What If Screenshot Thread.......

[Gepard]

Flight group of a german aircraft carrier in the mid 1970th.

 

[Gepard]

Some decades ago a american pilot said: "Our worst nightmare is a German in a MiG-29."

A German in a F-31 would have been much worser!

[Gepard]

Navy version of the MiG-21 on board of soviet carrier:

[Wrench]

Jealous much? Eat your heart out USS Forrestal & Jimmy Flattley!!

(the bird will be released too, just because)

[Gepard]

F-31 Argentinian Air Force end 1990th

[yakarov79]

[yakarov79]

[ValAstur]

Korean Lightning F.2A, unknown Squadron, 1969

[CSomers611]

On 6/7/2025 at 6:21 AM, allenjb42 said:

What if the 42ECS, which provides USAF personnel to the USN growler squadrons, gained it's own aircraft and deployed to RAF Upper Heyford in homage to it's historic EF-111A deployment.. 

But of course, that's a what-if because RAF Upper Heyford closed in the early/mid 1990's for redevelopment, and the 42ECS instead became part of the 48FW at RAF Lakenheath...

The squadron joined the other USAF Superhornets units based there, namely 493FS flying the F/A-18E, together with 492Fs and 494FS operating the 2-seat F/A-18F

Have you released these for download?

[CSomers611]

What if the U.S. Air Force had decided to purchase F-14's? These Air Defense Command F-14's look right at home in the Bering Straights....

F-14A 84th FIS Castle AFB, CA (1976)

 

2nd FITS, Tyndall AFB, FL (1975)

11th FIS (1975)

49th FIS Griffiss AFB, NY (1975)

 

What could've been!

 

[daddyairplanes]

14 hours ago, CSomers611 said:

What if the U.S. Air Force had decided to purchase F-14's? These Air Defense Command F-14's look right at home in the Bering Straights....

very awesome!  i will make the suggestion to adjust the 49ths eagle abit, maybe making the wing take up the rudder and stretching the body and face along to near the front of the tail

and would very much consider doing the units that did historically convert form 106s to Eagles before the active duty FISs got disbanded

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typical Central European weather during the tryouts for the '87 Skyblazers

[CSomers611]

@daddyairplanes I have done a few more.....I chose Fighter Interceptor Squadrons which were still active when the ADCOM Tomcats would've came into service around 1975. Here's what I have so far:

 

2nd and 95th Fighter Interceptor Training Squadrons both at Tyndall AFB, FL starting in 1975 as they needed to train the new Pilots and the GIBs.

For Operational Fighter Interceptor Squadrons, I have the 5th Minot AFB (1976), 48th Langley AFB (1976), 49th at Griffiss AFB (1976), 84th at Castle AFB (1976), and the 318th at McChord AFB (1976).

 

As you mentioned, I need to rework the 49th FIS tail. Also thinking about moving the U.S. Air Force to the engine intake area and doing a couple of other things.