…On-line Display Team.
Well, i’ve been trying to organise this for a long time and now it has finally come to fruition! The VBF had it’s first practice session over the weekend at 3/4 strength and the results as you’ll see in the screen shots are quite encouraging! 🙂
The whole aim of the VBF is to carry on where the real life team finished and continue to perform the scintilating formation aerobatic routines with four completely different warbirds.
We fly the official Breitling Team schedule seen at airshows worldwide with the full size team and hope to do it justice. All aircraft are painted in the 2003/04 liveries and in addtion to the 4 ship display a fictitious duo called the ‘soviet pair’ will also be operated doing fast tail chase aeros and opposition manoeuvers. An La7 will be masquerading as the La9 and the Yak3 will lead the pair. Further details will follow soon.
At the moment we are looking to recruit one more pilot for the #4 position flying the F4U Corsair. They must have FB+AEP+PF merged install and be able to practice online fairly regularly.
A website will be online within the next month with more details on the team and we also hope to produce a full length display video soon to show us in action.
Enjoy the screen shots…
By: bisfit - 5th April 2005 at 20:54
i dont mind flying the La7 but im havnt got pacific fighters yet
rob
By: Chris Broad - 5th April 2005 at 11:02
Hi guys, just got back from a week in the beautiful Emerald Isle sampling the countryside and the real black stuff 😉 !!
I will be individually replying to the PM’s that people sent me but here is some general news regarding the VBF… Yes, ‘that’ Corsair still requires a pilot, but i have also decided that i just haven’t the time to fly the VBF and the VBF:SovietPair so i am looking for two eager pilots to fill the cockpits of a Yak3 and an La7. I would like to think that the pair will develop in it’s own right and allow for pilot training for the entire VBF team, although two dedicated pilots that conduct the majority of displays would be essential allowing the rest of us to fill in when neccesary.
The website will be updated soon to include more skin files and a new non-VBF feature movie will be available soon, so watch this space!
By: Kye - 4th April 2005 at 01:38
You might want to keep an eye out for “242Sqn” then if your interested chaps. 4 of us from here are members of the Squad. Those people being myself, Trumper, Eddie, and Tazzers 🙂
We fly on saturday nights and can be found on hyperlobby should you ever wish to say hello. Maybe we could organise a IL-2 meet up one day 🙂
By: bisfit - 3rd April 2005 at 20:42
ok ill get pacific fighters den ebay u god come on cheap deqal i hope chris has still got that corsair space left
rob
By: stewart1a - 3rd April 2005 at 20:03
nope sorry mate IL-2FB PF only
By: bisfit - 3rd April 2005 at 15:43
so chris it wont work 0n fs 2004 or 2002 then m8
rob
By: Tony Norman - 17th March 2005 at 19:56
not to sure mate – let you know later. what name do you use?? mine is raf_whaley
By: Chris Broad - 17th March 2005 at 17:01
Ok Tony, well, i might get on HL tonight aswell. What time do you think you’ll be on?
By: Tony Norman - 17th March 2005 at 16:54
yes i am chris. havent flown the corsair much though….. might see what i can do with it over on HL tonight
By: Lamps - 16th March 2005 at 14:03
Excellant idea Chris, and superb shots! 😀 Well done 🙂
By: Stieglitz - 16th March 2005 at 13:28
Thanks Chris!
Well done!
J.V.
By: Chris Broad - 16th March 2005 at 03:16
The VBF website is now online. This is only a stop-gap site until the Flash one is ready, but at least it’s a start. It includes a few pages on the team and a downloads page where you’ll be able to get the latest videos and skins. Check out the site here… Virtual Breitling Fighters
By: Chris Broad - 15th March 2005 at 15:34
do you still need a 4th pilot??? dont know if id be up to scrtach but im happy to conduct an audition if you like???
Yes Tony, we are still seeking a pilot to fly the Corsair. Are you running a merged install of IL2FB+AEP+PF?
By: Tony Norman - 14th March 2005 at 17:00
do you still need a 4th pilot??? dont know if id be up to scrtach but im happy to conduct an audition if you like???
By: Chris Broad - 9th March 2005 at 22:01
Excellent Chris, although your landing was a little bumpy!
I know, tell me about it! All the other practices – ace landings, nice three pointers. When it comes to recording, bump bang bounce arrgghh! 😀 😀 😀
Thanks for the comments guys, sorry about the size of the file, i’m working on that as we speak. Should have the file size reduced somewhat when i get a hang of this compression malarky in Premiere!
I hope to have a basic website up soon, maybe even tomorrow if i stay awake long enough tonight! It’ll have some basic info, screenshots and video clips.
Watch this space, as they say! 😉
By: kurmitz28 - 9th March 2005 at 19:48
Excellent Chris, although your landing was a little bumpy!
By: Stieglitz - 9th March 2005 at 19:48
25MB! 😮
But the clip does show some very fine formation flying. Very well done chris. I’m looking forward to the next clip.
J.V.
By: Chris Broad - 9th March 2005 at 15:24
Thanks for the comments guys! Have you checked out our first promo video? It was uploaded this morning and can be found here:
http://www.web-wings.co.uk/chrisbroad/VBF_Promo_Hi.wmv
(25.4Mb)
(Thanks to T5/Michael at webwings who is kindly hosting this file – thank you!)
By: Stieglitz - 9th March 2005 at 13:39
Formation Flying is difficult in FS9. But it can be doneafter a lot of practice. Very nice repaints and superb fomation flying!
Well done Chris!
J.V.
By: DazDaMan - 9th March 2005 at 12:27
Great stuff, Chris. Had a go at formation flying on another sim once – that was a laugh..!!
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