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Wings

Flying wings! The N9M is one of my fav Piglet models. Bill Lyon's raspy Piper Apache sounds seem to mimic the Franklin engines fairly well. The SU Gotha 229 is a real gem too.
 
Very nice pics! :ernae:
The Gotha brings back some very fond memories of playing 'Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe' with my brother waaay back in the day. We would call it the 'Go-mobile' because that's what it did--it would GO!
 
It's not Ito's. It's the old FS2k2 AlphaSim XB-35 that seems to work fine in FS9. As for a panel, I just plugged a likely suspect in there and tweaked it a bit.
 
What happened to the runways in the first pic, Willy?

The N-9 is a nice aircraft, however my favourite flying wing is slightly bigger and somewhat more expensive... :d
 
Ferry_vO said:
What happened to the runways in the first pic, Willy?
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That's the old CFC Rochford/Canelo's Cantina scenery for CFS 1 that I've been playing with in FS9 for years. It's located near Southend on Sea (EGMC). The only problem it has after all my tweaking is the original CFS runways and taxiways want to fade in and out with altitude. You won't see them on the ground or at a higher altitude. I use it just like we did in CFS as the home base for Merc Air and also for test flights. It was originally done by Ralf Triebel for the Combat Flight Center crowd as he was tired of Merc Air stealing avgas at the Uhu bases.


I did a bunch of flying Put-Put's YB-49 around last night. I think I'm going to put in some panel work for it as I'm starting to really like it.
 
Willy said:
It's not Ito's. It's the old FS2k2 AlphaSim XB-35 that seems to work fine in FS9. As for a panel, I just plugged a likely suspect in there and tweaked it a bit.
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Is it available anywhere? It's not on their storefront and it's not listed on their freeware list.
 
Still one of my favorite FS9 screenshots that I have taken, simply switched to B&W...

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Bomber_12th said:
Still one of my favorite FS9 screenshots that I have taken, simply switched to B&W...

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DANG!!!!

Tripple Dang!

That is one realistic looking screenshot John, lolol.. I was checking out the old terrain below, thinking about the baby boom after WWII, the new highways and all, and then I read that its a Sim shot, lololol...

Nice..



Bill
 
Jack Northrop and the Horton brothers were well a head of their time when they desinged their flying wings. They were radical in the 1940's and 1950's. The USAF never really put itself behind the YB-35 and later the YB-49. They considered them to much of a departure.

But in the end Jack Northrop had the last laugh when the B-2 became the worlds first operational flying wing bomber.

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YB-35

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YB-49
 
Cowboy1968 said:
But in the end Jack Northrop had the last laugh when the B-2 became the worlds first operational flying wing bomber.
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Especially as the B-2's wing was purposely designed to be the exact same length as that of Jack Northrop's original YB-49/YB-53 bombers. It would have been really cool to have saved at least one of the original YB-53's, for the sake of seeing one side-by-side with a B-2 of the modern era.

Bill, I'm glad you like the shot! The terrain below is Megascenery Southern California over the Chino area, where the Planes of Fame Museum's N-9M is based. It certainly wouldn't have had the same effect, if left in color.
 
Have any of you seen the file War of the Worlds from the 1950's? Or lovely B-49 is used to drop the Atomic Bomb on the aliens' machine...............I love that scene from the movie.
 
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