A Brief DCS A-10AWarthog Review By Eric J                     With the push to “break up” the aircraft out of the Flaming Cliffs title (Currently Flaming Cliffs 3) ED has started to turn the direction (in my view anyway)  away from the study sim into more separate modules in order to update them as well as improve upon them.   Flight Model                 The new 1.2.11 patch compared to 1.2.10 has in my mind improved the handling of the aircraft better as well as better thrust, In orde

Into battle in one of WW1's least successful fighters!   Perhaps only the much-maligned Royal Aircraft Factory could have imagined that they could make a fighter out of the BE2, a low-powered and badly-armed reconnaisance machine renowned for its inherent stability...and as 'Fokker Fodder', vulnerable to the little Eindekkers, let alone later German fighters.   In fact the Factory seems to have had no such illusions. The BE12 was designed originally for single seat longer-range reconnaisnc

DCS Su-27 Flanker Mini Beta Review By Eric J       The DCS Series began with the Su-27 Flanker back in 1995, and has always been the best high-fidelity flight –sims on the market today.  Now in 2014 Eagle Dynamics has actually improved the flight handling and characteristics of the one of the most popular Russian combat aircraft today.     Flight Model Overall the new Professional Flight Model changes the whole dynamics of flying the aircraft.  Roll is sharp (at the default settings)

By Damian Teo     Join the 354th Bulldogs on a difficult mission over North Vietnam portrayed in this comic strip adventure!   

Happy Birthday Herky Bird! by 33Lima       'They also serve who only stand and wait'... Or carry cargo, from tanks to emergency relief. Or fight fires from the skies. Or fly around in circles, day or night, drenching the Bad Guys in torrents of tracers. Or any of a number of other useful things. Especially if they have been doing all of these things, and more besides, for, like, sixty years.   The famous Lockeed Martin C-130 Hercules certainly qualifies for that T-shirt. An extra-extra-extra la

The C-130: Celebrating 60 Years of Active Service   60 years ago, on the 23rd of August in 1954, a legend was born when the second experimental C-130 (designated then as YC-130) took to the skies over the Lockheed plant in Burbank California and made a 61 minute flight to Edwards Air Force Base. Stanley Beltz and Roy Wimmer piloted the aircraft while Jack Real and Dick Stanton took on their roles as flight engineers. Watching from the cockpit of a P-2 Neptune was the legendary designer Kelly J

Introducing “DCS: F-86F Sabre” Belsimtek is preparing the upcoming launch its next flight simulation title: DCS: F-86F Sabre. Current plans are for a pre-order release with access to open beta versions in July, 2014. Focusing on another aviation legend, Belsimtek is excited to offer an opportunity to pilot a pioneering jet fighter spawned in the dawn of the jet age – the F-86 Sabre. Built by North American Aviation, the Sabre is one of the most well known American fighters of the 20th Century. T