Transitions

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Game rules for this thread: Same Unit, different aircraft. Major changes preferred, although in some cases like KC-135, F-4D to E, and C-130 different models could be ok.

and you gotta name the unit and rough year of the change.

to kick off, the 120th Fighter Squadron, Colorado Air National Guard. A-7D to F-16C, 1992

 

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318th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, 25th Air Division, McChord AFB, WA. The "Green Dragons". (Converted to the Eagle in 1983)

Flying NORAD's Premier Fighter (at the time) The F-106A Delta Dart

But, progress & the future was parked on the taxiway...in the form of the F-15A

No matter how good you are, the future will always overtake you...

Edited March 4, 2023 by Nightshade/PR
Data inclusion

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149th Tactical Fighter Squadron, Virginia Air National Guard.

F-105D to A-7D, 1981

 

 

pay no mind how much Richmond VA looks like southern Italy lol

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57th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, NAS Keflavik - The Black Knights of Iceland 

Northrop F-89C Scorpion, 1953–1962

Convair F-102 Delta Dagger, 1962-1973

McDonell Douglas F-4C Phantom II, 1973–1978

The 87th Red Bulls deployed to Keflavik Iceland in April 1978 to assist the 57th with Alert Duties as that unit transitioned from F-4Cs to F-4Es.

McDonell Douglas F-4E Phantom II, 1978–1985

McDonell Douglas F-15 Eagle, 1985-1993

Edited March 11, 2023 by Nightshade/PR

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Bundesluftwaffe Jagdgeschwader-71 (JG-71) Richthofen

Canadair Mk.6 flown in 1950th and 60th

F-104G flown in 1960th and 70th

F-4F flown in 1970th, 80th, 90th

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Old Polly and new Polly!

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VAQ-129 transition from the EA-6B to the EA-18G in 2009

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thats wicked

you guys are really taking it above and beyond my original concept. i just figured on show casing two different aircraft at a given transitional point in the unit's history

like the 706th TFS swapping Hogs to Vipers on a rainy New Orleans day....

 

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not the usual staged shot

Just a Bone sitting as a G model heads off west.....

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5th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, whose tenure lasted from 1960 to 1988, flying F-106 Delta Darts

In the mid-1980s the 5th converted to the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagles. The F-15s only flew over Minot until the spring of 1988, when the FIS was inactivated.

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34th Bomb Squadron, 366th Wing  B-52G to B-1Bs

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On 11/01/2024 at 7:15 PM, Nightshade/PR said:

In the mid-1980s the 5th converted to the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagles. The F-15s only flew over Minot until the spring of 1988, when the FIS was inactivated.

 

Question: this are the original F-15A lods? Can you share the data with me so I can apply this vortex on mines too?

Edited February 15 by madvad

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2 hours ago, madvad said:

Question: this are the original F-15A lods? Can you share the data with me so I can apply this vortex on mines too?

pretty sure they are the F-15A_85s from the Super Pack

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42 minutes ago, daddyairplanes said:

pretty sure they are the F-15A_85s from the Super Pack

I know that the Charlie versions in Superpack have a different canopy design, that's why I asked, these ones seemed to have the original TW design canopy.
Thanks for the answer, I will check the Alpha Superpacks 

Update: Well, its like I thought, the Superpacks have another .LOD, check the canopy line and reflections:

Its not the same model.

Update 2: I looked carefully at the the files in the F-15A version of Superpack, who uses the original TW LOD´s with a updated DATA.ini and found the Vortex positions added.
This is what I looking for, thanks for the tip!!!

Edited February 15 by madvad
Update

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Spring 1994: after one year in Germany, the 510th Fighter Squadron stands down as a Hog unit in Germany (aircraft and personnel taking on teh 81st FS identity) and stand back up in Italy as a Viper unit

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Late 1993: The 196th Reconaissance Squadron, California Air National Guard, becomes the 196th Air Refueling Squadron. The venerable RF-4Cs are traded in for even older (though refurbished) KC-135Es

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late 1980/early 1981: the 474th Tactical Fighter Wing gives up its venerable F-4Ds to become the second F-16 operator in the USAF

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1987: the 307th TFTS gives up its last F-4D, reverting back to being the 307th TFS and completing the 31st's transition back to a TFW with F-16A/B Block 15s