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F7F Tigercat New VC for FSX & P3D
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Stickshaker
SOH-CM-2023
More, much more, than payware quality, Gordon! Great job!
Sundog
SOH-CM-2025
Man, you weren't kidding about the textures on the radio sets. They look so real it felt like I could just reach through my screen into those pics and adjust the sets; yeah, they look that good.
That's also really cool about the lettering set you have and your Dad's work on the YB-49. Did he happen to work on the YRB-49 as well? It's also lucky for us that you were able to find a manual for the radio set as well. Your work on this bird is far surpassing anything I was expecting and I think we're all going to be truly grateful for it.
That's also really cool about the lettering set you have and your Dad's work on the YB-49. Did he happen to work on the YRB-49 as well? It's also lucky for us that you were able to find a manual for the radio set as well. Your work on this bird is far surpassing anything I was expecting and I think we're all going to be truly grateful for it.
gman5250
Charter Member
Dad worked at Northrop in the wind tunnel and out at Edwards until the mid sixties. Yeah, he was on the YRB-49, T-38, F-5 and a bunch of the others. He got the axe after the aerospace crunch hit and we lost our family airplane...to my dismay. Good story for him though, he was hired back as the Chief Corporate Pilot in the early seventies and finished out his career flying the execs around in the G2. It was a coveted spot, and he had earned it.
The LeRoy set is complimented by his set of drafting pens and slide rule. All are carrying on the tradition through me, although I have moved into the digital arena. I grew up living and breathing airplanes...funny how things evolve over the course of a lifetime.
BTW...if any of the old timers here remember Hobby House Plans Service...that was my dad too.
This brings up a topic of great interest to me. I've been using the F7F Tigercat project as a training platform to achieve a level of proficiency equal to the marketplace. I've been thinking, very seriously about the YB-49 & YRB-49 as serious projects for release as payware. It only seems fitting, and the need for state-of-the-art renditions of those two aircraft has not been met...yet. They sure would be lovely.
Ian Warren
Charter Member
Gordo .. Don't ya just love the family ties then adding your own little effort ... would make your Dad as proud as punch 
fsxar177
Long-Time Enthusiast
You are certainly reaching your goals sir.
I'd love to see the YB-49. It could be fun, not sure if the market value is there, however.
I'm following the F-15 Reporter project with interest. Still holding out for a P-61.
While I'm thinking about it..
Razbam's A-26 which was being built under license for I believe A2A (for their Aircraft Factory line), has seemed to have disappeared. I made effort to contact Raz but with no avail. So the A-26 seems to once again be needed for development, and would fit in as a natural spring-board from the F7F, but with great market potential.
Virtually no good native B-26 at the moment either..
Or B-25 for that matter.
During my brief stint with Vertigo Studios the B-25 was very much a potential release. However with Deanno shifting toward non-FSX related projects, I'm not sure he'll ever find coders to finish the Mitchell. Someone should approach him with a small handful of cash, buy the project and finish it.
Although.. John Terrell has mentioned a B-25 someday..would be very fitting.
With this said, anything you pursue will be great! Love the Northrop stuff..so...
- Joseph
gman5250
Charter Member
As long as we are on this topic.
My first serious texture work was on Milton's A-26 FSX Native conversion. The idea of doing a high end version of the A-26 has not escaped me, however there is an A-26K in the pipe and I'm not going to step on any toes.
Also on my list of potentials.
de Havilland Hornet/Sea Hornet Dare I say even more sexy than the Mosquito??? And very close to the F7F as a stablemate.
de Havilland Comet...not the jet, but the racer.
B-25 Mitchell...the screaming hole needing to be filled
Beechcraft D-18
Cessna UC78
My first serious texture work was on Milton's A-26 FSX Native conversion. The idea of doing a high end version of the A-26 has not escaped me, however there is an A-26K in the pipe and I'm not going to step on any toes.
Also on my list of potentials.
de Havilland Hornet/Sea Hornet Dare I say even more sexy than the Mosquito??? And very close to the F7F as a stablemate.
de Havilland Comet...not the jet, but the racer.
