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A little plane is ready for 2018, we wish you a nice Xmas and a blessed year 2018. Hope you guys will do well. So far, best regards, the Sukhoi Team

TAC F-104C Starfighter in flight...thanks to my friend Soulfreak

We are also experimenting with improved pilots. Shot of first test batch below. Odd numbered pilots have a "normal" scarf. Even numbered pilots have a winter scarf. Per VonS' suggestion, the torsos are somewhat narrow so they will fit in all existing aircraft.

Yep, its a Nieuport 28 engine I dropped in for a quick test - to get a feel for constructing the nose. Meanwhile, I've been working on a new batch of WW1 pilots.

I'm very excited about the Bleriot XI - been reading up on some of the powerplants used and top speeds...should be very entertaining to fly. Top speed for the 3-cyl. Anzani powered type is about 76 kph, with a ceiling of only about 900 meters. The 7-cylinder (70-80 hp) rotary types typical for 1914/early 1915 have a top speed of about 105-6 kph and a theoretical ceiling of about 2000 meters - slightly higher than the Morane Saulnier Types G and H. I don't have stats. on whether these were only 80hp Gnome (Lambda) powerplants or some of the earlier Le Rhone variants too of about 80 hp...power output would have been similar, and top speeds on both engines. There is a Gnome (Delta) engine by 1914 of 100 hp (9 cylinder) but I doubt this was ever used on the Bleriot XI types (one or two seater). Couldn't find any stats. for the earlier 7-cylinder rotary powered variant (Gnome "Omega"...about 50-60 hp) that was probably a one-seater type and typical from about 1911 to 1913. From some general calculations, I'm estimating that the Omega variant had a top speed of around 85-90 kph, and a ceiling between 1000 and 1500 meters. Some types also had higher hp Anzani engines installed, in the pre-1914 period, but most switched to rotaries by 1913/4. The rarest powerplant is an "engined up" version of the top-facing, three-cylinder Anzani (w configuration), giving about 40-50 hp, compared with the standard 25-30 hp variant. Only a few had this variant installed...probably no later than 1912 or 1913. The 40+ hp Anzani should give similar top speed and ceiling to the Gnome Omega variants. Also exciting is that the stall speed in level flight is about 60 to 67/8 kph on most of the Bleriot XI variants...this leaves maybe less than 10 kph between top speed and stall on some of the engine and air frame combinations used. Here's links to a 1910 Anzani (w configuration) of about 30 hp... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6hj1O0nJgc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tjRjHgAMPU This may be the 40+ hp variant, with the exhausts at the top of the cylinders... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHMAKVrNfMI Happy flying, Von S

TA-4"What if" skin somewhere over South China Sea

Got the N17 working ingame.

Base template for nose ...

Hi, I am an avid Strike Fighters player, and the game inspired me so much that I had the idea to create my own flight game. It is in pretty poor state so far, but I managed to squeeze out 1 release every month since January, and I added new features at every new release. So this is SkyHussars R5: By now I have the most basic things: I create a poor model of a P80, I read about flight physics, and implemented a very very simple physics model. Then I added terrain, some simple particle effects, enemies, shooting and positional audio, then I created simple text configs for the game and simple menus. And now I have sea and some self shadowing. The framerate as of now is quite abysmal though, that's something I should improve immediately. The game s built on top of the jMonkeyEngine. I am a Java enterprise developer by profession, so this engine suited me the best. It was an exciting experiment so far, but because I work on it during late night coding sessions, I don't know how long I can keep this up. So I felt it is time to show this to others, despite the abysmal framerates and the poor gameplay: https://github.com/ZoltanTheHun/SkyHussars/releases/tag/R5 The main platform is Windows, but It should work on Linux and BSD too, but I haven't tested those platforms for a while. Regards, ZoltanTheHun

Heh, I love the research you have done on this. Gotta great story about Anzani radials. Back in the 1970s/80s, the Santa Paula, CA airport was a haven for old civilian aircraft, much like Chino was a haven for old military aircraft. One sunny afternoon there, I had a conversation with an old geezer who owned a 1920's single-seater that was a rough equivalent to the Piper Cub. I don't remember the type, but I do remember it's Anzani three cylinder radial. The owner had welded retaining braces to the cylinder heads because they had a habit of blowing off the engine! He said he had been forced down three different times because of the Anzani blowing cylinder heads!

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Another of TK's F-14 in Adversary colors...just a quick improvement over the stock skin

SF2 WW2 Fi-156 Storch RHAF Royal Hellenic Air Force ( Greece)....WAIT APROVAL...

Mirage F-1CH v1.1 is waiting for approval. See the readme for the complete changelog. Have fun.