NUMA copter....

MiB · March 16, 2013, 09:39:02 AM

My new Numa copter: SH-60 NumaHawk

And new NUMA plane: P-3 Orion, to chase hurricanes and monitor the seas:

coolpop6307 · March 16, 2013, 09:52:40 AM

I am also in love with the clive cussler books. and you aircraft are awesome right now i am reading dragon from the dirk pitt series. any way good looking aircraft.

Thanks
Joshua

PR19_Kit · March 16, 2013, 09:59:11 AM

Cracking job on both of them!

Are they FS9 aircraft and if so which scenery package is the oil rig from please?

MiB · March 16, 2013, 10:05:06 AM

Dragon is a beatiful and terrific story, serious but fantastic! I love too, Dragon and Sahara

I use FSX but I'm sure that these model are good for FS9 too (maybe the copter in FS2002 too)
The helipad is not in the oil rig but in a cruiser ship, outside San Diego, in the default FSX scenery

But if u wanna thse model, no problem: send me an MP and send to u

Mossie · March 16, 2013, 02:43:03 PM

I'm enjoying these! I've read a handful of Clive Cussler novels and I've enjoyed them, including Dragon already mentioned. I've also read his exploits of the real world NUMA and was pleasantly surprised to find he visited places local to me in his hunt for the Bonhomme Richard.

If your looking for aircraft from outside the US maybe the USCG is worth looking at? It's fleet is a bit more cosmopolitan than other US government agencies and there could be some crossover there.

kerick · March 16, 2013, 08:02:00 PM

Something more modern would be a NUMA B767 for ocean patrol.

MiB · March 16, 2013, 08:05:19 PM

former-USGG....very good idea!!

Infact I think that fictional NUMA may have almost the same aircraft of the USCG.
I think, for example, the HH-3F Pelican, radiated from the USCG, and passed to NUMA after restore and update (so Jayhawk maybe is too new

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P-3 Orion is ok, maybe Falcon business jet too (or LearJet?)

C-130 Hercules? Eurocopter Dauphin? Mumble mumble...I think we can do it!

B767 is a dream, but a good idea too....B737/P-8 Poseidon instead?

Ehi, don't forget: your suggestions are precious for me!

coolpop6307 · March 16, 2013, 08:48:54 PM

Allright this is farfetched but what if NUMA was created in the 50's and they used surplus B-29's for some of the primary jobs, okay dragon is getting to me

Thanks
Joshua

Rheged · March 17, 2013, 02:34:02 AM

Quote from: coolpop6307 on March 16, 2013, 08:48:54 PM
Allright this is farfetched but what if NUMA was created in the 50's and they used surplus B-29's for some of the primary jobs, okay dragon is getting to me

Thanks
Joshua

Beef up a B29 and use it for hurricane investigation, perhaps? Not so far fetched after all. Or a hi-viz version used for large scale marine survey..........or an Arctic/Antarctic model for ice reconnaissance?

coolpop6307 · March 17, 2013, 11:50:33 AM

Quote from: Rheged on March 17, 2013, 02:34:02 AM
Quote from: coolpop6307 on March 16, 2013, 08:48:54 PM
Allright this is farfetched but what if NUMA was created in the 50's and they used surplus B-29's for some of the primary jobs, okay dragon is getting to me

Thanks
Joshua

Beef up a B29 and use it for hurricane investigation, perhaps? Not so far fetched after all. Or a hi-viz version used for large scale marine survey..........or an Arctic/Antarctic model for ice reconnaissance?

So im not crazy woohoo

dadlamassu · March 17, 2013, 12:30:23 PM

Quote from: Rheged on March 17, 2013, 02:34:02 AMBeef up a B29 and use it for hurricane investigation, perhaps? Not so far fetched after all. Or a hi-viz version used for large scale marine survey..........or an Arctic/Antarctic model for ice reconnaissance?

Weather aircraft were painted up in bright colours

MiB · March 17, 2013, 01:08:39 PM

This model (whit hi-viz livery) is great! But maybe B-29 (or RB-50) is too old or too big for NUMA's uses...

Grumman Goose or Grumman Albatross? I don't know how long there NUMA, maybe from '70s or '80s, not earlier, so, maybe only recent aircraft, or former US Navy/USCG aircraft....oohhhh so difficult! Hahahaha

Rheged · March 17, 2013, 01:17:21 PM

For info, the following quote courtesy of Wikipedia:-

Among the types of aircraft that have been used to investigate hurricanes, are an instrumented Lockheed U-2 flown in Hurricane Ginny during the 1963 Atlantic hurricane season. Other types include the A-20 Havoc, 1944; B-24, 1944–1945; B-17, 1945–1947; B-25, 1946–1947; B-29, 1946–1947. WB-29, 1951–1956; WB-50, 1956–1963; WB-47, 1963–1969; WC-121N 1954-1973; WC-130A,B,E,H, 1965-2012.

You have a fair choice of Whiff potential there!

MiB · March 17, 2013, 02:21:13 PM

Mumble mumble....other potential modern NUMA aircraft? I think about LearJet or Grumman Albatross

Mossie · March 17, 2013, 03:40:25 PM

Albatross is good, I think NUMA would find a few flying boats useful specific to it's role. The Albatross would probably have been replaced by now and you'd have to go outside the US to find one. So maybe the CL-215/415? Possiby the Shin Meiwa US-1, being replaced with a US-2?

Maybe NUMA had a predecessor, like NACA existed before NASA, with more of military slant? So it might have inherited a few aircraft it's previous life, mostly from USN stocks? NUMA's earliest aircraft might have been 60's/70's P-2 Neptune maybe?