Awesome Freeware F-86E/F Sabre!
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Awesome Freeware F-86E/F Sabre!
From a new group called Section F8.
I'm really amazed that this is freeware
Droppable fuel tanks
Photoreal textures inside and out
Removable stick in Virtual Cockpit
Optional full IFR capable instrumentation
Fully functional 2D panel and Virtual Cockpit
Extensive check list and aircraft status windows
Fully animated and authentic looking pilot figure
Dynamic engine damage and flame-out simulation
Authentic start-up procedure including power-cart
Most switches and handles work in 2D panel and VC
Working guns with muzzle flash and tracer bullets effects
Extended soundsuite including brake and tire-scrub sounds
Full working and authentic looking radio stack in 2D panel and VC
Aircraft roll rate and agility depending on speed and altitude of the aircraft
Automatic wing slat operation depending on speed and attitude of the aircraft
Working ( or not working, depending on the skill of the pilot ) hydraulics system
Special FX suite including, heat shimmer fx, 3 stage exhaust flame fx, and typical J-47 smoke trail
Parked mode with wheel chocks, fluttering RBF flags, in- and outlet covers, pilot flightgear on wing
@ AVSIM
http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?Ca ... LID=129389
I'm really amazed that this is freeware
Droppable fuel tanks
Photoreal textures inside and out
Removable stick in Virtual Cockpit
Optional full IFR capable instrumentation
Fully functional 2D panel and Virtual Cockpit
Extensive check list and aircraft status windows
Fully animated and authentic looking pilot figure
Dynamic engine damage and flame-out simulation
Authentic start-up procedure including power-cart
Most switches and handles work in 2D panel and VC
Working guns with muzzle flash and tracer bullets effects
Extended soundsuite including brake and tire-scrub sounds
Full working and authentic looking radio stack in 2D panel and VC
Aircraft roll rate and agility depending on speed and altitude of the aircraft
Automatic wing slat operation depending on speed and attitude of the aircraft
Working ( or not working, depending on the skill of the pilot ) hydraulics system
Special FX suite including, heat shimmer fx, 3 stage exhaust flame fx, and typical J-47 smoke trail
Parked mode with wheel chocks, fluttering RBF flags, in- and outlet covers, pilot flightgear on wing
@ AVSIM
http://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?Ca ... LID=129389
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- Makadocias
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AMAZING!!!
A MUST HAVE!!!
A MUST HAVE!!!
Check out my pic's at
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.s ... entry=true
My video's at
http://www.youtube.com/user/Makadocias/videos
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My video's at
http://www.youtube.com/user/Makadocias/videos
Quick, get it before it goes payware........
EDIT: WOW!! Over 5,500 downloads in the first 24 hours!!
EDIT: WOW AGAIN!! This thing is freakin' awesome!! Gotta be one of the best freeware planes ever released!
I feel bad for anyone that paid for the AlphaSim verison. No way it even comes close to this one.
EDIT: WOW!! Over 5,500 downloads in the first 24 hours!!
EDIT: WOW AGAIN!! This thing is freakin' awesome!! Gotta be one of the best freeware planes ever released!
I feel bad for anyone that paid for the AlphaSim verison. No way it even comes close to this one.
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If anyone converts the canopy to FSX-compliant, please let me know.
My Dad flew one of these in Korea and he sat down and tried it from the Locked Spot view. He said the responsiveness - or lack thereof - of the throttle on takeoff roll was pretty much right on and he liked the in-air manueverability. Of course, his memory is a bit dated as is he, but.... he smiled while he flew this, fwiw.
My Dad flew one of these in Korea and he sat down and tried it from the Locked Spot view. He said the responsiveness - or lack thereof - of the throttle on takeoff roll was pretty much right on and he liked the in-air manueverability. Of course, his memory is a bit dated as is he, but.... he smiled while he flew this, fwiw.
Ford I read somewhere else that you have to go into the canopy texture file and flip the alpha channel.
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Just had to post these shots of this beauty. I used the recorder.
On the first shot I did use the auto adjust color feature to give it a liitle more depth.
Here is the original shot.
Paul
On the first shot I did use the auto adjust color feature to give it a liitle more depth.
Here is the original shot.
Paul
Last edited by Paul on 04 Nov 2008, 06:39, edited 1 time in total.
Great shots Paul. I really like watching the slats retract by themselves on that thing. Hard to believe that the Germans thought of that concept and were using on the Me-109 in the War.
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MIKE JG wrote:Hard to believe that the Germans thought of that concept and were using on the Me-109 in the War.
Hi Mike
Actually it was the British company Handley Page who invented the slats but Messerschmitt that implemented it on the 108 and then the 109
http://www.kiwiaircraftimages.com/bf108.html
Cheers
John
John
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"That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done. The A-bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives." - Admiral William Leahy
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Very nice!! Good find!!
On the upper left of the main panel there is a button, "master arms" or something like that. Push that and you'll hear a constant buzzer and then just pull the trigger on your joystick (or the "." or whatever else you use for brakes) and you'll hear the "bang bang bang" and see the muzzle flash/smokeThanks Mike, She is one awesome model to fly. Hard to believe it freeware. Has anyone figured out how to get the guns to work. I couldn't find it in the read me file. I downloaded the manual from their web site, but the file was corrupt.
Paul
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Thanks John, didn't know that aspect of it, learn something new every day.
I feel bad for anyone that dropped the coin on the AlphaSim version. It's exterior model has all the FSX bells and whistles but the rest of their model doesn't even begin to compare to this one.
These guys have set the bar so high with this, even the payware companies are probably P.O.'d at them for making it freeware.
I feel bad for anyone that dropped the coin on the AlphaSim version. It's exterior model has all the FSX bells and whistles but the rest of their model doesn't even begin to compare to this one.
These guys have set the bar so high with this, even the payware companies are probably P.O.'d at them for making it freeware.
-Mike G.
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When I was about 10 yo I had a cutaway drawing of the Me-109 and the Spitfire on my bedroom wall (I later discovered better things to pin on my wall when I was in my early teens!) and I was intrigued why a British company was 'supplying' the Germans with slats. Of course they were named after the company who patented them, not supplied them!MIKE JG wrote:Thanks John, didn't know that aspect of it, learn something new every day.
John
John
"That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done. The A-bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives." - Admiral William Leahy
"That is the biggest fool thing we have ever done. The A-bomb will never go off, and I speak as an expert in explosives." - Admiral William Leahy