Simviation Forum - Jet Powered WACO!

Sep 26^th, 2003 at 10:33pm

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hey i saw this act at the wichita airshow.
Some crazy guy strapped a T-38 engine to the bottom of the plane and an ever crazyer guy on top of the wing. wow what a sound-Big radial followed by high pitched jet.

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Reply #1 - Sep 26^th, 2003 at 11:50pm

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I saw it at Sun 'n'Fun 2002 in Lakeland FL - too bad that FS doesn't support "mixed" engines...

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Reply #2 - Sep 27^th, 2003 at 5:54pm

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why not?do we not have a right to strap jet engines to our biplanes? well i say ive had enough bill gates let my people go!

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Reply #3 - Sep 28^th, 2003 at 12:52am

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why not?do we not have a right to strap jet engines to our biplanes? well i say ive had enough bill gates let my people go!

The same way you can only have a maximum of four engines (of the same type). It's programmed into the program.

So, you cannot have two props and two jets, or six props and four jets (B-36), or eight jets (B-52), jet and booster rocket (Mirage III) , etc.

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Reply #4 - Sep 30^th, 2003 at 4:55pm

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well, if ms can program it into the game, surely some of the talented FS programers could figure it out. or we'll have the evil people at ms do it in 2 years Tongue

Yes that should be one of the next steps for ms-being able to have different engines(ooh, then we could have JTOW's!)
hmm, there must be away around it, maybe attach 2 planes together, one be a shadow plane you dont see(just flight info,no textures)and the other be the one you see. ???ive now confused myself, so ill stop.

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Reply #5 - Sep 30^th, 2003 at 7:29pm

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well, if ms can program it into the game, surely some of the talented FS programers could figure it out. or we'll have the evil people at ms do it in 2 years Tongue

Yes that should be one of the next steps for ms-being able to have different engines(ooh, then we could have JTOW's!)
hmm, there must be away around it, maybe attach 2 planes together, one be a shadow plane you dont see(just flight info,no textures)and the other be the one you see. ???ive now confused myself, so ill stop.

There are several things I'd like to see in a future version of Flight Simulator - mixed engine types, and more than four of each ...

*at this time* what can be done is two models... take off in the "prop"WACO" and when ready to go to jet mode, pause, change "planes" and continue in the "jet" which would have a smallish amount of fuel, etc., enough for a few minutes flight, before you have to change back...

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Reply #6 - Sep 30^th, 2003 at 9:48pm