I think you will find that section F8 was Jan Visser.
Cheers Chris
Correct, Chris. I set it up and did the model work but a few other people were involved just as much, not to say even more. First and foremost my good friend and brilliant programmer Hansjoerg Naegle who sadly disappeared during the first work round of the C-47 Vintage Virtual Cockpit and my good friend and brilliant flightdynamics guru Rob Young (who has sadly left our virtual flying world as well ). And more good friends like Cliff Presley and Dudley Henriques. Cliff used to be well known around this premises but has also left to discover other horizons. Like Dudley he used to fly jet fighters for real. He did the F-86 Flight Manual and together with Dudley assisted Rob to create the flight dynamics. Cliff never flew the F-86 but Dudley did. Later on he became a well known display pilot mostly flying the P-51. Dudley works with A2A now.
It's clear that my original plan, to create the F-86E/F and most of its derivatives like the D, K, H, and seagoing Fury sisters FJ-2, 3 and 4 was a little too far fetched, not to say totally impossible but such can happen due to over-enthusiasm. Sorry about that.
We keep the site alive because there are still simmers flying FS-9 that might have an interest in our F-86 model.
I'd still love to get to work on atleast the Sabre Dog (and K) and atleast one of the Furies but without Hansi and Rob to work with that's very unlikely to ever going to happen.
Turn our FS-9 Sabre into native FSX/P3Dv4 and mod it into an FJ-2 or 3 you say ? Not possible because its a totally different animal. Only the wings would've come in handy.
I suppose i'm not the only one thinking that both the Sabre Dog (and K) and Fury FJ-2 or -3 and -4 are blatantly missing in FSX and P3Dv4 for certain so Milviz how about it ?... ( Colin kindly asked me not to develop our F-86 into native FSX and we didn't so i think a favor in return would be pretty cool..
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( and btw, if needed, i have a CD loaded with the best HR photos of the F-86K cockpit that sits here in the Mil.Aviation Museum at Soesterberg)
So, that's the SectionF8 story, folks. In a nutshell, believe me..
Cheers,
Jan