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Sooz Pascale · 11-04-2009, 05:46 PM

If you come to my sim, Kyllie is just south of us in Tsurington. She has the coolest tree house and so help me I have RESISTED the temptation to go in there and look around. That J rock club is a complete eyesore. Oh well.

As far as boat rez places, maybe we can start a list of places to rez boats and/or aircraft. For staters with boats, search for yacht clubs. Most of the major yacht clubs have rez areas, Triumphal, Mowry Bay, Starbourds, Nantuckett and the Nautilus City Yacht Clubs to name a few. So does ZeeWest Marina. Also in Halfhitch Island in the Blake Sea there is one on the South side of the island next to the boat docks. It is tricky to find cause you cant rez from the dock, you have to fly over the water next to the dock to rez.

Would any of you be interested in doing some group flights on the weekends?

Let me know.

Sooz

For airports, search for airports, airfields and aviation. Some let you rez a plane, others don't unless you are a group member.

Kyllie Wylie · 11-04-2009, 09:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Brenda Connolly

Bring it, Bitch!

This time im ready! no more easy sinking my battleship cause I forgot to bring planes!!

In fact I got a whole room full of em!! (soon as I can round up about 25K lindens!)

Trout Recreant · 11-04-2009, 10:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Kyllie Wylie

Hi Kyllie! Where is this? I don't recognize it.

Kyllie Wylie · 11-05-2009, 04:48 AM

its the Yamato of Japan Sim, same one that has the bettleship in it.
he makes and sells ww2 japanese planes.

BEARintheMorning · 11-05-2009, 09:18 AM

I'm going to have to pop by when I have some time. The place looks like a lot of fun Sooz.

Sooz Pascale · 11-05-2009, 01:22 PM

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Originally Posted by BEARintheMorning

I'm going to have to pop by when I have some time. The place looks like a lot of fun Sooz.

Love to have you visit Bear.

Sooz

Evola · 11-05-2009, 11:46 PM

LL added rez zones on the NE corner of each Blake Sea sim recently, besides all the scattered rez zones established previously such as on Half-Hitch, Spyglass, Windlass, etc. they're plentiful but most are poorly marked if at all.. also, there's docks for boats and seaplanes on Grand Manan, just off of Blake, with an airport up behind it(I don't reccomend the latter for novices, Santa Catalina is good though, as is the airstrip on Honah Lee). Hollykai Two and Three are great places to rez boats as well, basically a giant golf course

Tess Whitcroft · 11-05-2009, 11:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Kyllie Wylie

its the Yamato of Japan Sim, same one that has the bettleship in it.
he makes and sells ww2 japanese planes.

The Battleship Yamato is uh... big.

That's me standing in the red circle.

Tess

Brenda Connolly · 11-05-2009, 11:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Tess Whitcroft

The Battleship Yamato is uh... big.

Tess

That just makes it a better target.

Kyllie Wylie · 11-06-2009, 12:07 AM

he also has the Akagi there (WW2 Aircraft carrier)

Ned Easterwood · 11-06-2009, 07:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Brenda Connolly

That just makes it a better target.

You'll have to work on the bomb load on that Corsair, though, Brenda.

Lewis Luminos · 11-06-2009, 02:55 PM

I'm looking forward to my computer upgrade so I can actually enjoy sailing. At the moment my draw distance is set so low I don't really see much of anything at all.

Brenda Connolly · 11-07-2009, 05:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Ned Easterwood

You'll have to work on the bomb load on that Corsair, though, Brenda.

All it takes is one in the right spot. But I'll bring an Avenger or two with me.

BEARintheMorning · 11-07-2009, 11:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Brenda Connolly

All it takes is one in the right spot. But I'll bring an Avenger or two with me.

If I remember correctly all it took was 1 or 2 well-placed 500 pounders to sink the Akagi.

Mind you, one of the pilots nearly put the nose of his plane into her right behind the bomb (he wanted to be sure he hit so he released low). I'm pretty sure Brenda is that brave - or crazy.

Ned Easterwood · 11-08-2009, 07:56 AM

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Originally Posted by BEARintheMorning

If I remember correctly all it took was 1 or 2 well-placed 500 pounders to sink the Akagi.

Mind you, one of the pilots nearly put the nose of his plane into her right behind the bomb (he wanted to be sure he hit so he released low). I'm pretty sure Brenda is that crazy.

/fixed

Kyllie Wylie · 11-08-2009, 11:59 AM

Would love to have one of those ships in my sim, but they are way to many prims... I'm waiting for Eku to make me a sculptie version of them !

