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Added an Sd.Kfz. 251 ausf. D Half-track to my site. It comes with two skins. The rear MG 34 is functional for air-defense. Also added a Tan/Desert skin to the M4A3(75)W tank.

by the way, if we are around pilot stuff... ....wife sometimes asks me - why my co-pilots are so SquarePantish-SpongeBobish so I 'un-square' things little...

Third Wire / TK is like a THOUSAND TIMES more honest and decent compared to like... Microsoft, Autodesk, Google etc.

Getting there...

Absolutely right. I'm doing the P-40B/Tomahawk next and had it on my mind while posting the Hurricane picture. Got it fixed. Thanks for the catch. Mandatory picture(s). Harvard / T-6 Texan in service with opposing Air Forces in the Sinai, 1948.

View File J-2 pack J-2 (Jianjiji – fighter 2) Chinese designation of USSR production Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15/15 bis (NATO reporting name: "Fagot A/B") single-seat fighter. Inside this 1st PLAAF pack: - 2 new dedicated PLAAF planes, for China / Taiwan scenery; - 10 PLAAF skins tweaked; - historical PLAAF decals made using new fonts too; - all data tweaked; - pilots, sounds: - screens; Operations: - Openable canopy (key 10) closing at take off; - N-37 gun flagged as secondary gun for better ammunitions sparing; Credits: - Tk (aka Tw) for the underated Exp. 2; - Stary for the long awaited great pit; - Spillone104 for sounds - Y.Gordon for his Aerofax "bible" book; - paulopanz (me) for skins, decals and edits Install: - Exp. 2 needed - Copy all in your mod folder and overwrite - remember to configure from control options panel the secondary guns key Enjoy. @ paulopanz (1. to be continued ......) Submitter paulopanz Submitted 02/16/2020 Category Other  

North American F-86H Sabre - No.14 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force, 1966

The bone yard here in town isn't a grave, that's always a big misunderstanding. The bone yard houses and stores thousands of aircraft most of which are kept in a state that putting them back into service can happen over night. The crews that put these aircraft into storage are pros, they cover, protect, and have systems in place to protect an aircraft down to the smallest items you can think of. They take the entire inventory into consideration when planning the end stages of an aircraft and even that's not the end of these old gals. Once they deem an aircraft beyond storage viability they part it out and use those parts to bring other aircraft back into stored ready status. The parts are also used to supply museums with parts and air frames that they in turn restore. Even as an aircraft doesn't resemble an aircraft much they take those pieces and sell them to the many privately owned aircraft salvage yards around here. The US Government are pros at decommissioning and salvaging these aircraft and it is a necessary stage of their life. The guys at the boneyard do it with the grace and poise you'd expect from those caring for these tough but aged wings. The running joke down on the farm is when the tour guys roll past a multi acre section of land that's vacant and they tell the folks that's where they house all the stealth aircraft. The tour guys have to get a chuckle out of every photo that's taken. This last phase of duty isn't the end it's a reunion of the toughest and something to be damn proud of.

View File JJ-2 pack JJ-2 (Jianjiji Jiaolianji – fighter trainer 2). Chinese production of MiG-15UTI two-seat jet trainers (NATO reporting name: "Midget") two-seater. Exported as Shenyang FT-2 Inside this 2nd PLAAF pack: - 1 new dedicated PLAAF plane, for China / Taiwan scenery; - 3 PLAAF skins tweaked and polished; - historical PLAAF decals made using new fonts too; - all data tweaked; - pilots, sounds: - screens; Operations: - Openable canopy (key 10) closing at take off; Credits: - Pasko for the plane model - Stary for the long awaited great pit; - Spillone104 for sounds - Y.Gordon for his Aerofax "bible" book; - Suhsjake for Temps; - paulopanz (me) for skins, decals and edits. Install: - Copy all in your mod folder and overwrite Enjoy. @ paulopanz (2. to be continued ......) Submitter paulopanz Submitted 02/16/2020 Category Other  

F-111F bombing the hell out of a Soviet airfield in East Germany and reattacking to get the third Blinder bomber.

very nice Ron, though i think you planned out the SEAD for this posted mission (FB-111s as Weasels)

Dyess 1989 dont mind me, just some....

MASS ANG circa May 1960.

Miss "Hello" !

View File Template for P-40B/C & Tomahawk by Raven As these don't seem to be found, I've uploaded my copy, fulfilling a request These are standard PSD files. All layers, including any I added are intact. Happy Skinning!! Submitter Wrench Submitted 02/15/2020 Category Skin Templates  

that looks an awful lot like a hurricane to me.

Egyptian Hurricane IIB patrolling Egyptian border, 1948. Raven's Hurricane IIB with new line, rivets, paint, etc... WIP.

Don't you just love it when the game picks the deck aircraft from the same airwing that you're flying!

Keep at it Russ, will be great in the end. And get advice from @yakarov79 - he is the absolute best helo expert out there.

https://theaviationgeekclub.com/this-aircraft-was-faster-than-the-sr-71-look-closely-its-not-a-blackbird/

Decided to land my damaged Spitfire on an enemy Airfield, but I was not Welcome.

ask their technical support.... you bought a game, you paid - demand then.

Hella

192.68.110.42

A12 first flight at Area51 Pilot Lou Schalk April 30 1962

How do you want to call her?

What is her name ? Her adress... please ! ...

