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its that time of year where a big ugly fat f...... anyhow get pulled along by 8 propulsion units and flies long distances to deliver gifts ODS skin pack and upgrade uploaded, waiting on approval Merry Christmas everyone

Today I uploaded the SAML S.2 - my first Italian plane, appropriate for Gterl's new Caporetto terrain. The SAML S.2 was an Italian two-seat reconnaissance plane It was an improved version of the S.1, which was a license built copy of the Aviatik B.I. My SAML S.2 includes two skins, decals, a small bomb loadout, along with my skinning templates. My thanks to Ojcar for making the FM and for advising me on details of the plane.

Santa Baby...

View File SAML S.2 The SAML S.2 was an improved version of the Aviatik B.I which was built under license by the Societá Anonima Meccanica Lombarda (known as the SAML S.1.) The S.2 was specifically designed to fly in the mountainous terrain of the Italian Front. Improvements mostly involved the wings, which had a slight sweep and were closer together than the Aviatik design. The biggest improvement was the more powerful Fiat A.12 engine capable of delivering 300hp. The SAML S.2 was used primarily for reconnaissance and was armed with a fixed Fiat-Revelli machine gun over the wing with a ring mounted machine gun operated by the observer. My SAML S.2 includes 2 skins with appropriate decals and a small bomb loadout. I have included my skinning templates with the download. Version 2 - More accurate fuselage and gunner station, corrected wing placement and dihedral, corrected gauges in cockpit - all new LODs, revised skins, revised FM, new cockpit LOD and revised cockpit.ini Credits: My thanks to Ojcar for making the data.ini file for this plane and for providing valuable resources and advice on the details of the SAML S.2. Installation instructions: For FE1: Unzip the file and move the folder named "SAMLS2" into the FirstEagles/Objects/Aircraft folder. For FE2: Unzip the file and move the folder named "SAMLS2" into the FirstEagles/Objects/Aircraft folder. Then in the FirstEagles/Objects/Decals folder, create a new folder named "SAMLS2". Move the folder named "D" from the Aircraft/SAMLS2 folder into the Decals/SAMLS2 folder you just made. Submitter Stephen1918 Submitted 12/23/2018 Category Other Entente Aircraft  

MERRY CHRISTMAS to all here at combatace :)

A Potez 25 on a dawn patrol over Syria in 1941. I love these colourful Vichy paint schemes.

A much needed plane to fly at the new Caporetto map! Beautiful skins Stephen!

You are absolutely correct a lot of work needs to be done. It was just intended to show that I am interested in these two photos and I will take them into consideration as a skin for this project.

Bingo that fixed it. That is on a 34 in wide screen, all details set on balls out.... mucho grass in your asses for the help.

The Top Gear helicopter of clumsiness Inspired by these old BBC Top Gear episode:

This sim never ceases to surprise me. I have never before been able to make a two-point landing, but here it is, a Bf-110C with one main wheel shot off, in North Africa:

This is the next project I'll try working on it starting from tomorrow if I still have enough spare time.

And, if I may say so, A beautiful FM Ojcar! Thanks for all your help.

. "A Story for the Season" 1916: Christmas Eve at the Front. The War has dragged itself along on its steely, mud-caked claws for over two years, and the end seems no closer now than when it all began. At an RFC aerodrome not ten miles from the first line trenches, a group of airmen sit through the morning’s briefing, and prepare themselves for the day’s work. They are nearly all young men, at least in years. But with war comes age beyond a calendar’s mark, and one would find that each man is far older than first appearance would tell if a moment were taken to look into his eyes. As the meeting breaks the jovial banter can be heard amongst the group: the good-natured ribbing and warnings, the verbal jousting, the camaraderie and the closeness that bonds souls together in such tenuous and temporary times. Across the mud at a German aerodrome, a similar scene is being played out. The Jagdstaffel pilots there are also preparing themselves for the task at hand. To look at them, you might imagine they were schoolmates of their British counterparts, rather than enemies soon to be locked in mortal combat. For they too laugh and joke, and share that same bond. And they too are of the "old young". The hour is at hand. On each side the signal is given and the small, fast scout planes skim along the cold, icy ground, and one by one lift into a winter sky as grey as the earth below. They form up, and after climbing to their prescribed altitudes, they head towards No Man’s Land and on to do their best; for King and Country; für Kaiser und Vaterland. They meet, and there is the initial gun pass as each sizes up the other. A few moments later and the aerial battle begins in earnest. To those in the fight it is a mind-numbing blur of action that runs in both accelerated and slow motion simultaneously. A split second given to pull the trigger as a plane zips across the sights: an eternity spent to try and twist out of the path of the bullets. An entire lifetime won or lost in less than an eye blink. To those on the ground it appears as a graceful ballet of the sky, the canvas-feathered birds turning and rolling and climbing and diving. But it is a dance to the death more often than not, and it will end when one or more has fallen. And one has fallen. The long, slow, spiraling pirouette as the finale comes to the dance. The others have now tired and as if by mutual agreement or unseen signal the partners separate and turn away. The audience below does not understand how it can be over so quickly. They cannot see the fatigue and exhaustion of those in the air; cannot see their battered ships, or their bruised and aching bodies; or their tired, aging eyes. No, they can see none of these things, any more than the men in the air can see the pain or the agony endured by those who must fight on the ground. Each sees the other from afar, as through a glass darkly. It is an irony of war that in each case, either in the Sky or on the Earth, a man better understands and is more akin to the enemy he fights in his realm than to his own countrymen above or below. Christmas Eve at the Front. Night has fallen and the pilots sit about the dinner table at their respective aerodromes, and talk of flying and fighting, and of family and friends. Wishes of the Season are shared, letters from home are read. Songs of hope are sung and toasts are made to fellow flyers, and to mothers and sweethearts. At one of the tables an empty chair stands in remembrance of the comrade lost that day, and to whom the final toast is made. He will be missed, and to a loved one back home he will forever be a young man with bright, happy eyes; forever a photograph, a memory of a life that could have been. It matters not which side he fought for. He was a man, a part of human kind, and with his passing we are all the lesser for it. . May you have safe and blessed holidays wherever you are, and may we each remember the true message of this season: Peace on earth, good will toward men.

