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I had been having trouble with CTD's in this bird prior to enabling DLSS. This time the flight went without a hitch. I don't know if it was a coincidence or not, but if it holds, I'll be enjoying this little beauty a lot more!


Leaving Dominicci airport in San Juan
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Popping out of the clouds
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Heading a little higher
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Just about to altitude
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I could have taken a few more shots, but it was getting darker by the minute, so I just enjoyed the rest of the flight.
 
collensr said:
Excellent work John !! Been looking forward to this one.
Haven't seen her flying in the past few weeks but the weather is improving
here now so she should be out and about soon
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Thank you, Richard. Unfortunately, I never have much time during the work week, but a little bit more progress has been made. With the way the mapping is set up, I'm very happy to have the serial numbers on the tail and rudder now squared away. I've started "staining" the old steal fasteners, with many more to do (the fasteners are there as transparent 3D objects, and aren't in the textures themselves, so I've been working on placing their values into the textures below the 3D impression of each fastener). I'm hoping this repaint will get at least very close to completion once I spend a couple more days on it this weekend (though it might very well take an additional weekend, with cockpit and wheel well textures still to do as well).





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Bomber_12th said:
Thank you, Richard. Unfortunately, I never have much time during the work week, but a little bit more progress has been made. With the way the mapping is set up, I'm very happy to have the serial numbers on the tail and rudder now squared away. I've started "staining" the old steal fasteners, with many more to do (the fasteners are there as transparent 3D objects, and aren't in the textures themselves, so I've been working on placing their values into the textures below the 3D impression of each fastener). I'm hoping this repaint will get at least very close to completion once I spend a couple more days on it this weekend (though it might very well take an additional weekend, with cockpit and wheel well textures still to do as well).
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I admire your perseverance, John. I took one look at the texture layout and thought 'Let's do something else...'.
It already looks great to me.
btw, the last edition of Aeroplane monthly had a great article on Blakeslee
 
Wow Ferry, that L-39 shot is quite photorealistic.
Also love that metalwork on the Mustang @John!

Had to give this thing a try after seeing the clip:
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Had to increase wind to 12 knots (original was about 6kts) and dropped fuel and payload to almost zero. Managed to keep her flying at 26 knots and one of my attempts was good enough to stop. They seem to have extended the platform slightly for the real attempt though.
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Mr.Mugel said:
Had to give this thing a try after seeing the clip:
Had to increase wind to 12 knots (original was about 6kts) and dropped fuel and payload to almost zero. Managed to keep her flying at 26 knots and one of my attempts was good enough to stop. They seem to have extended the platform slightly for the real attempt though.
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Wow so quick in that response!
Answers a question I had though, thank you...
 
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