Blackhawk Island - Coming Soon.

[Garry]

Hi Good People

The Ford Project Team has decided to have a bit of a wild digression from the Historical stuff for a little while and build a fun/fictional scenery pack.

No doubt many of the slightly more senior simmers may be aware of the Comic Book Blackhawk Hero's.



Lot of science fiction mixed in with some science fact and tons of super hero stuff by the Blackhawk Squadron Team.

We have tried to capture that comic era with a comprehensive scenery package including lots of AI aircraft and some flyable aircraft as well.

The below image is just a hint of some of the aircraft we have gathered and repainted up to be Blackhawk aircraft.



As for scenery we have gone a little overboard - now have done 7 different bases which are situated on various islands in Hawaii:

(1) BLHK - airfield inside a big mountain
(2) BLHI - the island airfield
(3) BLHE - Emergency Airfield on another island
(4) BLHR - airfield and Rocket base - near BLHE
(5) BLHS - Sea Airfield - for flights to and from a water field
(6) BLHW - Water Airfield - full of AI float plane traffic
(7) BLHJ - Jet Base on yet another island

And we have greatly enhanced an existing historical base XBEL (Bellows Air Field) - to accommodate a large batch of Boeing B29 bombers.

The project has been in development for a couple of months now and is getting close to completion. It you want to check out the slideshow of the overall project so far then below is a link to the slideshow:

http://www.ford-tri-motor.net/counter/Extra-Counter/click.php?id=102
(an InAlbum slideshow - safe to run)

This project is specifically for FS2004 - sorry FSX'ers - this scenery does not play well in FSX - the environments around Hawaii are very different in each simulator.

Hopefully we will have it all bedded down and ready for release by mid to late February........but don't hold me to that, as lots of fine tuning and frame rate battle yet to be resolved.

Regards

Your Ford Tri-Motor Project Team.

[OldAirmail]

What can I say!

[Jetranger]

Kinda Cool !!!! there Garry !!!

[Apex]

I'm a FS2004'er, that looks pretty cool, totally far out, can't wait. Thanks, Garry.

[jcj78]

I just uninstalled Golden Wings to make way for FSX:SE parallel. I think I am gonna have to find another 250g ssd and do a fresh install. Those scenery object models, the V2 site in particular, are amazing. Y'all always impress, Gary.

[Garry]

Hi Good People,

Glad some of you are looking forward to this project release - unfortunately the aircraft model builders for simming seem to have avoided building the F90 - and building aircraft models is absolutely black magic to me - but I thing we have added enough alternative aircraft - and plenty of visual's with the scenery to make this project a great piece of fun for all.

Anyway - still lots to tidy up and fine tune - but getting there - not bad for a two man project

Regards and happy simming.

[gwillmot]

I'm confused ...................

Is this the little island where the little guy comes out and yells ....... "de plane!, de plane!" ??????

[Garry]

No Mate - not Fantasy Island - spend a moment and search for Blackhawk Comics - that should make it very clear what this project is all about.

Thanks for bumping the thread back to the top

[gwillmot]

It is with sad news that I must inform you that Blackhawk Island has already been sold and is going to be developed by another party.
Details follow as such:

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[Garry]

Ahhh Bugger !!!!!!!! - after all that building and renovations

Well there is now enough alternatives bases and locations within the Hawaii region that I guess we could work on taking back Blackhawk Island with a titch of force.

Might send one of our new Carriers over to Blackhawk Island and intimidate the new owners:

[Fozzer]

Looking Good, Garry!

I'm looking forward to it!

I always keep my trusty FS 2004, (as well as my FSX), on my Hard Drive, ready to take off at a moments notice!

Looks like a lot of fun to be had, in Fantasy Land!... ...!

Paul.... ...!

[OldAirmail]

Garry, you guys may not be getting rich, but you are doing good.

[Garry]

Thanks Gentlemen for your favorable comments

We are getting very close to release for this Blackhawk Project - did my first run last night in building a Automatic Installer for the project

We will probably release it in two ways:

(1) full Automatic install of Scenery, AI Aircraft and Flying Aircraft
(2) individual downloads of each part - Scenery, AI Aircraft and Flying Aircraft.

That way end users can choose how they want to have this project on their system.

The Blackhawks are coming

Regards

[OldAirmail]

You'll make everyone happy. Thanks.

[Anthindelahunt]

Looks great,unfortunately I don't have fs9.

Regards Anthin.