[FSX] Big in Japan...

[ATI_7500]

Tried my hands on the helo mission in Tokyo. What started out like a normal day (landing on the roof was sheer terror 'though) turned into a movie-like aircraft chase.




So that's why there's a "caspian sea monster" folder...

[MOUSY]

Interesting... Is that the Russian craft that doesn't really fly or float on water when travelling? It uses some principle of propagation that has succesfully eluded me right now... :-?

[murjax]

Wow, the people look so real.  :)

[ATI_7500]

Yeah, just like a shooter and stuff.

If FSX now had a damage system, you could open endless possibilities! (Tank buster/intercept/recon missions)


Info about the "Sea Monster": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ekranoplan

[Falcon500]

Interesting... Is that the Russian craft that doesn't really fly or float on water when travelling? It uses some principle of propagation that has succesfully eluded me right now... :-?

ground affect

[ashaman]

Interesting... Is that the Russian craft that doesn't really fly or float on water when travelling? It uses some principle of propagation that has succesfully eluded me right now... :-?

ground affect  ;) maybe effect  :-?

It's an ekranoplane, never went beyond military use in Russia, and yes, uses the ground effect to travel faster than any boat skimming on the sea water.

It's a plane project that has been abandoned, AFAIK.

[Jakemaster]

Interesting... Is that the Russian craft that doesn't really fly or float on water when travelling? It uses some principle of propagation that has succesfully eluded me right now... :-?

ground affect  ;) maybe effect  :-?

It's an ekranoplane, never went beyond military use in Russia, and yes, uses the ground effect to travel faster than any boat skimming on the sea water.

It's a plane project that has been abandoned, AFAIK.

The ekranoplan concept was not abandoned, sorry bub.  Still some out there today, just not very common.  It travels within ground effect, a cushion of air formed by downdraft of an aircraft's wing when it is near the ground

I believe the term for an ekronaplan type aircraft is a WGE, Wing in Ground Effect or similar.

[ashaman]

The ekranoplan concept was not abandoned, sorry bub.  Still some out there today, just not very common.  It travels within ground effect, a cushion of air formed by downdraft of an aircraft's wing when it is near the ground

I believe the term for an ekronaplan type aircraft is a WGE, Wing in Ground Effect or similar.

I meant that the furthering of the project Ekranoplan had been abandoned. The few units still able to "fly" do so, but are in a situation not unlike the Concorde. Once decommissioned an ekranoplan, another doesn't take its place.

Or at least so I read. I don't take responsibility for what others wrote.

[pepper_airborne]

it is actualy WIG. and you have some prototypes that would also have been able to do a normal flight.