Skyhawk

[Firebird]

Mike,
You are a Gentleman, a Scholar and an Acrobat.

[mikeblaze]

Just in case nobody figured it out, I uploaded the Argie and Brazilian Skyhawks last evening to AVSIM after their mysterious outage. Steve, I agree with you on the previous post, but lunatic might be more accurate, lol.....

[Victory103]

Glad the outage wasn't just on my end. These look outstanding Mike, just wanted to verify nothing is wrong with the "Drill" family wagon:



All other FAA and FAB models/textures checked out in Martin's program and so far in FSX.

[mikeblaze]

Obviously a small fix may be in order.....

[mikeblaze]

This one kind of blew up in my face, but it is worth it. Expect these later this week......

[Firebird]

This is one of those days when you receive something that you never thought you would ever get.
Marvellous, bl**dy marvellous.

It's not that long ago when I thought that we would never see any Skyhawks let alone rarities like these two-seaters.

[dk1213]

Mike the contributions you have made for my sim have been invaluable. Thank you so much for the years of work you have put in. I remember talking with you years ago via email, and its incredibly how much quality stuff you have put out since then when all of us were new at this and MAIW was just doing stuff through WOAI .... who would have thought we would be this far with these games? Anyway, I am sure I can speak for most if not all of us when I say, thanks man! Just a phenomenal job man, really.

The skyhawks look great man, but that is to be expected with your work. Have you seen any of the new squadron of F-35's out at Luks AFB yet? I know they were supposed to get a permanent Air force unit or 2 there, and the Marine units are at Yuma so you have a good chance at catching a good view of them where you live. I still have yet to see one live so here is the next best thing:

Have a good night man!

Cheers

[mikeblaze]

Three separate model families (check the antenna groups, very distinct differences), 33 variants, 148 paints, will release in three parts..... I'm back, lol......

[mikeblaze]

Just uploaded three RSAF packages to AVSIM.... Don't anybody freak out at the words, "last in a line of projects...." in the documentation. I still have the version 2 Kuwaiti, Indonesian, and Malaysian, plus at least one service pack to fix some known issues with various foreign operator packs; and one last small surprise I am saving for the end. I was merely referring to this being the last in the long manifest of country users I wanted to address. Funny, this was the very first model I fiddled with when I started this project two years ago.

[Firebird]

The end is in sight then. Splendid job.

[AndyG43]

Mike, all I can say is ....astonishing work! Thank you.

[RKE]

Looking sharp as always, Mike

[mikeblaze]

Okay, everything now but one last service pack....

Here are the original three Skyhawk packages I did, re-done to version-2 standard. I have done all-new models and re-touched repaints for everything. Before the 2009 AVSIM hack, I had about 3,500 files at AVSIM, I wound up with about 2,000 after the smoke cleared. I have since re-uploaded most lost files in bulk packages, and I am now 98 uploads away from being the only person to break 3,000 uploads twice. I, of course, have plenty of material for 98 and many more packages, so stay tuned to MAIW and AVSIM. It's not all AI traffic, as I am doing a whole mess of 747-400BCF/BDSF freighters for the Overland/SMS FSX models, and somoe other stuff as well. If you like long-haul, nothing better than goverment contract cargo to fly around the MAIW world, lol.

[mikeblaze]

... and the Indonesians....

[Firebird]

Lovely, lovely job. You have done marvellously well. To capture an aircraft in so many different versions to that depth.

[SeanG]

From possibly* the biggest Skyhawk fan on the forum; Thank you Mike. To have the depth of Skyhawks you have made for us my cup, as they say, has truly runneth over

SeanG

* I say possibly... as I know there are a few Skyhawk fans lurking here-abouts