Agreed, it would be cool if HeatBlur or Eagle Dynamics would do an airshow style demonstration alongside the cinematic trailers with more aircraft

completely right, it fucking got me

Well the thing is they polish 3d models once close to release. But heatblur did this for the second time. As f14 was first introduced to us the exact same way. Can’t wait for ef2000 intro at next year one? (Too much hope? XD ) Tho i would agree that razbam, could have use this. Aerges did some airshow with the sexy mirage f1 too btw.

You're right it's the entire point of airshows so they are literally just doing what Aviation companies do IRL. You show off your aircraft around the world at airshows to build interest in it and hopefully get international sales.

Gotta watch them knife edged seals, they'll get ya every time when you're not watching

loose seal! watch out for the loose seal!

REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT--but be CAREFUL after you do! 🙂

@@Boots3862 I worked at the sound suppressor, a water cooled muffler system for noise suppression, those tags were removed before the engines were fired up.

My old man was a USMC Phantom Phixer on F-4Bs with VMFA-115, the "Silver Eagles", based at Chu Lai in Nam from 1966-67 and I have dreamed of a full fidelity sim of this old beast since he told me about "his" pilot Smokey taking him up for a farewell flight before he rotated back to The World and him telling me that breaking mach in the Phantom was the single baddest ass experience of his life. I literally burnt out our Beta Max tape of Top Gun as a kid so I was jacked for the DCS F-14 but I am even more hyped for the F-4, USAF puke E-model or not lol And btw, this is a helluva long shot but the DCS community contains a lot of longtime aviation community/military vets and since my pops kicked it when I was just about to turn 11 I never knew Smokey's actual name but if any of you guys are aware of a USMC pilot with the call sign "Smokey" that served with VMFA-115 in the Nam gimme a reply. Anyways, can't wait for this bird and will be in the air on Day One!!!

Something around 10:58 kind of gives you that "it's not quite real" feeling

​@@alexisbv2299You mean you cannot wear an anorak at Nellis AFB? 🤣😂

@@alexisbv2299 Those blow-up dolls looked pretty real

The cockpit cam is almost realistic as a real one

Real plane has grey bottom, not camouflage pattern.

Those Reno boys were wild, love the old tapes you can find on KZfaq of them crashing a picnic by the lake at about 20ft AGL.

I know, the only thing I can think of for their next module most likely being the A-6E is a briefing room you can enter before flight and maybe ground crew working around the plane when you remove chocks and connect/disconnect gpu

performance is always the highest bar to clear, but aside from that, I think the next logical step is having modularity to a point where development CAN branch out and just update the plane creating new versions without fundamentally rewriting the plane. I.e. if it wasn't all red taped devs could build an F-4G out of this

​@@LungolordsIIRC it will be eurofighter then A6

Again, a first by Heatblur... as expected! :D

Right with ya there. Although I did see Blue Angel #5 auger in right in front of me in Lake Charles, La.

@@Coldwarrior7781 Oof, glad I never saw anything like that!

@@writerrhino166 He ejected on the deck. Chute went down right in the middle of the fireball but he came running out about 30 seconds later. Had a scratch on his nose from the visor. They had another incident a few weeks later. The Thunderbirds had their problems in the F4 too. All Phantoms were grounded worldwide briefly to see what was up. I think they just decided those kind of maneuvers were a bad idea that close to the ground and put out advisories to keep it high. The Angels went to the A4 and the T Birds to the T38. Both those planes while not being as badass to watch were much better suited to tight, precise airshow flying. A side note. I was 12 when that happened and I was with a school buddy before flying began that day. Standing in front of the parked Angels he told me he had a feeling one would crash AND that it would be #5. Of course I rolled my eyes but then did I ever learn.

I've been wondering if they'll release earlier phantoms

E makes the most sense to match the Bis.

This needs to happen

There will be an early and a late variant

To showcase Robin Olds, we'll be needing several DLC packs!

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pdFma7GIrrLUYXk.htmlsi=-e3vwwMxS1eZYKCU 🙂

There was one done for the F-14 a while ago: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pdFma7GIrrLUYXk.htmlsi=pM5c8K2w2ogHzht7

When the F-14 was coming out they did a virtual airshow with it too before it was released

There IS the pre-release F14 video. It's even better than this one!

There are excellent videos of the F14

You mean like the event organizers or heatblur taking part in the event? Because they did this with the f14 at the same virtual airshow

@@RW-zn8vy Wow. Thanks for letting me know. Had no idea that Heatblur did it first with the F-14.

SP? Me too.

Besides a stint in the Air Force and done a lot of flying I have attended over 200 air shows. I've seen it all. And the F4 wouldn't last a minute against today's examples but this airplane still raises my heart rate and gives goosebumps whenever I see one where the others don't. Just taxiing it seems to shoulder the others out of the way like the town tough guy. The last American ace was flying this.

The first two squadrons ( 36 aircraft ) of the H.A.F. ( Greece ) delivered in the years 1974 and 1975, were equipped with the older ( smocking ) engine : J-79-17A and only the third squadron of 18 aircraft was equipped with the J-79-17E/G. In the year 2000, 36 of the remaining F-4E of the H.A.F. ( Greeece ), were upgraded by German and Israeli companies up to the F-4E/AUP standard and all the engines of those 36 aircraft were upgraded to the smokless version.

Yes. Glad you liked it!

I COMPLETELY AGREE... The F4 always sounded angry and passed off when you heard it turn... or behind it... It makes the F18 sound like a toy.

we're gonna get the TISEO camera with the DMAS variant later down the line

That's the late f4e version, It will come out later in development

That was the Tiseo(?) Optics and it was on later models. The 68 models at Ramstein didn't have them. I was a crew chief in the 512th from 82-84.

We are getting two variants. "The simulation of both the DSCG and DMAS equipped -E variants, the DMAS version following later during the Early Access period. "

DCS flight models and avionics are 100 times better than MSFS

Whole different ball game w dcs. Get ready for the ride if so

Unless you’re into trainers you don’t need them in dcs.

Don’t spoil yourself! After flying this beauty, hardly a single other module will be able to attain the same standard!

Use the su25 to get a little experience.. it's a decent and fun aircraft to fly. And it's free.. You can go fly it right now and not spend a single penny.

Don't need a trainer, I recommend going through Eagle dynamics vs. Steam, I have the steam version and from what I've gathered is the stand alone is better plus Eagle dynamics offers sales and deals before steam.

As someone who owns every module, you don't really need trainers. As someone else said, just fly the SU-25T that's given to you in the game by default. It's one of my favorites, honestly.

Far out. Last of the seat of the pants flying.

Thank you for your purchase and welcome to the Heatblur community!

Your wish is our command. 🙂

@@104thironmike4 Awesome! I cannot wait!