• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

Miltech Douglas A-1 Skyraider released

Priller

Moderator
Staff member
Fully compatible for 2024!


Enjoy!

Priller
 
I saw that today while updating some modules. I'm anxious to read the feedback and see some of the pictures.
Why are you not anxious to install that Spad and fly the wings off of it ? (same goes for you Paul....) (kidding more or less ;-). This IS the SOH, isn't it ??!! Home of the warbird lovers exclusively, right ?... Here's a warbird if ever there was and (almost) nobody is home....(i've seen this before.... )

Oh, well, you don't know what you're missing boys ! It's a keeper !! :cool:

Although i have to say this with a bit of reservation.... Certainly not scepticism..., reservation. Something is not right with the flightmodel i think and there's something funny going on in the cockpit as well. Which btw looks fantastic ! As does the exterior model !! (AFAIK) But that may well have to do with sort of a warning in a (rather brief) document about the Skyraider that says that care should be taken to create a 'New, Clean Keybind Profile' otherwise some instruments or peripherals may not work correctly or won't work at all. MillTech says it may well be a bug and the're working on it. I have not done so yet (create a new clean A1 profile) and some important instruments are indeed not working. She flies sort of Oké nontheless but i still think the FM needs more work. ( and i haven't been able to find a manual so far, i was hoping to find maybe an answer about that here but guess what.... Skyraider ???..... Huh ???!!... :unsure: )

At the first ( on the ground with idle or low rpm) i thought the sound was fantastic but once in the air (ahem....) my initial enthousiasm faded a bit. Still a very good base to get a real good immersive soundsuite out of it with some tweaking done here and there. I sure hope that'll go for the FM as well.

In short i think it's a fantastic model, i love it, but i also think it's not completely finished yet. Certainly not an 'Early Access' model (ahem....) far from it ! But it does need more work, atleast IMHO.

Honorable mention : there's a nice vibration all over the place inside the cockpit (and also outside to some extent) once that Wright R-3350-26WA Duplex-Cyclone monster is kissed to life. Love that ! Although i guess it might well be reduced a bit once the monster is tamed and happily purring away. I guess lots of work for Jan Kees and colleagues. F.i. i'd have no problem with atleast the sea going birds in their brightly colored feather dress to be a lot less dirty. Maybe even a couple fresh from the factory for display purpose only.

Few screenies then for you, Stryker:
View attachment 176839

View attachment 176840


View attachment 176841


View attachment 176842

View attachment 176843

View attachment 176844

View attachment 176845


View attachment 176846


View attachment 176847


To be continued...
 
Last edited:
@Javis , thanks for an initial push of info. It's not for the love of the bird that I don't purchase her, just bought the Blackbird C-130 and their MH-60. The wife will chop me up into little pieces if I buy another bird before fully learning the previous ones, lol. I guess I should be really grateful they haven't released their SR-71 yet....I would be in a real ethical dilemma typing replies with finger nubs.

Great looking model indeed. Thanks for sharing the above. I will wait till the dust settles a bit before buying, which I did save to my wishlist for future purchasing.
 
Back
Top