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This is the website of the open-source Palomino flight simulator.
F-42 Night Manta is a commercial app made by the same developer.

F-42 Night Manta Flight-Sim Is Now Available!

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full version
ad version
Amazon AppStore
GetJar

Now available for Android 2.2 systems including Amazon Kindle Fire.
The paid full version, with extra levels and aircraft opponents, minus ads,
is available at Android Market and Amazon AppStore.

F-42 Night Manta is a 3D arcade/action flight simulator for Android.
Pilot an advanced stealth strike aircraft.
You must pilot your way through an array of enemy defenses.
Gun turrets will rotate to fire at you,
tanks will explode and flip up into the air after you hit them,
light helicopters will dodge your missiles,
armored gunships will shrug off your hits,
aircraft will scamble to flee as your approach.
Unlike other flight-sims, this game has a personality.
It knows what you're doing at every step.
Gamers who enjoy arcade-style airplane games and air-combat games
such as Zaxxon, River Raid, Blue Max, Warhawk, and F-19
should enjoy this game too.

Palosim LLC

Flight-simulator Android game, Night Manta is an arcade flight-simulator for Android.

Synopsis & Project Status

Palomino is an open-source flight simulator
for UNIX (Linux, FreeBSD, Apple Mac).

For advanced users who know how to compile programs.
Has only two basic missions: land-on-carrier and destroy-SAM.
More features (air-to-air combat etc) might be implemented in the future.

Screenshots

more screenshots

screenshot of open-source flight simulator

Videos

Flight-simulator videos.

YouTube video of flight simulator low-res videos flight sim videoF-14 Tomcat takeoff (13MB)
flight sim videoSR-71 Blackbird, Arizona, OSSIM (8MB) flight sim videoF-14 Tomcat, carrier landing (5MB)
flight sim videoSR-71 Blackbird, Oregon, OSSIM (34MB) flight sim videoF4U Corsair, crash landing (7MB)

News / Changes

Recent changes:
  • [2012/03] Workaround for OSG 3.x bugs.
Older changes:
  • [2011/04] Minor code improvements and maintenance.
  • [2010/11] Corrected shaders.
  • [2010/04] Corrected minor bugs, improved particle-system.
  • [2009/12] Compiles with SDL (improved sound, joystick support on Apple Mac et al).
  • [2009/12] Improved joystick support (can select which joystick).
  • [2009/12] Weather fx (pass -rain/-snow).
  • [2009/11] Should compile with Apple MacPorts.
  • [2009/11] Lots of bug fixes.
  • [2009/11] OSSIM: Last version that could compile with OSSIM.
  • [2009/06] Added Space Shuttle model.
  • [2009/06] Linux magazine article  [alt]
  • [2009/05] Improved graphics (shaders, shadows).
  • [2009/05] Improved views (can zoom-in very close to aircraft).
  • [2009/05] Fixes: collision at reset, aircraft selection, etc.
  • [2008/12] Aircraft control surfaces are animated.
  • [<=2008] Missiles, destroy SAM mission.
  • [<=2008] Special simulation of F-14 Tomcat model: (press '[' ']' or joystick buttons 4,5 to sweep wings).
  • [<=2008] Clouds.
  • [<=2008] Replay.
  • [<=2008] GUI (FLTK)
  • [<=2008] Lua scripting.
  • [<=2008] Carrier landing mission.
  • [<=2008] Motion blur (-motion-blur).
  • [<=2008] Sky dome.
  • [<=2008] Sound effects (PLIB)
  • [<=2008] Particle-system (improved explosions).
  • [<=2008] Collision-detection.
  • [<=2008] New aircraft models (from FlightGear) to fly in the simulator:
    Spitfire, F4U Corsair, F-82 Twin Mustang, F-15 Eagle, F-16 Falcon, F-18 Hornet, SR-71 Blackbird, F-86 Sabre, Mirage 2000, SU-37 Flanker.
  • [<=2008] OSSIM: Pass -llh [lat lon height] to set location on Earth (degree,degree,meters).
  • [<=2008] OSSIM: Can download satellite imagery and render spherical Earth using OSSIM.
  • [<=2008] Fixed rendering glitches.
  • [<=2008] Physics model based on metric SI units.
  • [<=2008] Automatic coordinated turning.
  • [<=2008] Support for 4 axis joysticks (roll,pitch,yaw,throtle), joystick.conf.
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