That maybe so however, the Antietam was the last of the Essex carriers, I was assigned to an F-8 squadon that sailed on two Essex class carriers; I've seen A-3 sky warriors (Whales) land and launch from the decks as well.
Not as large as a B52 but much bigger then a F-8 Crusader. Touche'
BTW, recommend you brush up on history, ever hear of the Doolittle raid. A much smaller carrier (Yorktown) was used.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid
Viel Erfolg heute!
Last edited by gray eagle; July 30th, 2020 at 04:26.
One other thing, GE. The catapult bridal visual is part of the aircraft model, not the carrier, and it is triggered when (I think) the entries that expat listed above are activated. So if the bridal is not modeled into the aircraft you will never see one for that aircraft. The aircraft will, however, still launch once it is set up properly for carrier ops.
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Steve
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GE, give this a (cat) shot . .
[launch_assistance]
launch_bar_pivot = 5.41,0.00,-2.0
launch_bar_lug = 11.583333,0.00,-7.50
Striker, listen, and you listen close: flying a plane is no different than riding a bicycle, just a lot harder to put baseball cards in the spokes.
My specs above are from the Shupe E-1B (similar geometry to the C-1) but you might try Cees's suggestion first.
This is from the Shupe C-1 FSX portover air.cfg:
[launch_assistance]
launch_bar_pivot=1.30, 0.00, -0.80
launch_bar_lug=1.30, 0.00, -3.80
Striker, listen, and you listen close: flying a plane is no different than riding a bicycle, just a lot harder to put baseball cards in the spokes.
I used your specs here and it works. Thanks
Notice the right stab touching the 5" gun barrel. This plane is not big like a B-52 either.
Some of the Antietam models have crew standing on the port cat track which leaves me only other option to use stbd cat and snuggle next to the 5" gun mount.
Is there a way where some of these people can either be relocated or removed, In real life, the the air boss would have a fit with those guys especially with dude on cat track (circled in red)
Other dudes maybe would of approached the plane after it stopped on cat track (troubleshooters or launch crew?)
I remember our C1A COD being launched that way off the bow cat when the stern was occupied and it couldn't do a deck run which was more common in 1968-70, and here is a slideshow:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDqNc80bO-A
Great slides Richard.
I like the S2F-1 Tracker - "Stoof with the little roof"
I remember when on a West Pac on the Hancock, there was an "air show" for the crew that
consisted of the A-4/F8's and they would do a fly by to our port side then the air boss would announce
a high speed fly-by which consisted of a C1-A and E-1 "Willy Fudd". The Fudd and C1-A, risking internal hemorrhaging to the engines,
were building up speed, as they made their pass along side of us, the Fudd climbed above the C-1A into the sky (like a missing man formation)
with it's engines belching white smoke and pop...pop... popping...What a rush.
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Speaking of the E-2,
"Millington Tower, XXXXX Speaking, can I help you sir?"
"Yes, this is YYYYYYY speaking. I was watching the planes taking off from your airport just now..."
"Yes ma'am?"
"You may not believe this, but there's a flying saucer stealing one of your planes! I saw it! Big circular thing, flying away with a plane!"
"Yes, ma'am. We'll look into this right away. Thank you. Good-bye..."
*click*
Actual tower recording from NAS Millington, Tn., when I was there the first time, back in 78-79. I understand it took the tower personnel several minutes to stop laughing after they disconnected. That recording made it's way around the base pretty quickly.
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The reason why the stab is touching the 5" is the cats are to long. They need to be shorter, they should not go past the forward elevator.
The stbd side was closer to the bow and port was offset back from the stbd cat. When 2 a/c were set to launch they would be staggered
from one another not side by side. Also the port cat needs to be straight not angled like it is. If you look at the colored pic included in the
zip you can see how it should look. Also notice that they have a small blast shield behind the a/c.
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The reason for these issues is the flight deck has been "cut" from my old USS Lexington model and then "grafted" onto the hull of Colin's model. (I can tell from the layout, polygon and texture anomalies which I never got round to fixing which has resulted in Klaus' variant having textures which are not really required but are still embedded in the deck)
As a result of this merge of two different models (and hull shapes) nothing is going to 100% align and the deck layout (an SCB-127) isn't going to match. A better option would've been to leave the original deck by Michael and just add the angled deck extension. That way the catapults and deck layout would've aligned and more closely matched Antietam's austere fit.
That's just how I would've tackled it as well as adding the correct "pop up" blast deflectors - but hay...at the end of the day you guys have got the ship you were looking for!
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Gary
Some of you are proficient with Model Converter X (I'm not). There are catapult start points in the .mdl file which maybe could be moved forward but it seems like a lot of monkey-motion for a minor detail.
Will do that in a few days.... just no big problem.... but it means also to compile all the models for FSX and P3D another time. The textures also had to be changed.
Just now i`m playing around with CIMOGT`s USS Forrestal
You will find more information on this model in P3D section.
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Richard ... your BB-34 USS NewYork is ready too. Must find a way to send it back to your hands. Hope that is ok for you.
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Klaus
First one of the updated version. Much shorter catapult and crewman out of the way.
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