Phant Nabob · 11-10-2009, 08:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Tess Whitcroft

The Battleship Yamato is uh... big.

That's me standing in the red circle.

Tess

The Yamamoto still holds the record for the largest battleship ever to sail if I am not mistaken.

Brenda Connolly · 11-10-2009, 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by BEARintheMorning

If I remember correctly all it took was 1 or 2 well-placed 500 pounders to sink the Akagi.

Mind you, one of the pilots nearly put the nose of his plane into her right behind the bomb (he wanted to be sure he hit so he released low). I'm pretty sure Brenda is that brave - or crazy.

They were 1,000 pounders. At the Battle of Midway, 3 SBD Dauntless dive bombers from USS Enterprise attacked Akagi. 2 were near misses, but 1 struck near the middle elevator and blew up the upper hangar which containes 18 fully fuled bombers getting prepped to launch. One of the near misses damaged the rudder which jammed a short time later. The ship was evacuated save for damage control personnel who worked through the night to put out the fires.The ship could not be salvaged and was scuttled by torpedoes a couple of weeks later.

Ned Easterwood · 11-10-2009, 11:04 AM

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At 12:32 on 7 April 1945, Yamato was attacked by a first wave of 280 aircraft from Task Force 58, taking three hits (two bombs, one torpedo).[1] By 14:00, two of Yamato's escorts had been sunk.[5] Shortly afterward, a second strike of 100 aircraft attacked Yamato and her remaining escorts. At 14:23, having taken 10 torpedo and 7 bomb hits, Yamato's forward ammunition magazines detonated.[5] The smoke from the explosion—over 4 miles (6.4 km) high—was seen 100 miles (160 km) away on Kyūshū.[28] An estimated 2,498 of the 2,700 crew members on Yamato were lost, including Vice-Admiral Seiichi Itō, the fleet commander.[

Japanese battleship Yamato - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kyllie Wylie · 11-10-2009, 11:37 AM

looking at that page I see the Yamato should just fit in a sim, its listed as being 256M at the waterline.

are there any full sized american or british war ships in SL anywhere?

they are interesting model projects for sure.

Tess Whitcroft · 11-10-2009, 11:38 AM

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Yamato's main battery consisted of nine 46 cm/45 Type 94 naval guns—the largest caliber of naval artillery ever fitted to a warship. Each gun was 21.13 metres (69.3 ft) long, weighed 147.3 metric tons (162.4 short tons), and was capable of firing high-explosive or armour-piercing shells 42.0 kilometres (26.1 mi).

There was a PBS show I saw about John Harrison (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison) that built an accurate clock that could reliably function aboard a ship. This made accurate navigation a lot more possible but during the show they also touched on firing cannons at a ship from another ship.

When you consider that a ship is being affected by random yaw, pitch and roll, being moved randomly in all six possible directions and trying to hit a ship also moving it is a wonder anyone ever hit anyone.

In a modern ship, given that you know exactly where your target is, how fast it is moving and in what direction, exactly where you are and exactly how fast you are moving and in what direction, the mathematics of aiming your guns is still crazy complex.

Tess

Kyllie Wylie · 11-10-2009, 11:44 AM

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Operation Ten-Go was a deliberate suicide attack against American forces off Okinawa by Yamato and nine escorts, beginning on 6 April 1945. Embarking from Kure, Yamato was to beach herself near Okinawa, and act as an unsinkable gun-emplacement—bombarding American forces on Okinawa with her 18.1-inch heavy-guns. Yamato carried only enough fuel to reach Okinawa

what a waste of lives. to bad commanders never seem to get convicted of war crimes against thier own troops.

RJ Kikuchiyo · 11-20-2009, 08:42 PM

I am working on the USS Helena Heavy Cruiser - this is a sample 5" gun mount (there are 6 on the helena)

Tess Whitcroft · Yesterday, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by RJ Kikuchiyo

I am working on the USS Helena Heavy Cruiser - this is a sample 5" gun mount (there are 6 on the helena)

Any estimate on the total prims?

Tess

Edav Nomad · Yesterday, 02:08 PM

I use to fly a good bit in SL but mostly what I had was more sci-fi type vehicles. At one time I even had a few boats and at least one Jet Ski. I haven't been in SL in quite awhile so I'm not sure which vehicles I still have.

