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High Speed Flight (1946 style)

Supermarine Attacker Mk.51 - 860 Squadron, Netherlands Naval Aviation Service, 1954 Skin Credit: Paulopanz

Dhimari MiG-23MLD

The last of my work on these models and I will make more after I get feedback from Stratos.

Air traffic jam over the Faroe islands. F-4E(F) vs Lightning F.2

Feb 28th, 1994 On this day in history the first ever active combat in NATO's history took place southwest of Banja Luka in Bosnia and Herzegovina when six Serbian Air Force light attack jets were engaged by USAF F-16C's of the 526th TFS. Captain Robert Gordon "Wilbur" Wright and Captain Stephen L. "Yogi" Allen immediately destroyed four aircraft between them with an additional aircraft later reported by the Serb's as destroyed after being hit by a missile explosion while trying to escape in low-level flight. Feb 28th is also my daughter's birthday and indeed she was born in 1994 which is probably why I don't actually remember this air combat action.

Hi, I sent a comment on the dowload thread, but I realize that since it's an old thread maybe no one will see it. But my problem is that whatever carrier mission I try to load on Campaigns, either with an A7, A6, F14, etc. they all start on the sea, inside the carrier that sails away and leave the planes one on top of another there. Other problems I saw with this mod on my end was when trying to land the plane there were two superposed carriers on the same spot. More details can be found in the thread and SS as well. What may be happening and what can I do to fix it? Thanks

Very good work, in the Malvinas field, I put giant structures like the peninsula and the mountain range that surrounded the alley of the pumps.

Marineluchtvaartdienst What a mouthful. My tongue doesn't do that.

Many thanks Nyghtfall for finding that component and providing the example text to edit it out. I just loaded up the LOD-Viewer again with the A-6A_PIT.LOD and can see now how I missed that the nav_panel node had sub-nodes. Looks like I'm over the last hurdle. Um...actually, I still need to figure out how to create internal counter measures, but that will be a fun challenge once I find the time. IIRC the last mission I ran was in North Atlantic in the early 70s to bomb a ship and my Intruder wingman all got shot out of the sky by SA missiles. [Edit] Flew a mission with the A-6E and the cockpit looks terrific - no more skewered DIANE.

Here are some statistical facts regarding the development of the ETO theatre. I have checked the sizes of the "targets.dat" and "tardata.dat" files to calculate the number of targets, and the number of TMods. In EAW1.2 there are 302 targets and 3826 Tmods In the EAWPro public release there are 309 targets and 17894 Tmods In ETO 2018 there are 316 targets and 31751 TMods This theatre is Ray's ETO 2015 plus a few convoy targets added by me. It gives the reader some idea of the amount of work that has been done by VBH and Ray in order to produce much more interesting ETO theatres in terms of targets and ground objects. Jel

In comparison to the F-4, P-51s are a dime a dozen. I see two P-51s flying near my work place almost every day giving paid rides. The Collings Foundation F-4D Phantom is the only privately owned operational F-4 in the world to my knowledge. I think Congress had to approve its sale. It would be an absolute treasure to get this F4H-1F/F-4A fully restored and flying the airshow circuit. There are plenty of F-4s at museums (including this limited production early prototype), having something like this touring the country and/or world for public airshows would be awesome. When I got out o the Navy, I went to the Mac Dill AFB open house airshow nearly every year until I got married (and went to a couple more after my son was old enough). For me, the star of the flight demonstrations was the F-104 team with their awesome J-79 jet engines, which have a distinctive sound compared to all the more modern turbofan engines. It reminded me of my childhood airshows at Mac Dill with F-4s, which sound even better with twin J-79s :) Don't get me wrong, I love the P-51 Mustang. But they are fairly common compared to the F-4 unless you happen to live in one of the countries still operating F-4E variants. As for the one-piece front windshield, it was developed to increase resistance to bird strikes and also increased forward visibility. I would think it would be hard to get one, but maybe modern manufacturing techniques made it cheap to make a new one or they recovered a spare from one of the very few upgraded F-4s? As a safety upgrade with its much greater strength and much better forward view, I don't mind considering the goal was to make this aircraft flyable.

