From Japan to SL

  

There are many rides for city tour. This is rather authentic sleigh, which can fly in the sky.




It is rare to see such a huge train for the tour ride. It may carry many guests.




There is a restaurant car. This is one of the most gorgeous sightseeing rides ever seen in SL. Unfortunately, this goes only around the small village. It could be nice to tour from SIM to SIM, with sleeping carriage.




Someone said, “A mobile suits Santam”, but this could be the one.




Beautiful skiing slope. It reminds me of the sensation when seeing virgin snow where there is no trace on it early in the morning.




There may be no animation in SL for skiing on the fresh snow. This is a TV game. It is possible to ski down various mountains freely, also includes paraglider and wing suits. As the driving and flying. SL cannot be equal to the gaming machines.


Playstation4, “Steep”



  

There are many rides for city tour. This is rather authentic sleigh, which can fly in the sky.




It is rare to see such a huge train for the tour ride. It may carry many guests.




There is a restaurant car. This is one of the most gorgeous sightseeing rides ever seen in SL. Unfortunately, this goes only around the small village. It could be nice to tour from SIM to SIM, with sleeping carriage.




Someone said, “A mobile suits Santam”, but this could be the one.




Beautiful skiing slope. It reminds me of the sensation when seeing virgin snow where there is no trace on it early in the morning.




There may be no animation in SL for skiing on the fresh snow. This is a TV game. It is possible to ski down various mountains freely, also includes paraglider and wing suits. As the driving and flying. SL cannot be equal to the gaming machines.


Playstation4, “Steep”



  

The other day we were talking about a keyboard that could be operated even drowsily, I introduced my keyboard with thumbtacks on keys. Someone imaged a kind of pincushion, so here is pictures.




Since I was working, I put some markers using felt or button on my keys. They have been increased since I started SL, the white one is a head of thumbtack, and the larger one is also a push pin. F-Keys are for throttle of vehicles, print screen, and pose for games. The left button on the track ball is a push pin and the right is a Go stone. It is convenient since they can be set on the exact position of fingers and avoid touching nails,






  

Kazumi the owner of the plane kindly let me take pictures of the flight. The one set at the bay was a decoy only for presentation, so she took out the flyable one. I got a rare shot where two giant planes set next to each other.




Engines started roaring with black smoke. The eight engines were started one by one in sequence.




Hughes H4 Hercules coming out on the sea. It is planning smoothly but soon reached the end of a SIM hitting a dry land. This was a maiden flight of H4 for Kazumi and the first attempt was a failure. The real H4 also was not able to fly but only lifted up a little within the ground effect.




H4 floating above the SIM. This was not the world greatest but I think the most beautiful flying boat.




Above the Baba Meeting area. From this close distance, the huge size like the Jumbo-jet can be felt.




Did you notice that I used words “floating” and “above”? It was impossible to fly on the day and this was set still in the air for photo shooting. Thank Kazumi for the cooperation. I wish there would be another chance to shoot the plane flying. But if it were made as real as the original, it would not fly. ^-^




There was a plan of a huge flying boat in Japan too, Kawanishi KX-3. Comparing with the Hercules of 97.51×66.6m, KX-3 was 180×162m, almost double size of H4. I saw the Hercules at Los Angeles when I was at the high school, and the small engines and slim propellers looked not enough to fly this body. KX-3 had twelve propellers and six jet engines, but still, it could be underpowered for this huge plane. You know, this picture is a composite.









  

There were many unique flying machines in SL. A helicopter of Leonardo da Vinci was also flying. This is my favorite one, Mowen of Nausicaa. There is a person who actually made this and flew in RL. It was well accepted overseas too.
Flying Mowen; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNWrJZDPu4Y　




Flappter flying towards Uluru (Ayers Rock). No one tried to make this in RL I think, but there is a wonderful flapping drone that attracted real birds.
Drone like a bird: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-BklB99ybM　




The creator of a space station Barry gave me a ride on his pod. This was a world with air and gravity though.




I do not see the meaning of this rocket, found in the NASA Education SIM. It could be cool to be able to fly freely with this.




