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Ach.... my own former Queen's airport...should i feel ashamed ?.... nah, not really... it's her grandson that's King now anyway. Like his grandfather he *does* have a pilot's licence but i believe his precious Fokker70 might be grounded due to government cut back. I don't know about the Sunset Bar and Grill, Maho Beach and other side of the fence behind Rwy 9 but i *did* know the airport is called Princess Juliana (because around that time she handed over her crown to her daughter Beatrix) on the island of Sint Maarten part of the Dutch Antilles.
Thanks Tom.
No, i saw it first in "Cowboys and Aliens" ! With good old Harrison Ford and Daniel Graig. Kind of a pretty silly movie. (these big insect things stopped in the air and pulled people on board on a string to eat....how silly is that !? ...btw, seen that before too... )
Yes, i know it's a different breed.This mechsect is from a new 'Dune',right ? I saw 'Dune' many many years ago. I believe with a guy called 'Sting' ?.... No insect like creatures in that one, more like big earth wurms or something. I do like the design of that thing (but i'm not sure about the flight dynamics.. i mean, rotor blades going up and down ??.... Has been tried before. We all know how that went: https://youtu.be/Mm-cIUEzKr4?si=df0FTgWjMVGpv4xq LOL)
What is this anyway ? A game ? A movie ? A game *and* a movie ?
Thanks Wing_Z
Heh... just a bit of silliness that came along with a whole RAFT of updates today.
I confess I have not tried the Maverick or other challenges as yet, but when I saw Dune in the cinema I knew I had to have an ornithopter!
Flying it in the sim is waay more agile than a whirlycopter.
I suspect we will see more of this type of symbiosis, as gaming blends with augmented realities blends with traditional entertainments.
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I remember the huge worms. I read the first four books. After 4000 yrs I got tired of the series and stopped. Sort of like Martin's Lord of the Rings. I read the first two or three books. I got tired of all the people I liked getting killed, so I stopped. Never did watch the HBO series.
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I am not seeing enough screens of the Dune Ornithopter, presumably the erudite members of SOH are too wise to trash their sim by installing it.
So let me share these from within my ruined sim
It is extremely agile, this bird, and can zoom, dive, and stop as if meeting a brick wall.
And, perhaps one can go for a more Dune-like look and hope your mission will succeed!
It has an astonishingly large cabin for just three people.
In fact it is overall astonishingly large.
Perhaps Ornithoptery is not quite as efficient as conventional earthly aircraft?
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I'll give it a try, Wing_Z. Thanks. Didn't know about this thing, haven't seen MSFS for a couple days. It really looks like a dragonfly. Other than spiders i really love these amazingly beautiful insects. I bet the creator of this thing had a lot of fun working on it.
Yeah, scale intricacies are well known in flight simulation, just as well as in sci-fi. The mechsect from C&A i was refering to hauls people on board on the go to serve as diner for the crew. These guys are 3 times as big as Daniel Graig or Harrison Ford. Their insect spaceships must be the size of an average airliner you'd think. Here's one that crashed. Enough room for a couple of gnomes but that's it. (also note the nice led lighting to lively up the wings. Typical insect-like of course :It has an astonishingly large cabin for just three people. In fact it is overall astonishingly large.
Btw, these wings flap about with immense speed just like that of the Dune bug. Maybe they confuse the air particles around them to such extend that the particles think "oh, what the hell.."
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Allow me to say one thing before we get back to posting screenshots...
It's a game and a simulator. If you practice procedures in a realistic reproduction of a real aircraft, then you're using it as a simulator that happens to include gaming elements in the code. If you're flying the Scrapyard Monster into Oshkosh, or zipping through the Grand Canyon as low as you can in a Pitts, then you're using it as a game that has simulator elements in the code. Bottom line is that it is what you make of it. Things like the Pelican, the Ornithopter, the Bentwing Bird from AH... These fictional elements will always be popular with the "game" side of the room and reviled by the "sim" side. That doesn't mean that one side is wrong or the other side is right. It just means that MS and Asobo produced a program that has the versatility to do more than one thing.
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And don't forget that it is also a Sandbox type game, where you can do whatever you like to do.
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I can't wait to fly this! I'm waiting for them to fix the issues first, though. I'm not nearly as anal retentive as the rest of the crowd. One of the things I've always loved about flight sim is the ability to fly anything in it. If I live long enough to retire I plan to model many planes that never left the drawing board for flight sim and some "sci-fi" designs that currently only live in my head. Because, for me, Flight Sim is also about having fun and I intend to do just that.
Having said that, Jan, whose B-24 is that?
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