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Skin No 5...

matching fuel tanks color...for every skin version

Skin No 4...

Skin No 3...

Second skin...

We started new skins corrections to match the bumps. What remained are the pylons to be worked on.

Sharkmouth is on net in every shape and red triangle/blue tactic number are doable, I think I have at least one of each somewhere in my files.The others, some I am not familiarized with, but are they really that important to make an...agressor impression for you ? You seem very into it and that they mean a lot for you but I might be wrong :)

I have this skin in my database. Is this what you're looking for ? Sharkmouth is easy to stick it on it.

When this happens, by chance, are there any planes that overtake you and you are experiencing the Doppler effect ? :)

Courtesy to GKABS I present you a pilot model. Do you like it ?

That is your greatest concern about this project bro ? A "proper" ...pilot model and ..his helmet ? Really ?:D

Bump maps work. Juuuust a little longer....:)

I'm glad you worked things out with that hostile joystick of yours. See ? Not all devices are bad. You just need to convince them to see it your way ;)

Wait a little longer until its launch. It will worth it what you will hear there/then :)

Those engineers I mentioned, by the way, they, too, live in the...real world you're talking about. Did you know that ? No, a nerd would not say that ever. A nerd would just look and keep his mouth shut asking himself how the heck did he wind up with your there.LOL

hello, we have some last minute corrections to made for the plane's skins (bump maps) so it will take a couple of days more I think. I apologize for inconvenience, I'll keep you updated. Thank you for your patience. Meanwhile some shots with all our skins tested.

This is a previous skin which was abandoned at some point but we decided to included, too.

The sixth skin is almost ready. If everything goes well, at the end of the weekend you'll get the plane. Of course , if you did your chores and eat your cookies as well.

Last news... These are the five main skins you will see it in our release soon. Since we have some time gained until the launch day we decided to make one more. If you paid attention reading the thread you'll guess which one will be. ;)

Panspermia idea it's a ...Moebius band kindda of. It sticks until one point. Observation: If on "my" planet something else brought here basic organic molecules etc then...WHO or WHAT brought, THERE, where the molecules those come from, material to create them before arriving to "me" ? And so on. That is why I called it Moebius in the first place, because this "cycle", asking yourself that, never ends. Truth is that here, at least, on earth, we know for sure that life didn't exist in the beginnings. Earth was bombarded billions of years with meteorites until it was sterlilized. That's a fact, not an opinion or an educated guess. Question is not how those basic molecules arrived here (though now we know how and that they did plus that 80% of the water brought, too), but how that basic materials arranged themselves in time, in the end, through complex processes, into life ! Personally I am a science defender, I don't believe in magic and supernatural etc and me and all the scientific world are puzzled that we didn't find the link between our "cousins" and HUMANS. And that's a problem. At least for now. A scientist has a lot of questions in his luggage and wants primordial answers...Would we have found the answer to this question before we will see/meet our end on this planet I wonder ? Drake ecuation kindda says what we all might thought at some point in time: if there were intelligent life in the Universe we might have heard of it by now somehow. We let aside here all the BS about UFOs and other nonsenses. I don't doubt that there is life in Universe, I just doubt that there is intelligent for now...Opponents of the Drake ecuation say that distances in universe are huge, which is very true and that even if one could have means to travel it would be almost impossible to cover great distances with generations after generations (if that could be fezable in the first place as an idea) and reach a planet/system as if you just walked a couple of miles and everything was fine as it was seconds ago when you left. So that could be a problem, even if intelligent life exists. Again, here I let aside fantesies that we will travel, some day , with some miracle engine/fuel, with speeds closely to the speed of light etc.Another other issue is that stars have the habit to...die/explode which gives you, as a civilization, a very small window (at Univers time scale) to born, develop and to make an honorable exit, in time, to expand your kind in the neighbourhood, where your dead star core ejection won't reach you... If you look to the evolution of humankind and you can understand, grasp its perspectives, its possibilities, its genius/creations and think that all of these would be in vain one day....a true sadness strikes you if you think deep to it. A NASA guy defined all that in one phrase: "All those billions years of humankind evolution, from dirt to stars, it all would have just been a beautiful experiment and nothing else"...That reminds me, somehow, of what Socrate (IMO one of the most intelligent person who walked on Earth) said, when he was asked what is the definition of LIFE: "Life it's just a long string of mistakes" :), which it's very true if you are honest with yourself, but in a way inevitable isn't it ? :D I did this parallel because situations described resemble somehow... PS - when I see on TV, on science channels, some scientists, some even with PHDs, that say we can do it (travel to stars) I smile. Have you noticed, they never say where we would take the fuel necessary to decelerate from percentage of light speeds they brag we can travel with or what will you do if the gravity of that habitable planet is 10 times than yours etc ? :) They are so naives... Or some other scientists, who speaks with such an enthusiasm and build hypotesis based on fantasies seen just in SF movies (worm holes). If you didn't know anthing about science, hearing them you would believe that worm holes are true and it's very doable what they propose. LOL

Maybe there are ...other bad guys walking in that...friendly territory, too. :)

I don't think ...communist could travel through stars. They were not too bright. The only notable thing they did, was to put a dog in a capsule who died asfixiated in the reentry. Do you think these kind of guys could travel to stars ? So, if the little grey men are somewhere in the galaxy and one day they will show up, it will be the end of human race. Nobody would travel stars system just for sightseeing. PS - of course, soviets did other things too in space but I didn't want let truth stay in a way of a good story . LOL

I liked the commentary of one guy there where is the video: " If aliens are looking for intelligent life they won't find it here " However, if ever an alien civilization would ever appear at horizon, it won't be good for mankind, that's for sure...:D. I never got those stupids who are joyful just because they have seen "aliens" crafts at TV.

Last skin WIP

In real life there is no need for such a technology for air-to-air combat. The pilot has a head-up display in his helmet (go take a look on youtube to such technology to get an idea how things work). Even in Vietnam era the plane forward display "knew" to recognize an air target. So in other words it would be an "overkill" to build target pod for an air target. The same goes for a simulator (game) If you saw a seqoence how a pilot is targeting a ground one, you will notice, unless it has a GPS bomb or the bomb is laser guided, that he has a little joystick with which he guides the bomb to the target. Now think how complicate it will be to maneuver the plane and in the same time to handle a joystick for precision, let alone firing the main gun. Personaly i don't know any pod for air to air targeting, but I might be wrong.