Baba SIM was terminated. A farewell party was held and this was the last cleanup. We brought out various things arbitrarily on the vacant ground. There is a height limit of 30m in this SIM but nobody dare care. The Suzu’s panda stands more than 100m tall.




Many starships fired the cannons in salute. It was a great joy that this was done without any preliminary notice.




It is impossible to fly the SL balloon, but it is the best tool for sightseeing. I am using it whenever visiting a new place. It is good for dating, but I seldom had a chance to do so…



I had a chance to ride on a hot air balloon at Aspen. The balloon flew over the sleeping Aspen town. On the dark green forest, the red balloon that departed together was floating quietly next to us, that was a breath-taking scenery.
It might be possible to change the direction by selecting height and air flow, so the three balloons that started together picked up individual course, and the silver one was flying high in the sun and passed the ridge far away.
The pilot pointed at a small grassy area in a forest where a family of fox was playing. Our balloon goes down toward them without any sound, then the burner roared suddenly, and the cubs disappeared instantly.
After about one hour flight, the balloon reached a grass farm and there was a high ridge ahead of us. The pilot said it was hard to come back if passing the ridge. At the center of the grass area, the ground crew were waiting. The balloon went directly to the spot. The crew pulled the balloon to a road with us on the board, then opened the top flap letting the hot air out to set down the balloon.




  

In the SL, it is possible to fly without any gear. At the beginning, I was impressed and kept flying to the end of the world. I did not know to change the sun position, so was pursuing the setting sun into the night. The graphic was coarse at that time but where has the emotion gone?




Free styles to fly. It was a joy to fly as dancing in the air, with wings, or as mermaid.




When using roller skate, it was possible to skate in the sky, no limit on the light road.




Spread Eagle, that I tried in RL but never did to this height.




Skydiving. Different from the normal falling animation, it is possible to make pose and change direction. I had a stick since this was on the way back from Mt. Fuji. I wish I could have a wing suit, but no place in SL to fly like this video.
Wing suit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GASFa7rkLtM




This is not flying but an art by FreeWhee, but expresses the feeling of flying in SL.





  

Sachiko gave me a ride with an airboat, Swordfish the torpedo bomber. It was OK until take off, but dropped soon in the air. Also reading is slow and the surroundings became gray. It was the first time in years to fly an airplane, so I gathered some pictures to fly.




An airboat owned by K0usei. This could be a special version of a low-wing Cessna modified with amphibious floats.




I did not wear seatbelts. Naturally I was ejected out after takeoff. But K0usei was also dropped soon and I had a rare chance to watch the plane clash. The right below is not the clash but re-Rezing a new one.




Beechcraft Kingair taxing toward take off at a foregin areport. In good old days in SL, there were many active airports.




An air race using a micro avatar. The plane is small with only width of 1.5M, it was not necessary to cross SIM boarders to fly the circuit. It was possible to scale down automobiles or yachts to micro level for racing, but it was not become popular.
An old article about the air race：http://temisirbu.slmame.com/e1343189.html




SL has not been able to compete with TV games in car racing, but now for airplanes the flight simulator (FS) has been advanced in the extreme. This is the Pitts Special at high-speed low pass at 160 knots through the Seto Bridge. The Pitts is made for aerobatics with high maneuverability, so it is easy to fly through this kind of narrow passage. Some cars driving on the bridge but on the right (wrong) side ^-^




Cessna 152 flying next to the Empire State Building. The scenery looks real at the first glance, but careful look reveals some strange shape on buildings or the roads, but the purpose of the FS is not to make the landscape real but to simulate the plane itself. Not only the instruments, but also switches, keyboards and onboard computers are acting, that amazed a real pilot of 787. The air traffic on airports is related to the planes that are flying now in real time. There are announces from control towers, which scolded me many times while I was flying arbitrarily



I had been traveling around the world in SL, but now I will try to visit all sightseeing spots from the air in this FS. To begin with, I visited Paris where the scenery was updated recently, and flew throuth the Eifel Tower and the Arch of Triumph. In SL I flew through the Kaminari-mon at Edo Asakusa with the Zero Fighter. If you are interested in the FS, please see the articles in the net.
Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)：https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmbDkXI9Qcs　




  

Made a long cruise to the large gorgeous sip, Galaxy. Started from a REZ point at south of Nautilus continent at night. Dawn broke while the cruising.




