Total random ...except the maker.

[Splitpin]

A google earth style shot






One more Buff

[Roelio]

Great shots! As always

What KC-135 addon is that btw?

[omitchell]

Nice... B.U.F.F

QUOTE (Roelio @ Apr 26 2014,10:45 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Great shots! As always

What KC-135 addon is that btw?

I'll take a guess and say Captain Sim

[Splitpin]

Thanks for looking guys.
The KC is from HJG , Freeware , made for fs9 but they present well in fsx.

http://simviation.com//hjg/

[Charl]

I do like that planform shot... imagine it 4m across, and adorning a wall!

Some random thoughts on the random shots, and the RC-135 connection...
The recent transportation disasters, Flight MH 370, and now the Korean ferry with all those kids lost, made me think of Korean Air Lines Flight 007 shot down by the Soviets in 1983.

The Soviets were convinced Reagan was going to pull the nuclear trigger, and had an ICBM test underway when this plane blundered into and out of, Soviet airspace.
There was an RC-135 in the area, having a look.
Arctic gales had knocked out Soviet radar ten days before, and so there was a little fuzz around vectoring the fighters onto the intruder.

It's a measure of the tension that existed at the time, that they elected to shoot it down without positive ID.
The world stared into the nuclear abyss one more time, we didn't at the time know how close.

[Dash8captain]

Hi Marty what traffic addon are you using?

[Splitpin]

Charl , thanks for looking. I have to admit with all the tension in and around Ukraine at the moment , things feel a bit cold war-ish.
MH-370.... VERY very odd , maybe they are looking in the wrong hemisphere .Its hard to sort out any real facts ... media post the "what we know" stuff , but that varies ..... i dont know.

DashCap .... im not using anything. Those statics are part of the scenery at Orbx Jackson hole .Thanks for looking .
Could be the last screens for a while .... ive got a major problem with the old puter .... bugger.

[Ian Warren]

Snazzy Screens , course the Stratofortress is so smooth ... Now that is one thing I have seen was a KC/C-135 plugged up on a passenger terminal in Brisbane back in 1988 and not so different a KC-10 plugged up on Melbourne terminal in 2001.

[Splitpin]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Apr 27 2014,12:42 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Snazzy Screens , course the Stratofortress is so smooth ... Now that is one thing I have seen was a KC/C-135 plugged up on a passenger terminal in Brisbane back in 1988 and not so different a KC-10 plugged up on Melbourne terminal in 2001.

Cheers Ian , never seen one up close , but its on my list... (B-52)

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Splitpin @ May 1 2014,7:13 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

(B-52)

Your B-52 is simply so docile, except when the bomb bays open up and the extra wing pylons loaded ... least a Vulcan is or appears to be much more aggressive and with the noise to go with.

[Splitpin]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ May 1 2014,6:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Your B-52 is simply so docile, except when the bomb bays open up and the extra wing pylons loaded ... least a Vulcan is or appears to be much more aggressive and with the noise to go with.

I try to picture these monsters ... as soft as possible , more the aircraft than the platform if thats possible.

[Naki]

Fantastic...yep B-52 must be on my bucket list of must sees...although the B-1 IMV is higher up the list...now is there a decent FSX model of the beautiful B-1?

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Naki @ May 1 2014,10:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

..now is there a decent FSX model of the beautiful B-1?

Virtavia B1 would be the only one, It pretty good and really dose look the part cruzing in from the tower position

[Splitpin]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ May 2 2014,11:08 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Virtavia B1 would be the only one, It pretty good and really dose look the part cruzing in from the tower position

I think it is the only one as well Ian , i was doing a few screens of it last night Naki ..... will post them later today and you can check it out.