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Ok, so this whole business didn't leave me in peace so I asked about it in a Model Forum too and I got this interesting answer regarding my question: I find this quite interessting. So the F-14 DOES have a slight "double Bubble" canopy. Another member in that forum also mentioned that he sees the same thing on the twin seat Vipers and I noticed it again on the Su-30 I think its quite visible in these pictures: I wonder if this is something that ALL twin seat Jets have but I never noticed it before because its actually quite faint. Best wishes, Alex

Any chance @Heatblur?

True. Maybe Heatblur can help here? Maybe something you could see in the scans they did to the old Turkey. @Cobra847 @IronMike would it maybe be possible for you to ask your visual artists if they noticed anything mentioned here? Maybe this is one of those hidden curves you normally dont really notice in the Tomcat.

yeah I also have multiple books with side views and some books have it and some other dont. I looked through a great amount of pictures over the months and sometimes i see it and sometimes not. I wonder if its maybe an optical illusion? Or maybe there are different canopy types for the F-14?

Hi! So I have bit of a weird question regarding to Tomcats canopy... See I have a Hasegawa F-14A kit at home and when I checked the construction plan I noticed something rather weird with the canopy: The Canopy is kinda "double Bubble" or "Butt" Shaped with the RIOs part of the Canopy getting higher in its own weird bubble canopy: Now this ofc probably is some weird error in the plan but it kinda made me a bit restless so I looked at a bunch of Plans of the Tomcat online and in books and I also tried out the DCS model viewer and real life pictures but I didn't come to a conclusion regarding this. Sometimes when I look at the Tomcat in pictures it kinda looks like there is a "double bubble" canopy and sometimes it doesn't. Does anyone with any vast Tomcat knowledge, maybe SME or maybe someone even from Heatblur (or someone with better eyes then me :o) ) know/can check if the F-14 canopy actually is designed that way? I am almost 100 % certain that it isn't as pronounced as in this model plan drawing but it kinda looks like the Pilots part of the canopy slopes downwards to the frame and then slopes upwards for the RIOs part again on the real bird as well sometimes. Or maybe my eyes are just deceiving me. I know its a weird question but I have looking into this for some time now (thx COVID for the time for stuff like that I guess) Would be awesome if somebody could help me out here! Best wishes Alex

Wow awesome. Thank you very much, I guess its really just a bad drawing after all. Thank you!

thank you. So if the asymetry exists its not as pronounced as in this bad drawing, is it?

I know its a rather weird request but is there a chance you could ask @IronMike ?

Hello! I may have quite a weird request towards HB but this is something that is getting on my nerves for quite some time now. Over the years I have grown very fond of the A-6 Intruder and the prospect of seeing it joining DCS as a highly detailed model makes me really excited. Over the years I have been gathering as much information on the "Tadpole" as possible Including many Scale-drawings... now you see I have have found many problems with those drawings who all draw the canopy of the Intruder with the "bubble" on the Pilots side in a kinda "raised" position so that the canopy loses its symmetry and this is kinda driving me nuts: http://imgur.com/a/N8DYcts you can see the problem when you look at the refueling probe: http://imgur.com/a/3rDYqJH[ once I noticed this I saw this problem (or is it?) in in multiple books and articles. Some even had multiple drawings either with the "extended" pilots "bubble" or with a normal symmetrical canopy. Now it is actually quite hard to get to the truth regarding this, it could ofc just be a bad drawing, but then again how exactly could I check that? There are multiple drawings of it all with different interpretations regarding this. Photos don't really help either since you don't really often see an angle of the aircraft directly from the front.... now if only there was a studio out there who happen to have actually scanned a real life Intruder :shifty: It may sound like a weird request but could you maybe inquire this for me with your 3d artists? Or with the people who scanned it to check this for me? Is the canopy symmetrical or is the drivers position canopy part raised a bit like in the above drawing? Its a stupid thing I know but ever since I saw that it really annoys me hahaha Best wishes Alex

Yeah I saw some news from 2017 that also said that they are still in service pretty much still the 1/3 to 2/3 ratio so I guess they did not change that much

Hi folks! No matter where I am looking I can‘t really find any info regarding this. Is the Night Attack variant still in service or is it completely replaced with the + variant? If it is out of service does anybody know when it was retired? Wikipedia does not really go into the details which variant anybody uses besides „AV-8b“ and other sites don‘t really help either. Cheers!

ups. Thx!

When it comes to the A-6 being playable I always remember this quote by HB themselves: "The A-6’s are built to our extremely exacting standards, with laser scanning forming the basis of our core workflow and ensuring complete accuracy in shape and dimensions. The Intruder is an aircraft that has been under active development at Heatblur Simulations for some time, and subject to a license agreement, we hope to eventually introduce it into DCS world as a full, playable module - and we are developing it with this intent in mind." https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.p...05#post3612905 Ofc things can change, nothing really is certain and who really knows what the future holds but imo I think HB will make an A-6 module if they put that much work into it already. Besides I think RAZBAM said "it seems like some other 3rd party dev is doing the Intruder" IIRC. It would be an instant buy by me cause the quality of their modules is beyond excellent.

Okay that is good to know but that was not really my question. Or am I missing something?

Hello guys, For some time now I am looking for some basic information on the Rafales Optronique Secteur Frontal System but since I don't speak french it is very hard for me to find any hard data or footage of what I am looking for to me the left ball shaped IRST looks kinda like it could pan and tilt like a FLIR camera. Does anybody know if the OSF can move by panning and tilting like a turret so that you can "look around" with it? Like a FLIR system ball turret does for example: I am looking for quite some time now for information regarding this but sadly I could not find any footage or any written source that says this. Has anybody some info regarding this or some video footage of it moving? Cheers.