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Posted: 11 May 2007, 19:14
by mikewmac
Psuls wrote:Don't forget the little winglets extending at high speed :)
Psuls,

Funny that you should mention that! :lol: :lol:

Mike

Posted: 11 May 2007, 19:18
by nickblack423
Psuls wrote:Don't forget the little winglets extending at high speed :)
Worry ye not guys.

Thanks very much for that info Mike. That helps alot.

Nick

Posted: 11 May 2007, 19:22
by Firebird
Mike,

I know that the A definitely had the glove vanes extend, but I seem to recall reading that A+ and D had them welded shut and this was retrofitted to the A. Can you tell me whether that was indeed the case or whether my mind had gone walkabout?

Posted: 11 May 2007, 19:23
by mikewmac
nickblack423 wrote:
Psuls wrote:Don't forget the little winglets extending at high speed :)
Worry ye not guys.

Nick
What? Me worry? :shock:

Unfortunately I don't think the NBAI F-14D's will ever reach mach 1.4, but you might want to consider a ground attack version. :lol:

Mike

Posted: 11 May 2007, 19:45
by mikewmac
Firebird wrote:Mike,

I know that the A definitely had the glove vanes extend, but I seem to recall reading that A+ and D had them welded shut and this was retrofitted to the A. Can you tell me whether that was indeed the case or whether my mind had gone walkabout?
Steve,

I doubt that that was done unless some more effective means of shifting the center of lift back forward toward the center of gravity in supersonic flight was developed and substituted for the glove veins.

Mike

Posted: 11 May 2007, 19:50
by Firebird
Thanks, Mike.

It maybe that due to a lack of alcohol some blood got through to the brain and I started hallucinating. Its seems that I have some weird dreams sometimes :roll: .

Posted: 11 May 2007, 23:52
by nickblack423
OK, sucess with the textures. Well I think so anyway. Judge for yourself. Still some work to do but we're nearly there.

Image

Nick

Posted: 12 May 2007, 01:23
by reconmercs
Felix is back 8)

Posted: 12 May 2007, 07:06
by VulcanDriver
What a beauty!!!

John

Posted: 12 May 2007, 14:42
by jgibson_sniper
has anyone started Flightplans and AFCAD's yet?

Posted: 12 May 2007, 16:38
by reconmercs
jgibson_sniper wrote:has anyone started Flightplans and AFCAD's yet?
nope, not that I know of

Posted: 13 May 2007, 06:00
by benclark
Talking about Glove Vanes, the D model does indeed not have them - http://www.anft.net/f-14/f14-detail-glovevane.htm - if you want to know anything about the F-14 that website has everything you could ever want to know, here's a link to the homepage - http://www.anft.net/f-14/index.htm

Posted: 13 May 2007, 10:11
by mikewmac
benclark wrote:Talking about Glove Vanes, the D model does indeed not have them - http://www.anft.net/f-14/f14-detail-glovevane.htm - if you want to know anything about the F-14 that website has everything you could ever want to know, here's a link to the homepage - http://www.anft.net/f-14/index.htm
Ben,

Great find! Thanks.

Mike

Posted: 13 May 2007, 12:57
by mikewmac
Firebird wrote:Thanks, Mike.

It maybe that due to a lack of alcohol some blood got through to the brain and I started hallucinating. Its seems that I have some weird dreams sometimes :roll: .
Steve,

You were correct about the absence of glove vanes on the F-14D, so you were more effective at keeping the alcohol content up in your blood after all. :lol:

Dave Waffler, who worked on F-14's while in both the VF-2 Bounty Hunters and VF-1 Wolfpack just verified for me that the F-14D did not have glove vanes and had a slight bulge added in that area to attain a similar aerodynamic effect at supersonic speeds.

"Hi Mike,

You are right, the glove vanes were removed in the 'D' model, and were replaced with a slight bulge. This helped the area where the glove vane was, and performed the same actions of stability for the Tomcat when the plane was flying at Mach 1 or higher."


Mike

Posted: 13 May 2007, 19:40
by Firebird
mikewmac wrote: Steve,

You were corerct about the absence of glove vanes on the F-14D, so you were more effective at keeping the alcohol content up in your blood after all. :lol:
Excellent, free to crack another one then :smt030

Posted: 13 May 2007, 22:09
by mikewmac
Firebird wrote:
mikewmac wrote: Steve,

You were corerct about the absence of glove vanes on the F-14D, so you were more effective at keeping the alcohol content up in your blood after all. :lol:
Excellent, free to crack another one then :smt030
Steve,

So are you going to share some of that fine Englsih ale or what? :lol: :lol:

Mike

Posted: 14 May 2007, 00:06
by Dave Waffler
On the question of AFCAD's, I made up one for Miramar, back in the day, with the original parking spots for each of the squadrons, including Topgun, the reserve aggressor outfit (VFC-13), the Fleet Replacment squadron (VF-124), the reserve airwing (VF-301, VF-302, VAW-88) and the E-2 squadrons.

I have done Oceana as well, but it's for the F-18's. But, it wouldn't take all that long to fix that for the F-14s

Also, I have done up Atsugi, Japan, were the forward deployed F-14's were (VF-154, VF-21).

Posted: 14 May 2007, 11:11
by mikewmac
Dave Waffler wrote:On the question of AFCAD's, I made up one for Miramar, back in the day, with the original parking spots for each of the squadrons, including Topgun, the reserve aggressor outfit (VFC-13), the Fleet Replacment squadron (VF-124), the reserve airwing (VF-301, VF-302, VAW-88) and the E-2 squadrons.

I have done Oceana as well, but it's for the F-18's. But, it wouldn't take all that long to fix that for the F-14s

Also, I have done up Atsugi, Japan, were the forward deployed F-14's were (VF-154, VF-21).
Dave,

A retro Miramar sounds like a fun project to me. With Nick's movie making skills we could probably do a remake of the TopGun movie. :D

Mike

Posted: 14 May 2007, 11:27
by nickblack423
Don't tempt me. :lol:

Actually Ive been doing most of my model testing for this from Miramar. And the USS Enterprise from Alphasim.

Also got a great looking repaint for Iran done last night I'll try and get a screenshot for you soon.

Nick

Posted: 14 May 2007, 12:27
by BadPvtDan
We need a repaint for the Mig-28's. Were those F-5's? The T-38 will work methinks :)