Beverley... a big old bird

Rich · Post by **Rich** » 15 May 2007, 12:38

Ian I know I am

Post by **Rick Piper** » 15 May 2007, 12:40

Rich i am guessing you now have a working link ?

Rich · Post by **Rich** » 15 May 2007, 12:45

Rick. many grasiases that worked, 7 hours ahead here so time is a bit out here you sods are dossing while I am awake

Rich · Post by **Rich** » 15 May 2007, 12:50

Rick many thanks for your work, the Bev for me was a great old lady and not a despised BOINNG said Zebidy

FlyTexas · Post by **FlyTexas** » 15 May 2007, 14:22

Thanks Rick!

Brian

AndyG · Post by **AndyG** » 15 May 2007, 15:57

Mr Piper, people like you really annoy me!! Here I am still struggling to get basic shapes, and you can make mods like this during your coffee break!!

Well done Rick, another triumph!

AndyG

Post by **Rick Piper** » 15 May 2007, 20:29

Hi Andy

If you saw the model i am currently creating you will see why i can knock out a mod easily.

Keep at it and eventually it's as easy as falling over when drunk

The main problem is almost everybody tries to make a full aircraft as their first model which is why only about 5% ever release anything as it's too hard to learn that way. :crying:

Make simple objects first till you can make any shape easily and understand what tool does what.

once you get to that level the rest is easy.

trouble is everyone wants to run before they can walk

Regards
Rick

kit · Post by **kit** » 15 May 2007, 21:17

Rick,

Wonderful, just wonderful. It's like 1958 again already in my head.

Interesting pics on that bus site. In the 2nd one down of XM106 you can see the deflectors that were used during air-dopping stored inside the door. And in the same pic, if you look VERY carefully and enlarge a lot, you can just see the faint outline of the para-drop hatch in the floor of the boom. It starts just aft of the last porthole and ends just past the 'XM' of the serial.

Watching a stick of paras drop from the hold was amazing. You could see the black hole of the hatch appear and listening on the intercom when the 'Green on GO!' came there would be a seemingly never ending stream of guys falling out of the hatch right past you about 15 ft away! With static line chutes (as they always were back then) the chute would stream from level with your eyes and leave a small forest of static lines in the slipstream when the stick had gone. Presumably the jumpmaster would then haul them all back in before closing the hatch.

I kept on trying to ride up there in the boom for a para-drop, just to see them go, but apparently it wasn't deemed safe for Cadets. It was OK for me stand with my toes by a 2500 ft drop out of the hold door and lob out the drogues, but not OK to watch the paras jump out.....

Post by **Trev Clark** » 15 May 2007, 22:39

Brilliant work Rick, I have this as AI because I hate that strange looking guy in the LH seat (most RAF A/C captains have the same problem), but missed inputting it into this thread. If it ever gets moved again, can we ditch the 'co'?

kit · Post by **kit** » 15 May 2007, 23:22

I've been trying all evening to get the Bev to work.

I emphasise that it's NOT Rick's new stuff that doesn't work, I can't get ANY other version other than the original 'default' 30 Sqdn. version to show up.

While they all appear in the menu, as soon as I try and load one into FS it crashes back to desktop and it does that even if I use the same .mdls and panels as the original. What the devil can be happening????

I've even copied the 30 Sqdn. entry in the .cfg file and only changed the entries for each texture but still they crash the sim. :roll: :sad: