Post by Jorge on Jun 9, 2015 18:30:53 GMT -5
Here are some shots I took of San Juan's Isla Verde International Airport (today's Luis Munoz Marin International Airport) when I started this a while ago. It was meant along the lines of Juan's Miami - just something to fill in the void of classic stuff in some of the far out areas of the sim. Parking is not so much real as it is practical. I tried to keep the assignments as best I could to what I could find online from various images and from my father's recollections working at the airport from 1966 - 1989. I still haven't done any land class for this area, so there are still vestiges of the default airport all over the place (such as the main road underneath in some shots). So, here goes.
Looking west from the point just outside the Caribair parking area. The hotel, tower, terminal, and waiting room buildings for the commuters are all default buildings from FS9 with library objects scattered in to give some flavor. This is before I swapped out the default DC3 AI paint for the reworked Marrero paint on the default DC3 with the CC de-mirrored tail.
Next we're looking east. We can see the fuel farms in the middle and the right and the pre-lengthened runway 08 to the left. You can also see Muniz Air National Guard Base in the distance.
Muniz Air National Guard Base with F-86's of the Puerto Rico Air National Guard's 198th Fighter Interceptor Squadron on the line. They do touch-n-goes here as well as flights to Ramey (BQN in Aguadilla), NAS Rosey Field (NAS Roosevelt Roads), and I forgot where else. The MATS parking for transient MATS traffic is on the left and close in (bigger oil spots in form of "L") with overflow going to the main ramp area. If I remember correctly there are enough spots for the entire squadron and a few transient fighters (about 30 spots total).
Nothing to do with the scenery, but thought I'd add it since I was taking screen shots. This is a tribute paint I did a while back for the Puerto Rico Air National Guard using Kirk Olsson's F-86. I believe it went bye-bye in the Avsim hack since that's where I had put it. I just never reloaded it again. It contains elements of paint schemes worn by 198th aircraft for the entire time they were a fighter unit before transitioning to transport status in the late 90's.
The red nose, wing tips, and tail tip are from the P-47 era. The P-47 at the Peterson Air & Space Museum, Colorado, is from the PRANG. The yellow tail band, "PRANG" signage by the national markings, and the serialization are from the F-86 era. The serial is 51-8365, which is the number worn by the F-86H in which Major Jose Antonio Muniz lost his life after a flame-out during the annual 4th of July air show in 1960. He was posthumously promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and the Air National Guard base was named after him. The Puerto Rican flag on the rudder comes from the F-104 era. Since they were all painted in camo, this was the only colorized thing they wore. The A-7 came next and is the one I remember from my childhood days. Several had a diagonal white, blue, yellow, red, white striping as well as the Puerto Rican flag on the rudder which they kept from the F-104. I think this striping was only used on the commander's aircraft, but I'm not sure. I just remember seeing one with the stripes when I was a kid. The final fighter was the F-16. These were overall air superiority gray, but on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the PRANG they were painted with the squadron flag and/or emblem on the fuselage in low-visibility white/gray outline. They also hade the squadron moniker, "Bucaneros", painted on the tanks in a similar fashion. It means, "Buccaneers", in Spanish. The commander's aircraft got permission and was painted with full color emblems and text, hence the full color here. As a special touch I added the "nose-art" usually seen on F-86 aircraft. I chose to name it, "Cofresi", after the last of the Buccaneer leaders in Puerto Rico. If folks like it I'll see about loading it to Flightsim and/or Avsim again.
Looking west from the point just outside the Caribair parking area. The hotel, tower, terminal, and waiting room buildings for the commuters are all default buildings from FS9 with library objects scattered in to give some flavor. This is before I swapped out the default DC3 AI paint for the reworked Marrero paint on the default DC3 with the CC de-mirrored tail.
Next we're looking east. We can see the fuel farms in the middle and the right and the pre-lengthened runway 08 to the left. You can also see Muniz Air National Guard Base in the distance.
Muniz Air National Guard Base with F-86's of the Puerto Rico Air National Guard's 198th Fighter Interceptor Squadron on the line. They do touch-n-goes here as well as flights to Ramey (BQN in Aguadilla), NAS Rosey Field (NAS Roosevelt Roads), and I forgot where else. The MATS parking for transient MATS traffic is on the left and close in (bigger oil spots in form of "L") with overflow going to the main ramp area. If I remember correctly there are enough spots for the entire squadron and a few transient fighters (about 30 spots total).
Nothing to do with the scenery, but thought I'd add it since I was taking screen shots. This is a tribute paint I did a while back for the Puerto Rico Air National Guard using Kirk Olsson's F-86. I believe it went bye-bye in the Avsim hack since that's where I had put it. I just never reloaded it again. It contains elements of paint schemes worn by 198th aircraft for the entire time they were a fighter unit before transitioning to transport status in the late 90's.
The red nose, wing tips, and tail tip are from the P-47 era. The P-47 at the Peterson Air & Space Museum, Colorado, is from the PRANG. The yellow tail band, "PRANG" signage by the national markings, and the serialization are from the F-86 era. The serial is 51-8365, which is the number worn by the F-86H in which Major Jose Antonio Muniz lost his life after a flame-out during the annual 4th of July air show in 1960. He was posthumously promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and the Air National Guard base was named after him. The Puerto Rican flag on the rudder comes from the F-104 era. Since they were all painted in camo, this was the only colorized thing they wore. The A-7 came next and is the one I remember from my childhood days. Several had a diagonal white, blue, yellow, red, white striping as well as the Puerto Rican flag on the rudder which they kept from the F-104. I think this striping was only used on the commander's aircraft, but I'm not sure. I just remember seeing one with the stripes when I was a kid. The final fighter was the F-16. These were overall air superiority gray, but on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the PRANG they were painted with the squadron flag and/or emblem on the fuselage in low-visibility white/gray outline. They also hade the squadron moniker, "Bucaneros", painted on the tanks in a similar fashion. It means, "Buccaneers", in Spanish. The commander's aircraft got permission and was painted with full color emblems and text, hence the full color here. As a special touch I added the "nose-art" usually seen on F-86 aircraft. I chose to name it, "Cofresi", after the last of the Buccaneer leaders in Puerto Rico. If folks like it I'll see about loading it to Flightsim and/or Avsim again.
