Me either until guod told me, LOL! I'm one of those old buzzards who doesn't bother to keep up with technology.

Give those airships a try, Mace! Great stuff! You haven't lived until you've hit "Flyby View" in FSX and watched a dirigible go shrieking past...and past...and past...and past...

The upgrade for the blimp hangars at Moffett Field are available at flightsim.com as file name "hgr_one.zip". While you're there, grab "uss_macon.zip" if you want a good airship that's reasonably easy to work with. Here she is in a couple of screenshots:



Dumping water ballast on "up ship" from NAS Moffett Field.



Off we go, cruising the skies of sunny California!

Relaxing, slow paced fun. It's like Zen.

Cheers!

Rick...

I'll bet those airships make WW 1 era aircraft seem absolutely blazing fast.


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Fantastic stuff, Sauron. Got any pics of her in afterburner?

LOL! Nope, no afterburner shots! And it can't catch those pesky WWI aircraft, they're just too damn fast!

Here's another one worth downloading, a U. S. Navy Goodyear K-Ship, K-28 of ZJ-1 (that's a squadron, ZJ-1, like VF-84, only it's a zeppelin squadron).



She's like a sports car compared to USS Macon.



This one has a great VC. That's the view from the rudder seat.

You can download various versions of the K-28 at flightsim.com as file names:

k28usnzj1.zip

k28neam.zip

k28usn.zip

Those are each slightly different versions created as the real one was restored by a museum. Top quality stuff, as good as most payware, and the K-Ship isn't so ponderous as the larger airships.

Besides, chicks dig zeppelin pilots, everyone knows that. I think there's some Freudian mojo going on there.

Cheers!

Rick...

Looks like you are having a lot of fun in the slow lane.


Wheels