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Re: Mother Russia

Posted: 11 Feb 2014, 15:24
by HorusJ
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Ohhhh wow!!! You're killing me Mike with all the Russian birds. Please don't stop! :lol:

Re: Mother Russia

Posted: 11 Feb 2014, 15:34
by RKE
Thanks for the heads up Mike. If you want the list of bort numbers I'm using and their associated RF- registrations & names (where they exist, anyway), just let me know :)

Re: Mother Russia

Posted: 11 Feb 2014, 16:19
by Firebird
It will nice to see the Indian Navy ones floating around the Indian Ocean as well. Very cool.

Re: Mother Russia

Posted: 11 Feb 2014, 16:22
by RKE
Yeah, a terrible shame they'll be phased out and replaced with the "boring" P-8's.

Re: Mother Russia

Posted: 11 Feb 2014, 19:26
by jimrodger
Brings back some lovely memories from a long time ago
Bear FIII.jpg
Bear FIII BB.jpg
Jim

Re: Mother Russia

Posted: 13 Feb 2014, 06:30
by mikeblaze
Almost ready for multi-LOD models.......

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Re: Mother Russia

Posted: 13 Feb 2014, 08:00
by TheFoufure
Great !!!

I'hope some specialists in AI Trafic can make some FP with these aircraft flying longside Norway etc...and Scotland.

Re: Mother Russia

Posted: 13 Feb 2014, 10:34
by RKE
TheFoufure wrote:Great !!!

I'hope some specialists in AI Trafic can make some FP with these aircraft flying longside Norway etc...and Scotland.
Already done those, with a waypoint quite deep into the North Sea :D

Re: Mother Russia

Posted: 13 Feb 2014, 14:30
by mikeblaze
Just remember, please, post your flightplans to AVSIM and/or Flightsim, as a lot of people who like these aircraft don't come to this forum. Also, posting this particular set of flightplans to AVSIM.rus would also be a very kind gesture; as I post all of my Russian creations there now.

Thanks.

:smt004

Re: Mother Russia

Posted: 13 Feb 2014, 15:03
by shaggy22
The SU24 fp's will go up (on Avsim & Avsim.rus) pretty soon, just applying the finishing touches to them.

Re: Mother Russia

Posted: 13 Feb 2014, 15:22
by RKE
mikeblaze wrote:Just remember, please, post your flightplans to AVSIM and/or Flightsim, as a lot of people who like these aircraft don't come to this forum. Also, posting this particular set of flightplans to AVSIM.rus would also be a very kind gesture; as I post all of my Russian creations there now.

Thanks.

:smt004
I plan to put the whole lot into a Long Range Aviation Command package, with Bear, Blackjack & Backfire flightplans, waypoints & VCPmods.

.. and a readme apologising for the shoddy quality of all of it :lol:

Re: Mother Russia

Posted: 13 Feb 2014, 15:30
by Fastair
Now that sounds awesome !!!

Thank you all so much for your hard work

Paul

Re: Mother Russia

Posted: 13 Feb 2014, 16:17
by mikeblaze
Not sure if I mentioned it on this thread, I did exchange some email with Sergey Bunevich, and he is planning to finish the Tu-160 at some point, hopefully this renewed interest in long range Russian aviation from the West will encourage him to go a little faster, lol.

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Re: Mother Russia

Posted: 13 Feb 2014, 20:28
by Garysb
RKE wrote:
mikeblaze wrote:Just remember, please, post your flightplans to AVSIM and/or Flightsim, as a lot of people who like these aircraft don't come to this forum. Also, posting this particular set of flightplans to AVSIM.rus would also be a very kind gesture; as I post all of my Russian creations there now.

Thanks.

:smt004
I plan to put the whole lot into a Long Range Aviation Command package, with Bear, Blackjack & Backfire flightplans, waypoints & VCPmods.

.. and a readme apologising for the shoddy quality of all of it :lol:

I should think so totally unacceptable :D :D :D :D :D :D :D


Gary

Re: Mother Russia

Posted: 13 Feb 2014, 21:08
by TheFoufure
RKE wrote:
TheFoufure wrote:Great !!!

I'hope some specialists in AI Trafic can make some FP with these aircraft flying longside Norway etc...and Scotland.
Already done those, with a waypoint quite deep into the North Sea :D
Already done ? And where can I find them please ? Thanks a lot.

Re: Mother Russia

Posted: 13 Feb 2014, 21:59
by RKE
TheFoufure wrote:
RKE wrote:
TheFoufure wrote:Great !!!

I'hope some specialists in AI Trafic can make some FP with these aircraft flying longside Norway etc...and Scotland.
Already done those, with a waypoint quite deep into the North Sea :D
Already done ? And where can I find them please ? Thanks a lot.
Sitting on my harddrive for the time being :wink:

As I said above, I'll release the whole lot in one go. Just putting the finishing touches on the Shaikovka Backfires and deciding if the Baltic Sea run will consist of a 2 or 3-ship flight :P

Re: Mother Russia

Posted: 14 Feb 2014, 00:36
by mikeblaze
For the retro-heads, this is my intended model plan for this aircraft...... about 3/4 are done in alpha single-LOD form, and all are distinctively different physical models.

Tu-95M Bear-A, original production bomber, no refuel probe
Tu-95K Bear-B, the original missile carrier, carries one KSR-2/AS-5 Kelt (big-ass anti-shipping missile)
Tu-95KD Bear-B, a -95K with inflight refuel boom
Tu-95K-22 Bear-C, has a modified barb tail replacing the tail gun, carries two KSR-5/AS-6 Kingfish
Tu-95MR Bear-E, first-generation long-range recce variant, sometimes mis-named the -95MP (Cyrillic P is Roman R); basically a Tu-95M with a refuel probe
Tu-95RTs Bear-D, the better-known maritime recce variant, based off of the Tu-142
Tu-95MS Bear-H, the current version, carrying the Kh-55/AS-15 Kent cruise missile internally in a rotary launcher (Tomahawk'ski)
Tu-95V Bear-A, carrying the Tsar Bomba, the 100MT big cahuna, just throwing this in 'cause I can.

Tu-142 Bear-F, the original maritime patrol/ASW aircraft. The Tu-142 is a whopping 12 inches longer than the Tu-95, so the physical AI fuselage is the same for both, I'm not losing sleep over it.
Tu-142M Bear-F, follow-on version
Tu-142MZ Bear-F, the current version
Tu-142M3 Bear-J, a dedicated ABCCC (airborne command/control/communication) aircraft used to talk to submarines. This has some unique features I want to model, such as a extendable towed-array ESM antenna which operates like a refuel probe, so I am researching the XML help on this forum to enable that.

Tu-114 civilian airliner variant, just a different fuselage, for AI it uses the same wing/gear/engine setup
Tu-126 AEW aircraft, based upon the Tu-114 fuselage

Once I have gotten the basic model done, it's not as hard as it sound, really.

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Re: Mother Russia

Posted: 14 Feb 2014, 02:31
by HorusJ
Impressive list Mike,VERY impressive! :-D

Re: Mother Russia

Posted: 14 Feb 2014, 14:28
by mikeblaze
Here's the other "half" of the project....... The Tu-114 airliner and Tu-126 AEW aircraft, just a fuselage change, really, plus some adjustment on the FDE for center-of-gravity and such.

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Re: Mother Russia

Posted: 14 Feb 2014, 18:00
by Firebird
Ahhh, a rolling stone gathers no .... something or other :lol: .