazaire... Maybe a U-boat pen and some docks, along with a couple of cranes, and then we'll need a seaplane or two, along with, err, sorry, the sub looks really cool :)

Stary, that would be incredible if you would, I and some others would be most thankful! Anders is quite the arist! Marvelous stuff. that U-boat would surely look good in SF2, somewhere along western France.... http://www.colacola.se/map_1.htm

Stary, that is a fine looking Razorback you posted, would be great to see it in game. I was hoping that was your work! I posted about my desire for a hi-fi bubble top D some time ago... http://combatace.com/blog/18/entry-84-the-great-gabreski-autograph-give-away/ It would be nice to see more WWII models, especially considering the gaps in the current SF2 inventory. That said, a new model is a huge time and money investment for the 3D artist, so any project really is a labor of love, and not so many people love the Jug... Except Russ, with his wonderful N model!

D model went to D-23 on the Razorback body... Presence of lower cowl flaps level with wing root indicates a D model (not a C), with what looks like a skinny prop making it a D-20 or earlier. Bubble top was D-25 and on.