B-25 Mitchell...the screaming hole needing to be filled
Beechcraft D-18
Cessna UC78
MustangL2W
Charter Member
I am in total agreement.... The B-25 is really a screaming hole that needs filled with something that really allows you to feel the power and performance of the Mitchell. Both an Early "Raiders" Model and a Later J would be wildly popular. Now I'm gonna have to go watch 'CATCH-22' again..... Ha Ha!!
gman5250
Charter Member
It's my humble opinion that the B-25 should be given a place of honor, and undertaken by the developer most worthy of the task.
If John Terrell, Bill Leaming/Milviz or Scott Gentile/A2A were even considering these projects, they would be the rightful heirs to the legacy. I want to make that statement on the record.
There are so many potential projects, and so few developers to take them on, there should be no reason for anyone to be in lack of potential opportunity. I had the need, and opportunity, to enter into the arena and have devoted many thousands of hours in the last five years learning the trade. I still have a very long way to go in the process. If I can contribute in some way to the marketplace, and bring some enjoyment to others along the way, I will have achieved my goal.
You are all very kind, and supportive. I appreciate every word.
Gordon
If John Terrell, Bill Leaming/Milviz or Scott Gentile/A2A were even considering these projects, they would be the rightful heirs to the legacy. I want to make that statement on the record.
There are so many potential projects, and so few developers to take them on, there should be no reason for anyone to be in lack of potential opportunity. I had the need, and opportunity, to enter into the arena and have devoted many thousands of hours in the last five years learning the trade. I still have a very long way to go in the process. If I can contribute in some way to the marketplace, and bring some enjoyment to others along the way, I will have achieved my goal.
You are all very kind, and supportive. I appreciate every word.
Gordon
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MustangL2W
Charter Member
I agree with Gordon 110%. '...a place of Honor' is a great way to put it. Just look at what a game changer the MAAM B-25 for FS9 was in its time?? That Mitchell and a repaint from John Terrell for it are still a "treasured" part of my FS Collection. I personally told Scott Gentile of A2A at Oshkosh last year that with the Smashing success of their AT-6, that now he really needed to consider an Accusim'd B-25. I made a point of saying that it would round out a collection of all the great WWII North American Aviation aircraft covered in the Mustang, Texan and the Mitchell for A2A. I got to hand it to Scott...he was paying attention to what I so passionately proposed... but I left the conversation feeling that there were probably other goals in mind. (GA types) Maybe if some of this passion amongst the FS Warbird community could be channeled their way it could garner some traction??
Mach3DS
Charter Member
The most correct/accurate restored B-25 is the FHC's. Paul Allen's. If someone were to want pictures of everything I bet they would let you for a project like this if approached. I jave the opportunity to live right in the area and have seen it fly many times. Between the FHC and the HFF almost any warbird is available in pristine condition. In fact one afternoon a few summers ago I visited HFF and was getting the guided tour from a volunteer docent and was told to go ahead and walk out to their B25 and go on up inside. So there I was summer afternoon my dad andid I alone inside the cockpit of the B-25. Great experience! Don't touch the red handles please! They're live!
Gordon I vote for YB49 all the way. We need these old relics as their story hasn't really been told in this new Era of FS. We've been inundated with GA aircraft and the entire experimental arm of aviation is lost. What brought us the advances and paved the way for what we enjoy today and regard as common place. To me, great selection.
Gordon I vote for YB49 all the way. We need these old relics as their story hasn't really been told in this new Era of FS. We've been inundated with GA aircraft and the entire experimental arm of aviation is lost. What brought us the advances and paved the way for what we enjoy today and regard as common place. To me, great selection.
gman5250
Charter Member
The XB-35 and YB-49 wings were such a radical departure from contemporary designs the approach was nearly incomprehensible in it's day. The fact that the eventual counterpart is identical in proportion is not coincidence, but rather a validation of the Northrop brain trust.
And...both were just fricking gorgeous.
The fact that I have a personal connection with the airplane makes it almost irresistible.