Simviation Forum - Is it a plane, is it a missile ?

May 8^th, 2011 at 3:03pm

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The newly-freeware F-104 from SimSkunkWorks, available for FS9 and FSX (native format) Cool

Fantastic plane, with a very nice VC, excellent flight model and great sounds

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Reply #1 - May 8^th, 2011 at 4:40pm

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Fell in love with this craft ever since the movie "The Right Stuff" came out! Great Pics!!! Shocked

FSX, we've come a long way baby! Skunk Works is an official alias for Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Programs (ADP), formerly called Lockheed Advanced Development Projects. Skunk Works is responsible for a number of famous aircraft designs, including the U-2, the SR-71 Blackbird, the F-117 Nighthawk, and the F-22 Raptor. Its largest current project is the F-35 Lightning II

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Reply #2 - May 8^th, 2011 at 4:43pm

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Great shots....thanks for the HU Cool

"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter silvered wings. Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of sun split clouds.....and done a hundred things you have never dreamed of.....wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence. Hovering there, I've chased the shouting wind along and flung my eager craft through footless halls of air.

Up, up the long, delerious, burning blue I've topped the wind swept heights with easy grace where never Lark, nor even Eagle flew. While with silent lifting of mind I've trod the high untrespassed sanctity of space, put out my hand and touched the face of god"

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Reply #3 - May 8^th, 2011 at 5:01pm

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Skunkworks wrote on May 8^th, 2011 at 4:40pm:

Fell in love with this craft ever since the movie "The Right Stuff" came out! Great Pics!!! Shocked

I fell in love when one was featured in the opening teaser of the Star Trek Episode entitled "Tomorrow is Yesterday." It was the interceptor sent up to investigate the Enterprise which had been thrown back in time to the 1960's Grin

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Reply #4 - May 8^th, 2011 at 5:51pm

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Can we possibly get a link to this beautiful aircraft? Roll Eyes

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Reply #5 - May 8^th, 2011 at 5:59pm

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one of my all time favorites...have the cs version...have to check this one out....

intel i7 950.....asus p6t delux v2....asus gtx 285......raptor 150g...raptor300g (fsx)......liquid cooled cpu cooler.....6gb corsair 1600-777........windows 7......antec 900 case.....

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Reply #6 - May 8^th, 2011 at 6:09pm

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CaptainCub wrote on May 8^th, 2011 at 5:01pm:

Skunkworks wrote on May 8^th, 2011 at 4:40pm:

Fell in love with this craft ever since the movie "The Right Stuff" came out! Great Pics!!! Shocked

I fell in love when one was featured in the opening teaser of the Star Trek Episode entitled "Tomorrow is Yesterday." It was the interceptor sent up to investigate the Enterprise which had been thrown back in time to the 1960's Grin

Well now your talking my language and tooth size! Unfortunately or fortunately, however you want to look at it, at that time, I was focused more on Uhura than the plane!!! Both fine aerodynamics!!! Grin

FSX, we've come a long way baby! Skunk Works is an official alias for Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Development Programs (ADP), formerly called Lockheed Advanced Development Projects. Skunk Works is responsible for a number of famous aircraft designs, including the U-2, the SR-71 Blackbird, the F-117 Nighthawk, and the F-22 Raptor. Its largest current project is the F-35 Lightning II

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Reply #7 - May 8^th, 2011 at 10:46pm

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Great set Stephane, especially the last one.

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #8 - May 9^th, 2011 at 12:00am

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is this version 2?..for fsx?..

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Reply #9 - May 9^th, 2011 at 3:16am

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Thanks for the kind comments, gentlemen

This plane is available in three versions:
- one FS9 version
- two native FSX SP2 versions (self shadows, no transparency issues, canopy showing in front of clouds and autogen perfectly, etc...). Those are version 2.6 as well as ASA version 1.0.

You can find them only on SimSkunkWorks official site, you'll simply need to register to the site (it's free of course): http://www.vaafse.org/simskunkhome/index.php

The next version (version 3.0 I guess ?) will be FSX only, and it will be payware. The old versions are now freeware.

EDIT: when flying this plane, if you start hearing mad chickens, that means you have lost control and provoqued an unrecoverable situation that would force, in real life, the pilot to eject. They said that since the ejection process was not modelled in this plane, the gauge programmer created this funny chicken panic alarm to give a funny notice about a dramatic event Cheesy

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Reply #10 - May 9^th, 2011 at 3:28am

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Daube wrote on May 9^th, 2011 at 3:16am:

EDIT: when flying this plane, if you start hearing mad chickens, that means you have lost control and provoqued an unrecoverable situation that would force, in real life, the pilot to eject. They said that since the ejection process was not modelled in this plane, the gauge programmer created this funny chicken panic alarm to give a funny notice about a dramatic event Cheesy

So that's what that was. Roll Eyes

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #11 - May 9^th, 2011 at 9:46am

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Thanks for the information and the wonderful set of pictures Stephane...well done... Wink

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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