I don't follow. The radar is shown on the HSD. It wasn't repackaged by me. I'm just the uploader. Basically, Spectre had other projects going on, so when we got pinged by Dave about cockpit modifications and some other stuff, I wound up taking over that role. The entire team involved with the Superpack is listed in the credits section, and it wasn't just to credit past work; Crusader, SupGen, ToS and the others were directly involved in the V1.3X update. EDIT: I also didn't respond to OP's question. I'd probably come across as biased as part of the team that did the SP, but what I'll say is that the TW cockpit feels very two-dimensional, and the plane also has this weird tendency to lose "g" authority at higher subsonic numbers which the plane in reality didn't suffer from. The TW flight model was the basis for the SP F-14, but we made some tweaks to try to increase available "g" in that region. The biggest differences come from the later F-14s in the SP which allow you to do strike missions and have compatibility with LANTIRN, JDAMs and the like. All these things having been said, the best F-14 out there in my opinion is Heatblur's for DCS - I haven't touched my StrikeFighters sims since that got released.

Awesome! I'll check it out!

if modder wants to keep the smoothness of the fuselage or other part.. this can be a pain in the ass. Sometimes the shape of a node is a problem. But you are right that Mossie nose is a nightmare - that can be resolved if we have max file.

Everything you need should be in the If it isn't in the ini files, the instructions are in the documentation.

Hi, when initially offered I was also missing 2 DLC. When I bought them I was able to download the complete edition.

Uploaded!! enjoy!!

Its been on offer for ages as has the offer ....time limit I think so he doesnt have to give out the free update

Kevin, Thanks for pointing me to Raven's P-40B's. Saw them before but guess they slipped my mind. Got one from your MTO package that will work for 1948 Egyptian Air Force with a little tweaking. Can't find a template for it though. Found templates for Raven's other P-40's but not this one. I wonder if one of the other's will work for the B model? But if you have one handy, I could sure use it. Thanks again, and I'm looking forward to your Indochina install.

View File Mercenary Sand Skin for Spitfire 22 (fictional) Mercenary Sand Skin for Spitfire 22 (fictional) by Gerwin 24-04-2019 DESCRIPTION: Made for the 'DLC' Spitfire 22 model. For use by the nation of Paran. This skin is part of a Skin set, all in the same style, by the same author. This work is based on existing skins. INSTALLATION: Copy the included folder with contents to the folder that contains the Spitfire 22 files, for example: My Documents\ThirdWire\Strike Fighters 2 Israel\Objects\Aircraft\Spitfire22 When in the game select the skin in the loadout screen. THANKS TO: Third Wire for the Strike Fighters Based Games, Submitter gerwin Submitted 02/15/2020 Category Spitfire  

Ought to as well post a quick screenie here...

Thirdwire with MirageFactory Cockpit. edit: And Crusader avionics.

What if the german Bundesmarine would have had a carrier vessel:

Raven did one, never quite finished (iirc needs a cockpit) Here's SF2 versions: The templates should be around here someplace, if not, let me know and I'll try and find mine

it's not the player controlled units, it's the game generated parked aircraft. been that way for years. but, i'd try adjusting the cg to CGPosition=0.00,2.0,0.00 that what mine is for both pasko's 24D and 24J be advised, in may change in-air handling when player flown. otherwise, i'd just ignore it ============ required screenshot

Amariani: try adjusting the center of gravity on your B-24 Data.INI, moving it forward. This model has CGPosition=0.0,1.8,0.0, and it sits on the runway just fine.

Spotted these guys loading up whilst flying a sortie out of Nellis..

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If we're being honest, this is probably a good thing. A lot of those airframes are older than the pilots flying them. Lots of them (like the Bone) are getting next to impossible to maintain because of their increasing age. Most of them likely couldn't operate in a modern conventional battlespace without massive electronic jamming support (I'm looking at you, F-15C). Some of them have systems that are more than two decades old (the Block 25 Vipers). We could easily hand off the -16s (and even the -15s) to client states that wanted something on the cheap. The US military badly needs to modernize, if for no other reason than the safety of the pilots operating those aircraft. Even the F-22A is getting to be a little old. I'm very glad to see we've invested in some new-build Strike Eagles, probably the most versatile platform since the F-4 Phantom II. I'm also very encouraged by the progress of the Raider; Northrop seems to be moving development along at a brisk pace. We've needed new gear for a while, and we are going on two decades of sustained combat use of so many systems, they are now breaking from fatigue. Everyone was saddened by the retirement of the Tomcat; the way that it happened was worse than the realization that it needed to be retired. I think the one that will affect me more will be the last flight of the F-16. I grew up a stone's throw from the fence around Carswell AFB and as a kid, I watched hundreds of new-build -16s take off for customers and even more being flown in for maintenance. They were just a symbol of America for me. When they're finally retired, it will be because we squeezed every last dime we could out of them.

interesting to me theres no date (at least that i saw. that aside its two fold announcement. first is good old budget politics; "we dont have enough money need to retire the old stuff so we can get new". however, some of the latest proposals are actually decent, like retiring a little over a dozen B-1B and 44 A-10 rather than the whole fleet. the aircraft proposed would be the higher hour birds and maintenence hogs of the fleet. in the case of the A-10 (still in the process of being rewinged) it would mean 65 new wingsets rather than 109, and a source of other spares for the remaining fleet of around 210. https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/02/10/bye-bye-brrrrt-air-force-wants-retire-44-10-warthogs.html remains to see how the politics of this plays out tho. Congress is known for actions like not allowing retirement of the KC-135E fleet, at a time when they were sitting so long they had to be fired up and moved to keep the tires from going flat. the second youngest service (feels wierd to say that) does like shiny new things, but it really does need to let go of some of the old however much enthusiasts or Congress cry no. older airframes do get hard to pay for too, after a while. except BUFFs. ther will be a B-52 flyover when the USS Enterprise is launched heres is another version of the same news, with a little more detail https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/02/10/air-force-send-more-100-planes-boneyard-it-invests-future-fighters.html