Passed through a narrow water way, found the huge Galaxy in the morning sun. A kind of emotion.




Please refer to an old article for the Galaxy.
Galaxy: http://temisirbu.slmame.com/e1465389.html




A fly bridge yacht is super in feeling of release, like an open car that I drove before.




Last time I visited the inside mainly, so this time I sailed around it.




There is a pier on the side. The sense of accomplishment to moor the boat for the destination is said to be one of the whole points of boating, but I can feel some in SL also.




I cruised all the way crossing waters, but there is a free REZ point, Galaxy Marina next to the ship. Also there is a cozy cabin, but your boat will be returned over time. If you are relaxing on your boat, it will come to a tragedy.
Galaxy Marina: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Scuttle/189/54/22




The boat was WildWind PC-70. It is not so light, so needs care when crossing SIM border. The feel of accomplishment after managing many borders could be only for SL.
Previous article introducing the boat: http://temisirbu.slmame.com/e967262.html





  

Next to the Singapore SIM, there was a gorgeous ship, Galaxy. I found this at the early stage of my SL and was impressed much but I lost the LM. I found it again.
Galaxy: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Galaxy%20MID/139/225/26




It is using three SIMs, a huge ship with more than 600m length. More than double of Titanbic. The largest ship in RL is 361m in length, a super tanker is 458m, so this is really big!




There are eight decks, swimming pools, park, shops, galleries, and rental rooms filled the ship wall to wall. My mentor of kimono fitting, Sensyuu Yifu a master geisha at Ohmiya in Edo, had a room in this ship.




This is a real ship Oasis of the Seas. Although this is much smaller than Galaxy but has overwhelming appeal. Galaxy; length 614m, width 95m, height 110m, measured by my flying. Oasis; lngth 351m, width 65m, height 72m. There is a park inside and the balconies facing to the park look like high-rise apartment buildings. The reason why there is so big difference in size feeling could be that the necessary size in SL is larger than RL. If everything were made in real size, it looks cramped from the avatar viewpoint. So everything in SL needs to be built larger than real size. Galaxy has eight decks in 95m high, but Oasis has twelve decks within 72m.




The bridge of Galaxy. Actual bridge does not have so high ceiling, doesn’t it?




I was not able to find a picture of Oasis of the Seas. This one is similar one, or could this be? At my early stage of SL, I was impressed by the huge size of Galaxy, but even now it is well-developed entertaining space. Again talking about the new possible SL, is there any person who builds this ship again because advanced modeling technologies becomes available?

  

Visited a SIM where Red Bull Air Race was simulated. The plane flying seems to be Extra 300




Actual race in RL has more gates. Different from the Reno Air Race, Red Bull is time trial by one plane at a time. The gate, height and inclination are strictly regulated.




There might be some minimum altitude, but it is cool to skim the sea at speed. Even though it hits the water, it keeps flying underwater without crash.




Extra 300 is popular in aerobatics or radio-controlled model planes. I flew it many times in the flight simulator that my brother had. Different from Pitts Special that is said to be very hard in take off and landing, Extra is quiet and comfortable sports plane. If Pitts is formula I racer, Extra will be Porsche Boxster. It is said that many people buy this plane not for competition but for pleasure to fly. Also there is an instrument flight opeion. In this SL model there is no rudder and aileron turn only, so it may not be possible to make tricks with side slip like Lamcevak, but it could be possible to make torque roll or Kulbit that are popular in RC model planes.




The pilot who kindly cooperated in shooting was Kitto a cute yacht lady, who got the third price in previous competition. By the way, Amelia Earhart at ‘Night at the Museum II’ was cool!　　




Actual size is so small, a micro avatar smaller than a tiny one. That is why it can fly freely without SIM crossing. If the full sky up to 4000m were used, it could be possible to make jet races. There will be no problem in climbing up, but a steep dive might be thrilling. If yachts were made in this size, it could be possible to set more complicated course without crossing SIM border. Someday all towns and landscapes might be made for micro avatars? Come to think of it, in the Edo period there was a trial project to make a city using a whole SIM for tiny avatars.