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TA-4J Skyhawk Work-In-Progress

It looks amazing, Dino, and I'll wager it flies the same!

The only livery missing is VMFAT-102, MCAS Yuma. I'd wager almost every Marine A-4 driver went through that squadron during their introduction, up through advanced training, to the A-4. We had a lot of them on base, at least while I was there. Probably 20, or more.

I do know for a fact, though, that they were 1 less early 1980, late '79. Right around there. I had to go out to the Range to dig it's remains out of a smoking hole in the ground. He got "target fixation" during a strafing run. Got so low he shot himself down! Thank goodness the IP had the presence of mind to eject them both before it was too late. Wound up digging the wing guns out of 20' of sand, with the engine another 10' down. Thankfully, the debris field was relatively small, given his angle of descent.
We did have a very nice funeral for the several small creatures, lizards, snakes, and so on, that were killed by the burning fuel that fanned out from the impact. Little graves, nice crosses for each one, etc.
I did get in a bit of trouble, during, though. We had a very green Lieutenant in charge of the recovery, and he didn't keep his eyes open for poisonous reptiles. During the funeral, a rattle snake (sidewinder) decided to try and sneak up between the Lt's legs, so I shot it in the head. Sadly, he hadn't noticed that I was armed. Wearing the pistol under my cammies, I can see why...
He yelled at me for a good 20 minutes. Very silly, really. We WERE out in the desert, miles from any form of civilisation, so it was perfectly legal to go armed. And I'd really rather listen to him whine, than try to suck poison out of his leg...
I must mention that I was a rifle/pistol instructor just prior to this, and had qualed expert with the pistol. He was in no danger from me! :rocket:

Ahhhh, the memories of the "good ol' days".
Looking forward to the release of this wonderful plane!:encouragement:

Pat☺
 
A quick update... with no pictures.
The TA-4J has entered the Beta stage... it usually takes one month before the test and fixes are implemented... so I foresee a release date somwhere in September.
 
One of my 'must have' aircraft and it is looking superb Dino.
The only caveat I would place on this would be the implementation of Tac-Bloody-Pac, I don't like it and I no longer have it.
I hangered the Eurofighter as I couldn't actually implement the loadouts I wanted, please try and give us no TacPac users an easier way of hanging things off wings.
:encouragement:
 
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She is a very lovely lady. Flies brilliantly too...

Eric
 
Dino, your work always gets better and better!
I have to bow before you because you are currently just one of few designers who create A WHOLE MODELL FAMILY. Means, you even design one AND two seater. That's unfortunately rare at a time like this. Thank you for your great work!
 
I can say that no one should be unhappy with the flying qualities of this aircraft. Dino's TA-4J flies smooth as silk and looks fantastic. It's clear that he is very talented. I've only got about 45 minutes in the aircraft so far and have only evaluated the handling characteristics (and looks). This aircraft fills a huge hole for P3D naval aviation and it does it in a spectacular fashion.
 
PhantomTweak said:
It looks amazing, Dino, and I'll wager it flies the same!

The only livery missing is VMFAT-102, MCAS Yuma. I'd wager almost every Marine A-4 driver went through that squadron during their introduction, up through advanced training, to the A-4. We had a lot of them on base, at least while I was there. Probably 20, or more.

I do know for a fact, though, that they were 1 less early 1980, late '79. Right around there. I had to go out to the Range to dig it's remains out of a smoking hole in the ground. He got "target fixation" during a strafing run. Got so low he shot himself down! Thank goodness the IP had the presence of mind to eject them both before it was too late. Wound up digging the wing guns out of 20' of sand, with the engine another 10' down. Thankfully, the debris field was relatively small, given his angle of descent.
We did have a very nice funeral for the several small creatures, lizards, snakes, and so on, that were killed by the burning fuel that fanned out from the impact. Little graves, nice crosses for each one, etc.
I did get in a bit of trouble, during, though. We had a very green Lieutenant in charge of the recovery, and he didn't keep his eyes open for poisonous reptiles. During the funeral, a rattle snake (sidewinder) decided to try and sneak up between the Lt's legs, so I shot it in the head. Sadly, he hadn't noticed that I was armed. Wearing the pistol under my cammies, I can see why...
He yelled at me for a good 20 minutes. Very silly, really. We WERE out in the desert, miles from any form of civilisation, so it was perfectly legal to go armed. And I'd really rather listen to him whine, than try to suck poison out of his leg...
I must mention that I was a rifle/pistol instructor just prior to this, and had qualed expert with the pistol. He was in no danger from me! :rocket:

Ahhhh, the memories of the "good ol' days".
Looking forward to the release of this wonderful plane!:encouragement:

Pat☺
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Thanks for the story! :) Brightened my day :) Not that it needed any brightening, but now it's just that much brighter :)
 
....just a HU as we are approaching the release. Not sure why I cannot post pictures today, but (fingers crossed) the TA-4J project will be released during the next weekend.
 
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Picture upload is back on my browser...so above are screenshots from the Release Candidate Build...
 

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Nice pictures. I might have to limit how many add on repaints I use for this one. Because, there are so many excellent schemes it will be difficult to choose which to fly. ;)

Looks great Dino. :very_drunk:
 
The Scooter had some of the best liveries of any jet ever! Deciding which ones I should do and which ones to leave out was not easy...
 
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