Están mal las matriculas, los DA tenían las matriculas I-001, I-002, I-020 y I-021...los Dagger B eran C-425, C-426, C-438 y C-439 The registrations are wrong, the DA had registration I-001, I-002, I-020 and I-021, Dagger B had C-425, C-426, C-438 and C-439

THERE IS NO NEED TO BLOCK THE THREAD. This is not the start of an argument. It is a continuation of the conversation about what can be reasonably be added to EAW. There have been no pejoratives thrown about, no insults of any kind and some of the same misinformation we're always fighting about was quickly corrected without rancor. So. Seems to me we'd be putting a lot of effort into something with very limited returns. A level bomber having it's bomb load blow up due to a direct hit is basically eye candy. As it stands now, you see plenty of level bombers going down in flames during an intercept. How in the world would a player know OR CARE if a particular plane was hit by a flak round versus blowing up from a rocket attack or some well placed 30MM cannon rounds? ( FWIW, if you spend that much time admiring the action, you are going to get shot down) If we're going to add immersive things to EAW they should be things that the player affects directly or experiences in the cockpit , like when we added skip bombs, large caliber weapons, torpedoes, moving barges on rivers, dive brakes and distinct engine sounds For instance, oil spattered windscreens, flames coming from the engine and bullet holes in the gauge cluster are all things we don't have in EAW but were included in SWOTL and PAW, twenty years ago. Heck, SWOTL even limited the max speed you could achieve with a full fuel and ammo load. These additions are within the abilities of our one remaining programmer. In fact, I think some progress was made in these areas before things started to slow down due to lack of manpower and that paucity of manpower is the problem.

RL slowing back down, time to get back to virtual work

You're absolutely correct that is what I was working on the last 30 minutes.

Gloster Meteor F.Mk.4

Over the years I've heard rumors that the reason there were so many MiG-17's is because they reproduce through mitosis. Here's a picture of the process:

25 February 1975. Brigadier General Charles E. Yeager of USAF made his final flight as an active duty Air Force pilot, flying YF-4E 65-0713 named Glamorous Glennis. 10,131.6 flight hours were accumulated by him during his service. He retired a few days later 1 March 1975. after 12 222 days of service.

An A-1E, USAF, circa 1964 on an early morning training mission

Italian F-100D over the Adriatic Sea, 1970

The Cat, the Mice, the Devil and the Scarecrow... One of Federico Fellini's finest films

Baltic Boat Basher!

Would that be the Tasmanian Sea by any chance? The "poor man's" Tom-Kitty:

CF-107C Thunderstrike - No.416 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force, 1975

Nice XIII Sqn Skin! Did you ever get around to releasing an TSR ADV? I remember seeing one (I think it was from you) on here a few years ago. Mandatory Screenie: Javelin with JP223s

De Havilland Vulture S.1 - No.17 Squadron, RAF Germany, 1969 De Havilland's submission to GOR.339 came from their Christchurch team under the leadership of W.A. Tamblin who proposed the De Havilland Vulture, a radical design featuring a variable incidence wing with podded Rolls-Royce RB.142R Medway turbofan engines. Tamblin's design was slightly smaller than most of the other submissions to GOR.339 and, apart from the variable incidence wing, it featured supersonic drop tanks and a bulged conformal belly tank to help it achieve the range requirement. In addition, De havilland's experience of 'buddy' refuelling techniques with the Sea Vixen were incorporated into their design from the outset and the company pitched a minimum change version at the Admiralty for carrier-based interception and strike. Air Ministry officials were delighted at De Havilland's claimed 70,000lb all-up-weight and with a general correlation between an aircraft's all-up-weight and cost their design soon became favourite to win the GOR.339 competition and in early 1959 they were awarded a contract for 220 aircraft for the RAF and 80 aircraft for the Royal Navy. Entering service in early 1968 with No.6 Squadron in the UK the aircraft soon spread it's wings to become the backbone of RAF Germany with the Vulture S.1 eventually replacing all remaining Canberra and Hunter squadrons and reaching a peak strength of eleven squadrons in RAF Germany by 1973. Nice One Cocas!

Hawker Siddeley Aviation Sirocco FG.1 - 893 Naval Air Squadron

My whack at turning Cocas's fantastic "Blackburn Shark F.1" back into a Me-262 HGIII. My first time re-texturing. I may try giving it some camo later.

LOL looks like an artist's impression from the 1960's.