Angle Deck Essex

**navychief8** · February 11th, 2009, 18:23

Calling in a request to all the amazing aircraft and ship developers out there. Is there anyone willing to make angle deck Essex for FSX that would be able to be used with the AIcarrier2 program. What a beautiful home for A-4s, F-4s,F-8s, C-1s, and SH-3s. This is a ship that is long over due and deserves a place in FSX Naval Aviation. So lets stir up some interest and maybe one of these guys will surprise us. :woot::woot::woot:

ATC(AW/SW) Schaefer, USN

***Navy Chief*** · February 11th, 2009, 18:34

Originally Posted by navychief8

Calling in a request to all the amazing aircraft and ship developers out there. Is there anyone willing to make angle deck Essex for FSX that would be able to be used with the AIcarrier2 program. What a beautiful home for A-4s, F-4s,F-8s, C-1s, and SH-3s. This is a ship that is long over due and deserves a place in FSX Naval Aviation. So lets stir up some interest and maybe one of these guys will surprise us. :woot::woot::woot:

ATC(AW/SW) Schaefer, USN

Well ahoy there, shipmate!!

I echo your interest!

NC (AMEC(AW), ret)

**langshan** · February 11th, 2009, 18:42

This is becoming a wee bit of the CPO mess here. AHOY!! Nice suggestion. =S=

Retired RMCM(ITCM)
1974-2004.

***PRB*** · February 11th, 2009, 18:48

Yeah, where's Willy? Lets go get some coffee!

NC8, I too would welcome an "SCB-27" Essex! Helldiver, however, will not be impressed!

ATC(AW) 1980 - 1994

***BOOM*** · February 11th, 2009, 18:50

Do you mean.........something like this???????????????

**navychief8** · February 11th, 2009, 19:52

I think that flight sim not only provides great entertainment, but it is also a great way to preserve the history that these great Ships and Aircraft wrote. I am involved in a project to bring the USS Macon ZRS-5 to FSX and bring a forgotten era of Naval Aviation back to life. This game is a great way to show young kids the history of aviation in some other form than looking at a picture in a book. Well I will get off my soapbox now and get back to flying.

***PutPut*** · February 11th, 2009, 21:32

Originally Posted by navychief8

I think that flight sim not only provides great entertainment, but it is also a great way to preserve the history that these great Ships and Aircraft wrote. I am involved in a project to bring the USS Macon ZRS-5 to FSX and bring a forgotten era of Naval Aviation back to life. This game is a great way to show young kids the history of aviation in some other form than looking at a picture in a book. Well I will get off my soapbox now and get back to flying.

Do you have a status report on the Macon? Is this the same as the Akron project of a few months ago. I ask because I recently released a model of the F9C Sparrowhawk which I have successfully docked with a simple static airship the size of the Akron. It appears it "might" be possible to dock with an AI version which I haven't completely tested yet.

Paul

**crashaz** · February 11th, 2009, 22:11

Paul you are amazing! Your releases are nonstop! :woot:
I'm jealous!

Some of us have various completion stages of the angle deck carriers. I have two sitting in the shipyard.

Coral Sea
and
- enter your favorite SCB-27 here -

Real life is just kicking me in the pants right now and I apologize for that... with the economy the way it is I make sure I stay busy.. I have employees to feed.

**michael davies** · February 12th, 2009, 03:45

Both Crashaz and myself are trying to pick off the Essex models, though there terribly complex so take a little time and real life has its pressures right now.

large picture of attached thumb is here........... http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mickoo/...20modified.jpg .........its a Max8 render and WIP.

Kindest

Michael

***Helldiver*** · February 12th, 2009, 04:31

Since I was only a AMM3/C, I would like to offer up my opinion.
Why anyone that would take a sleek, beautiful Essex Class Carrier and turn into one of these lop-sided, ungainly looking, angled deck abortions is a mystery to me.
Just a look at Mike Davies screen shot would tell you that. Leave perfection alone. God, you'd put a mustache on the Mona Lisa!
Boom, I don't know where you got that picture but I been telling everyone that a Carrier is a planing hull, As such it goes at flank speed with the wind behind it and then turns 180 degrees to head into the wind. When it does. it heels way over and you make sure that the planes are well guyed down. It's hard to stay up right and make sure you don't fall off. One of the fun things about being on a Carrier. That and dodging props.

***sparouty*** · February 12th, 2009, 09:46

Hello!
Helldiver your post remind me a discussion I had with a friend of mine who had land Corsair on wooden deck few years before...
I wondered which version of L'Arromanches (ex HMS Colosus) I should build.
In her last years, Arromanches was added a small angle deck for carrier landing qualifications.

The conclusion we met was that, for some people, angle deck and island are nicely balancing each other, and for others, the hull line, or silhouette, must not be disrupted by this ugly "angle"...

The very last conclusion was : I have to build both

And by the way Good luck Michael and Crashaz!!
Sylvain

***Bjoern*** · February 12th, 2009, 10:16

Originally Posted by navychief8

What a beautiful home for A-4s, F-4s,F-8s, C-1s, and SH-3s.

Didn't F-4s only appear on Forrestals (and larger), because they were too big and heavy for the older carriers?

***expat*** · February 12th, 2009, 11:14

Michael,

That is the most awesome looking ship model I have ever seen for any version of FS.

Will be worth the wait!

Expat

***Snuffy*** · February 12th, 2009, 11:21

Originally Posted by BOOM

Do you mean.........something like this???????????????

I get it !!!

**fliger747** · February 12th, 2009, 11:39

Yup, the Independence CVL's were rollers! Just now reading a book about the Bunker Hill which I had a chance to go aboard when she was still in the mothball fleet in the mids 60's. Wasn't too much longer before she was towed away for razorblades.

Cheers: T.