News | 24.11.2008 |
30.10.2008 |
Tempelhof Airport, located right in the heart of Berlin is handled as the
"Mother of all Airports" and is the first flight traffic airport of the world.
Among pilots, who are enabled to make a comparison is Tempelhof one of the
most beautiful airports of the world. Is was and is the "State of Liberty" for the German people, specially for the people of West Berlin. Without Tempelhof and without the unique Air Bridge of the Allied, the sowjet blockade of Berlin might have ended in another way for West Berlin as well as for the free world. For these reasons is Tempelhof a symbol of freedom for us. Also for the Economy of Berlin is the airport extremely important, due to the short distance from Downtown. Even though, Tempelhof Airport was closed on the 30th. October 2008 by the Berlin Mayor in Klaus Wowereit, against all logical thinking and against the will of the majority of the citizens. Leading people from the political, media, science, sports and business world were in favour to keep the airport operating - without results. Why was the airport closed? Those are facts that the people of Berlin would also like to know. All the by Wowereit and his communist party given reasons were one by one shown to be a fake. Also the City of Berlin that already is full of debts is charged with the high costs of the closing of the Tempelhof Airport. A black day for Berlin, October 30th 2008 and also a black day for democracy. In order to let you have a chance to see what I am talking about, I am showing some further pages with pictures. These pictures were taken from my "Home Base" due to my interest for old planes. |
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Best pictures from airport Tempelhof | |||||||
11/24/2007 |
I have found a very good and new book with many colored pictures around the F-16 C and D. |
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Literature about the F-16 and air combat | |||||||
08/06/2007 |
After long time I have updated my web site with any new pictures, that I had make
in the last two years on different airbases. |
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Outside pictures from the F-16 - Part 9 | Outside pictures from the F-16 - Part 10 | ||||||
Outside pictures from the F-16 - Part 11 | Outside pictures from the F-16 - Part 12 | ||||||
Outside pictures from the F-16 - Part 13 | Outside pictures from the F-16 - Part 14 | ||||||
Outside pictures from the F-16 - Part 15 | |||||||
02/12/2005 |
Many good and nice friends from me give me in the last time a chance to visit different
Airbases around Europe. For me was this a very good chance to study the F-16 in different
versions - in life and as simulator. Thanks for all to all the nice people who's help me
and help me by questions and other!! |
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Pictures from the F-16 MLU Simulator - Part 9 | Pictures from the F-16 MLU Simulator - Part 10 | ||||||
Cockpit pictures from the F-16 - Part 4 | Links to other good F-16 Sites | ||||||
AUDIO 1 Panel | AVTR Panel | ||||||
Avionics Power Panel | |||||||
06/05/2004 |
Thanks to good relations of a friend with the Commanding Officer of the Royal
Netherlands Air Force Base in Volkel, me and Dieter "Phaser" got the unique chance to
visit the base and have a vast look at the F-16 MLU simulators that are located there
;-)... and have a flight in them. The 311st and the 312th Squad as well as the 306th
with their F-16 are stationed at Volkel. After the 9.11 and under normal conditions
almost no civilian gets this chance, so that we were extremely happy that we had been
invited to the base. We got the chance for over four hours to take pictures as well as
taking measurements for our cockpit-project and learning lots about the Royal
Netherlands Air Force F-16 MLU (of course only the "NON CLASSIFIED" data). We also were
allowed to fly the simulator extensively. For me was this visiting enrichment, as we were received by the base members with extreme kindness and friendship; it was just incredible. We just felt like being welcomed into a "large family". My special thanks to the Commanding Officer, Colonel de Rave, Major "Longo" van der Hoeven and to our Flight Instructor Axel. Now just another info: There are some "Open Days" held at the base In Volkel on June 18th and June 19th. These days should be marked in each F-16 fan's agenda! I have updated some data and pictures on some other places of this Site. Have fun searching for them ;-) |
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Pictures from the F-16 MLU simulator - Part 7 | Pictures from the F-16 MLU simulator - Part 8 | ||||||
Pictures from the F-16 MLU simulator - Part 9 | Outside pictures from the F-16 - Part 12 | ||||||
Outside pictures from the F-16 - Part 13 | Outside pictures from the F-16 - Part 14 | ||||||
03/21/2004 |
The Realsimulator guys in
Spain have again a very interesting new feature for the F-16 cockpit builder: They have
been able to produce a reasonable priced modification kit for the Thrustmaster's Cougar,
using force transducers. When using force transducers, the control signals are not given
by movements, but via the applied force. This method is also used in the realF-16. This
modification kit also solves the space problem that appears when installing a stick into
the cockpit. I have purchased this kit from Realsimulator and have modified my stick.
