Meacham Field, Fort Worth

[Glider Rider]

Meacham Field was established by the city of Fort Worth on May 23, 1925. It was about noon on Thursday, July 5, 1928 when the National Air Tour arrived at Fort Worth's Meacham Field. According to newspaper reports from 1928, Fort Worth rolled out the "red carpet" for the National Air Tour's arrival. Plans for the reception included a dinner at the River Crest Country Club organized by the Texas Coal and Oil Company and a chicken supper the following evening at Shady Oaks at Lake Worth(yum-yumm). Additional special arrangements were made to entertain the 12 women on the tour, including pilot Phoebe Omlie. Two Texas-based companies sponsored airplanes on the 1928 Tour. The Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company sponsored a Ryan monoplane piloted by Al Henley, and the Texas Company sponsored a Ford Tri-motor 4-AT piloted by Frank Hawks.



Check out the beautiful art deco control tower that once graced Meacham Field in Fort Worth. This picture is circa 1949.



A slightly different view of the control tower.



Bill

[MoCat]

Bill,

Your on it..........

MoCat

[MoCat]

Hello All,

Thought I would post some screen shots of the construction project......Fort Worth Terminal.













Scheduled Release, NAT Part 2 - Sunday!

Regards,

MoCat

[scubakobe]

How do you work so fast?!

The way you can turn out quality objects in a blink of the eye (Maybe just my eye) amazes me. It would have taken me a good 4 hours of sitting at the computer to make something like that.

Also, is that purple box shown in the first picture used as a scaling device? Without a backdrop it's hard to perceive the actual sizes of things. Then again, I'm horrible at visual measurements anyway.

[MoCat]

Scuba,

No, its a box with other boxes that form a window to include glass, frames, and dividers. Once I get the average window built for the project. I'll just insert it in the wall and boleen (cut out) the area for the window. So, if you make one you copy and paste then cut and remove. When adding windows in this case 18 front and 18 back, it can be done in about 12 to 15 minutes versus 2 to 3 hours doing the one at a time. A little bigger or smaller window, is just a quick movement of the vartex points or using the scaling function.

Thanks, glad you like!

MoCat

[MoCat]

Scuba, Bill, and anyone else who cares;

Disaster! I woke up early after completing the above pictured model.........loaded into GW3 and placed at Fort Worth. Reload GW3 get ready to fly...........and.................FRAME rates so slow my 4 gig machine thought it was running in mud. Went back checked polygon count.........196,000. SO, at 5:32 a.m., I started remodeling the structure. Sadly, this time, I can't make every little thing 3D. I am using textures for some of the objects in the model.....and have reduced the polygon count by 180,000. We now have frame rates. I think, I can still have the scenery to you today for testing this evening....unless I run into other problems I can't forsee at this time.

Here's some screen shots so you can see the change.....

[Glider Rider]

MoCat,
Your rework of the terminal still looks fantastic! And so what if every little detail is not 3-D? I doubt that very many people will spend much time actually walking through the building. As they say, "it's the journey that makes the trip, not the destination."

And if this model brought your 4 Gig machine down to its' knees, I can't begin to imagine how my poor old 1.5 Gig would react to it. So, thanks in advance for making it nice for us "little people" living in the technological past.

Bill

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gliderider said:

So, thanks in advance for making it nice for us "little people" living in the technological past

I copy that