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Motorized Flight Without Fossile Fuels

francois — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:33:48 +0000

That’s what the German Antares DLR-H2 does! The picture shows the Antares DLR-H2 “…… during its technical flight trial in June 2009 at Zweibrücken. The fuel cell is slung under the left wing and the hydrogen tank under the right wing – with a capacity of either 2 or 4.9 kilograms. The fuel cell system [...]

Another UK FS Shows Bites The Dust

francois — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:27:41 +0000

It seems to be extremely difficult to organize flight simulator events in the UK. After the demise of the Mark Silcock shows and the rather cozy RC Simulation fairs in Birmingham, now the Astrasim Cosford show has been canceled. This one too had been announced with a lot of fanfare, only to have its candles [...]

Beechcraft Dutchess From Just Flight

francois — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:02:20 +0000

More from Just Flight. “….. Somewhat later than hoped we’re happy to bring you some news about our latest Flying Club release, the Beechcraft Duchess. This latest addition to the Flying Club family is now out and available via download. And due out next week is Flying Club 2 and we’re now taking pre-orders from [...]

Walking For Charity

francois — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:10:44 +0000

Scott Phillips of Just Flight writes “….. Slightly cheeky I know but members of the Just Flight and Just Trains will be tackling the Three Peaks Challenge on the 7th August to raise money for the new games industry charity GamesAid. (Photo courtesy of Three Peaks Challenge). Martyn, Richard and Matt from the Support team will [...]

Flight1’s Messerschmitt ME-262 Box

francois — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 18:52:47 +0000

Flight1 Europe reports that “…. the world’s first jet combat aircraft authentically reproduced by award-winning developers Flight Replicas, for Flight Simulator X and 2004. The Messerschmitt Me262 Schwalbe (German for “Swallow”) was the world’s first operational turbojet fighter aircraft. It saw action from late summer of 1944 until the end of World War II as [...]

Heli Traffic 2009 Demo Released

francois — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:03:03 +0000

Flight1 is “…. proud to announce that a demo is now available for Heli Traffic 2009. The fully functional demo gives users a taste of how the full version of the software operates. A new update to version 1.03 is also available, adding a few improvements and bug fixes…..”. “….. Heli Traffic 2009 is the first [...]

simMarket in Maintenance Mode [Update3]

Miguel — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:18:15 +0000

Just so noone is alarmed, we had to take down one of the two simMarket servers because one of its harddrives showed as ‘degraded’ which means that it is starting to end it’s life… therefore we were completely offline for a few hours last night and are currently running on only one leg. Everyone should [...]

IVAO’s Belgian FS LAN PArty

francois — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:29:08 +0000

IVAO – Belgium Division has announced “…. the date for the 2009 edition of the famous ‘FS Lan Party’. The 2009 edition will be held on October 3 in Everberg, a small town close to Brussels and near Belgium’s national airport Zaventem. ‘FS Lan Party’ is a well known event, which brings together large number of [...]

FSX; A Program With Amazing Potential

francois — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:14:05 +0000

Dudley Henriques has long been our ‘resident test pilot’, working for Microsoft to help them make their aircraft models more realistic, and helping the flightsim communities learn how things are done ‘in the real world’, specializing on the classic jet fighters of the now previous age. Man, does that make us feel old! But old [...]

DC-9 From Sky Simulations [Update 2]

francois — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:37:12 +0000

[Update2] Product now available, the activation system is good now! make sure you watch the video on simMarket, link below. [Update] We had to hold sales for this product now, because customers are unable to activate after installation. Apparently the developer has not yet switched or updated their servers for the activation to work. as they [...]

UK2000 Birmingham review

Ian P — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:36:20 +0000

Screenshotartist.co.uk are pleased to announce the publication of our latest FSX product review, this time covering the UK2000 scenery of Birmingham International Airport (EGBB/BHX) in the United Kingdom. Featuring photographic ground textures and a large number of custom buildings and objects, the scenery does a very good job of representing the airport up to a specific [...]

Missions For Citation Bizjet

francois — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:36:29 +0000

The ‘company name’ is a little bit misleading in this case, because “Citation Pilot for the Eaglesoft Citation business jet” has nothing to do with flying combat missions or combat planes. Instead it “…. adds six adventure flights for the Citation pilot. A series of six missions begins in Kelowna, BC, Canada and continues to [...]

OZX Grumman Goose HD Redux Released

francois — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 07:24:23 +0000

Jay Kae from Australia reports that the team over at Aussiex have released their latest freeware project, an ‘overhaul’ of the default Grumman Goose that comes with FSX. Changes include tweaking of the flight model, addition of a higher-powered engine model, repaints of the interior and 6 high-definition paint schemes. You can read all about [...]

Raptors In The Sky

francois — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 06:55:14 +0000

Every once in a while you stumble on a Wordpress Blog that is just that little bit more interesting than the average. Neptunus Lex is one of those. Today’s blog post shows a wonderful photo of a Raptor, taken by a Navy sonar operator no less ! The comments underneath are interesting also…. for military [...]

Go For A Weekend Boat Ride !

francois — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:56:33 +0000

This is your chance to get your hands on VSTEP’s excellent Ship Simulator 2008 Collectors Editions, because THIS WEEKEND simMarket and VSTEP are offering you a 50% discount! Ship Simulator is to boating fans what Flight Simulator and Trainz are to pilots and train drivers; the ultimate simulation on water, right there on your PC. Be [...]