New plane report

[Martien van der P.]

Yeah, sure I want to help you. I started the project and I never will abandon a project . I'm still working at the cabin for the freight L-188 (many other projects (also in RL) so not much time).

[Berkut]

Thank you all for bringing this aircraft into FG.


One of my favorites.

[SkyBoat]

@MV-DP-- Hello. I was in southern California (east of Los Angeles) for meetings last week, but am back home now (I live in western Oregon, about 700 miles (1126km or 608 nm) north of LA's KONT).

I'm ready to start work on the Electra's engine conversion any time you are. I'm going to start a new thread in the aircraft development forum. See you there when you are ready to begin.

[KL-666]

Hi Skyboat,

I see you live north-west. Saw a documentary lately about environmentalists being quite extreme up there. They burnt down offices of logging company's i believe. Do not get me wrong, i am a very liberal bastard as they may say in America. But some actions may be just a bit over the top.

Anyway, just wanted to let you know what they show us about the north-west in Europe.

Kind regards, Vincent

[SkyBoat]

@KL-666-- You're right, out here in the Northwest, we have had so-called "eco-terrorists" burning down lumber company buildings, but also Forest Service offices, and right in Eugene where I live, about 10 years ago, a bunch of brand new big SUV trucks fire-bombed parked on the dealer's lot.

But after that, things around here have settled down. I can't remember a major event for at least a decade. That doesn't mean there haven't been some events in other parts of the country I am just not aware of. However, new things are developing…

The most recent type of protest we have been dealing with here in Oregon is a group of ranchers, most, but not all, of them Mormons (or members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints or LDS, as they prefer to be called) who occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge headquarters and its environs out in the middle of the central Oregon desert. It is about 30 miles/48km/26nm out of Burns, Oregon a small town of about 2700 people. There are only just over 7000 people living in Harney county, but well over 100,000 head of cattle running over the rangeland. Harney county is 10,226 square miles or 26,490 square kilometers. That makes it larger than the states of Vermont, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Connecticut. Delaware, and Rhode Island, in that order. Comparing it to Europe, it is larger than the The Republic of Macedonia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Cyprus, Luxembourg, plus the six countries less than 1000 square km in that order.

For further discussion of this topic, I am going to move to the Forum category: 42: The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

Please go there to comment. I will duplicate this post. I will not respond to replies in this thread.

Thanks for your courtesy,

[Martien van der P.]

@SkyBoat, Yes it's ok to start a thread on this forum, I've a week off next week so a I've some time to work on the L-188. Sorry for my late reply cause I don't check the forums a lot.

[SkyBoat]

@MV-DP. I'm glad to hear from you. It would be fun to make some more progress on the L-188. I will have time next week to work on it, too. I've been flying the Electra a lot. I'd like to work on getting the engines designed and installed. What do you have in mind? What was next on your todo list? We can always work together on more than one improvement project at a time. A couple of things I've noticed is the doors should open, but it looks like on the Braniff livery, which was done by IAHM-COL, just forgot to account for that. Another is that the real L-188 had an expanding main passenger door that telescoped open into a stairway. According to the Lockheed YouTube videos I watched that were promo films from the 1950s, the aircraft was deliberately designed for all the passenger entry/exit traffic to take place on the left side and all the flight servicing and luggage handling on the right side of the plane, so they could do a complete pax/bags/food/fuel turnaround in under 30 minutes.

Anyway, let me know what interests you most and we'll work on that since you are the one with the week off.

Skyboat

[Martien van der P.]

@SkyBoat, What I wanted to do next week is finishing the cargo cabin and also fixing the door animations and modelling the telescoped stairway you mentioned (I watched also thoso promo vids from Lockheed). And we could work together on it since I've also made a GitHub account (I'm still a noob in working with GitHub at the moment).

(Btw: Maybe could better talk about we are doing over PM (I'll recieve it in my mail/phone and then I'll be reacting faster on your messages ))

[Octal450]

@SkyBoat, What I wanted to do next week is finishing the cargo cabin and also fixing the door animations and modelling the telescoped stairway you mentioned (I watched also thoso promo vids from Lockheed). And we could work together on it since I've also made a GitHub account (I'm still a noob in working with GitHub at the moment).

(Btw: Maybe could better talk about we are doing over PM (I'll recieve it in my mail/phone and then I'll be reacting faster on your messages ))

If you come into my channel in Mumble, I can explain you well the git!

[IAHM-COL]

Hi MV-DP

I finally added all the aircrafts in both Japanese Sites to the FGMEMBERS group.
Repositories

https://github.com/FGMEMBERS/juef128
https://github.com/FGMEMBERS/ArE381I
https://github.com/FGMEMBERS/SAM-launcher
https://github.com/FGMEMBERS/H6K
https://github.com/FGMEMBERS/ooyodo
https://github.com/FGMEMBERS/F1M2
https://github.com/FGMEMBERS/MC-20
https://github.com/FGMEMBERS/T-34
***
https://github.com/FGMEMBERS/T-7
https://github.com/FGMEMBERS/T-4ADTW
https://github.com/FGMEMBERS/T-4BI
https://github.com/FGMEMBERS/F-15DJ_ADTW
https://github.com/FGMEMBERS/YMF-5D
https://github.com/FGMEMBERS/YMF-5DF
https://github.com/FGMEMBERS/T-5
https://github.com/FGMEMBERS/OH-6DA
https://github.com/FGMEMBERS/SH-60J
https://github.com/FGMEMBERS/UH-60J

All of these, also, had been added to FGDATA next with submodules. All aircrafts are GPL

Thanks MV-DP, for the report,
IH-COL