Cold War Aircraft

This second skinpack contains 3 F-8E Navy Squadrons for MF's F-8E:
 
- VF-53 "Iron Angels" aboard USS Bon Homme Richard circa 1968
- VF-194 "Red Lightnings" aboard USS Ticonderoga circa 1966
- VF-211 "Fighting Checkmates" aboard USS Hancock circa 1966
 
Thanks again to C5 for his wonderfull template!

Just unpack and drop it in your F-100D folder and fly
 
 
I will say thanks to Sundowner for letting me use his EXELLENT High REZ templates .
 
Also to USAFMTL who done the Numbers decal, which he kindly permitted me to use.
 
 
This mod is free to use at will, but not never in ANY payware mod. Just credit my work and I will be happy.
 
Hope you will like my bird
 
hgbn
 
Alias Henrik Nielsen

VF-103 (the "Sluggers") was activated in 1952 as an F4U Corsair squadron. VF-103 shortly transitioned to the F9F Cougar. After a few years with the Cougar, VF-103 was one of the first squadrons to transition to the F-8 Crusader. Once the transition was completed they were teamed up with VF-102 on board Forrestal. Before the introduction to supersonic Crusader jets, American carrier battle groups were often embarrassed by British bombers during allied exercises as the RAF English Electric Canberras had always been able to make mock attacks on US Carriers with impunity. The carrier-based fighters at the time simply could not put up much resistance. During the 1958 Mediterranean cruise, British pilots were shocked when VF-103 tore through their formation of Canberras before they even had a chance to start their simulated attack.
 
Just put into your MF F-8E folder and fly.
 
Thanks to C5 for the skin templates. Thanks the rest of the MF for everything else.

The Navy fighter squadron known as the Red Rippers were established as VF-5S in 1927 at Hampton Roads, Virginia. They flew the Curtis F6C-3 Hawk and have served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From 1927 to World War II, the Rippers flew several propeller aircraft including the Boeing F3B-1 and F4B-1, the Grumman FF-1 and F3F-1 and also held the following designations: VF-5S, VB-1B, VF-5 and VF-4. During World War II the Rippers were known as VF-41 and supported the allied invasion of North Africa, downing sixteen enemy aircraft in the Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat. They conducted the first air strikes against German forces in Norway in September 1943. The Red Rippers were designated VF-A when they transferred to the Pacific Theatre in 1944 on board USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) and USS Essex (CV-9). In the Pacific they flew the first air strikes against Tokyo in the Grumman F6F Hellcat.
 
In 1948 the Red Rippers were redesignated as VF-11. After World War II, the Red Rippers leaped into the jet age, flying the McDonnell F2H Banshee during the Korean War from the USS Kearsarge (CV-33). On 15 Feb 1959, the original Red Rippers were disestablished, but when VF-43 was redesignated as VF-11 on the following day, they decided to adopt the traditions and insignia of the Red Rippers. The "new" VF-11 Red Rippers transitioned to the Chance-Vought F-8 Crusader on USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV-42) where they helped quell the unrest in the Dominican Republic in 1961. In 1965 the Rippers moved to NAS Oceana flying the F-4 Phantom and saw action in North Vietnam in 1967 flying from the decks of USS Forrestal (CV-59).
 
Just put into your MF F-8D folder and fly.
 
Thanks to C5 for the skin templates. Thanks the rest of the MF for everything else.

This first skinpack contains skins for the following planes:
 
F-8D:
 
- VF-154 aboard USS Coral Sea circa 1965
 
F-8E:
 
- VF-51 aboard USS Ticonderoga circa 1964 (Tonkin Gulf Incident)
- VF-162 aboard USS Oriskany circa 1966 (with some Snoopy tails)
 
Stay tuned, more to come!

Thanks to bobrock for the templates I used to do this skin
 
 
This skin is for the stock ThirdWire F-104G only. And represent a Royal Danish Air Force Eskadrille 723 F-104G in the orginal first paintjob.
 
This skin may never be used in ANY payware mod, but it's free to use at will as long you credit me for my work.
 
 
Just unpack and drop it in your stock THirdWire F-104G folder and fly
 
hgbn

Canada used this Green scheme in 1976 with 421 Squadron stationed in Germany.
 
Thanks to Ajunaidr for his excellent F-104D model and for allowing me to release this skin.
 
Just drop into his F104D Starfighter and fly!
 
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This is my first skin. Using Bassman's Low Rez Templates, there will be a High Rez version later.
 
 
Good Hunting Gentlemen
 
hgbn Henrik Nielsen

355th Tactical Fighter Squadron
354th Tactical Fighter Wing
Myrtle Beach AFB, South Carolina, 1959
 
2048x2048 resolution, made from Sundowner's template.

352nd Tactical Fighter Squadron
354th Tactical Fighter Wing
Myrtle Beach AFB, South Carolina, 1959
 
2048x2048 resolution, made from Sundowner's template.

417th Tactical Fighter Squadron
50th Tactical Fighter Wing
 
2048x2048 resolution, made from Sundowner's template.

492nd Tactical Fighter Squadron
48th Tactical Fighter Wing
Chaumont AFB, France, 1959
 
2048x2048 resolution, made from Sundowner's template.

531st Tactical Fighter Squadron
21st Tactical Fighter Wing
Misawa AFB, Japan, 1959
 
2048x2048 resolution, made from Sundowner's template.

511th Fighter Bomber Squadron
405th Fighter Bomber Wing
Langley AFB, Virginia, 1959
 
2048x2048 resolution, made from Sundowner's template.

615th Tactical Fighter Squadron
401th Tactical Fighter Wing
England AFB, Louisiana, 1959
 
2048x2048 resolution, made from Sundowner's template.