Simviation Forum - Time Pilots Finalists.....

May 3^rd, 2008 at 8:06pm

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Reply #1 - May 4^th, 2008 at 12:05am

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AWWW c'mon clip!!! I was all excited to see them and then

BAAHHH!! just kidding!

I'm anxiously waiting

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Reply #2 - May 4^th, 2008 at 7:14am

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First Finalist Aussiewannabe

Air America - 1969

Air America was an American passenger and cargo airline covertly owned and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 1950 to 1976. It supplied and supported covert operations in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. It's slogan was "Anything, Anywhere, Anytime, Professionally". This was not an exaggeration, as Air America aircraft, including the de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou and Fairchild C-123 Provider, flew many types of cargo to countries such as the Republic of Vietnam, the Kingdom of Laos, and Cambodia. It also on occasion flew top-secret missions into Burma and the People's Republic of China.

Flying for Air America was hazardous and the pay was better than for both normal civilian and military aviation. An Air America pilot could earn as much in a week as another pilot would in a month, and the pay combined with the promise of adventure attracted many pilots. But the work was dangerous; even without conflict, pilots had to deal with poorly charted mountainous terrain, few radio beacons for navigation, bad weather, and often overloaded planes.

AC from SimV, Scenery is VOZ with Andy Weir's Mesh for Australia

Second Finalist Spitfire Boy

February 1st, 2003

"Columbia"

The Space Shuttle Columbia breaks up during re-entry, killing all of its crew. In this shot, Columbia is depicted beginning its fateful descent into the Earth's atmosphere.

MORE TO COME!!

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Reply #3 - May 5^th, 2008 at 1:26pm

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Wow...Just wow Shocked

Blabbing Away at SimV Since June 8, 2004

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Reply #4 - May 9^th, 2008 at 5:57am

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Last 3 finalists coming up!!

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Reply #5 - May 9^th, 2008 at 4:48pm

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Clipper asked me to submit 3 more finalists, and it was a very hard job, as I can see a fair bit of thought and effort went into all of them. Anyway, here are my choices, for good or ill....

Third Finalist Specter177

...for a glimpse into the future...

Testing the F/A-37.

April 7th, 2027

Three prototype F/A-37 Talons get ready for flight testing at Edwards AFB. The Talon is the newest Advanced Tactical Fighter to come off the Lockheed-Boeing lines, designed to replace the aging F-22 for the Air Force and fill a niche in the Navy left open by the retirement of the F-14 in 2006. Military planners have said that this may be the last manned fighter in the inventory, with the rising use of advanced UCAVs. After the U.S. - EU war, America is now the unquestioned leader in military technology.

September 26th, 1939: THEY ARE SHOOTING AT US!

Fourth Finalist Harold Kip

...for his (now trademarked) meticulous research....

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On September 26, 1939, while on its flight from Stockholm to Amsterdam, German fighters attacked the Mees, one of the 23 DC-3’s, which KLM owned before World War II. The Mees received eighty hits and unfortunately a Swedish passenger was killed in the incident. However, KLM Captain Jan Moll (who co-piloted the 'Uiver' in the MacRobertson Air Race) managed to escape into the clouds and fly the aircraft safely to Amsterdam Airport; Schiphol. After this incident KLM painted all its aircraft orange and applied the letters HOLLAND on the fuselage.

The aircraft, a Douglas DC-3-194G (c/n 2142), was delivered for assembly to the NV Nederlandse Vliegtuigenfabriek (Dutch Aircraft Factory Ltd. - later known as Fokker) on July 7th 1939. After assembly it was delivered to the Royal Dutch Airlines, as PH-ASM ‘Mees’ (Titmouse) on July 21st 1939. KLM used the Mees, amongst other routes, between Amsterdam and Stockholm.