Here you can read how it worked. |
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The FSSB | |||||||
03/11/2004 |
I have gathered a series of new information about the panels and I am showing this info
on my page. One of this news refers to the Caution Panel, which now gives the correct
dimensions according to different models and versions. I have also enhanced the colored
cockpit layouts and corrected many small details. Have fun while looking around! |
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All panel pages starting here... | The caution panel | ||||||
Documents, plans and checklists of the F-16 | |||||||
01/22/2004 |
Finaly the time has come and the Realsimulator's
ICP has arrived; it looks phantastic! Now I am the proud owner of the RS MFDs AND the ICP.
I think these parts make a perfect match. Don't you think so? |
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12/14/2003 |
Only a number of small corrections I have make in my site. But in the near future I will make
a new chapter of the shell of the F-16 include measurements and many very good pictures. |
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All sites from here... | |||||||
07/28/2003 |
A number of small corrections which had accumulated in the course of the time I
has installed to the side. And some panel layouts were also added. |
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All sites from here... | |||||||
02/01/2003 |
I have corrected the coloured cockpit-drawings; finally all measurements of each
panel match correctly. Also the colours of the lights and other details have
been updated using good pictures and documentation. A very special help was
given to me by Kostas and Philippe and to thank them I have drawn two more cockpit
layouts. They are the layouts of the F-16A MLU, number FA-93 of the Belgian Airforce and
the layout of the F-16C Block, number 88-0136 of the Greek Airforce. Therefore, now the
following layouts are available for download at my document
site:
Based on these drawings I have redone also the sites that deal with panels. |
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Documents, plans and checklists of the F-16 | All panel pages starting here... | ||||||
01/10/2003 | In this time my provider have big problems with the web-server. The result is, that you can't use now my forum and you can't download the pictures in a great scale and the plans. I hope, in the middle of next week you can use my site without problems. | ||||||
12/23/2002 |
For some days my simulator friend Dieter "Phaser" and I had the opportunity to visit
Manuel "Fox" and Bartolomé "Shark", the guys from Realsimulator
in Madrid / Spain. They are looking forward to build themselves a full metal F-16C Block
50, as accurate as possible. Their knowledges about working with metal have been already
proven through the Rudder Pedals they have already
built. In order to achieve this and to cover some of the big expenses they are having,
they plan to sell some small numbers of cockpits later on. The pit will be high quality,
built on a modular basis an will be sold on a modular basis also. During this visit in Spain I also had a chance to see their development of the ACES II they are building. As the original, it is almost completely made of metal, and it is almost a perfect copy of the real thing. The construction is very stable and the finish is perfect. The whole appearance is just great. All visible bolts are placed and formed by hand. Also a realistic function of the seat will be achieved, but at this time I am not allowed to tell you about the details ;-). The seat will be offered in the first half of 2003. I will buy one seat anyway. |
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11/23/2002 |
Chrismas-Time!!!
I have been a long time looking for real rudder pedals or at least a good copy of them
for my simulator. After some time I found the product at Realsimulator in Spain. They
produce the F-16 rudders in a very good quality, toe-brakes, adjusting basis capability
to be used with the Cougar by Thrustmaster. After consulting several times my "internal" and external banking institutes, and after deciding to cancel my next vacation-trip, I decided to buy these pedals, and I have to say that I was not disappointed at all!! What I received by mail some days later, allmost made me cry. Aprox. 10 Kg of steel an aluminium in the best quality and workmanship. ;-) These things are just pure MADNESS ! Even though they have a high price, for me they are worth each penny I paid for. For those who are interested in the pedals, I have written a Test-report with lots of pics.
And I have new Suggested literature from the F-16. |
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The real rudder pedals | Suggested literature about the F-16... | ||||||
11/18/2002 |
I have received from Kostas Kefalas a series of very good pictures of the cockpit of the
F-16 Block 30 of the greek Air Force. He kindly authorized me to use some of them for my
Site. Thanks to these pictures, some panels and gauges are shown better. I have also finished the first technical drawings of some panels. They are the drawings for the Light-Plate from the Gear Panels, as well as for the Caution Panels. |
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Any panel pages starting here... | Drawings from the Caution Panel | ||||||
Drawings from the Gear Panel | |||||||
09/26/2002 |
Finally I have finished them. Based on the cockpit-drawing from Prohm Snitwong,
I have made the new cockpit-layouts of the different F-16 versions, trying to give as
much details as possible. Now yopu can recognize each single screw, each labeling of
each panel, according to the different versions. I have the following Layouts for you:
Of course I have modifued according to these layouts the drawings on the panel site. I took into consideration, as far as I had the information the different versions of the panels. For example, have a look at the different UHF panels and MISC panels. |
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Documents, plans and checklists of the F-16 | All panel pages starting here... |
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(c) by Martin "Pegasus" Schmitt |