North American Formation

[Bomber_12th]

A bit of a challenge, but it was a lot of fun to get these three types together. Each are excellent for formation flying (at least the real world examples are said to be). Next time I'm going to arrange this over some better scenery - the flight was made out of Chino, using just the default FSX scenery. With the aircraft bobbing up and down and in and out a bit through the entire flight, what you see here is basically the few moments where everyone was in good position.

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[fsxar177]

Knew it was only a matter of time! Very nice!

By the way..couldn't help but notice 'Galloping Girtie'... :)

[stansdds]

Very nice! I did a pretty good amount of formation flying online with IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946. I found formation flying to require a tremendous amount of concentration with maintaining position, one hand on the stick, other hand on throttle, one eye on the leader, one eye on my other squad members, one eye scanning for bogies.

[Mach3DS]

Now you just need a classic Sabre and a Super Sabre! :cool: Great photos John! Love all three of these fine aircraft! I'll have to add the T-28 to my hangar at some point.

[kdfw]

don't forget the bronco, another naa classic.

86212

[Bomber_12th]

Thank you for the replies! Although I have the Aerosoft Bronco and love it, the one aircraft I felt was missing (and thought of including) was the B-25, and next time I do this that will be the lead plane.

Joseph, I'm glad you noticed the photo - I thought it was a really cool shot when I saw it. WASP, air show pilot, and racer, Betty Haas Pfister, and her P-39Q "Galloping Gertie" (which she paid a whopping $750 for, in the immediate post-WWII years). The aircraft still survives to this day, in the possession of the NASM, still very stock as it was - one of five different surviving P-39Q's (restored and un-restored) which are the main resources for the Warbirdsim P-39Q development.

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[Bomber_12th]

Sort of going off of what you mention, Rick, with adding an F-86 to the mix, check out this formation from this weekend's Chino air show... (I've seen a video shot from within the cockpit of an F-86 doing a formation demo with a P-51, and as fast as the P-51 goes, the gear horn in the F-86 was buzzing a good percentage of the time).

(Photo credit in the shot, taken from the Fence Check Forum)

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[Python231]

Very nice pics,
just built my computer and hoping to get FSX running and tweaked this weekend, I am so tempted to purchase the T-28