WIP - Hawaii Theatre
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Ok, totally forgot I had a Yahoo Hawaii theater group. So fortunately several screen shots from my test of using hires tiles from Fly!2 still exists. Also now realize the ole memory is not too accurate….I was doing this testing from Xmas 2001 to May 2002. That is actually before I made SP3 and BMS compatible versions of Hawaii.
From the descriptions my memory was correct too that I did have a working campaign and tested the terrain while playing it…while it worked, missions were generated VERY slowly and I never figured out how to accelerate the action.
Enjoy…Thing is current engine doesnt look too different… really needs an update
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True,but it is a BIG job to do so…on the other hand we’ve had 15 years IRC a guy single handedly wrote the first DirectX graphics module, not long after someone said how it would take a team a year to do that. A lot of people probably dont know that the orginal code ran a million lines…bound to be more now and its enormously intertwined…
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Any hope for this theatre?
As total Magnum P.I. fan I had so hoped to once fly over a photoreal Oahu. -
Crossup?
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keep it up! flying over my old stomping grounds when i was assigned to the 25th id would be wicked cool
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Between Hawaii and Guam i choose Guam.
So let’s leave THE man do his job…
C’ on Dave we are near Christmas, give us a nice preview of Guam theater. It is not need to be perfect.
Nikos.P.S. Oops, we are on Hawaii section :rofl:
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+1, indeed.
Don’t worry, Nikos, right place or not this is not the matter, I think… your statements above are true for both those theaters IMHO.(P.S: And what about to include TDU2 in BMS, I ask?)
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Book Him Danno!!!
And don’t turn him loose till this theater flies.
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So I was out surfing at the Marine base today and I saw something very, very cool.
There were two Hornets in the bird bath when I drove across the runway to get to the surf spot. A few minutes later I hear this jet coming off the runway and turn to look and it’s this little white Lear-type of jet. Ok, cool, but not the coolest thing ever.
30 seconds later I hear another jet taking off and it’s this:
Dude was flying it just like a fighter, about 20 feet off the deck right over the water and then pulls up to form on his buddy.
And then 5 minutes later two of these guys took off chasing them:
Very awesome. I’ve never seen a camo’d Lear jet before!
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So what is this Pheonix Air chap packing on the right pylon? I have to guess it’s one of three things:
(a.) Towed target
(b.) EW pod
(c.) Dummy ASM (training round) for simulating threats to ship and fighter crews
…Then again, I could have just tried the website: http://phoenixair.com/milops_tacspecs.html
Their roster as I know of doesn’t list the Hunters as an asset. I guess what I really want to know is why the US military needs all of these contractors to assist with training. It just seems very shady. Kind of like hiring mercenaries… which most contractors are regardless.
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Here’s the source of your Hunters:
http://atacusa.com/mk_58_hawk_hunter.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_Hunter
^Scroll down to the “Civil” section on the page to get a brief synopsis of their operation. The two Hunters you saw that day are the only two they have in Hawaii.
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Yeah, I’ve seen the Hunters lots of times. I’ve never seen the camo’d Lear before.
They’re having a big exercise out here right now, so it could be part of that. Playing OPFOR air or something. I wasn’t close enough to see if the Lear had anything under his wings, but the Hunters always seem to be lugging all those drop tanks for some reason.
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A little action on the North Shore from today:
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A little action on the North Shore from today:
Mike, maybe also Dave can give us a little “action” of Hawaii theater…
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Thanx toonces. Still got the vid you uploaded at FreeFalcon for me back then.
You know that I hate you?
Good vid!
Cheerio
Thorsten
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A little action on the North Shore from today:
yeah! so much for “flight sim enthusiasts are all huge nerds” : ))
- cool vid
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I have photobucket open this morning and was posting these somewhere else. What the heck.
Spearfishing over on the west side of the island…
And surfing from last week:
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And after these nice photos you want me to believe that you “deal” with Falcon BMS? :rofl:
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Some video from yesterday on the west side of Oahu.
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Anyone knows the ticket price for a one way trip from Portugal to Hawaii??