@TheCar True

please add reverse

I love this:)

nice tuck.. i like the trailer

Won't donlowd

No trailer= no lag on mobile.

@Elliotmidd07 this is magical XML modding, avilable on Android and Windows

how did you make the lights so big

I think you found your calling!

@WalrusAircraft What irony! My 12 y/o son is a fan of some folks on Youtube that play this game and thus my interest grew. lol We also play together on here but he is more content to DL new designs while I build stuff. lol I'm very sorry to hear about your' cousin and indeed it did. To this day, call me a conspiracy theorist if you will, I do not think we know the full story about what really happened that day - thus if someone asks me what happened all I can really say is that an organized group of individuals flew planes into buildings as well as one which fell short of its target with a high civilian death toll.

Yes, I am an old timer :-) I actually play this game with my son who is 12. Many of our creations are a mixture of both our work. Those are interesting stories you have. In particular about the donut shop. I have no interesting stories to tell, just sadness since my Firefighter cousin committed suicide in part over depression due to 9/11. That event affected many people in many ways. @DragonAerotech

@WalrusAircraft Ah, then you are a few years my senior! We're the old farts of SimplePlanes! ^_~

I vividly remember both of the latter events as well. The beginning of "Desert Storm" or the Gulf War, as history remembers it, was also etched into my memory.

I was at Washington Elementary in Moorhead MN at the time of the Challenger disaster, I remember the teachers buzzing about but couldn't clearly hear what they were saying. In retrospect I think they were debating on whether they should show us the footage as an event in history or if it would be bad. In the end they wheeled a TV in on a metal cart, briefly summarized the event, and allowed us to watch the news coverage. I think I was in shock over the Challenger disaster. Living in Oxnard a year or two prior, when the shuttles would still land at Edwards AFB, you could clearly hear the succession of sonic booms from a shuttle's descent. At the time I believed the shuttle was a cutting edge piece of technology that couldn't possibly simply explode like that. Older and wiser I now know it used '70s technology and was pretty impractical when compared to alternate technologies.

September 11th began after a late night of work. My mother called that morning half-way waking me up and told me that an airplane just crashed into the WTC. I thought to myself - "Wow - what a disaster," and proceeded to file it away with the crash of the B-25 into the Empire State building in '45 and went back to sleep. Then I received a second call telling me that another plane had crashed into the WTC. I knew then it was nothing like the accidental crash of '45 - this was intentional. Thus I quickly made my way to the living room television, turned it on for live coverage and got online to see if any further news was available. I couldn't believe my eyes when the towers fell. A buddy of mine, a fellow model builder, had been a security guard at WTC Tower 2 years prior and he couldn't contain his anxiety as the wing of that aircraft had gone right across what was his security post. In the aftermath of the attack he witnessed a gaggle of Arab-Americans celebrating at his local Dunkin Doughnuts. I wasn't sure I believed him and so looked up the number online, called it and sure enough the man's voice was heavily accented and there was all kinds of hooting and yelling in the background including the stereotypical phrase uttered as a cheer in Arabic. I told him I had the wrong number and called up corporate immediately after. The individual I spoke with sounded absolutely livid and assured me that they would lose their franchise license as a result. Sure enough, the following week they were closed, according to my friend. That was the Passaic NJ location. I don't even know if a new one or if that one has reopened under new management. That was my own little dagger to contribute against those who would support and celebrate the killing of civilians.

I got another chance several years later. I used to maintain a website for supplement materials for a table-top role-playing game that was set in a sci-fi setting. One of the items described was an anti-sniper device that would use a sensor following the same principle as anti-artillery radar to retrace bullet trajectories and return fire from an unmanned gun position mounted on the vehicle.

A retired Indonesian military officer obviously couldn't understand that the materials on that site were fictional because he wrote me a long letter telling me that they were very interested in acquiring a number of these devices and asked for weight specifications, what weapons the remote weapon station could mount, etc. As his signature indicated he was retired I wondered about why he might have made such a request - furthermore he never clearly stated who "they" were. His E-mail included all of his contact information. I turned around and forwarded the suspicious letter, along with the website he had misunderstood, to the Minneapolis FBI office to reference or forward to whomever may be able to identify the man's affiliations. Less than a week later several tons of nitrate explosives were siezed in Indonesia along with dozens of arrests of alleged al Qaida cell members. I didn't recognize any of the names released but I still wonder if my actions contributed at all in that event.

As an aside a few years later, during the occupation of Iraq the US Army fielded an experimental system identical to that described on that website - which I learned through Yahoo! News, Technology. lol Were they too inspired or did I just come up with the same idea? XD

@DragonAerotech - I was living in Canada at the time, but was 8 years old. I remember walking around the back of my home after hearing the news. This, the Challenger disaster and September 11th are events etched in my memory forever.

@WalrusAircraft I was at Mary Law Private School in Oxnard CA, attending pre-school, at the time of the shooting. I remember the news coverage of it though after I got home. ^_^

Amazing

@MoterKade @DragonAerotech - now you've got my curiosity peaked on your ages. Do you remember where you were when Regan was shot?

Great..

@DragonAerotech then my fine fellow I'm much older then you think;) I'll take that compliment;)

@Arhitekt Aaaah okay! Thanks for the tip!

@DragonAerotech thx. So, about wheels, I've mount outer wheels near inner in small scale, and then move them without reattachment

@MoterKade I don't think I've heard that one, paint this one black, and I'd swear it was the lead truck from Convoy. (Chances are you're far too young to remember the movie or song... lol)

@DragonAerotech lol I could too. I was referring to an old country truckers song that line was from. Lol

@MoterKade Bah, I was able to turn that rig around with only the width of one and a half of Bandit Airfield's runways! XD

@Arhitekt THIS is awesome! Great work! How did you manage the dual mounted tires though?

Awesome build. Should be featured. @AndrewGarrison