Memorial May 13, Dordrecht

Hi everybody,

After months of preparations and hard work, today was the premiere of the T.5 video at the Moerdijkbruggen Bombing Memorial. Based on the reactions we received afterwards, the video can be regarded as successful. IMHO, Jonah has done a wonderful job in editing this video.

The memorial itself was also very good. There was a lot of music, several inspirational speeches and a good atmosphere. I regard it as a worthy tribute to the seven young men (between 22 and 27 years old), who died for freedom.

We had the honor to talk with relatives and other relations of the brave people that served our army in May 1940. Even a gunner from a Fokker C.5 biplane was present, being at high age.
A very interesting thing we came across today, was an original D.21 logo that was on the tail of the D.21s (illustrated below on my D.21). A pilot ripped it off his D.21 after having to land the plane during the war. The son of this pilot held a speech on the memorial and showed the relic.

A short report of the memorial, including a few shots from our video, can be found here. The video itself will be published on YouTube later on, which will be announced here as well.

From this place, I'd like to thank everybody who contributed to the Memorial Video project. Thank you:

- Jonah Snoei (JRSchiphol)
- Roel Lamé
- Wim Anceaux
- Huub Vink
- Museum CRASH
- NL2000
- and many other individuals around. Please forgive me if I didn't mention you here, it's hard to tell which contribution is really essential for the video project and which is not ;)

Kind regards,

Daan Kaasjager

D.21 V2.00 bugfix: forgotten effects

Hi everybody,

Only after release of V2.00, I realized that I didn't include my improved light effects. I refer to them in only the 1940 aircraft.cfg, but also forgot to do that in the 1938 aircraft.cfg.

Here's the bugfix. Unzip in your FSX directory.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3rXXshj-mHdWVN1MDE1LVlab0k/view?usp=sharing

Have fun! I'll upload V2.00 to more sites today!

Kind regards, Dutchie

Release of V2.00!

Hi everybody,

Tonight I'm uploading my V2.00 to the various download places. Stay tuned! I also added a page here about V2.00.

Kind regards, Daan

D.21 pre-release beta of V2.00

Hi everybody,

I'm pleased to tell that D.21 V2.00 enters pre-release to a selected team of beta testers tonight. So final release of V2.00 won't be far away.

Kind regards, Daan

D.21 update

Hi everybody,

Quick, short note: Fokker D.21 FSX V2.00 (TacPack) is expected to be released soon.

Regards, Daan

Fokker T.5 video recordings

Hi there,

To show you a tiny bit of the video recording work we're working on, I put here an image I borrowed from JRSchiphol's FB.

As you can see, Fokker G.1 304 shouldn't be there because it wasn't the 304, and these are early colors. But it gives a nice view!

The T.5 cannot be downloaded yet, but the G.1 (in beta, where it will ever remain), can be downloaded here: http://simviation.com/1/search?submit=1&keywords=fokker&categoryId=&page=2&filename=

Regards!

Projects progress

Hi everybody,

It's been a while since I posted here, but that doesn't mean I haven't done anything. I'll give an overview of the current status of the several (correlated) projects I'm on at the moment.

Fokker D.21 FSX - V2.00

The Fokker D.21 has just been downloaded over 5000 times since official release! All those who use it: thank you very much, I hope you enjoy my creation!
The upcoming version of the D.21 will be V2.00. I've been thinking about a V1.50 or anything else between 1 and 2, but since there will be changed 'a lot', I decided to increase the version number to 2.00. What will be included?

- TacPack support for the D.21. That implies: working guns ;)
- Improved Flight Dynamics. Note: if you think the V1.00 FD are better, use them. Never mind.
- Additional, high quality repaints (LVA 219, 221, 229, 236 and MLM/NMM replica) for the 1940 version.

Though this list is pretty well finished ATM, I can't give a release date for V2.00 yet. I'll keep you updated!

Fokker T.5 FSX

The T.5 bird is in 90% finished state regarding the exterior model. Some small details in both model and texture need to be done yet, but the overall thing is good to go (for the video, see below). I am still missing information, so if you have some good photographs, drawings or data on the T.5 - welcome!

Moerdijkbridges memorial video
Flight recordings of the memorial video have been started. Don't know what this project is about? Please visit this website. For the memorial, JRSchiphol and I are creating a video, showing the fatal flight on 13-5-1940. This video will be shown in the memorial service on May 13, 2015, in Dordrecht.

CRASH

Photograph by Huub Vink

On April 10, last friday, I gave a presentation about the virtual D.21 in the CRASH Museum in Aalsmeerderbrug. This museum is the home of the wreck of D.21 229 (also featured in Fokker D.21 FSX - V2.00), flown by Koos Roos during the German invasion in May 1940. The people of the museum are very very friendly and helpful in the D.21 and T.5 projects.
The entire museum has an open atmosphere (actually, you can even touch the wreckages!).
If you're close to Schiphol, please visit the museum! Their website: http://www.crash40-45.nl/

Kind regards,

Daan