Milton Shupe
Staff Contributor

Hey - nice job on the old Bombay bomber!! Cool beans, Mate! Ed

Alcock and Brown did it in an ex-WWI Vickers Vimy bomber in 1919. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_flight_of_Alcock_and_Brown Lindbergh (as Stiz said) was the first to do it solo.

Hi Milton, I couldn't say it any better than Andy and all the others have done already. Thank you so much! :medals::medals::medals::medals: Cheers, Maarten :guinness:

Also regarding websites, you can also open any page and do a "Save Webpage As" to your computer. Just create a folder for each page you save.

I have downloaded the C162 tutorial folder and trying to decide the best way to package it. It is 135MB, 29 folders and 621 files. If you have MS Word, after downloading, you could change the hyperlinks to point at your folders, otherwise right now, the hyperlinks are useful to identify the folder for each exercise. Then opening that folder, you can simply open the index.html file to view the contents. A little cumbersome but not bad. Not sure if there is an easier way than editing the hyperlinks once the package is downloaded though.

...wait! what? again?.... be sad to see the place close it's doors Milton but yeah, cannot fault your logic :salute:

Nice pics Ferry, it was a nice day, and nice seeing you and Francois again:jump:

I will package and upload the tutorial here at SOH. Thank you Andy; great team we have had to deliver the goods. AFAIK Manuele is still working at the CANT Z

Thanks everyone. The website host has had its issues for the last year or so and in spite of lots of trouble tickets, they continue. We had several domains and now have discontinued all of them. I have all the download files and raw page data so if anything is needed, maybe I can make that available. The C-162 gmax tutorials will not be available so if anyone wants that, they better grab it. I will be making all gmax source available again here at SOH if anyone is interested. I have not done any design work since January/February; just needed a sabbatical.

Sir, Thanks for all that you have done - will miss your web site. Most helpful for me at times. Ed Moore

What will they think of next! :isadizzy::icon_lol: It would be a total waste of time on my axe though as I have a Floyd Rose tremolo bridge with a locking nut. My (fine) tuning is done on the bridge not the machine heads.

http://militracks.nl/militracks-tickets/ You even get a discount ;-) R.

Awaiting one set of textures for the S2T and some panel gauges for startup are needed. Not a panel guy and need some assistance there. Thinking about releasing the WIP versions and maybe someone can help out.

Take care man. R.

:bump::bump: Bumpetiebump E-tickets are on my disk ready to be printed tomorrow. I'm coming with my son, a friend and his son. We'll see each other there, I guess, and maybe some more people. Cheers, Rob

They are talking normally....for the era of the play. :isadizzy:

Tom, At top of thread, select Thread Tools/Show Printable Version. Copy paste to a word processor including the links. Of course you can open the links there or open and copy paste the pics into the WP replacing the links.

Well, it's not really new. It's a very simple eye sim candy only. It's based on an even older RC-sim and e.g. FDE isn't really good, stall behaviour weird, wind/turbulence simulation increadible bad, weight, time of day is always the same. Trees growing in rivers etc etc etc

Wish we could find those prices here in rural Canada! Although developing probably isn't too bad but printing cost an arm and a leg 20 years ago (compared to the UK then) which is one reason I cut back on my photography hobby. The film cameras have just sat in their bags since then, especially since I got my Olympus C-2040 digital 10 years ago. LOL...well I wasn't looking at that much. I have been pondering something like this for a while: http://www.henrys.com/61879-NIKON-D3100-W-18-55VR-And-55-300VR.aspx#.UZB60sqv9Fs It's probably entry level DSLR but it would meet my needs now and no doubt my almost complete set of Cokin filters could be put to artistic use again. :icon_lol:

Oh I don't know about the film bug biting again, it's far too expensive trying to get film and get it processed these days. That's one of the real bonuses of digital photography, you can shoot hundreds of shots in search of the perfect one and it doesn't cost you anything for each shot and then you can delete all the bad ones. With film you have to pay for all the bad shots as well as the one good one. I have considered getting a digital SLR for a long time now but don't have the money to spare, plus it would mean having to get new lenses too. I don't suppose my old camera bodies and lenses are worth much these days (either as a trade-in or on Ebay) as I bet there isn't much call for the old screw mount stuff.

