The P-40! Released At Microsoft Flight.

[Chock]

Gonna kind of screw the mystery side of things up when MS release another teaser shot of a close up on one rivet and everyone immediately correctly identifies the thing as a bf-109 or P-38 or whatever, based purely on the colour of that rivet.

 

Al

[duesenwerni]

And hidden away in a dark, little room, in a far away corner of the building, is our brave hero... working on Alaska... and a beautiful bush plane with VC.

... and every now and then Joshua Howard drops by and desperately urges him to better finish up Alaska and stop working on that cockpit thingie so he and the guys in the warbird conference rooms can finally re-enact the Japanese attack on Dutch Harbor, 3 June 1942 and the dogfights that followed the days after

[kcmo]

Something about that texturing isn't digesting with me. It looks copper plated. Perhaps its the angle..

 

It looks like the MS Flight team takes their cues from The Flying Heritage collection.

 

Here's a pano I did there (see the P-51 also):

http://home.comcast.net/~moranotech/panoramas/flying_heritage_02_5k/flying_heritage_02_5k.html

[jp1018]

And who's gonna buy an exterior model that you only see the back of?!

[Dogstar23]

I would not be suprised if down the road they start selling cockpit upgrade DLC for the warbirds for $7 or 8 bucks each plane.

[Chris-M]

 

Reducing it to a simple question of a cost benefit analysis, selling the bare outside shell of a plane without having to do countless expensive hours of programming the intricate cockpit details and still be able to sell some thousands of those crippled planes may make sense to them.

 

Sure, it may make sense from a business point of view, but why make a living of creating flight simulators if you don't even wanna program a working cockpit? I thought the team consisted of flight enthusiasts.

 

Btw, I love Flight. Just a bit tired of Hawaii.

[jdyoung]

Where is this game headed? I really don't know.

 

I was thinking the same. I wonder if aircraft with no cockpit is really becoming the preferred way to fly for the masses. Time will tell.

[RoboRay]

Don't forget the good part of this news, folks... a few extra dollars in the "Entertainment Fund" for this weekend. :Party:

[FrankFasi]

It looks like the MS Flight team takes their cues from The Flying Heritage collection.

 

I mentioned this possibility a few weeks ago. Easy (probably free) access to the planes, enabling the Flight plane developers to take close-up photos from every imaginable angle.

 

We can only hope they'll bring along VCs as time goes by, which is not hard to do (as any other FSX plane developer out there knows firsthand). The P-51, Zero, and P-40 most surely can be updated.

[basic ils]

Don't forget the good part of this news, folks... a few extra dollars in the "Entertainment Fund" for this weekend. :Party:

 

So true. 2 lifelong dreams of mine have always been 1. Airline pilot. 2. Rock Star. Being 43 years young, neither will be realized. So, with another VC-less war plane, I am now downloading the Cinderella 3-pack for Rock Band. Rock on, dudes!

[Tom Wright]

Wait, what? Another useless plane without a cockpit?

 

I'm out.

[RYR738]

Is the P-40 faster and more agile than the Zero ?

 

Fred.

[FrankFasi]

LESS agile, but faster in a dive, methinks.

[ak416]

Well... Alaska had better be impressive, that's really all I can say lol.

[Oracle427]

P40 should be slightly faster until you pitch up higher than a shallow climb.