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SkyUnlimited Texans Vol.2 Released (SOH Charter Member Discount)

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SkyUnlimited Texans Vol.2 Released (SOH Charter Member Discount)

SkyUnlimited is proud to announce the release of our Texans Volume 2 Flight Experience Pack.

Legacy of the Sky: Texans Volume 2 is an entire flight experience including new aircraft, vehicles, and artillery. Players can practice landing on the carrier USS Monterey in the SNJ-4C or take a Jeep for a drive around their favorite airbase. In addition, a controllable 105mm Howitzer is included with animated gunners and the ability to fire. Players can also fire smoke rockets from the LT-6G or control the USS Monterey in multiplayer for their friends to land on. An AI version of the Monterey is also included for single player landings. Also included are some locator files that can be used to make movies with FS-Recorder. All Extras have virtual cockpits and animations. The Carrier even has an LSO that can be controlled.

Learn more here http://www.skyunlimited.net/

SOH Charter members can get the planes for $4 off. Simply post in this thread that you want it, or send me a private message, and I will send a private message to all of the charter members with details on how to get the discount.


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I wanted to release yesterday but it was snowing in Louisiana. The only real snow I have seen in my life. Couldn't help but build this snowman with my fiancee :). We called him Bubba. He adds a whole new meaning to Stick-Em Up.
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Jesse I have your first Texan Pack and if anyone is wondering if it is worth it...HECK YES! That is the best Texan I have ever seen for FSX. I heard a rumor that a donationware version is coming as well from BAZ and I am sure it will be a sweetheart. BAZ makes great aircraft! But just like Mike's SuperCub and A2A cubs, a pilot just can't have enough Texans. I highly recommend Jesse's Texan. Looking forward to this one when I can free some cash up! Great job Jesse and TEAM
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Meh. Can't get it. Funds pot empty until April.

Best of luck with this one though Jesse, looks fun!
 
Well, I couldn't pass on this one, and have already made a quick hop in the SNJ-4C (the main reason I got the package). As always, I really enjoy the detailing work that you put into these Texans, John MacKay! Looking around the cockpit, there never seems to be an item missing - and I appreciate the lengths you go to, to make the cockpits accurate per variant (I also jumped into the other variants in the pack, just for a look around, for now), and the cockpit experience is a bit of a new one every time you jump into the next variant.<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:eek:ffice:eek:ffice" /><o:p></o:p>
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I have long heard from pilots, jokingly, that a would-be T-6 pilot, should be run through the Mustang first, instead of the opposite way around (the Mustang being the easier type to fly), and you actually sort of get this impression based on flying this product. The nickname I have heard mentioned to describe the aircraft is the "Terrible Texan." The aircraft's ailerons are quite sluggish (similar to a Mustang's, but more so), but makes up for this with very effective elevator and rudder control. The drawback is that it just doesn't have a lot of power to work with, so you have to be wise when doing any maneuvering. I haven't done much maneuvering yet in the aircraft, but it definitely demands attention to your energy going in, and plenty of attention on the rudder over the top (balancing the tendency to yaw). Taxiing and landing is where I have heard are the most demanding situations with the T-6, but with this product, everything in regard to those situations feels very natural, as long as you have operated a tail-dragger in the sim before, with a non-steerable tail wheel.

Now I'm just looking forward to the next opportunity I get to fly it again, and play around with all of the other items included! Great job to all involved!<o:p></o:p>
 
BTW, X_eidos2, I was wondering if you had seen these photos yet:
http://www.cwahl.com/flying/snj5c/rest_10/rest_10.htm

These are from the restoration of the finest SNJ on the planet, which happens to be a 5C, not a 4C, but still has the same arresting gear and tail wheel fairing. The one photo in this link that is really cool to me, is of the tail wheel fairing itself. Chuck Wahl, the man who restored the plane, used the original shield, still with all of the marks left behind by the carrier wires which hit it, every time the aircraft's tailhook missed. It's a very unique thing to see, representing the aircraft's history, which other restorers could have just pounded clean for a nicer looking unit.

Here are some more photos of this beautiful award-winning aircraft:
http://www.cwahl.com/flying/snj5c/reno2009/reno2009.htm

Despite being one mark off from the -4C, it would certainly make a great basis for a repaint on the -4C model, which I may just try.
 
Thanks for the kind words Bomber_12th, Chuck and Tim.

Jerry Beckwith did a fantastic job on the flight model didn't he.

I hope you're enjoying the SNJ-4C. The biggest challenge in this particular model was trying to figure out how to do the tailhook release. I found several photos of the exterior tailhook, (including the ones that Bomber_12 had the links to) but came up empty when it came to the internal arrangement of the rope that released the latch that held the hook in place. A new fella came onto the forums a couple months ago and said that he had access to a lot of Navy aviation historical resources and offered to help anyone. I asked him about the rope in the SNJ cockpit and he went off to check with his sources. I haven't heard anything from him since. I found 3 or 4 accounts where Naval Aviators wrote about dealing with a simple rope arrangement wrapped around the arm rest, but didn't give much more detail than that. I spent a week trying to get the rope to look like rope :isadizzy: Seems I could get it to move and I could get it to dangle but I couldn't get the same part to both move and dangle. The final results are another example of best guess engineering in flight simulation.

ps - in my reading I found that there is no visual difference between the 4C and the 5C. The difference was how the electrical system was set-up, if I remember correctly.
 
Jesse, just downloaded the V2 Texans. Will complement the V1 set fantastically.

Want some more snow? I can send you a few truckloads just out of my yard here in Iowa.:icon_lol:

Thanks for another great package.:applause:
 
SOH Charter members can get the planes for $4 off. Simply post in this thread that you want it, or send me a private message, and I will send a private message to all of the charter members with details on how to get the discount.

i would like to take advantage of this..thanks dave
 
I know at the least a lot of charter members here are taking advantage of the discount. I take it that everything is going smoothly for everyone and you'll are having fun?
 
Loads of fun, Jesse. This is an outstanding aircraft! I love the rocket effect on the LT-6G! Well done!:medals::icon29::guinness::applause::salute:
 
Thanks Jesse:applause::applause::applause::applause:
the snow has gone away for another few years:icon_lol:
appreciate the gesture:medals:
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