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  • Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.

    Post 16 Update

    Post 17 Warning

Flying the Albatross Seaplane! (vid)

Man you sure do great work. I love the used warn paint job. Is that a payware Albatross? I sure do love your videos. Again great job on the vid and plane paint.
 
rayhere48 said:
Man you sure do great work. I love the used warn paint job. Is that a payware Albatross? I sure do love your videos. Again great job on the vid and plane paint.
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Virtavia FSX Grumman Albatross is payware. This a basic paint that's included with the model, but I do plan on doing an accurate version some time in the future. I created startup effects (wip) and textured the engines as new. I picked this up, plus the C-87 when they were on sale.
 
You sure do some great videos. No frills, no music, just the unadulterated sound of engines. Love it.
 
i mean no offence to the other great video makers on this site and other sites as well.but this is the way a flight sim video should be presented...with aircraft and environment sounds...not with head banger (to me personally ,very irritating scream fest garbage)music,i want to hear the airplane sounds,,the engines,the flap sounds ( if there are any) the gear whine,ect..this one had the sound of birds ,made my cat crasy to begin..( i enjoyed that)..i was able to watch this entire video.....most of them i get just a minute or so into but the music ruins it for me and i turn em off.
 
Can somebody please post the name of the HU-16 download file?
I bought the HU-16 years ago,but i cannot find her on my external HD.
A typical senior moment,i think.:redf:
Mike
 
Nice video presentation but as a former head of the largest radome facilty, I have to believe that the radar is inoperative, or they just burned out the magnetron. The radome cannot "see" through silver paint.
 
Helldiver said:
Nice video presentation but as a former head of the largest radome facilty, I have to believe that the radar is inoperative, or they just burned out the magnetron. The radome cannot "see" through silver paint.
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Basically I'm planning on repainting these decommissioned birds as seen in these pics...

This one with the painted dome...
http://airlinerjets.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/n42my-grumman-g-111-albatross-9295.jpg?w=1024&h=683


This one with glass dome...
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2751/4350941793_33cde04200_o.jpg
 
Yes yuou are right about that music, so few know how or when to have music, So mant videos where i have just turned off the sound or stopped watching. Yours was cool. maybe some coms to help.
 
I'm not against paint. The airlines do it all the time. It's silver paint that I say will reflect everything back into the magnetron. Silver paint is conductive. But to get best transmission we always advocate hi-emissivity black paint.
But it's your airplane. Do as you see fit. But our engineers designed the radome used on the HU-16. If it was made of glass, then somebody did some fancy grinding. It's not a simple sheet of fiberglas. Like an optic. you got to look a the angle the dish is looking through as it turns. So the thickness will vary across the scope of the dish.
Otherwise, like a badly made optic. things will be disorted from where the appear to be.
 
Helldiver said:
I'm not against paint. The airlines do it all the time. It's silver paint that I say will reflect everything back into the magnetron. Silver paint is conductive. But to get best transmission we always advocate hi-emissivity black paint.
But it's your airplane. Do as you see fit. But our engineers designed the radome used on the HU-16. If it was made of glass, then somebody did some fancy grinding. It's not a simple sheet of fiberglas. Like an optic. you got to look a the angle the dish is looking through as it turns. So the thickness will vary across the scope of the dish.
Otherwise, like a badly made optic. things will be disorted from where the appear to be.
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Thanks for the info. Mainly the glassed nosed civil aircraft are just for viewing.

This one from TP HU-16, N98TP
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Helldiver said:
Nice video presentation but as a former head of the largest radome facilty, I have to believe that the radar is inoperative, or they just burned out the magnetron. The radome cannot "see" through silver paint.
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