I just spent an hour or so digging through boxes of old photos that haven't seen the light of day in years! :isadizzy: Here are a couple of B&W shots taken when I was experimenting with my first film SLR, a Pentax Spotmatic. They were probably taken in late 1979 as I bought my first SLR just after I got married for the first time which was in September 1979. The camera was fully manual (no auto anything) and it's only 'advanced feature' was an electronic, moving needle, light meter built into the view finder. The shots were taken with natural lighting that had a strong back-light component. IIRC the camera was tripod mounted, operated with a cable release and a fairly slow shutter speed.

Just learned that Don found a FDE designer for his Aeronca ;)

promoted to desktop background. Thanks.

All my 35mm SLRs were/are Pentax models (Spotmatic, Spotmatic II and K-1000) but I have got an Olympus Trip compact 35mm and that took very good photos for a 'point and shoot' compact. I always liked the quality of the 'glass' on Pentax lenses.

I used to work in the Arts Faculty of a College in the UK and we had a suite of B&W darkrooms and processing rooms and the work some of the students produced was simply stunning. B&W photos can have a beauty that colour photos sometimes miss.

That is one nice looking camera but like you I think I will have to wait until it becomes affordable. It reminds me a lot of the old film SLRs that I used to love and I still have a couple of my old ones here that haven't had a film through them in over a decade! Maybe one day I will make the move to a digital SLR as my Olympus C-2040 is getting very long in the tooth now but still takes good photos despite being 10+ years old.

Love Kittens and Cats; I can relate to this ... ever so.

*Running over the Horizon laughing like a maniac* i'm like Ian, paying off my bills.. but my thinking is "Sod it...." so i'm eyeing up a few :icon_lol: thanks for the H/U! :salute:

Regarding teeter-totter: It is important to get CoG correct so you have approx 20% of your weight on the tail wheel. To do this, ... If you have the aircraft set as I described above with the grid at 25% MAC and vertically set at the spinner (average pilot weight, fuel, and engine are about at the spinner level), and the cfg contact points are correct, and the engine location thrust is correct to the spinner, then thrust-line should pull aircraft forward without raising tail wheel unless you have brakes on. If wheels are too far rearward, or if engine location is incorrectly above CoG, then you will get teeter-totter.

Regarding static pitch and height, their purpose is to load the aircraft in the sim at proper ground height and angle. Go into to slew mode to see how it looks; turn off slew to see how it responds. MS recommends loading less than 4" off the ground to minimize the drop coming out of slew mode. It's okay to set it at ground level and tweak the angle until it load perfectly on the ground i.e. mains and tail gear equidistant from ground. Keep in mind when the aircraft first loads, the suspension is "hanging" and will compress when it comes out of load or slew mode. However once in the sim, if you enter slew mode on the ground, the suspension is compressed. Changing static angle has no effect of the flight model and ground characteristics other than at load/slew time.

It would help if you provide a screen shot of the aircraft in gmax with the Grid turned on (G). For simplicity, place the aircraft at centerline, the wings at 25% MAC (1/4 back from leading edge of wing), and vertically at the CoG which should be about at the prop spinner. See attachments. Your Exterior/interior nodes/pivots must be set to 0,0,0 aligned with world. In the cfg, you would have these statements to agree then with gmax location: reference_datum_position = 0, 0, 0 empty_weight_CG_position = -0.0, 0, 0 Once you have the aircraft positioned correctly, use your x,y,z coordinates to get your cfg parameters. Just select a vertex in the tire tread for gear, lights, prop spinner, etc and convert them to decimal feet for the cfg.