11-04-2009, 05:46 PM	#26 (permalink)
Sooz Pascale Long Distance Sailor Ribald Lewdness Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 3,751 My Mood: SL Join Date: January 27, 2007	If you come to my sim, Kyllie is just south of us in Tsurington. She has the coolest tree house and so help me I have RESISTED the temptation to go in there and look around. That J rock club is a complete eyesore. Oh well. As far as boat rez places, maybe we can start a list of places to rez boats and/or aircraft. For staters with boats, search for yacht clubs. Most of the major yacht clubs have rez areas, Triumphal, Mowry Bay, Starbourds, Nantuckett and the Nautilus City Yacht Clubs to name a few. So does ZeeWest Marina. Also in Halfhitch Island in the Blake Sea there is one on the South side of the island next to the boat docks. It is tricky to find cause you cant rez from the dock, you have to fly over the water next to the dock to rez. Would any of you be interested in doing some group flights on the weekends? Let me know. Sooz For airports, search for airports, airfields and aviation. Some let you rez a plane, others don't unless you are a group member. __________________ Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library - Barbara Tuchman

11-05-2009, 09:18 AM	#30 (permalink)
BEARintheMorning Is this thing ON?!? Virtually burned out. Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 2,291 My Mood: SLShopper Ads: 7 SL Join Date: March 17, 2007 Business: BEARly There Enterprises	I'm going to have to pop by when I have some time. The place looks like a lot of fun Sooz. __________________ You know you're addicted to drag racing when: During the winter, you roll the windows down just to smell the tire smoke from skidding tires.

11-05-2009, 11:46 PM	#32 (permalink)
Evola Senior Member Phooey. Join Date: Sep 2008 Posts: 209 My Mood: SLShopper Ads: 2 SL Join Date: 2/29/2008	LL added rez zones on the NE corner of each Blake Sea sim recently, besides all the scattered rez zones established previously such as on Half-Hitch, Spyglass, Windlass, etc. they're plentiful but most are poorly marked if at all.. also, there's docks for boats and seaplanes on Grand Manan, just off of Blake, with an airport up behind it(I don't reccomend the latter for novices, Santa Catalina is good though, as is the airstrip on Honah Lee). Hollykai Two and Three are great places to rez boats as well, basically a giant golf course __________________ http://www.koinup.com/group/Evola/works/ Last edited by Evola; 11-06-2009 at 02:28 AM.

11-06-2009, 02:55 PM	#37 (permalink)
Lewis Luminos The Gingerbeard Man Ginger Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: UK Posts: 3,317 My Mood: SL Join Date: 08/11/2008 Blog Entries: 12	I'm looking forward to my computer upgrade so I can actually enjoy sailing. At the moment my draw distance is set so low I don't really see much of anything at all. __________________ -- Just Add Ginger -- -- Plurk -- -- last.fm -- -- flickr --

Yesterday, 02:08 PM	#50 (permalink)
Edav Nomad Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Behind You Posts: 4,326 My Mood: SL Join Date: June 12, 2003 XBOX Leaderboard: 4^th	I use to fly a good bit in SL but mostly what I had was more sci-fi type vehicles. At one time I even had a few boats and at least one Jet Ski. I haven't been in SL in quite awhile so I'm not sure which vehicles I still have. __________________

11-05-2009, 04:48 AM	#29 (permalink)
Kyllie Wylie Wannabe J-Rock Star Bass on 11!! Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: カナダバンクーバー Posts: 4,990 My Mood: SL Join Date: March 2008 Business: Rock'n Japan	its the Yamato of Japan Sim, same one that has the bettleship in it. he makes and sells ww2 japanese planes.

11-06-2009, 12:07 AM	#35 (permalink)
Kyllie Wylie Wannabe J-Rock Star Bass on 11!! Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: カナダバンクーバー Posts: 4,990 My Mood: SL Join Date: March 2008 Business: Rock'n Japan	he also has the Akagi there (WW2 Aircraft carrier)

11-08-2009, 11:59 AM	#41 (permalink)
Kyllie Wylie Wannabe J-Rock Star Bass on 11!! Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: カナダバンクーバー Posts: 4,990 My Mood: SL Join Date: March 2008 Business: Rock'n Japan	Would love to have one of those ships in my sim, but they are way to many prims... I'm waiting for Eku to make me a sculptie version of them !

11-10-2009, 11:37 AM	#45 (permalink)
Kyllie Wylie Wannabe J-Rock Star Bass on 11!! Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: カナダバンクーバー Posts: 4,990 My Mood: SL Join Date: March 2008 Business: Rock'n Japan	looking at that page I see the Yamato should just fit in a sim, its listed as being 256M at the waterline. are there any full sized american or british war ships in SL anywhere? they are interesting model projects for sure.

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