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Post by Slide on Oct 28, 2009 7:10:00 GMT -5
Had a lazy day ( ;D ) and decided to do a short Testflight up north to watch the Northern Lights near the Arctic Circle. Took off from Nordholz (near Hamburg) at 10 AM and passed Bergen around sunset. Into the Night with a little help from the moon. And there they were. Must be cool to live in a place with such lights over the rooftop! After cruising in circles in the Trondheim area all night a thunderstorm came up around sunrise. Heavy weather out there. Finally turning south with an extra spin over Steinkjer. Today I am going to fly this thing home. 700NM, peanuts for the Zepp, but it will be another challenging night landing in Nordholz. Foggy evenings in Friesland these days. [Pictures from FS9 showing A. Belov´s LZ-110 (L-63) with my homegrown "weathered" texture and panel]
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2009 8:44:42 GMT -5
Lovely stuff slide. Another totally different angle on flightsim. Love it.
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Post by sgtmajor on Oct 28, 2009 10:30:18 GMT -5
Beautiful Pictures Slide.........remarkable!!
Cheers,
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Post by belov1 on Oct 29, 2009 5:52:33 GMT -5
Wow!!!! Excellent!!!!
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Post by windrunner on Oct 29, 2009 7:53:55 GMT -5
You can never go wrong with an Airship...slow and quiet as it should. That reminds me...when are we going to have an adventure for Captain Nobile's artic expeditions with the "Norge" or the "Italia"?....
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Post by belov1 on Oct 29, 2009 9:53:35 GMT -5
"Red Tent" (Krasnaya Palatka) www.imdb.com/title/tt0067315/Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov, starring Sean Connery as Roald Amundsen and Claudia Cardinale as Nurse Valeria.
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Post by Slide on Oct 29, 2009 12:49:50 GMT -5
Thanks for the nice words, my fellow simmers! Glad you like it Mr Belov as this was basically your work - the way this Zepp hovers is absolutely great and I like it a lot. Thanks for the "Red Tent"-tip, guess I want to see this. Sean Connery AND Catarina Valente AND airships is way cool. ;D You are right, Damian, travelling by airship or balloon is something very special, it keeps you in touch with the planet you live on in a very specific, somehow peaceful way. My favorites are the old DELAG-Ships though, "Sachsen", "Schwaben" and especially "Victoria Luise" and the old civilian infrastructure they had before WW1.... what a wonderful world it could be but those darn Pickelhauben and their counterparts made everything a mess.
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Post by Roger on Oct 29, 2009 13:41:55 GMT -5
Yes lovely shots Slide!
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Post by windrunner on Oct 31, 2009 4:39:12 GMT -5
"Red Tent" (Krasnaya Palatka) www.imdb.com/title/tt0067315/Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov, starring Sean Connery as Roald Amundsen and Claudia Cardinale as Nurse Valeria. Yes, watched that one. There are relicts of the expedition at our local Aviation Museum at Trento.
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Post by belov1 on Oct 31, 2009 6:43:01 GMT -5
Icebreaker "Krassin" - the ship which saved survivors: Vould it be interesting to make a "Red Tent" scenery? The position on the camp was determined at May, 26, by capt. Adalberto Mariano (airship "Italia" senior officer): N81* 14' E25* 05'. Giuseppi Biagi, radiooperator, made a sketch of the camp. "Krassin" moored to the icefield at N80* 38' 05" E29* 13' on the July 12, at 21:45: And how it was seen by photo reporter:
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Post by windrunner on Nov 1, 2009 7:09:56 GMT -5
Hey, that is looking good! do we need a Junkers too?
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Post by belov1 on Nov 1, 2009 11:57:01 GMT -5
Numerous aviators took part in rescue operation. Roald Amundsen flew to the Spitzbergen (now Swalbard) on the board of Latam-47GR flying boat. He and his fellows disappear in the polar ice desert. Umberto Maddalena, italian pilot and adventurer, flight on the Savoia S-55 twin-hulled seaplane. Maddalena reached the camp, but can not land on the ice field. Swedish pilot Lundborg make a safe landing and rescued wounded Nobile to the "Citta di Milano", but crushed on the second attempt. His aircraft was carried back on the "Krassin": Two Swedish aircrafts Hansa-Brandenburg type, flew to the camp and drop supplies. So, there were a wide wariety of aircraft types.
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Post by windrunner on Nov 2, 2009 4:25:12 GMT -5
I think we only have the Savoia S55; I'm not sure the others were done in FS.
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Post by Slide on Nov 2, 2009 8:07:34 GMT -5
do we need a Junkers too? Runner, one question off topic: Did you manage to look after the 160 recently published - the one which is ... a little strange regarding view options? I gave it a dummy panel.cfg but that didn´t help. I have no idea about this.
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Post by windrunner on Nov 2, 2009 9:51:33 GMT -5
I have Active Camera working on the Ju160; not tested enough for lack of time, but it works.
1-create a panel.cfg (into the "panel" folder) 2-Copy this:
[Window Titles] Window00=Panel XX
[VIEWS] VIEW_FORWARD_WINDOWS=xx
VIEW_FORWARD_DIR=-2.42, 0, 2.575
That will make AC fully operational. I still have a crash each time I change views with the plane on the runway.
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