Laminar Research X-Plane 8 Part 2 Page 6

By SimHQ on June 17, 2005 in _air4, hide

If quiet and graceful is your cup of tea then get towed aloft in a sailplane to catch the ridge lift or thermals that X-Plane models.

Another one of my personal favorites is the Bombardier CL-415 water bomber. This is a super fun airplane that can land on water or hard surfaces. Scoops in the belly allow you to skim across the surface of lakes and rivers to pick up water that can be dumped on fires. The cockpit is very well done and the flight model feels like a heavily laden beast when the tanks are full of water. (CL-415 by Cristiano Maggi, Sergio Santagada, and Massimo Durando)

Here we are at a beautiful seaplane base in the Pacific Northwest. (Fire and Ice scenery by Tom Curtis)