Or in case that isn't enough of a tease of Nihon hitori 2020 for you... The President of Japan's supposedly closest ally doesn't get a Yen unless it's to sell weapons and a Ruble only when building towers & funding sexcapades in Moscow. So Japan is truly alone against the world for the first time since the summer of 1945. But Japan unlike those dark days ending in two judicious blinding flashes as payback for Nanking & Pearl Harbor has now a deep stockpile of fuel & weapons with well-trained pilots & maintainers. It's up to the 201st and 203rd Squadrons of F-15Js to hold the Northern line against the Red Tide until F-2s and F-35Js arrive to bomb the Flanker bases to oblivion or a diplomatic outcome can be reached - and highly unlikely any substantial help is coming.

One possibility how Nihon hitori 2020 begins over the Kuril Islands... Clearly over Hokkaido Island and got busted attempting a preemptive strike A SU-30 Flanker dispenses flares for a few more seconds of life A F-15J of 201 SQN returns to a Forward Operating Base Safely back

improvement in the troop

https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,60249.msg663177.html#new

Oh, it could be nice ... 'Attack strategic target in abc base .... McDonald's restaurant' ;-)

that will be excellent for an OEF and OIF update. some pics for further reference transient tents these were more common on the smaller bases (at least in my experience) nicer version of what i stayed in in Iraq. due to Hurricane Katrina, some references to FEMA reject trailers were made food joints at Ali Al Salem AB, Kuwait never managed to get a McRib until stateside though barbershop, PX and MWR not shown Kandahar Airfield, 2009 bunker (where a great many cigarettes were smoked waiting for the all clear from a rocket attack) my home for about six months or so (the others looked very similar view walking towards the DFAC or Boardwalk, depending on if you veered left or right at the road something one of my joes tried getting to run again. not sucessful, but he tried me, hard at work not the greatest sample of pics (especially the home copies) but a small sampling of life inside the wire

My personal skin on the excellent WIP Nieuport XVII by Geezer. I hope we can fly on final version in 2019.

Exercise Rear Ingress One part of the "Double Penetration Reserve Component Exercises, with the goal of fully inserting National Guard assets into foreign mission partners. Featuring: F-15C Eagles of the 114th Fighter Squadron/173rd Fighter Training Wing of the Oregon Air National Guard. A-10C Thunderbolt II's of the 104th Fighter Squadron of the Maryland Air National Guard. A composite group of F-16Cs from the 495th Fighter Group and 9th Air Force, with personnel from the 169th Fighter Wing and 316th Fighter Squadron of the South Carolina Air National Guard. Finally, HH-60 Pave Hawks from the 129th Rescue Squadron of the California Air National Guard.

View File Gift Bomber Dec 23rd 2018 ============= Gift Bomber ------------------------- Just for fun ;-) Wojtek ================================================ Keys: ------ SHIFT+1 -> canopy open SHIFT+2 -> fuel probe SHIFT+3 -> weapon operator cockpit So, the most important part ... CREDITS: Fantastic five 1st. Nothing wouldn't be possible without these guyz : ------------------------------------------------------------------ ravenclaw_007 - weapons, documentation, 3d lessons yakarov79 - skinning lessons, testing, damages crusader - documentation, testing, avionics, HUD, air search radar baffmeister - flight model 76_IAP - 3d lessons Then Godfather of project: --------------------------- fanatic modder - testing, documentation, flight model, engine datas, inspiration And last not least .. --------------------- coupi - hit boxes, damages, testing, GR.1B 12sqn decals and 617 Sqn decals. viper63 - testing, skins, loading and arming screens, pilots durasoul, logan4 - help with weapons, testing florian - some parts and ideas I used in my model from his German Tornado svetlin - testing stratos - testing .. and all previous Tonka creators. THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH. And looser ;-) -------------- Well, looks like I was the most lazy guy in this team ;-) guuruu - all bugs Submitter guuruu Submitted 12/23/2018 Category What If Hangar  

Nice pic Pappy - My favorite 'Stead'................Such sexy lines & curves. What a BAD A$$ JET! My mandatory pic compliments of FARMER

An F-105F Thunderchief in an early silver finish....still smells of lacquer and leather.

2560x1080 is my resolution and I am sure it is text editable and don't call me Shirley......

Merry Christmas .

Colorful Bear interceptor mix over the North Atlantic

They will come, all is planed, reference stuff is already on my HDD. M3 basemodel is done. To celebrate Xmas, i had a car accident today, heavy rain caused aquaplaning and spinning on the Highway so i crashed into a concrete wall. Not my best day of the year. I can't post any further news on the status. I'm thankfull for the hard work my crew did this year, countles hours and work that was put into this series. All my thanks goes to my guys, Salute