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FSX: The 1940 Fokker T.5 bomber released

As you yourself noted. Sweet!!!
The texturing looks great, and again, the attention to the details just brings this project alive for me.

p.s. Just saw the gun ring video in your March 18 post - wonderful animation.
 
Before I tell you about further progress on the T.5, I am very glad to announce that I graduated last week as an Aeronautical Engineer! Cheers!

So, I continued with the T.5 and did work on the (un)locking mechanism of the slider windows. This is based on vague photographs and interpretations, so only partially correct but acceptable.

The window of the pilot is kept at its place with the levers, which need to be moved in order to slide back the window.
slider_01.jpg


The same applies for the window of the observer, although it has a different mechanism.
slider_02.jpg


Also for the 'peeking' window below the observer.
slider_03.jpg


That's it for now!

Cheers, Daan
 
Congratulations Daan! On both the graduation and the work you show us. I think they compliment each other very well!

Wishing you the best of success in your professional career! :applause::applause::applause:
 
Dutcheeseblend said:
Before I tell you about further progress on the T.5, I am very glad to announce that I graduated last week as an Aeronautical Engineer! Cheers!
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Congratulations!

If you can't find work in the civilian area, try the armed forces' administration. They usually need AEs for R&D and/or planning.
 
Congratulation Daan, although I never had any doubt about the fact you would graduate. :encouragement:

The T.V looks great as ever :biggrin-new: You have learned a lot in a short period :dizzy:

Cheers,
Huub
 
Hi all, thanks a lot!

@Bjoern: plenty of opportunities I guess. Per today, I'm employed on a full-time basis as junior engineer at an machinery engineering company. That's how things went, and I like it, but yet I'd love to get work in aerospace. I've done two internships at our major aerospace company, but graduated in the company I'm in now.

Cheers, Daan
 
Dutcheeseblend said:
@Bjoern: plenty of opportunities I guess. Per today, I'm employed on a full-time basis as junior engineer at an machinery engineering company. That's how things went, and I like it, but yet I'd love to get work in aerospace. I've done two internships at our major aerospace company, but graduated in the company I'm in now.
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Well, congratulations again.

I was unemployed for eight months after my Master's, but then again, all companies want is draftspeople and professionals in very expensive toolboxes not used by every university anyway. So getting the foot in the door was quite difficult.
 
Hi all,


Some of you might know, but I'm in sad relational/family problems now, since a few weeks. To get myself a bit entertained this holiday, I continued work on the T.5.
I created the hydraulic lines to/from the cylinders to extend/retract the windshield of the second pilot. Because of the nature of this animation, it is carried out with bones. Did cost a few bones, so each ram (one on each side) has one armature (because of the 22 bone limit).

Retracted:
hyd_lines_02.jpg


Extended:
hyd_lines_01.jpg


Cheers, Daan
 
Hi there,

I got back to my T.5 after roughly two months!
The first thing I visited, was the locking plate of the control lever, which controls the windscreen of the second pilot. I was able to add detail after a visit to our National Archives, where I found a relatively good photograph of the very thing.

hyd_lock_01.png


For non-Dutch, the thing reads:
OPEN - WINDSCREEN - CLOSED
DO NOT CLOSE WHEN
SEAT IS OCCUPIED

The second pilot sat on the seat to the left, shown in the figure below.

hyd_lock_02.png


So, when he moved away from his flying position, he ended up on the front spar, where he had this view forward.

hyd_lock_03.png


Until next time! Daan
 
Its good to see you are motivated again. Isn't it great what a small gathering from similar minds can do to do :biggrin-new: :encouragement:

The T.V look absolutely stunning and I really envy your talent!

Cheers,
Huub
 
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