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New toys on HMAS Melbourne 1965 circa

Also, the cockpit as nearly done. Click on shot for hi-res image.

The begining of the Su-17...

VonS is establishing new standards of research and historical accuracy with his FM. Samples below: Here's the polished data ini for the Junkers J.I. Wing vibrations are now frequent enough to be noticeable , as historical. Also successful were the altitude table entry tweaks under the engine section - that took a lot of tweaking and different variables but I've managed to "fix" things in such a way that the 200hp Daimler engine is now over-compressed at lower altitudes, as reported (see included pics) - this also gives the AI a bit less work to do when taking off. Here are some basic stats for the engine now: - below about 1000m/3800feet alt, use 70% throttle to reduce wing vibration, top speed at low alt. this way is around 168kph - if run at 100% throttle below suggested height, wing vibrations are nearly constant with no great advantage in speed or climb (about 171kph, climb is around 3.5 m/s with the nice cantilever wing, nearly same climb rate as at 70% throttle at low alt) - above 3800 feet, open throttle freely to 100% for max climb of about 2 to 2.5m/s (in the 120s and 130s kph) - top speed around 1500m/4900 feet is about 157kph, drops off then with height; max theoretical ceiling is around 4000m/13000 feet but good luck getting there in this heavy steel crate, although the wings give nice lift, and vibration - listen to the AI's engine management and you will notice that he's also using about 60 to 70% throttle at altitudes below about 5000 - 6000 feet, the management kicks in about 10 seconds after take off for the AI, with it using full throttle only to "unglue" itself from the ground - also tweaked some of the manifold and oil pressure numbers under the engine section; and damage chances; now if there are too many vibrations while rolling out and gaining speed for take off, you might catch an engine fire; trick is to gently use throttle at first, get the tail up, and then accelerate smoothly before lifting off Von S P.S. Have scrapped the 220hp variant since the 200hp is an over-compressed job anyway, giving about 200hp at about 1400 rpm - I've limited the engine to 1600 rpm - this gives about 210-220hp from it, as historical, at full blast

Mitsubishi Aerospace F-3A - 302nd Hikotai (Aggressor Flight), Japanese Air Self Defense Force, 2013 When Japan selected the F-16 to be it's new 'secondary fighter' in 1987 it had already been planned to produce a developed version of the F-16 to be manufactured by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to replace the ageing Mitsubishi F-1 and F-4EJ and eventually supplement the F-15J. But even before production of the F-2 had started, senior JASDF officials requested a more capable aircraft to replace the F-15J and by late 1992 they had settled upon a revised version of the rejected General Dynamics ATF submission dating from the late 1980's. This promised to give Mitsubishi an opportunity to introduce technologies planned for the F-2 into the new F-3 'primary fighter' such as the co-cured technology used to create lighter composite structures and the F110-GE-129 engine. With rumours emerging of a probable merger between General Dynamics and Lockheed, Mitsubishi moved swiftly and controversially bought the GD design in early 1993 including long-term production licences regarded by many aerospace industry insiders as being grossly over-valued and leading to a unit price that eventually exceeded that of the F-22 Raptor. Despite this, development of the F-3 moved smoothly with the programme generally running about five years behind the F-2 and thus able to continue to incorporate innovations learnt from it's smaller predecessor. The first flight of the XF-3A took place on December 24th, 2000 with production F-3A aircraft entering service with 302nd Hikotai in early 2011. Julhelm's outstanding General Dynamics ATF Contender.

View File SF2 MLD PV-2 Harpoon Skin Set SF2 MLD PV-2 Harpoon Skin Pack 9/5/2017 = For SF2 (Full 5 Merged RECCOMENDED) = This package contains a new skin for Veltro2k's Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon naval patrol bomber. This skin/decal set represents the 18 as used by the Royal Netherlands Naval Air Service (Marineluchtvaartdienst) or MLD. The MLD recieved 18 Harpoon in 1950, and were used in the Martime Recon, and Search & Rescue until their replacement by P2V Neptunes in the early 1960s. The skin is in jpg format, in overall "Dark Gloss Navy Blue" finish. All markings are decals, and decal randomization is TRUE. Displayed serial numbers are 100% historically correct for the aircraft depicted, as used by the MLD. Also included is the updated (and a backup copy) of the data ini for those that have not updated their WW2 versions. If you've done so, you need not install these 2 files (they're the same as in the update pack, so no harm will come if you do). You will still need the aircraft itself, available at the following URL: https://combatace.com/files/file/15018-ww2-pto-pv-2-harpoon-package/ As always, unzip this to a temp folder or your desktop, and you'll have access to the rest of the readme for the install instructions. *Please note, that even though the aircraft is WW2 vintage, THIS use is Cold War, which is why it's been placed here* Happy Landings! Wrench Kevin Stein Submitter Wrench Submitted 09/19/2017 Category Other  

Yeah, the A-10C was not built for extended inverted flight.

