The hangar doors have opened...

It's out. Finally. Enough said.

Get. :)

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200K for Vectors?

So the unstoppable farce actually made it to 200,000 views tonight. I'm pretty blown away.

My sincerest thanks once again to the crew that helped pull it off, Pebble, Mark, Eric, Flagstaff, Sidra, Lyn, Mugar, and Dustoff. Thanks also to those who left some really amazing and inspirational comments on the movie. I truly can't tell you how much I've appreciated those. :)

So, having said that, here's my little homage to everyone else, the ones who left a stupid, demeaning, or perfectly incoherent comment on it, or asked one of the two questions that invariably results in me adorning my forehead with keyboard imprints: 'wut dat song?' and 'wat hapend to teh othr jet?'.

This my friends is just for you lovely lovely youtubers. :)

Enjoy!

(oh, and be sure to crank it up) ;)

Courchevel on the ground...

Man I love Top Gear. I *hate* TV yet I adore this show. Even better when it's a 'best of' vid set to one of my favourite tracks like this. Nice remix too! :) I draw huge inspiration (and ideas) from the videographers and editors who work on this series.

And yes I know it's nothing but car porn but it still rocks. ;)

Enjoy.

Chase the Sun Tour complete!

Well done all! We fought disconnects, we fought weather, we fought the laws of physics and we won! The Chase the Sun Blackbird Round the World Tour was a great success.

First, some stats:

Total legs flown: 12
Total distance covered: 23930 NM
Total flight time: 17 hours 23 minutes
Total trip time: 22 hours 15 minutes
Average speed: 1378.5 Knots
Longest leg: 2373 nm, Kashi - Assab, 1 hr 35 mins
Fastest leg: Rochambeau - La Mesa, 1480 knots avg.
Highest speed attained: Mach 3.37 - 1999 knots ground speed
Highest altitude: 84500 feet

Bottles of Stella Artois consumed: 46 (approximately)

Habus destroyed: 0 ;)

The circumnavigation record we had to beat (including refueling time which is factored into trip time) was 36 hours 14 minutes set by the B-1B in 1995. I'd say we fairly well kicked its ass. ;)

Again, great job guys, that was one hell of an effort! I'd mark that down as a serious FSX accomplishment. I was thoroughly impressed with your mastery(s) of the Habu by the time we wrapped up. :)

Thanks to everyone who participated, and my apologies to those who suffered many disconnects and lag. I wish FSX multiplayer was a little more robust than it is, but we made the best of it.

Pics below!















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