Zero versus B-24 Liberator
Chino reported
in 2000 :
"Something about the lighting and rendering in this sim just blows my mind -- although
European Air War
is very "painterly" (as you said in the museum, like flying in a Robert Taylor painting),
Microsoft Combat Flight Sim 2
is approaching photo-realism.
So much so that in some screen shots, you have the effect of a hyper-realistic-style oil painting (you somehow know it's not a photo, but so close... perhaps with anti-aliasing... )
One oddity you can see in the last shot -- the B-24D cockpit structure is wrong, too much glass on top. The B-24 had very claustrophobic cockpit windows -- this version looks more like a B-26 cockpit (I'm sure there will be a user-built replacement soon enough). But otherwise the B-24 is superbly rendered, and the Zero, even more so !
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This looks just like the very detailed 1/48 scale metal model of a Zero that I have on my desk here --
I spotted it in a department store in Tokyo some years ago. Our Japanese reps give me a gift at the
farewell party every time I visit. Since I've visited many times, Tanaka-san routinely asks me what
I want, rather than giving me yet another set of geisha-girl coasters.
So I told them I wanted this Zero model, which was something like $ USD 80.00 at the time.
It required slight assembly and it weighs about 5 pounds! The Zero was quite an elegant little
plane, one of my faves.
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Charles H. Cook
flew a B-24D named "Cookie" with the 90th Bombardment Group in the southwest Pacific in 1942-1943.
At that time, Allied forces were greatly outnumbered, and Japanese invasion of New Guinea and Australia was
a very real threat.
Bruce Irving
has interviewed Charlie Cook and composed this valuable record of his aviation career.
The entire article is also available for free download here - Charles H. Cook.
Charles H. Cook passed away on
on Saturday January 20th, 2007. Missed by friends and family.
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