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Need some help from the experienced guys here. Looking for more info on the yellow ground equipment in these pics and better images if possible so I can make them for my Nam scenery, especially the weapons carts. Thanks!
 
Hey Michael, I can't speak to the first shot as the weapons loaders could tell you more than I could, but the second and even the third shots show a Light Cart (simply used for night maintenance to illuminate the area around the airplane) the smaller cart on the far side of the Phantom in the second shot is probably a lopac (low pressure air cart for servicing the pneumatic system) and in the third pic, behind the light cart is a Dash 60. If you took the one I sent you a pic of back when I was still at carswell and redid it in yellow, you'd have it. Hope that's a little help. I'll see if I can come up with some pics somewhere.
 
I guess there are two L-19 in the first picture, a grey one, and a green one behind the grey one, partially hidden by the beaver.... No clue about the ground equipment....
 
Boy, is everyone into GSE nowadays? I'm on the middle of making John Stinstrom's GSE library into native FSX libraries. He's sent me all his source files. I'd intended to use what I needed of them on the next NAS Pensacola update.

Jim
 
So...your scenery...when it is finished, will I be able to put the SEA paint job on Alphasim's F-5E to good use? Not much good sitting around KEDW. I've been looking for some nice USAF, Vietnam Era airbases. :)
 
Thanks falcon (guys) I thought as much with the image you had sent and did that already, but wasn't sure if the style had changed since Nam. Any pics you be appreciated.

Jim, just trying to get a realistic nam era feeling when sitting on the ramp, by no means is this a GSE object pack, LOL.

An-225, basically this is an LZ scenery, but i wanted to have something for the fixed wing flyers as well and have a small base that will have the basics for jet jocks. I don't have the resources to do large bases faithfully, but hopefully what I will have coming will work.
 
If you want some scenery "maps" of Vietnam, go no further than Google Earth and look down on Texas. The countryside is littered with "dummy" airfields to emulate the real ones in Vietnam. Pilots could practice to their heart's content. All the runways and aprons were there...

...and you can still see many today.
 
MCDesigns said:
Need some help from the experienced guys here. Looking for more info on the yellow ground equipment in these pics and better images if possible so I can make them for my Nam scenery, especially the weapons carts. Thanks!
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Hey Michael I think I like what you are about to do Amigo. I can tell ya that bigger green bird next to those L19s with the overhead wing is a U-1A Otter and used for just about anything you can think of. It's role was utility aircraft because of it's hauling power and recon. They used them in the III Corp area for sure and a few other military bases. The most familiar is the 54th UART. They were called a Bargain Basement Airline and it would haul under extreme conditions in the III (Third Herd)and IV Corp area

http://www.1stavnbde.com/Artcles/54art1.html

interesting reading about the 184 RECON and one very colorful CPT Bernardi and his Flying Circus in Vietnam
http://www.1stavnbde.com/Artcles/184thRAC68.htm

Ted
 
Michael, I've got some old 110 prints of the flight lines at Bien Hoa AB, Tan Son Nhut, Vung Tau, and Cam Ranh Bay. I've also got a few shots I took of the landing strips at Nha Trang and the SF camp at Loc Ninh. If I can find them, I'm not sure how to send them to you as I don't have a scanner. Most of them are B&W, but may have some of the detail that you're looking for. I'll look around this week for them...
 
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