2nd FS Beagles

Ok, would any of you out there with skills at making skins out there be willing to make up a skin for the 2nd FS at Tyndall AFB (gold tails)? I'm an old Eagle Keeper who crewed 82-0031 for about 8 years at Tyndall from '03 to when it closed down around 2010'ish. I'd like to get some 'time' in my old jet. :D

Ok, the "American Beagle" Patch goes on the left side of the fuselage a little ways behind the intake and the 325th FW patch goes on the same place on the right side of the fuselage. More to come later.

Cheers mate, if you can just put up a picture your name below the cockpit i can get that done too, i found some pictures of your old unit's jet's from wikipedia and your old gal, shame she don't look as beautiful as in your above shots

no doubt you probably seen this one

also of note i found and downloaded the USAF font so this will help me now and in the future

Aw man! you FOUND HER! I remember sending her out to the bone-yard at Davis-Monthan. Then I crewed A-10's there with the 357th FS, I visited the bone-yard and got to say goodbye to 82-0031 again just the way she is in this picture. Kinda sad really. She was a good jet and not because I was any good at keeping her flying, I had a lot of help. My name is actually on the side of it, right side of the cockpit where the DCC and the assistant CC names are. This pic shows the tail detail pretty well too.

82-0031

This was on the last day she spent at Tyndall AFB. The close up of the Crew Chief's names on the right side of the cockpit is on one pic. The other is on takeoff to Davis-Monthan AFB's bone-yard or AMARG as it used to be called. Let me know if you need some some more pics.

Cheers mate, that pictures a bit better for the crew chief's name but do you have a proper 90degree angle/side on shot of his name? if not can you tell me what the font is?

I've just started work on your bird now.

on a side note do you know what bird was your commander's bird at the time?

I've found this photo and rendered image

790021

750021

I can only find 790021 in photographs as the CO's bird so am assuming 750021 maybe a typo on the artists behalf?

Literally missed your response to the picture i found earlier, guess that's lack of sleep for you haha.

I love the attachment that can be seen in your response to a picture of her, it's as warming as seeing someones attachment to a pet, glad to see she served you well and that the guys maintained her well(naturally they would)

Being a lover of 15's i'm curious what were they like flying, how did they feel? Were they as responsive as DCS makes out?

I bet it must be slightly frustrating to not be able to have the full fidelity of say the Hornet?

So just want your opinion on this mate, does the text placements look right, and is the badge the right size?

Yep, the tail flash looks really good there. We had quite a few of the different tail numbers seen in the flight of four there. My jet had an 82 in front of it but we had tail numbers with the front two numbers being from 78 all the way through 83. Those front two (smaller) numbers were the year that the lot was ordered/paid for. We always referred to those first two numbers as the year that each was "born" in or built during, so I'd refer to my bird being an "'82 model". The Eagle was always both high performance and with that came VERY high maintenance.

As Crew Chief (Maintainer) we get to know each air-frame like nobody else. We don't really know how the Eagle "feels" when flown, but we spend a lot more time with them than the pilots do. The pilots track their time as a pilot in hours, we track our time in years so we know those aircraft like nobody else does. Even our avionics/radio/radar specialists spend less time on them than the crew chief does since they've got to move on to other jets with problems on them when they're needed. The Crew Chief must spend most of their day inspecting every inch of the outside and a lot of what's on the inside to include the servicing.

I did have the privilege of going for ACT mission in the back seat of one of our two-seaters. The feeling of absolute raw power from those engines and the maneuverability of that airframe isn't like what you'll feel in anything else. I got a little stick time and the impression between the real thing and the flight model in DCS is very comparable.

The FS CO's bird was indeed 79-0021.

The photo supplied is of the right hand maintainers box. This was taken on the day we sent the jet to the AMARG "Boneyard" so we signed under each name. Not very well either but I'll just blame it on being a little distraught. ;) I don't really know what the font is. For me I'd just choose on that's close, a leaning cursive of any sort would do. The pilot assigned to it was LT.Col Wade Causey (this would be on the top line) and his callsign was "Spike" (this would be on the second line) in the same font as what you'd choose on the maintainers box on the right.

It would look like this:

Lt.Col Wade Causey

"Spike" <----centered under the name in the box

Cool, my apologies it seems my brain didn't register that you were crew chief, only registered on the last message - the wonders of lack of sleep.

Thanks for the little titbit of inside story

Apologies this is taking me a bit of time, been working on manipulating the image you posted with your signature into a usable texture(a first for me)

So my intentions are this: 790021, a general skin and for you a personal skin with your signature

No worries and many thanks for this as well. It's also been a while since I checked in as Real Life issues have taken up a lot of my time, as they should. No worries at all about the time it's taken to do this. :thumbup: