After inspecting your truck for any discrepancies, you put on your helmet and start climbing onto the driver seat. Once strapped in, you get a radio message from your crew that you're clear to start up. But instead of turning a key, you're flipping a few switches; and instead of hearing the rumbling noise of a diesel engine, you're hearing the spinning of the turbines.At this point, you're not inside a normal truck. You're sitting aboard one of the fastest jet-powered land vehicles ever to be recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records. That's right! This is the Les Shockley Shockwave Jet Truck.
Now, as you taxi towards your designated runway, you please the crowd by showing off the flames and smoke coming out of your three powerful jet engines. As soon as you're done with the effects, you finally arrive at the runway. You apply parking brakes and re-check all instruments and safety equipments as the crew on the radio goes through the checklist one last time. You then get the all clear over the radio as the crowd gets their cameras ready in the distance. You look at your side-view mirror and you can see a pilot coming in from behind in his Mig-15. You can feel the power of the engines putting out more thrust as you apply more throttle. At the last second, as the Mig-15 approaches, you push the throttle to the max and then release the parking brakes. Before you know it, you're blasting through the runway as you approach 300+ knots while the pilot is flying right next to you in formation. The crowd frantically takes pictures and videos of every moment of the run.
By now, you can clearly see the end of the runway getting really close. The pilot next to you pull out of formation as you cut the throttle and deploy the drag chute. You feel the Gs as you come to a complete stop some distance later. With the engines idle and the truck now still, you can hear the crowd in the distance cheering. As you taxi back towards the parking area, your crew guides you in to a final stop before shutting off all engines and then applying the parking brakes once more. You get off the truck after unbuckling yourself. You're then given a pat in the back by your crew. At the same time, you can see the pilot coming in for a nice landing after the performance.
Flight Sim Ground Vehicles has now released a complete package of the Les Shockley Shockwave Jet Truck that features special effects such as flames, afterburners, and light maps along with with formation models for visual effect. Now you can enjoy any online air show with your friends as you speed down the runway with this new add-on.
Credits:
Charles Backus: Dynamics
Jessy Corrales: Visual Jet Truck Model, Textures, Animations
J. P. Dremmerle: Visual FH-1 Phantom Model
Atsuchi Terui: Afterburner Effects
Richard Probst: N1 Gauges
Ferrysab: Sound pack
Cheers,
Jessy Corrales
FSGV Admin
FlightSimGroundVehicles.com
