Vertigo Studios F9F Panther

Dean she looks fantastic!! I can smell the Jet A fuel now!!

@Fliger,You make a great point!! I wonder if the very talented Javier who gave us The fantastic Nimitz carrier for free would consider a straight deck carrier for payware?
 
Hey, enough with the carriers ! LOL, I must complete this other project first and then with some spare time will progress one of the straight deck models for y'all.

No time scale, so if someone wants to do an interim one before, feel free.

Best

Michael
 
fliger747 said:
Many moons ago Real Old Salt (Rich Murrary) and I did a FS re work of the AH Panther. A really fun plane to fly. The aviators flying the early jets onto the straight deck carriers had their work cut out for them. Still waiting for someone to cone up with a matching carrier.

How would FS series be if no one ever made and airports?

Super fun plane to fly! T
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I still fly this one in FS9. I used it in FSX for a bit, but it's more fun in FS9. The Flight Deck 4 carrier has had to fill in, and making traps with the canopy open is a hoot.
 
I do know about the very talented Michael's beautiful Essex Ships, and like to poke him with a sharp stick about them once in a while. A person with even more "roundtuits" than myself!

Cheers: T
 
michael davies said:
Hey, enough with the carriers ! LOL, I must complete this other project first and then with some spare time will progress one of the straight deck models for y'all.

No time scale, so if someone wants to do an interim one before, feel free.

Best

Michael
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Ok... LOL!

Guess I will check the ol shipyard to see what I have... my SCB-27A project coming together well... I think I have a hull in mind for a straight deck... Boxer I believe would be the best fit for Korea.

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-b/cv21.htm

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I'm surprised some joker hasn't popped in complaining indignantly that they forgot to model the right side of the cockpit interior, and that the pilot is so small you can't see him. :)

My credit card is soo ready for this one, guys!
 
lol I guess in this game you should never lose ones sense of humour.

:)

More importantly we've gone that extra mile with the F8F bring '2' variants. a configuration manager and we are in the process off also releasing an addon pack with missions and also additional paints.



The addon pack wont be... $## more like $#.## for you to empty your salvos on targets.
 
warchild said:
problem is, the "first" blue angels plane was the F9F-8 Cougar.. :).. Kinda a Panther with an attitude :)..
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I believe the Blues first flew the Panther.

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The Blue Angels began their transition to jets during the 1949 air show season and accepted brand new Grumman F9F-2 Panthers in Bethpage during July. Although they continued to perform with the F8F-1 Bearcats the team became acquainted with the F9F-2 Panther between demonstrations at NAS Corpus Christi, Texas. The Blues performed their last demonstration with the Bearcat at Madison, Wisconsin on 14 August and just six days later flew their first public display with Panther at Beaumont, Texas.
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Panthers in Formation​
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</TD><TD vAlign=top width="62%" colSpan=2 height=6>Although 1950 was the first full season with the Panther the outbreak of hostilities in Korea in June caused the team to be ordered back to the operational fleet on 20 July. By that December the Blue Angels had formed the nucleus of the newly established ‘Satan Kittens’ of VF-191. The squadron’s F9F-2Bs flew combat missions over the Korean peninsula from the deck of the USS Princeton (CV 37) and while deployed suffered the loss of its skipper (and former Blue Angel leader) LCDR Johnny Magda who was killed in a mission over Korea.
During October 1951 the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) directed that the Blue Angels should be reformed as a flight demonstration team. CDR Butch Voris was once again called upon to organize the team, which was officially reactivated on 25 October 1951. Once again based at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas, the team was equipped with the Grumman F9F-5 and flew its first display with that Panther variant in June 1952. The Panther remained assigned until December 1954, when another Grumman jet arrived.
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New F9F Panthers for the Blue Angels, Bethpage, 1952​
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Great in-sight thankd for sharing.

I guess our F9F-5 will most likely have the blue angels with the initial release.
 
Deano said:
Great in-sight thankd for sharing.

I guess our F9F-5 will most likely have the blue angels with the initial release.
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As stated above the Blues did in fact fly the dash 5's in 1952, (a great year for anyone who was lucky enough to have been there, I was!)
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I grew up about 5 miles away from Grumman's Bethpage factory. Saw lots of Grummans flying overhead as my house was near to one of the runway approaches to the field.
 
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