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Spitting Venom! (PauloPanz repainted skin.) Natural Metal / Aluminium. WIP repainted lines, rivets, template, etc.

mas azulejos (agotador)

The flight of Ukraine Airlines PS752 and it's subsequent downing by Iran's Military is not unfortunate or an accident. An accident would occur if something unexpected resulted from an action. Example: Iran fired a SAM at a military aircraft and it hit a civilian one by accident. In this case they fired that weapon at an aircraft and hit said aircraft. The system did what it was designed (in it's limited capacity it has) to do exactly what it was tasked to do. Was it an accident the civilian aircraft weren't grounded, maybe but I think it's more irresponsible mistake than accident. As for the unfortunate part, the only thing unfortunate in the downing of PS752 is that Iran made an unfortunate denial of the events they soon after had to admit to. Iran acted irresponsibly and here's why. Iran did not act to preserve civilian life during a military strike or planned heightened defenses. Iran knew it was going to take military action, the world knew it. Iran conducted a military strike at the U.S. that was not answered with a counter strike, that is good fortune. Iran fired a SAM and it worked as intended, more good fortune. Iran knew when and what they were doing at the time of the strike. Iran knew they were going to heighten their defensive posture in preparation for a counter strike. Iran knew where the ballistic research facility was located and its proximity to Iran's international airport. Iran knew they were going to protect that facility (they put SAMs there) during such a time as this. Iran knew civilian aircraft frequently traveled the airspace above or near this protected facility as part of their normal flight path on departure (Standard Instrument Departure). Iran did not immediately ground civilian aircraft moments after the Iranian strike began. Iran allowed this aircraft to depart and did nothing to prevent it. Iran did not coordination with air traffic controllers to keep civilian aircraft away from this government installation, either in foresight or hindsight. Iran and the air traffic controllers flew this aircraft into or allowed it to traverse known protected airspace. Iran caused the loss of the passengers, the crew, and the aircraft. Ukrainian Airlines knew the hostility was going on and they allowed this aircraft to depart without grounding it. It's human nature to want to sympathize and understand the "fog of war", "young inexperienced soldier", "heightened intentions", "shit happens", etc., but those are spins of the truth. The truth is Iran took military action which resulted in the direct loss of civilian life and Ukrainian Airlines didn't protect its passengers or equipment. It was wise Iran owned up to their actions and inaction but that does not excuse them. We are all flawed human beings. This was a mistake, Iran wishes they had a do-over, and it is tragic but let's not diminish the lives of those who were lost by explaining it away. May peace come to the families affected and may they find closure with their loss of their loved ones.

sounds and looks just like its big brother...sounds real...well it actually is if you think about it...lol

Here's another looker I've been tweaking the FM for - will include this one also with an update to the early WW2 SF2 FM package. An "early" Tony - Ki-60 and/or very early Ki-61 - model is by A-team and it took a while to rework the FM but I like the results - top speed about 560 kph @ 4500 m alt. Best climb around 350 kph, 13 m/s or so. Ailerons are okay above about 300 kph but horribly ineffective below 250 kph. Rudder is ok. Also avoid loops if your speed is less than about 300 kph, tends to spin out. Other peculiarities on the type - tends to "sink" if flying too slowly - rather than entering a typical stall. No wonder pilots didn't really like the Ki-60 prototypes and early Ki-61 batch, compared to the more pleasant Ki-43 ("Army Zero"). Having said that, it's a fast type for the early war and works just fine if you avoid tight dogfights with it. Good for slash-and-dash attacks. Von S

Luftstreitkräfte MiG-23 'Fishstick-A' Great work Logan4!

And representing the Marineflieger... Sometimes, it only takes 1

Nearly done with this now.....

"Check Six"

MFG-1 skin under construction ...

The previous emergency thrust levels were overstated based on the flight manual and other sources. The ThirdWire default values are correct up to about 13000ft. Based on what I know now, I would actually have to model LESS thrust above 13000ft to more accurately model the Bis engine performance.