View File SF2-WW2 Battle of the Bulge Terrain The terrain is set up to use the GermanyCE.Cat file but there are not that many ThirdWire objects in use and no ThirdWire tiles so it may work OK with other Terrain.cat files but hasn't been tested. This is a very narrow focused terrain with the emphasis on fighter bomber operations in the Ardennes region in late 1944 and early 1945. The main intent of this project was to make a semi-historical Battle of the Bulge campaign but as usual with the SF series, things are taking much longer than expected so I'm going to release this unfinished beta 0.9 version for testing and hopefully get the final version with a campaign released in about 6 months. The towns along the front line are in place but I still have quite a few to add further behind both the US and German lines. Most targets are of the tactical variety such as supply dumps, fuel caches, storage barns, command/communication trucks, fuel trucks, high value tanks and local command buildings. Most target areas are focused on the Ardennes region with the exception of airfields and hangars. The area to the east of the Rhine river is considered off limits to allied fighter bombers so the five German airfields located there have zero points for runways and hangars. There are two German airfields on the west side of the Rhine that can be assigned as strike targets during single missions. The seven Allied airfields and their hangars can be targets during Luftwaffe strike missions. NOTES: The terrain has some artillery positions and the plan is to use the artillery as a force multiplier during the campaign. The artillery is very one sided in areas that saw quick German break outs but the northern and southern shoulders of the battle area saw very little movement so those areas have artillery positions for both sides. The terrain is meant for fighter bomber operations only so all airfields are classed as SMALL to try and minimize the number of large aircraft that might show up in single missions. There are three types of runways in use, two use a version of my quicker take off mod and one uses the FE style sequential take off. All the add-on tanks, vehicles, guns, etc. have had adjustments made to things like hit boxes, engine power, on and off road speed, armor protection, gun range, rate of fire, visual range, etc. They aren't perfect but I thought it best to take a consistent approach. Although they weren't always widely available, all the tank guns use AP rounds with no explosive in the warhead. All the guns and ground objects included have a suffix for "Bulge" or "Baffmeister', take your pick. There is an optional folder that contains some AAA pieces. If you are happy with your present WW2 AAA set up it can be ignored but my WW2 install was a real mess regarding the AAA so I took the opportunity to improve things. For now, the German 88mm, US 90mm and British 3.7inch time fused flak use the same gun and cover the entire WW2 date range. This is a gross simplification but I'm still experimenting with overly large explosive rounds for the time fused flak so it remains as is. ISSUES: The seven allied airfield positions are relatively accurate although I had to move them a bit to fit within the GermanyCE terrain tods. The Luftwaffe airfields are just using some of the stock ThirdWire locations. Two of the Luftwaffe airfields have a second airfield/runway attached to give two airfields at one location. None of the airfields are a good representation of the actual WW2 airfields. Also, I haven't had a chance yet to sort through some new objects so they are very plain looking. I tried to organize the ground objects a bit so they all have Green, Tan and for this terrain White texture folders. Some of the objects had some dedicated winter textures I could use but others I had to make myself by just messing with colors, brightness and saturation. Lots of room for improvement! The same holds true for winter roof textures I did for some building objects. Geezer's objects all have good textures! While scouting out town locations I found a great spot on the GermanyCE terrain for Elsenborn Ridge and guesstimated the other town locations off that point. The result is inaccurate town locations too far south. It doesn't really affect game play unless you try and fly with a real map but it's a done deal at this point. The ThirdWire GermanyCE terrain doesn't really do the Ardennes region justice. None off the rivers that were a big part of the Battle of the Bulge are modeled and neither are most of the roads but trying to do a dedicated terrain would have added years to the project. I tried using a very tight date range for this terrain but it seems to default to 1944 or 1945. For single missions you will want to choose 1944 because, at certain target areas, some US objects get removed from the terrain starting 17th December, 1944. TERRAIN CREDITS ThirdWire: GermanyCE terrain and city TODs. Stary: GermanyCE Hard Winter tiles and countryside TODs and TOD textures. Some TOD textures taken from Rends GermanyCE terrain. STATIC BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT OBJECTS CREDITS Geezer: Too many objects to name individually! They are being run from individual folders within the terrain folder. The credits are included within the object folders. Objects include urban blocks, farm houses, town houses, churches, barns, light industrial buildings, warehouses, static vehicles, soldiers, horse drawn carts,tents and a supply dump. Some hangars included as well. Thank you Sir! Polak and Wrench: Some objects from Object Library 1. Gepard: Burg_Colditz, Pfalzgrafenstein, airfield ramps, taxiways and a runway with modified textures. WingWiner: Many town buildings and destroyed models, most with modified textures. Stary: str_han1, 4, and 8 with modified textures. Also, some Stary textures being used on a couple of ThirdWire hangars. Sundowner: Road grader. Closterman: Tactical Control Centre. Monty CZ: Static version of his Opel_Blitz_Com vehicle and a landing strip model with modified textures. Mitch: halle3_close Stephen1918: SmallChurch. Unknown: FH-Trees, Tree3A, Tree3B and Tree3C. Unknown: Fort Gatehouse, Fort HQ Building, Fort Turret, Fort Wall and Fort Wall Destroyed, all with modified textures. GROUND OBJECT CREDITS Geezer: 105mm German and US artillery, M5 anti tank gun, PanzerWerfer-42, motorized versions of his M3 half track, GMC canvas truck, Dodge WC51 light truck, and a PanzerIVh model that is still a work in progress. Geo: M3 half track, M36 tank destroyer, Panther tank, Sdkfz251 half track, Sdkfz251 flak, TigerII tank, Sherman M4A3 and E8 tanks, M16 Quad AAA, and Opel Blitz Canvas/Open trucks. Raven: TigerI tank and the SturmTiger rocket launcher. Monty CZ: 88Flak36Emplaced, 88mm Flak36Towed[used as AT gun], and I think, the 20mm FlakVierling [quad]. Nicholas Bell: Bofors L60 ThirdWire: US 90mm AAA. [uses KS-19 Lod.] Unknown: British 3.7inchAAA. SPECIAL THANKS TO MUE! Without his Target Area Editor I would not have even attempted this project! INSTALLATION: Instructions included in the package. WAIVERS: Geezer's PanzerIV-h model is still a work in progress and may not be re-distributed in any way. It's included mainly for testing and as a favor to me. It includes some copy/paste textures from RussoUK's PanzerIV-j but that's just a temporary test for now. Geezer's other building/vehicle/troop etc. objects can be used, with appropriate credits, for freeware projects only, no commercial use permitted. The new objects are contained in individual folders within the BotB Terrain folder and can be easily viewed with Mues lod viewer. You can then do a search through the BotB_Types.ini to see the way I've set them up, which might not be the best way. Keep in mind, this isn't a formal object pack upload and not all summer textures are included. The terrain is still WIP and may not be re-distributed or modified, except for personal use. To the best of my knowledge, other objects included in this package are subject to the CombatAce fair use agreement. Submitter baffmeister Submitted 09/18/2017 Category Full Terrains  

