F-106 VC Rebuild

[falcon409]

You're both wrong...I do my research guys. I never paint fiction when its going in a payware package. . . .

. . .and I honestly know nothing about 106's. My note was just that when I looked at the image Mike posted and I looked at the tail number. . .I realized that the repaint also had a "17" but the tail number was different. I "assumed" that the 17 was supposed to be part of the tail number and so In my cluttered mind figured something was amiss. Considering how flammable a lot of "criticisms" can get in the forums a lot of times, on a scale of 1-10, that was probably a 2. Sorry for questioning your work.

[hae5904]

Thanks Ed for your tremendous job!

Time for me to upload my F-106 repaints to here at SOH........



Just some pictures...I will make it a total file of all my repaints (FS9 & FSX) containing the following squadrons:
27 / 83 / 84 / 95 / 318 / 329 / 456 & 539 FIS

Cheers,
Hank

[fsafranek]

. . .and I honestly know nothing about 106's. My note was just that when I looked at the image Mike posted and I looked at the tail number. . .I realized that the repaint also had a "17" but the tail number was different. I "assumed" that the 17 was supposed to be part of the tail number and so In my cluttered mind figured something was amiss. Considering how flammable a lot of "criticisms" can get in the forums a lot of times, on a scale of 1-10, that was probably a 2. Sorry for questioning your work.

Sorry for freaking out a bit. After all these years the skin is just as thin.

Do appreciate your repainting the cockpit textures. Never did like the originals taken from a flight manual.

[falcon409]

Nice work Hank. I certainly understand the move to "low-vis" paint jobs on airplanes these days and all the necessary camo schemes, but you gotta admit. . .the airplanes from the 50's, 60's and 70's really looked awesome with all the bright colored markings and full color Squadron logos.

[StormILM]

After reviewing my update and running some tests, I realized something was off regarding engine power/climb/mach@altitude performance. The number I had listed in the [TurbineEngineData} section had the static _thrust set at 16100.000(which that simulated thrust would be reached in AB/Max Throttle without Shift+F4). At that setting, I was barely able to reach Mach 1.1/1.2. The real PW J75-17 had 24500lbf thrust. I returned to that level of thrust in the CFG and it seemed too powerful so I dialed it down to 20500. At that setting the takeoff roll + rate of climb (29,000fpm) seems about correct as well as being able to reach the max mach number at altitude under optimum weights and conditions. Give it a try and see if it's in the ballpark and if not, just make minor adjustments to suite user specs.

[lazarus]

I am assembling all the bits to try out, it looks great! The -106 model is a favorite, as impressive as the aircraft was in the world! A real rocket ship.

[fsafranek]

Thanks Ed for your tremendous job!

Time for me to upload my F-106 repaints to here at SOH........



Just some pictures...I will make it a total file of all my repaints (FS9 & FSX) containing the following squadrons:
27 / 83 / 84 / 95 / 318 / 329 / 456 & 539 FIS

Cheers,
Hank

Maybe I missed it, life has been a little hectic lately. Were these repaints ever uploaded?

[hae5904]

Frank, they were uploaded to AVSIM, before their major crash. During the same timeframe I painted the buzz-number for your 319 FIS F-106B !

And as falcon redid the VC, I though it would be better to re-upload the repaints, though this time to SOH.
Due to time I haven't found them all.......they are scattered around among some 4 Tb of data.


Cheers,
Hank