Lockheed Jetstar Project for FSX, P3D and P3D 64-bit
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Thank you for bringing this classic to life.
Gman, kudos for taking this beautiful bird on. I spent about six years with the ones in the 89th Andrews. The picture you have of 492 was used by the first family mostly. I remember several times Pat Nixon, Tricia and Julie would launch off towards Bloomingdales in New York on 492. Otherwise a high level cabinet member would use it. The sister ship, 493 was actually reserved for the Vice President (at the time Spiro T. Agnew, and later Nelson Rockefeller) travels to short distant areas whereby the 707 wasn't required. The difference between 493's paint was that the blue area was omitted and it was all white while sporting the Vice Presidential shield in lieu of the Presidential Seal.(It's more white than gold). The gold stripe was still present. The interior of 493 was very similar but had upgraded seats, appointments and upgraded sound deadening material. Many FSX VC-140 models omit the "cone" attached to the wing tanks in the aft end. That touch in the VC-140 distinguished them from other commercial units. I enjoyed riding in them as they were like a little sports car. It would accelerate quicker than the 707.
Thank you for bringing this bird to life. I've only seen a couple models for FSX, but they really don't do the bird justice. You do excellent work and I'm looking forward to its birth. Thank you and God bless.. Terry
Gman, kudos for taking this beautiful bird on. I spent about six years with the ones in the 89th Andrews. The picture you have of 492 was used by the first family mostly. I remember several times Pat Nixon, Tricia and Julie would launch off towards Bloomingdales in New York on 492. Otherwise a high level cabinet member would use it. The sister ship, 493 was actually reserved for the Vice President (at the time Spiro T. Agnew, and later Nelson Rockefeller) travels to short distant areas whereby the 707 wasn't required. The difference between 493's paint was that the blue area was omitted and it was all white while sporting the Vice Presidential shield in lieu of the Presidential Seal.(It's more white than gold). The gold stripe was still present. The interior of 493 was very similar but had upgraded seats, appointments and upgraded sound deadening material. Many FSX VC-140 models omit the "cone" attached to the wing tanks in the aft end. That touch in the VC-140 distinguished them from other commercial units. I enjoyed riding in them as they were like a little sports car. It would accelerate quicker than the 707.
Thank you for bringing this bird to life. I've only seen a couple models for FSX, but they really don't do the bird justice. You do excellent work and I'm looking forward to its birth. Thank you and God bless.. Terry
Jim Goldman
Charter Member
Hi guys, let me reply to a request to Gordon, I do not have any objection with the development of other variations to the Jetstar. A lot of work needs to be done such as, different nacelles, slightly different tail, different fuel tanks and especially developing different panels for specific variations. However, it is ultimately left up to poor Gordon and all of you good souls.
I do want to take a moment to clarify something rather trivial. This project should in no way be linked or referred to as of FSD or the other members. I am the only polygon developer that brought the JSII to fruition and the only one that decided to give the source file for further development as a freeware community project. This is done to show my gratitude to all of you.
During this development process, I will try to contribute as much as I can, but I am dealing with end of life issues with a family member and my own health issues.
Last but not least, the picture shown below is of the actual JSII used for the model shown above.
Best
Jim
I do want to take a moment to clarify something rather trivial. This project should in no way be linked or referred to as of FSD or the other members. I am the only polygon developer that brought the JSII to fruition and the only one that decided to give the source file for further development as a freeware community project. This is done to show my gratitude to all of you.
During this development process, I will try to contribute as much as I can, but I am dealing with end of life issues with a family member and my own health issues.
Last but not least, the picture shown below is of the actual JSII used for the model shown above.
Best
Jim
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Pat Mussotte
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Absolutely gorgeous!
My very best wishes to the team!
Best regards
Pat
My very best wishes to the team!
Best regards
Pat
delta_lima
Charter Member 2015
Jim, Gordon, et al - you have no idea how thrilled this new project has made me.
Hands down my favourite business jet of all time, and having thoroughly enjoyed the Stone model back in the FS2000 days, a fresh FSX model is literally the stuff of dreams. And the teddy bear is a bonus (showed my young daughters the renderings, and now they're hooked! LOL).
Being an incurably addicted Jetstar fanatic, I've read the comments about bare metal paints and had to point out that in addition to the obvious VIP guises, the Jetstar wore some bare schemes in her lesser known role in the USAF Air Force Communications Service ....
http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA-Air-Force/Lockheed-C-140A-JetStar-L-1329/1229545
More some folks cup of tea than mine, but I figured some would like to see these.
Of course, what I'm hoping for is a NASA scheme ....
http://www.aviationphotocompany.com/p195556426/e51add642
... but I'll eagerly eat up anything this great team puts together.
Thanks again, and looking forward to the eventual updates (appreciate that it's still very early stages).
dl
Hands down my favourite business jet of all time, and having thoroughly enjoyed the Stone model back in the FS2000 days, a fresh FSX model is literally the stuff of dreams. And the teddy bear is a bonus (showed my young daughters the renderings, and now they're hooked! LOL).
Being an incurably addicted Jetstar fanatic, I've read the comments about bare metal paints and had to point out that in addition to the obvious VIP guises, the Jetstar wore some bare schemes in her lesser known role in the USAF Air Force Communications Service ....
http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA-Air-Force/Lockheed-C-140A-JetStar-L-1329/1229545
More some folks cup of tea than mine, but I figured some would like to see these.
Of course, what I'm hoping for is a NASA scheme ....
http://www.aviationphotocompany.com/p195556426/e51add642
... but I'll eagerly eat up anything this great team puts together.
Thanks again, and looking forward to the eventual updates (appreciate that it's still very early stages).
dl
LouP
Flight Sim Junkie
I was looking forward to that but since forgot. Not being greedy but should I forget about it again? ;-)
LouP
Jim Goldman
Charter Member
Guy, as far as I know the project is still on. But Gordon is now head of the Jetstar and it is his call.
I feel for Gordon, he has more problems with his systems either being hacked or programs going wonky on him than most people I know. . .but he's also working a lot of very (what I would call) Hi-Tech projects that require a well tuned system. I'm sure the Jetstar is getting his attention, but he's been through some things recently that have probably slowed his ability to work on anything on a regular basis.