In coming!.........................soon.

awesome aircraft..

More updates are to be expected soon. There are some changes to the avionics of the F1C HUD type used by the FAF and many exported F1's. Changes compared to the last version from 2014: Nav mode shows - orange magnetic compass scale on top - green pitch ladder which rotates around HUD center New scaling, showing a bigger part of the pitch ladder in the HUD FOV - yellow Flightpath symbol Symbol changed to Vertical Velocity Indicator function - yellow baro altitude scale on the right - gunsight reticle is caged on HUD center gunsight reticle no longer displayed in NAV mode - "inverted T" centered symbol (also the radar boresight reference) A2A modes show Always - green pitch ladder which rotates around HUD center New scaling, showing a bigger part of the pitch ladder in the HUD FOV - "inverted T" centered symbol (also the radar boresight reference) with guns selected - gunsight reticle with default range of 500 meter without radar lock - orange magnetic compass scale on top, with radar lock this becomes radar range indicator, showing distance in NM if range is greater than 1 NM If range is closer than 1 NM the scale is changing to hundreds of meters - a small orange or yellow box is displayed to show target position within HUD FOV - yellow closure speed readout on the right, showing 000 without lock and positive or negative closure with radar lock Replaced, see below - orange closure speed scale displayed on the right, with radar lock only. Scale covers -200 kts to +1000 kts Closure speed is indicated by the moving > shaped caret with missiles selected - yellow radar range readout on top, showing distance in NM Replaced, see below - the orange compass scale/radar range indicator is now displayed with Radar and IR missiles, range indication same as with guns - yellow closure speed readout on the right, showing 000 without lock and positive or negative closure with radar lock Replaced, see below - orange closure speed scale displayed on the right, with radar lock only. Scale covers -200 kts to +1000 kts Closure speed is indicated by the moving > shaped caret - with radar missile the Flightpath (Now VVI) Symbol is displayed, this has the ASE function, center it/fly towards it to lead the target for a missile attack - a small orange or yellow box is displayed to show target position within HUD FOV - with radar lock and inside minimum range for missile launch, a red light/dot is displayed in the lower half of the HUD - if selected missile is within min/max range and launch G-limit, a green light/dot shoot cue is displayed below the center symbol - with missiles selected (radar or IR), two triangle symbols below the center symbol indicate missiles present, symbol is removed with no missiles left - if missile seekers are locked-on to a target, two orange lights are displayed below the triangle missile present symbols

1st ACG