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Virtavia AJ-2 Savage is out!
- Thread starter WarHorse47
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JensOle
SOH-CM-2023
Nice work on the paints!
Dvj; No other developer which makes these forgotten military aircraft for FS, so it might be a smart move to support them with buying it at normal price if we want to see more. I know it is a small economical margin on these aircraft as the money in the FS world are with the liners, GA and some of the more famous fighters.
As Razbam has not done anything FSX wise with their Skyraiders, I would love to see Virtavia take on the AD/A-1 family. That one could be a smart financial move as well..
Dvj; No other developer which makes these forgotten military aircraft for FS, so it might be a smart move to support them with buying it at normal price if we want to see more. I know it is a small economical margin on these aircraft as the money in the FS world are with the liners, GA and some of the more famous fighters.
As Razbam has not done anything FSX wise with their Skyraiders, I would love to see Virtavia take on the AD/A-1 family. That one could be a smart financial move as well..
Indeed. I have a bunch of their cold war models which were not cheap, but maybe I've gotten cheap?
I've been trying to get the spinners repainted in red and white in four parts. But the spinners mapping is making this impossible: the upper halve is a copy of the lower half. Alas!
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AckAck
Charter Member 2015
Assuming it is mirrored top and bottom, shouldn't something like the attached spinner texture give you a spinner with four quadrants? (I don't have this aircraft, or I would try it to be sure, but if you just drop this over the spinner area in AJ-2_01.psd, it might work, possibly with tweaking.) (Or it might not work at all - you have done these before and likely have had to work with lots of interesting design choices before, so you may have fiddled with something like this already.)
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Just a beta, the spinner needs some work still
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I should be doing something else, but......
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Cees
Keep up the good work. I may be tempted to add it to my hanger.I should be doing something else, but......
Cees
I'll bring it out as a package of six repaints, including one original made more dirty looking. Give me a little week.
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Not at all! It flies perfect without it. I switch it off before landing on a carrier. Not a good idea to fry the hook, I think!
Very amusing is the fact that one can move the arm rest out of the way to switch the engine off. It is very easy to put her on a deck btw.
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tommieboy
SOH-CM-2025
Not at all! It flies perfect without it. I switch it off before landing on a carrier. Not a good idea to fry the hook, I think!
Cees
Thanks Cees
Tommy
StormILM
Charter Member
Yes, they only used the J33 jet engine for takeoff and high speed dash over a target area. The interesting part is that both the J33 engine and the two PW R2800 Radial engines used the same grade of AVGAS to simplify to fuel system. The R2800 engines are powerful, robust, and combat proven (used on the F6F Hellcat, F4U Corsair, P-47, A-26, F7F, F8F, C-46, and a number of other aircraft) and I have no doubt those engines alone could easily maintain a high cruise speed without jet augmentation. Regarding the use of AVGAS with the J33 jet engine, I do have experience with that as I used to service a privately owned T-33A. The owner/pilot used to have me add about 50-60% Jet-A fuel and then the rest was AVGAS. He said it actually helped the J33 run at cooler temps without causing any issues (lower TBO time, etc).
From all that I've ever read about the Savage, it was a noted as being a dream to fly and quite fast but it had it's share of significant to serious reliability issues. Those issues were caused by the speed in which it was rushed into production and into Fleet service. They eventually got it debugged and into a fine aircraft but by then, the A3 Skywarrior simply outclassed it.
This model looks great and is certainly on my buy list in the coming months.
From all that I've ever read about the Savage, it was a noted as being a dream to fly and quite fast but it had it's share of significant to serious reliability issues. Those issues were caused by the speed in which it was rushed into production and into Fleet service. They eventually got it debugged and into a fine aircraft but by then, the A3 Skywarrior simply outclassed it.
This model looks great and is certainly on my buy list in the coming months.
fsafranek
SOH-CM-2024
If you are editing one of the blue originals please remove the blue from the stars-n-bars.I'll bring it out as a package of six repaints, including one original made more dirty looking. Give me a little week.
Cees
And looking forward to your repaints.
And finally, Happy Birthday!
Frank,
What do you think of this one? Backup the original first!
Cees
What do you think of this one? Backup the original first!
Cees
