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Lufthansa Airport Bus

Lufthansa operates an airport bus at Frankfurt's EDDF, a real vehicle equipped with lights and a control panel. Its presence on the field highlights typical ground operations around the terminal and taxiways for daytime service.

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Catering Truck Replacement Textures

Most airports worldwide host four BMP files that accompany night and day visuals for a catering truck sporting Lufthansa Sky service branding and Gategourmet. It targets the default Landmark trucks and remains compact, with a file size around 2 MB.

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Abrams M-1A1 Tank

Version 3 of the M-1A1 Abrams tank presents a panel featuring two bitmaps—the main panel and a gunner's panel—with gauges at the top and ten lighted sound buttons that trigger tank gun sounds. Ten sounds cover weapons and incoming fire, including automatic weapons, each playing once; color-coded buttons light, by David Roush.

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Military Airshow Manoeuvres

An F/A-18F Super Hornet project by the FSKBT Team presents maneuver sequences described in a word document, anchored to the aircraft’s flight dynamics. Inspired by Farnborough in the UK, the airshow plan targets completion in under 10 minutes, noting real pilots achieve the task in under 6 minutes.

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Sanyo Blimp

Frank J. Petriccione authors the blimp concept. An image file named sanyoblimp.jpg sits at /media/images1/Image/sanyoblimp.jpg, with alt text Sanyo Blimp and a JPG-format graphic, confirming the asset's visual identity for cataloging purposes in archives today.

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AI Geese

By Joe Binka, tools and technical notes address AI traffic interactions as Canadian geese populate the sky, focusing on how wildlife affects traffic flow. The guidance rests on practical AI traffic know-how and shows an image named geese.gif.

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Fuji Blimp

By Frank J. Petriccione, the world famous Fuji Blimp features an enhanced gondola and night lighting, with Bill Lyons supplying the blimp sound and G. Kirschstein tunes the flight dynamics.

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ISA Whitestar Sci Fi model

The Whitestar warship from Babylon 5 stands as the Interstellar Alliance’s principal warship. Matthew T. Stapleton credits a model that captures the vessel’s profile, offering a concise, standalone representation for fans and modelers alike today.

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FS2004Macross VF-1S Valkyrie

Series No.19 hosts a plastic model that depicts Roy Fokker's Special of U.N.SPACY, based on the Japanese animation Super Dimension Fortress MACROSS. It can transform into three forms—Gerwalk, Fighter, and Valkyrie—with a limitation, and an image labeled VF-1S_Gerwalk.jpg accompanies it.

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Seaplane Bases Listing

An uncomplicated listing presents all default seaplane bases in a Microsoft Excel format, with coverage limited to the United States. The author clearly disclaims any guarantee of accuracy or usefulness, noting it is for entertainment and should not be used for real-world aviation.

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Fly By v2.0

An option adds fly by view in tower mode and introduces AI fly-by choices; users can pick planes from a list and display them in fly by or spot plane views, cycle through with keyboard commands, and apply horizontal and vertical randomization with two modes, constant and variable distance, by Valery Stenin.

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Water Dump/Drop Effect

The water discharge effect relies on fx_water_dump.fx and links three smoke entries, smoke.0, smoke.1, and smoke.2 invoking fx_water_dump. In flight, pressing i starts the release, and pilots skim a lake or ocean to replenish, preferably aboard water landable aircraft.

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Chicago TrolleyCopter

By Wm. R. Pulick, the Chicago TrolleyCopter merges vintage Chicago streetcar inspiration from the 1940s with aerial capability, allowing it to fly, hover, and float while featuring advanced hidden rotors. The design enables sign customization through a BMP file, adjusting side, front, and roof markings to display a personal name or image.

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Simulated Aircraft Bubble Sextant

An interactive gauge that simulates the sextant and the method of crossing lines of position to fix a location, drawing on 1940s star-position tables. It works with any aircraft in the simulation and ships a comprehensive browser-based manual and references, credited to Dave Bitzer and Mark Beaumont.

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Visual Index for FS2004 Scenery Objects

This compact reference catalogs 197 basic objects and centers on Roger Mole's design package, with Kevin Ryan listed as the contributor. Access requires Excel, and the listing includes an image file named VEH_carrier1.jpg to illustrate one example.

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Flips version 1.1

Flips functions as a small utility that renders flightplans in 3D, helping users confirm waypoints align with exit landmarks. Version 1.1 reads three variations and eases loading of flightplans edited in an earlier workflow, with Michael Rook credited as the creator.

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Pushback Tug Textures for POSKY Boeing 737-700

Early builds display incorrect tug visuals, and later versions correct them for pushback operations. Visual mappings cover Aeromexico, Air Berlin, Air China, AirTran, Alaska, Aloha, Boeing House, Braathens, China Eastern, Continental, Copa, Easyjet, Ethiopian, Jet Airways, Luxair, malex, Malev, Royal Air Maroc, SAS, and Southwest.

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Wintery Haze FX

The program adds a wintery ground haze, echoing blowing snow you would see while driving down a highway in a snow storm. A reference image uses the file Winter Haze.jpg, located at /userimages/Winter Haze.jpg, guiding the visual cue.

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Fly Away In-Flight Kneeboard

An in-flight kneeboard enables pilots to connect with the site forums and participate in in-flight chat while remaining airborne, while also allowing browsing of other discussions on the site during the journey. The arrangement provides a forum-specific chat experience and preserves connectivity to forums beyond the in-flight channel.

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RapidShot v1.7

RapidShot functions as a lightweight screenshot utility that captures the screen via Print Screen or a hotkey, converts images to JPG or BMP, and saves them into a category. It enables rapid captures and provides integrated image, thumbnail and file viewers to rename, move and delete screenshots, while Time-lapsed mode takes shots at user-defined intervals.

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