'Armchair Aces' is a great title for these campaigns, speaking as a sim flyer who is afraid of even modest heights!

In stress situation such things can happen, if the fire button is in the hand of trigger happy soldiers without strict control by commanding officers. Imagine. The persians expected, that the US would strike back after the iranian missile attack. A missinterpretation of radar signals caused the feeling to be under attack. In such situations some guys tend to fire first and ask later. Shit happens. All over the world. Its sad for the people in the civil plane. Really sad.

I will try my merged install for the last of Lightning’s I will pm u as soon as I test it out

Busy with FM tweaks for Stephen's Polikarpov I-15 (gull wing variant) to fit it into the early WW2 SF2 package. Top speed around 350 kph at 3000 m alt. (with the earlier M22 engine variant), very maneuverable and good climb rate of about 15 m/s if you maintain about 200 kph. Also improved environsys and flightengine ini files - will include the atmospherics tweaks either with my ver. 9.9 FM update pack for FE2 or the early WW2 SF2 package. Next up is an early Ki-61 or the prototype Ki-60, also for the early WW2 package, then to circle back to further FE2 tweaks. (The PTO theater used a small number of gull-wing I-15's as trainers so it doesn't hurt to include them since we're missing the 15bis variant.) Von S

con respecto a los azulejos eso tengo en mente solo las zonas históricas y de transito

Luftstreitkräfte der NVA

Aeritalia G.91Y - No.42 squadron, Belgian Air Force, 1972

NK Formation flying....

Bit of detail to gears....decided to stop ...its addictive but ...its done...not 100% accurate but close enough... main gear is also bit better,pylons now,been putting them off.but got some good reference pics etc for them...

Fiat

Thanks Wrench, glad you like them - it was actually pretty fun so thought I'd keep the momentum going... Well now that you said that, how about having a choice? Thought I'd start with the Mid-East variant. I did some research and came up with this low-poly highly optimized design with modeling time about 2 minutes, and texture time in hours...LOL Anyway, hope it is another upgrade option for your Mid East "Falfael King"...

Pics from the Pacific

Mikoyan MiG-29A 'Fulcrum' - Mongolian Air Force, 1999

When those pesky reds try to sink your fleet, who you gonna call? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ F-15SE arsenal bird at your service. 24x AIM-120s (External) 4x AIM-9s (Internal) (PS. Refuelling Tankers to get it to the AOR not included) Minus the B-1R, this is probably the most amount of slammers you can get on a fighter (semi-realistically?) with no clipping / overlapping. Thanks to angelp (the 3AR racks) and the F-14Z Team (the mini 2AR racks)

Tank Plinking,

Aircraft add-on + extra skin pack coming soon...

Last summer, I enjoyed a trip in Albania (took off from Tirana and took pictures over Durrës just 4 hours before the major earthquake that mauled the area on 21 September, by the way!) There, I visited the nice medieval Castle in Gjirokastra, which was once the National Museum of Arms during the Communist era (still contains dozens of WW2 artillery guns). And on the top of this fortress, I unexepectedly stumbled on this wreckage faded by 50 years of careless outdoor exposure. On 23 December 1957, this USAF Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star (number 51-04413) was forced to land by two or three MiG-15bis, while flying off-course over Communist Albania during a transit from France to Greece. Major Howard J. Curran claimed he planned to land anyway due to instruments failure and lack of fuel; he was relased as soon as 9 January 1958. The plane has been exhibited in Gjirokaster since 1969, as a captured spy-plane and a war trophy over the Imperialist powers. Typical Cold War era...

Emergency landing...

From my new specific SCW install...

Work in progress. Some "near completed" skins for FE1/FE2. The first one is WIP skin for Avia B-534 as Hawker Fury of SCW time. I hope there will be official release of B-534 soon.