The Mees was confiscated by the Luftwaffe on May 16th 1940 and re-registered as NA+LE. As the aircraft wasn’t used it was transferred to Lufthansa service on June 15th 1940, receiving registration D-ATJG. She was destroyed in an allied attack on September 3rd 1944.

While talking to Aussie, the PH-ASR ‘Roek’ repaint for the default FS9 DC-3 came up, which mentioned the above incident in the readme file. But I told Chris that it wasn't the ‘Roek’ that was attacked but the ‘Mees’. Also, the original repaint wasn’t anything like it should be, comparing it to the replica of a similar DC-3, the PH-ALR ‘Reiger’ at the Dutch National Aviation Museum, Aviodrome. The aircraft were not yellow but orange, the font used was more similar to a square-ish ‘Arial’ style font and it was black instead of blue. Also the position of the decals wasn’t like it should be. I decided to repaint the FS9 default DC-3 in the correct colors, adjusted the decals with a font more suitable and labeled it PH-ASM.

To make the shot completely historically accurate I photographed the Mees in front of the 1928 rendition of Schiphol Airport, which has been completely rebuild at the Aviodrome.

BTW: I've posted an edit of one of the shots from this series in the Edited Forums

Thanks to Aussie for all the hours of researching, testing the repaint and discussing the Mees with me. This really is a joint effort!

...and last, but not least:

Fifth Finalist JLangholzJ

...for an undeniably significant moment in history - perhaps the most terrible use of air power... and for his refreshingly 'StudioV' attitude to the rules Cool

Paul Tibbets-The Lonesliest Man

August Sixth, Nineteen Hundred and Fourty Five

The raging war in europe was over, and all but in the pacific. After taking the island of tinian in the west pacific, USAF heavy bombers were now able to reach mainland Japan with a six hour flight. At precisely 8:15 local hiroshima time, The Enola Gay piloted by Paul Tibbets of the 509th, dropepd the gravity bomb from 32,000 ft. called "little boy" and fifty seven seconds later the blast was heard around the world. Although it didn't have as much uranium as is brother "fat man" (hence its name little boy) the 130 pounds of uranium was enough. After "fat Man" was dropped on Nagasaki days later,the Imperial Forces of Japan surrendered, ending WW2.

Aircraft found here at SimV, repaint done by myself.

Five great finalists....Clipper's planning something for this at the weekend, but the man is as unknowable as the void... we'll have to wait and see what happens to them all

Cheers

Krigl

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Reply #6 - May 9^th, 2008 at 9:44pm

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oh, i see how it is now, I don't even get credit for my work!! lol, kirgl, you have spector cited as the author of the enola gay shot, not myself.

simple fix, and an extremely gorgeous set of photos!

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Reply #7 - May 10^th, 2008 at 2:52pm

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JLangholzJ wrote on May 9^th, 2008 at 9:44pm:

oh, i see how it is now, I don't even get credit for my work!! lol, kirgl, you have spector cited as the author of the enola gay shot, not myself.

simple fix, and an extremely gorgeous set of photos!

Aaarrrgh!! Off to fix it, sorry mate!

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Who's Kirgl anyway... Grin

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Reply #8 - May 10^th, 2008 at 7:33pm

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BAAAHH!!! lol, my bad, my bad..

Edit:: In response to clips comment below:

I have a feeling that when clip first came forward with this contest, he was envisioning a very good response (as was I). I think that because all of our entries spanned just about the whole spectrum of aviation history, that all of them should be put in.

Also, It might not be a bad idea to pop in once a month and remind everyone that If they have another shot that should go in, that they can post a thread with it in. This is purely b/c I think that this is one AWESOME project. What better way for all of us to pay tribute to the events that got us here in the first place.

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Reply #9 - May 11^th, 2008 at 6:32am

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Krigl had a great suggestion...seeing as how all the entries were truly outstanding, he thought we shouls put ALL of them into the Aviation Museum. We've now seen what our panel feels were the top 5, but what does everyone think of including everyone's effort?

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