Free Flight, Free Speech

Hello there all Free Flight members,

We're launching a new topic just for Splash Screens. This will be the category for you to work on developing your splash screen with others, solicit advice on a screen you are working on, or showcase a new splash screen you have just completed.

The reason we are launching this category is we'd like to take splash screens to a whole new creative level, beyond that of just a screen shot of the aircraft and its name.

Take a look at this great splash screen for the B-29 Superfortress done by IAHM-COL:



And here is another for the DC-8-63 screaming across the Golden Gate bridge at an altitude that would cost the pilots their licenses!!



This is JWocky's infamous Focke-Wulf 200 "Condor" in its "Scourge of the Atlantic" configuration:



These are just three examples of what can be done with a splash screen, to make it more dramatic and inviting.

So have fun and let the splash screens begin!

SkyBoat and IAHM-COL

! am very pleased to announce that the new MD-10 splash screen is awarded to MIG29pilot. I issued him a pretty steep challenge to get the commission and he rose to the occasion and was a very good sport about it.

Congratulations!

Check back to this thread as we go through the process of refining the splash screen. It's gonna be great!

I must say that I do not like non-FligtGear pictures being used.
Otherwise, lovely work.

legoboyvdlp wrote:I must say that I do not like non-FligtGear pictures being used.

Whyn't?
Sometimes is really fit. See these examples







The message quote is an adagio A. Earhart spoke thinking of E. Huminiuc from the past.

Ah, well, sometimes.
But I feel there should be at least one FlightGear screenshot in the random collection.

speaking of a simplicity that goes beyond your wildest dream...

(and simplicity always goes a long way!)

this is G-SHOZ splash for his new puppy-flier: The beagle-pup

I was wondering why the image was taking a long time to download! :ROFL:

this is kind of what it comes to my mind on that aircraft's name




(a beagle taking off just barely off threshold... fence really coming close!)

Yeah, I was wondering where the rest of the splash faded off to.

You know if you can find an appropriate Wiki page on the aircraft you might find a GPL approved image for your splash. Some of my WWI kites have period Wiki splash images, I think they capture the grainy, gritty feel of most WWI historical films and photos.

@Beagle Pup 160-- I was certain this splash screen was a historical photograph of the BP-160 taking off from my home town, Foggy Bottom Int'l or otherwise known as KEUG, Mahlon Sweet Municipal Airport, Eugene Oregon. It's a little known fact that there is a Category XXXIX Landing Protocol for KEUG's fog: that is zero visibility all the way up to the baggage carousel inside the terminal.

Category XXXIX Landing Conditions: The Luggage Carousel Inside the Terminal at KEUG: