FUCK YEAH CRIMSON SKIES

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Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge

“Certain death at your 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12 o’clock” (Xbox Nation #11, Dec 2003/Jan. 2004)

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‘Crimson Skies’

[PC] [USA] [Magazine] [2000]

Computer Gaming World, September 2000 (#194)

via CGW Museum

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Voile Noir, a film by Michaël Balthazart, Clément Granjon, Quentin Sauvinet and Raphaël Gaudin.

The aircraft are very Crimson Skies-ish... if a little futuristic.

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The oddest and most unconventional contender - probably for any aerial competition - was the Piaggio-Pegna PC.7.  The floatplane (or should we call it a ‘foilplane’?) was built for the 1929 Schneider Trophy contest. A cantilever high-wing monoplane with long slender fuselage, it had twin hydrofoils instead of floats and was intended to float with the wing resting on the surface of the water.

The PC.7, designed by Giovanni Pegna, was intended to float deep in the water, with the wings resting on the surface. The engine (723kW Isotta Fraschini Special V.6) had an extra shaft and clutch controlling a water-screw at the back. The plan was for the aircraft to first operate using the water-screw and a lower rudder - like a boat. As it gained speed, the hydrofoils would generate lift and raise the aircraft, clearing the main engine/propeller above the water. The pilot would then switch to conventional controls, and the main engine clutch would be engaged… 

Without the aerodynamic drag induced by floats or the weight they added to an aircraft, Pegna projected that the P.7 would reach high speeds. Sources differ on the speeds he predicted, claiming both 580 km/h (360 mph) and 700 km/h (434.7 mph).

The PC.7 never flew. Although theoretically possible, the control/clutch configuration would have required a pilot with more than two arms. In practice, problems with the respective clutches prevented the P.c.7 from ever taking off, and although water trials were conducted on Lake Garda by Dal Molin of the Italian Schneider team, the construction of a second aircraft was abandoned.

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Crimson Skies long before Crimson Skies was a thing.

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Faux poster for a Rocketeer sequel that never would have been, created by Alex Griendling.

Artist's description: 

Iam8bit’s gallery show, Sequel, asked artists to create a piece for a fictitious sequel to an existing movie they loved. I chose Disney’s adaptation of The Rocketeer, which pit the all-American hero against the Nazis in 1938. For this imagined sequel, Cliff Secord must again don the Rocketeer moniker to fight off a Soviet threat that’s amassed an army of their own jet-packed soldiers.

Check it out! Pretty awesome, huh?

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Jumping on the American regional bandwagon, this is my map, which accounts for a lot of stuff that others usually don’t, like Native sovereignty and the fact that the West and the South aren’t just two vast cultural regions, they’re more like blocs that include several distinct regions. I have a whole series that can be found at Dangersquirrel.tumblr.com/tagged/america.

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Interesting how closely this mirrors Crimson Skies!

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Fairchild F611 “Brigand” departing carrier — July 2nd, 1933

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It even has a retractable hook for docking and everything!

More pictures of this magnificent Brigand (sporting a Vee rather than a radial engine) can be found here: http://www.eurobricks.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=87832

For more Lego planes and contraptions that look like they jumped right out of the skies above the shattered union, check out these creations here: http://www.flickriver.com/photos/25163007@N07/popular-interesting/

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On the topic of Crimson Skies aircraft in real life. The first one is the Blohm Voss P.170, which was designed as a fast bomber and probably served as inspiration for the game's Warhawk. Second we have the Henschel P.75, a canard fighter and basis for the Bloodhawk.

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Kyushu J7W Shinden—the quintessential Crimson Skies-style "what if" aircraft!

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Curtiss-Wright P-55 Defender

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Developed as a fast interceptor the Defender uses two V-12 engines mounted to the airframe in a tandem fashion, this rather unusual design immensely reduces the aircraft’s drag. The P-55 can be pushed to a respectable 450 mph at sea level, not to mention its insane climb rate and acceleration. Poor low-speed performance and a comparatively high stall speed encourage pilots to keep the throttle open for the duration of the flight.

The Defender comes armed with four .70cal cannons mounted to the wing roots as well as one 37mm autocannon mounted to the nose. With such a heavy armament the P-55 comes with very little ammunition.

All of the above factors make the P-55 an energy fighter more than anything else.

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Something a little different, for once I drew a regular CS-esque prop and not one of my jet-variants.

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Just thought I might reblog this.

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Boris Iofan, Rendering of the Palace of the Soviets, Moscow, USSR, 1930 (via mapia)

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What Moscow almost certainly looks like in the Crimson Skies universe!

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Let's Reboot... Crimson Skies | Let's Reboot | PC Gamer

See this permanently crinkled forehead, these prematurely silver locks, and this twitchy eyebrow? This is how a person looks when he's spent the last twelve years waiting for a PC sequel to the best light flight game ever made. A chap can do a lot of sighing and head shaking in four and half thousand days. Happily, he can do plenty of pipe-dreaming too. Move those spanners and coffee cups to one side; it's time to unfurl the heavily annotated PC Gamer blueprint for Crimson Skies 2!

Well I just thought I'd post this because damn ... this is what we need.

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Postcard from DC—at the Headquarters of the League of Nations.

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Today needs some cheering up.

Here’s some airship art to help the mood.

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"Ocean liners may be the kings of luxury, and the airplane the king of speed—but when it comes to reaching every corner of these disunited states, today's Zeppelin is truly the king of the modern aero-age!"

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Unrealized monumental art-deco architecture befitting the Empire State!