Silberpfeil

From this morning's AvWeb e-zine. Case 1 recovery - good weather, all visual, no comms...

Have to dust off my paint kit!

Note that in FE2, pressing "R" during a mission allows re-loading and "U" works for un-jamming.

Excellent! How about some FE2 and WWII pilots?

Could be - close examination shows he has already already upgraded the original drum brakes to the SuperCub conversion kit for disc brakes. Magic Christmas dust or not, he still has to stop on those icy roofs!

Always liked this Tom Newsom print of Santa inspecting the J-3's propeller. By the look of things, I hope he is as thorough with his weight and balance calculations and that he's upgraded that powerplant to the 65 h.p. version! In the background, looks like Santa's six will be covered by a S.P.A.D. XIII this year. Peace on Earth and good will towards men!

Thank you, Stephen1918, for another great WWI model! While I can't hit anything with them, the M17s with their grenade rack look and work great. Now I'll have to learn how to paint it to look like the CL.IV just down the road...

See trailing link from National Defense magazine: https://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/articles/2019/9/16/what-to-expect-from-sixth-gen-aircraft

Looks like some of my airshow pix. Subject a/c is usually about an inch or two on the other side of the right or left margins!

As always, good job Stephen1918! Flies nice right out of the box and everything works well!

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?