John Young - LC-130 Hercules

[gsnde]

The first time in months I could fire up the sim not in order to make a release screenshot, but to have a go at a new aircraft I was eager to see.

What should I say - I am in love with this one!



















See the whole set of 28 shots here

A wonderful aircraft, John!

[Charl]

The guy is an absolute legend - I hope he makes the step into MSFS 2020

[Aharon]

Great shots and I like the snowflakes in your screenshots. Where were you taking off from?

The guy is an absolute legend - I hope he makes the step into MSFS 2020

Who? Which guy are you referring to?

Regards,

Aharon

[gsnde]

Thanks a lot, Charl

Aharon, Charl is talking about John Young. He has build a huge range of military AI aircraft. Being originally a scenery designer with the ACG Team, he crossed over to AI development after he designed some aircraft to bring life to his RAF Duxford package: Mustang, Lancaster, Hurricane etc. To name just a few of his aircraft: all three V-Bombers, the B-17/24/25/36/47/58, Harrier, Hunter, Buccaneer, Osprey, Canberra, Lighting, F-15, F-111, Tornado, ShinMaywa, many of the Sikorsky helicopter and much more.

Although he started on a very high quality level with his first releases already, he has come a long way since then and many of his AI looks equivalent to flyable aircraft.

As for the future - MAIW is just coming to the last mile of a very ambitious project: we have converted all our FS9 AI aircraft to either FSX or P3Dv4 format. Plus many non-MAIW developers have trusted us with the conversion and release of their military AI, like Sergey Bunevich, Andrew Hall, Morné Pieters etc.

I will make sure to release the complete overview at this forum once we are done. If you want to take a look before - all packages are available for free in the MAIW download section.

So my hope is that 2020 will either provide us with a compatibility for at least P3Dv4 models. If that is not given, we are in for another conversion project when Arno has made that possible with his ingenious tool.

The LC-130 is indeed a lucky bird - Aurora Borealis on the first day...

[gsnde]

Great shots and I like the snowflakes in your screenshots. Where were you taking off from?

From Thule AB, which John created in order to send the LC-130 somewhere to.

From mobile hence short

[Aharon]

Gsnde,

Wow what an amazing well detailed long explanations and many thanks for great explanation

Are those screenshots FSX???

Where did you get Aurora Burrealis add on or is it FSX default?

Where can I find Thule AB for FSX (you did not disclose the hyperlink for MAIW forums or MAIW download center and Google is not perfect

Regards,

Aharon

[gsnde]

Aharon,

The screenshots are P3Dv4. The Aurora Borealis is part of the OrbX ENJA Jan Mayensfield package. She is especially nice, but as hard to find as the default ones in P3D.

THULE AB ist part of John's LC-130 package, you find this in the FS9 and FSX/P3D version in the download center right on top if you select the by newest view (this will outdate pretty soon though... ;:))

MAIW you find at https://militaryaiworks.com

Cheers
Martin

From mobile hence short

[Aharon]

Gsnde,

Thanks for your kind answers.

Regards,

Aharon

[gsnde]

This is the list of AI aircraft created by John Young:

Agusta Westland AW139
Airbus Eurocopter UH-72 Lakota
Armstrong Whitworth AW.660 Argosy
Avro Lancaster
Avro Vulcan
Beechcraft RC-12 Guardrail
Beechcraft Super King Air 200
Beechcraft Super King Air 300-350
Bell AH-1 Cobra
Bell AH-1Z Viper
Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey
Bell UH-1Y Venom
Blackburn Buccaneer
Boeing 767 Derivatives
Boeing AEW&C Wedgetail
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
Boeing B-29 Superfortress
Boeing B-47 Stratojet
Boeing P-8A Poseidon
Consolidated B-24 Liberator
Consolidated PBY Catalina
Consolidated PBY Catalina Water
Convair B-36B/H Peacemaker
Convair B-58 Hustler
de Havilland Dragon Rapide
de Havilland Sea Vixen
de Havilland Tiger Moth
Douglas DC-3
English Electric Canberra
English Electric Lightning
Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II
Fuji T-5
Fuji T-7
General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark
Handley Page Victor
Hawker Harrier
Hawker Harrier Vertical
Hawker Hunter RAF/RN
Hawker Hurricane
Hispano Aviación HA-1112
Junkers Ju 52
Kawasaki C-1
Kawasaki C-2
Kawasaki P-1
Kawasaki T-4
Kawasaki T-4 Formation
Lockheed Martin (L)C-130H Hercules Skis
Lockheed Martin C-130 Hercules
Lockheed Martin C-130J 30 Hercules
Lockheed Martin CC-130H Hercules
Lockheed Martin CC-130J H30 Hercules
Lockheed Martin EC-130J Hercules
Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II
Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II CTOL/SRVL/STOVL/VTOL
Lockheed Martin F-35C Lightning II Carrier/Land
Lockheed U-2 Dragon Lady
Martin B-26 Marauder
Martin B-57 Canberra
Martin WB-57F Canberra
McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle A/B/C/D/E/J
McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II RAF
North American AT-6 Texan Havard
North American B-25 Mitchell
North American F-86 Sabre
North American P-51 Mustang
Panavia Tornado F3/GR1/GR4/IDS
Piaggio P.180 Avanti
Republic P-47 Thunderbolt
ShinMaywa US-1A
ShinMaywa US-1A water
ShinMaywa US-2
ShinMaywa US-2 water
Sikorsky HH-60 Pave Hawk
Sikorsky MH-60 Jayhawk US Coast GGuard
Sikorsky S-70C Firehawk
Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk
Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk
Sikorsky VH-60 White Hawk
Supermarine Spitfire
Vickers Valiant

[Aharon]

Gsnde,

COOl list!!!

Out of curiosity, since you are knowledgable in military bases, do you know any TERRIFIC freeware or payware US Coast Guard air bases in Alaska that have runways long enough for US Coast Guard C-130s please? Must be for FSX use please

Regards,

Aharon

[gsnde]

Hi Aharon.

The legacy MAIW packages are for FS9, the new world of Matrix provides them converted to P3D. So you are stuck a bit in the middle.
But since FSX has no issues with FS9 sceneries in principle, you may want to have a look at the packages "Elmendorf AFB" and "Alaska and the Islands ANG".

Since you are obviously interested in this I would suggest that you check out what else MAIW has to offer. I daresay that there is no better place for Military AI...

[Aharon]

Gsnde,

Thanks for your kind answers and very nice to meet you on NZFF forums!

Regards,

Aharon