Very, very nice. Great work on the smoothing of the fuselage. Realy let's the tube frame com out. Time to get some animations in, it's a nice change from pushing pixels. Cheers, Rob

I just use the downloader built into Firefox. Never been a problem for me in terms of the number of downloads or resuming a partly downloaded file.

I agree; excellent way to get gmax, tutorials, Help, and the registry fix installed. No need to do the MSTS install unless you want to build trains. Highly recommend the tutorials to get introduced to the tools of gmax and the Help system. You will not remember them all but you will know generally that they are there and will do certain functions you need to know. Thereafter the Help system will guide you. Once done, then you are ready to learn the processes involved with building aircraft or scenery.

Ah yes CATIA, what a PITA that was! A couple of my previous employers were 'forced' into setting up several CATIA stations when working on contracts for one of the big three US automakers (I forget which one now). The companies I worked for built the machinery that either made or conveyed car parts and in order to get accurate part data to use as a reference when designing our machinery we had to have CATIA as that was the only format the customer was willing to supply the data in.

I see both pics and saw BG's first pic when you said you couldn't Lefty. I'm on Firefox too.

if i can shape a wing and a tailplane, cut a rudder and cap the holes in a day you lot'll have no trouble :)

I have been a Photoshop user since v1.0 way back in 1990 when it was only available for the Macintosh Plus (the Mac Toaster) and only worked on grey-scale images. Over the years I have used almost every version since then, either as an employee of a company that used Photoshop or with my own copy when I went freelance in 2002. I finally drew the line on upgrades with Photoshop 10/CS3 as I was no longer working (due to health issues) and could not afford the cost of upgrades every 18 months to two years. Even PS10/CS3, as old as it is, is still way more powerful than I ever need now so why pay for upgrades that provide no benefit. Adobe have always had expensive products (with the exception of the Acrobat Reader which they provide for free) and had a dominant market share due to the fact that they were the 'industry standard' applications for a number of products (Photoshop, Illustrator, PageMaker, InDesign, Dreamweaver, etc.) However, this new proposal just strikes me as wrong and I do not like the principles behind it at all. There is no way that I would pay a monthly fee just so that I could use a piece of software. Lockheed Martin do a similar thing if you are a developer for their P3D flight sim, you need to pay a monthly fee in order to access their 'tools'. I also dislike the idea of everything being in 'the cloud'. I am on a bandwidth limited internet account and having to connect to the Adobe 'Creative Cloud' every time I wanted to use one of their products would eat into my monthly bandwidth allocation. I will NOT be buying anything from Adobe again if this goes through.

SSTwo is fuelled by a mixutre of Hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB) and Nitrous Oxide, HTPB is a translucent liquid (and the Butadiene element is a monomer in the production of Synthetic rubber) and though highly viscous is tricky to ignite, needing temperatures of over 700 Degrees Kelvin...; tC=tK-273.5 (Simple Physics equation opposite of converting Celsius TO Kelvin, tK=tC+273.5) means to ignite it requires a pre-charge of about 426.85 Degrees Celsius to start the chain reaction going... that first flame is the RM2 Control System on the SS2, which is used to open the oxidisers and fires an ignition charge....

I fully agree :)

For FSX, I would try FSDeveloper, and scan youtube for any videos. Sorry that I can help you with the FSX side. :-/

I would say the benefit of starting in FS9 is the process is a bit simpler and the standards bar is less high. Once the basics are mastered and the developer more confident, the transition to FSX is not so hard, IMO. I would be happy to share any of my gmax source to anyone who would like to use them for reference or parts.

Thanks a lot! First of all for the beautiful repaint. Secondly for your link. Cheers, Maarten

Hi there, I can't find this program at Avsim.com using the search and extended search options. Do you know what the official name of the DXT fixer program is and perhaps also who the author is? Thanks. Cheers, Maarten