Friday, March 30, 2007

Fan Creation: Valkyrie Simulation

A member that goes by the name 00lem00 on youtube has created a veritech within a flight simulator program called X-Plane. Pretty neat! It would be cool to fly it.



Lem's model of the VF-4
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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ok, I have to ask....what makes this a veritech?

I will grant it's a cool little AMV using a madified F-14 airframe that looks like the VF series in fighter mode. However, I have always believed the word VERITECH was short for variable technology. Yet, we never see it transform in this video. Could it then BE a veritech fighter? Frankly, I'm not sure. Was the Conbat considerred a Veritech fighter even though it couldn't transform?

March 31, 2007 at 1:25 AM
The Masters said...

Veritech is the Robotech word for the VF-1 minus whatever Robotech.com has decided. I still use the word Valkyrie to refer to Macross' VF-1 and Veritech for Robotech's.

This guy spent sometime to make this plane and a video to show everyone. Promote his work, not argue on it. He also created a VF-4 Lightning.

March 31, 2007 at 8:58 AM
Anonymous said...

Not picking on the work at all.....

I think the VF-4 couldn't transform either. However, Veritech is the right word in the Robotech universe. Even the Alpha was called a veritech. So what defines something as a veritech? Is it because it uses protoculture as a power source or it is something else? The video just made me think if the question.

March 31, 2007 at 11:09 AM
The Masters said...

Sorry for any misunderstanding.

The VF-4 he created for the simulator was the Macross VF-4 Lightning which was in Macross 2012. It's transformable in artwork.

The full definition of a veritech has become more complicated because of the second saga. I'm sure Brook told you about the one mecha jet that was refered to as a veritech in the dialogue.

March 31, 2007 at 11:27 AM
Anonymous said...

Unfortunately, this airframe is not modfied from any F-14A, F-14B, or F-14D. This was built from the ground up using lineart avaliable on the internet as well as technical data from the RRG, Jason Smith's A.O.D., and the help of members a part of Robotech.com and RDF HQ. I broke away from the canon when things didn't make sense aerodynamically. The entire control system (aka fly by wire or hands free handling) was my own creation with some help from the X-Plane community.

The VF-4 as you stated it is not a Macross' VF-4. It is my own vision of what a production version of VF-4-X should be based upon my knowledge of aerodynamics and what not. The greatest commonality is the wing mounted dorsal and ventral nacelles, but it's not a design element unique to only Macross designs. There are many differences like the fuselage chines, LERX, a modified version of a McDonald Douglas' Pelican Tail that was being considered for the X-32 series, and it has a early X-Wing configuration for the X-15 hypersonic demonstrator.

Call it a VF-4 if you'd like, but I thought I have demonstrated a little more creativity in my designs.

March 31, 2007 at 11:45 AM

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