Silberpfeil

Roger that - and perhaps the PB4Y-1's observation stations as an option?

Worth-your-while video from this morning's AvWeb e-zine:

Been there...done that...!

U.S.C.G. Grumman JF-2 "Duck" (1941)

Courtesy of AvWeb, detailed video with pretty impressive ending...

Just beautiful! A thing to behold! What do you think - release the package in a week or two?

Grumman G-64 "Albatross" / U.S.C.G UF-1G "Goat" (1957) Grumman G-234 "Albatross" / U.S.C.G. UF-2G "Goat" (1962) Grumman G-288 "Albatross" / U.S.C.G. HU-16E "Goat" (1977)

Got sworn in fifty years ago today - so long ago the Eagle didn't have her racing stripes yet! Happy Birthday America!

U.S.C.G. Douglas R5D-4 (1955)

Thanks, Mue, for both the explanation and the excellent tutorial - even I could follow it and it works great! I'm not looking to add to your workload and I don't have much of an idea on how common this situation is with these model remote nodes/meshes installed so far away from the primary's map, but could this be automated in a future version?

A great asset to the community, Mue! I haven't had any significant problems with using it over the last couple days, but I've found a model ( https://combatace.com/files/file/12642-sh-3d-seaking-for-sf2/ ) where the data populates but the map doesn't appear (see below) on one of the three LOD's in the package. The other two LOD's seem to work fine. It's likely a self-inflicted wound - do I have a setting (or something else) wrong or am I completely missing something?

The lifeboat was PS'd and the ASV radar used to be the chin turret before that was PS'd. I searched the archives but didn't see a PB-1G so I picked up the base model out of the B-17G Flying Fortress Pak and modified it.

U.S.C.G. Boeing PB-1G with A-1 Lifeboat (1948)

Sorry to hear of your loss, and best wishes for your future being bigger and brighter!

Interesting, VonS - maybe I missed this part, but is this for only SF2 or for both FE2 and SF2? Every once in a while I try to get an SF2 model (or more generally, a pair of them) to work in FE2 but don't have any success (maybe 10% of the time). The aircraft will show during the selection screens, but immediately after you select "Fly Now", you're sitting in mid-air with no cockpit, no aircraft, and no airspeed. Occasionally, dependent upon type, you might see a bomb hanging beneath a wing, but no wing to hold it up! Any ideas on this?

It's just a girl I knew a long time ago, dear...

Impressive video - with all that capability, I can't quite imagine what it's like to fly one of those, but I wouldn't mind finding out!

From this morning's AvWeb Flash E-zine, a B-52H named "Wise Guy" was delivered to Barksdale this past week from being parked a little over ten years at Davis-Monthan. This is the second B-52H to escape the boneyard, and when fully refurbished, "Wise Guy" will become the 76th B-52H in USAF service. The article also included an interesting video on the B-52, but the audio part could have been done a lot better! See the link below:

Nice job, Stephen 1918 and Von S, for bringing FE2 its first stealth aircraft model!

I'll bet that was some pretty fancy stick and rudder work...you were fortunate you were still able to drop the gear! A good candidate for "the Second-Luckiest Pilot" award!

Just a little too pricey for me, but for some of the CA high-rollers, the link below takes you to a website advertising "possibly the last unrestored P-51D" (former Guatemalan AF) along with many spares including twenty Merlin powerplants. Lots of detailed pix of aircraft and spares: https://www.platinumfighters.com/p-51d-n38227

First "official" flight of the XP-82 Twin Mustang near Douglas, GA following rebuild and partial restoration - video link trailing.

Sorry for being a little late to the Bleriot XI party. There are currently two replicas (FAA-registered as N913BL and N791X) at MAM - the pix I forwarded were of N913BL at an airshow a couple years ago, and you can see N791X in the photo adjacent to the placard and I've included a hangar shot of it below (especially note the original-style wing suspension). N791X was rebuilt after a crash-landing and was formerly registered as C-FBLW in Quebec where it was originally constructed. All three of those registrations can be searched on and the aircraft background and some photos of each are available online.

Geezer - For your use, trailing are some close-ups/detail shots of the Bleriot XI that I pulled out of the archives. Mike Dora - Is Mike Lockhart still working at Rhinebeck Aerodrome?

See the video below - Lt. Jean-Francois Martin of Le Gendarmerie de Montagne is my choice for "Second Best Pilot"!