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A quick morning video for your viewing pleasure: Buzz313th (don’t ask me, that is a user name…) has made a video showing the Sitka area in the newly released Tongass X scenery by FSAddon: “Just picked up Tongass Fjords X from FSAddons this morning and took the DodoSim 206B up for a quick flight to check out the new scenery. Decided to record the flight and throw a quick video together to showcase this excellent scenery addon.”  If you know any, please add more TFX video or screenshot links in the comments.

Here’s an interesting video from the endless YouTube resource…. A Saab Viggen with a pilot who forgot his sandwiches at home…. These aircraft are designed to work from small airfields and roads even and can do amazing things. Not only make U-turns all by themselves, but also very short take-offs…. enjoy !

Fly Wonderful Islands (yes. it’s a developers name) or FWI in short and simFlight are giving you 3 questions, that you can answer correctly and email to mailto@fly-wonderful-islands.com… this will enable you to win one of TEN free copies of their FWI – LANZAROTE X V2 title. Be fast, the contest ends in 48h from now: and this are your questions:

1. What is the ICAO ID of Lanzarote airport?

2. Is Lanzarote a Spanish island?

3. How many runways does Lanzarote airport have?

Easy, uh? If you still don’t know the answer you will find them on the product page at simMarket.

Jorge at Airsim.net, aka simFlight Portugal, reports about an interesting development named outerra, a planetary engine. Sounds like a lot doesn’t it? apparently the developer Brano Kemen is creating an engine that can generate our planet so to speak, Can it be used in a future  flight simulator? See this video and feel free to tell us what you think by using the comments form below:

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Very interesting project here…. not new, but new to us: based on Google Earth and it’s API’s and following an earlier javascript based development here comes ‘Ships’  an online Ships Simulator from PlanetInAction.com where you can be the helmsman of  a bunch of vessels, from barges to cruise ships… and to stay more inline with our main interest here, you can steer an Airship through the virtual skies of Google Earth, and you know that means EVERYWHERE.

This video shows it all, play the game here and you will find more reading details after the jump (oh.. and MS: Digg it! <g>)

And of course you should not forget to take a look at simMarket’s Shipping Yard for further ocean dreams.

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We put up a little ‘poll’ on the right of the screen. Vote for your favorite ‘fetish’ in Flight Simulation today! Are you a ground-hugging Cub flyer, or do you rather sit in a dark room pushing buttons on an FMC? Or, who knows, maybe you’re more into sailing the FS Oceans now that flying has become so complex? Let us know!

Here’s a neat little curiosity I was led to and would like to share with our readers…

Roger Dodger Aviation have posted a very interesting video on the SimTeeVee website. If you are looking for ways to “Pimp your Sim” then visit the site, watch the video and see how they turn a Chinese motorcycle helmet into a VR helmet for flight simming – and while you are watching, check out that motion simulator in the guy’s driveway…

You can see a lot more interesting goodies on http://www.DIYflightsims.com

Eric McClintock from Cincinatti, Ohio, has launched his weekly podcast “fsBreak”. You can hear his podcasts and read resumes on the fsBreak website. In his first program he discusses, amongst other current topics, the Microsoft closure of ACES with his co-host Cam. This could be something to keep your ears open for…

Whilst browsing through the web to find out what’s going on elsewhere in the world of aviation, I discovered this little snippet of information on the Asia Pacific Aviation News website. The image shows a suggested design study for a V-STOL aircraft carrier for an Australian aircraft carrier system. Could this be the shape of things to come for our hobby too?
The website is also a good source of aviation news ‘down-under’.

Let’s do it quick and dirty so we all know what we are and where we are at as 2008 draws it’s last curtain. Pleaaaase be honest, we do want to get a quick but accurate view of the status quo of you, our readers. We believe this to be of interest to all. Go for it:

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UPDATE 29/12: i had planned to close this poll after the christmas weekend, but decided to keep it open for a while longer as developments show how interesting this issue is currently.

UPDATE 06/01: Poll now closed.

This thread in our forums got my attention today: Got my Christmas present today.

What a nice idea, tell us about what you received from your loved ones or presented yourself with that is FS related? Use the comments feature below or/and post screenshots in our Screenshots Forum.

Is there any Flight Sim enthusiast that would not want this beauty in her/his garage?

1956 Aerocar N103d

This fully and only FAA-certified car-airplane is now being offered on Ebay to interested bidders, why not you? Read the rest of this entry »

… that there is a sky up there…. 

Found this great promotion video while browsing, it was newly made for the Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in Oregon:

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBoPXmdHkDw

Evergreen Space and Aviation Museum is the home of the HK-1 flying boat known as the “Spruce Goose”. A great aircraft collection with photos and history along with the Hughes flying boat.

There is more like these, the whole series made for the museum at Wieden + Kennedy.

Have you ever wondered how Microsoft gets all the data and images they need for Virtual Earth? Mark Brown, a Senior Product Manager in the Search Business Group  at Microsoft and also responsible for the Partners and Developers for Virtual Earth, has started a video series on his own blog. The video series is called “Behind The Maps”, and takes you on a trip showing you just how the images are shot and processed.

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Yep, yours truly, ‘the video man’ has found another amazing little film specially for our Shuttle Simuation fans out there. It is remarkable what one can view from it’s own backyard these days, hope you like it: