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the story of an aircraft this aircraft saw the light of day 14-July-1970 as F-4E 69-7208 and was delivered to the RAAF 82nd Wing on 06-October-1970 in 1971 the aircraft was updated with the APQ-120 radar as well as the formation stripes and the new MIDAS-4 gun muzzle after the aircraft returned in 1973 to the USA it was 1976 rebuilt in to a F-4G 69-7208 and started the service 1978 with the 563rd TFS of the 35th TFW the final Squadron the aircaft served with was the 561st TFS from the 57th TFW , the end of the aircraft came 01-March-1995 after an engine bleed air failure which produced smoke in cockpit and the crew ejected , Capt. M. T. Manning (pilot) and Major M. J. Leggett (WSO) - ejected safely , the aircraft crashed 7 miles north west of Tonopah test range in Nevada

A disabled Victor III SSN (K-324) on the surface with a Moma Class survey vessel and USS Peterson (DD-969). K-324 suffered a damaged propeller after getting tangled in USS McCloy's (FF-1038) towed sonar array 282 miles west of Bermuda, October, 1983.

Some Russian's Hump Day is about to be worse than a Mayday...

Targets of Opportunity.

Regarding the gun muzzle area I guess that's real 'rhinoplasty' Great work!

also recalled from that era "In November of 1984, shortly before Gorbachev came to power, a Typhoon class Soviet submarine sub surfaced just south of the Grand Banks.It then sank in deep water, apparently suffering a radiation problem.Unconfirmed reports indicated some of the crew were rescued. But according to repeated statements by both Soviet and American governmentsnothing of what you are about to see... ever happened" ok, not historical, but given the topic i couldnt resist. let you all figure out what from tho

This comes up every once in a while, and even I sometimes don't remembe, and have to look it up. So, what this little tutorial will, do, is show and list the steps necessary to "take things out" of a cockpit, that you really don't need. First off, you really, REALLY, REALLY should have a copy of Mue's Lod Viewer (tm). This will give a perfect view of the cockpit itself, with a full listing of the component meshes & their names. In the image below, you see I'm using Raven's Hurricane Mk.1 cockpit, and have marked part of the gunsight. We'll be removing it, as the aircraft I want to use it on, dosen't have one. You'll also notice the mesh name highlighted, over on the upper left pane. So, now we open the cockpit ini, and we'll be adding "new" insturments, so we can move these meshes out of the way. This part stays the same for all the differing methods, of which I will show you. In the =CockpitSeat01' , or 3rd section down, where all the instrument are defined, you'll add the "new" listing --always in numerical order!!! The actual "named" move sections (keep reading) are added at the bottom of the cockpit ini. [CockpitSeat001] ==-major snippage of uneeded statements== Instrument[029]=StandbyCompass Instrument[030]=ADI2 //--removes or moves --/// Instrument[031]=Move1 Instrument[032]=Move2 Instrument[033]=Move3 Instrument[034]=Move4 <----- Move "instrument" statements Instrument[035]=Move5 Instrument[036]=Move6 Instrument[037]=Move7 Instrument[038]=Move8 Now, the first way we discovered, sometime in the mid-2000s, was to "drop them out of sight". It goes something like this: It used the airspeed values, so as soon as the game starts ( "0" knots") the items vanishes. But, there are better and simpler ways As stated by Cliff7600, you can tell the game the mesh is a light (like a warning light, or light bulb, or whatever) As so below: The 3rd Method, as posted by Yakarov and Wilches, is simply make the mesh "Inactive". As seen below Remember, no matter how many moves you use, they must all be listed in the Insturment section, and must match the names of the moves listed. Save and close the cockpit ini, and go in-game to test the operation. It should look like the image below, with all the meshes of the gunsight removed And that's pretty much it Thanks to whoever first invented this (bpao? armordave?) and to cliff7600, yakarov79 and wilches. Happy Moving!!!

Exotic Mirages over Ogooué river.

Lookin sharp Pappy - Nice work! Manditory pic:

I want to thank you all for helping me out with this! If I bump into him again I'm going to see if he'll be interested in emailing the photo he took of that incident. My mother has this saying "We live history everyday" and it's cool to meet people that have "been there and done that" thing history books record.

https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,63410.0.html What is TOAS MOD? THE IDEA OF A MOD FOR IL-2 1946 TO REPRESENT THE CONFLICT IN WHICH ARGENTINA AND ENGLAND PARTICIPATED FROM APRIL TO JUNE 1982, BORN ALREADY SOME YEARS AGO IN OUR VIRTUAL SQUADS "CRUZ DEL SUR" AND "GRUPO AERONAVAL EMBARCADO" (GAEv), WHEN CONVINCING US THAT THE "JET THUNDER" PROJECT WILL NEVER SEE THE LIGHT. WE BEGIN TO SEEK HOW TO REPLACE THE "FALKLANDS MOD" FOR THE STRIKE FIGHTERS PROJECT 1 SIMULATOR (CORRECT BUT OBSOLETE AND ULTIMATELY INAPPROPRIATE TO PLAY ONLINE FOR DIFFERENT REASONS). WITH THE RUNNING OF TIME AND THE CONSTANT EVOLUTION AND APPEARING UNSTOPPABLE (THANKS TO THE HUGE EFFORT OF THE COMMUNITIES THAT DON'T LET IT DIE) OF IL-2 1946, ONE DAY WE ARE READY TO GET HANDS TO WORK ... THE OBJECTIVE SEEMS SOMETHING DIFFICULT TO REACH FOR SIMPLE AMATEURS AS WE ARE MOST OF THOSE WHO INTEGRATED THE WORKING GROUP, ANYWAY, CONTINUED AND AT THE END OF 2015 THE FIRST VERSION OF THE PROJECT EMERGED. OF COURSE, THE FIRST VERSION HAD A LOT OF MISTAKES. THE BEST THING WE DID, IT WAS AN A-4B BASED ON THE SPECTACULAR MOD OF BARENSY, TON414 AND CWATSON OF FREEIL2MODING. THIS IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE ATLANTIC MAPS AVAILABLE, MADE OF THIS FIRST VERSION, SOMETHING NEVER SEEN. SINCE THAT TIME UNTIL TODAY, MANY PEOPLE INTERESTED IN THE PROJECT ARE MANY AND HAVE HELPED US ALREADY WITH MODELS, SKINS, MISSIONS ... NEVER HAVE HANDS FOR THESE THINGS. WE LOOKED FOR THE PLATFORM THAT WILL ADAPT MORE TO OUR INTERESTS ... WE PASS FROM THE "STAND-ALONE" VERSIONS (FULLY ASSEMBLED BY US), PASSING THROUGH THE DIFFERENT MEGAPACKS: ULTRAPACK, DGEN, VPMODACT, HSFX ALBOSO BOSA, MIRABAM BUAOS THAT IN THE DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES INSIST THAT IT WAS NOT THE MOST CONVENIENT VERSION TO FLY ONLINE%u2026 %u201CA TRUE LASTIMA%u201D, WE THINK, AS IT CERTAINLY BAT APPEARED TO BE THE IDEAL BASE, ITS LONG LIST OF NEWS AND ITS IMPROVED MODULE OF THE %u201CJET ERA %u201D, IT WAS IRRESISTIBLE AS TO NOT TEST IT, BUT WE WAS AFRAID OF THE GREAT AMOUNT OF GIGABYTES THAT REPRESENTED THE FINAL INSTALLATION AND THAT THE INSTALLATION PROCESS AND THE CONSTANT UPDATES WERE SOMETHING TEDIOUS. IN THE END, SOMEONE LISTEN TO OUR PRAYERS AND BAT BECAME VERY EASY TO INSTALL WITH ITS SYSTEM OF MODULES "ONE ON ANOTHER" SIMPLY EXECUTING THE INSTALLER. WE LOOKED FOR THE PLATFORM THAT WILL ADAPT MORE TO OUR INTERESTS ... WE PASS FROM VERSIONS %u201CSTAND-ALONE%u201D (FULLY ARMED FACILITIES BY US), PASSING THROUGH THE DIFFERENT MEGAPACKS: ULTRAPACK, DGEN, VPMODACT, HSFX. BAT WAS ALWAYS SEEN NOT WITH GOOD EYES, BECAUSE IN THE DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES INSIST THAT IT WAS NOT THE MOST CONVENIENT VERSION TO FLY ONLINE%u2026 %u201CA TRUE LASTIMATE%u201D, WE THINK, BECAUSE IT CERTAINLY BAT SEEMS TO BE THE IDEAL BASE, ITS LONG LIST NEWS AND ITS IMPROVED "JET ERA" MODULE, RESULTED IRRESISTIBLE AS NOT TO TEST IT, BUT WE WAS AFRAID OF THE GREAT AMOUNT OF GIGABYTES THAT REPRESENTED THE FINAL INSTALLATION AND THAT THE INSTALLATION PROCESS AND THE CONSTANT UPDATES WERE SOMETHING TEDIOUS. IN THE END, SOMEONE LISTEN TO OUR PRAYERS AND BAT BECAME VERY EASY TO INSTALL WITH ITS SYSTEM OF MODULES "ONE ON ANOTHER" SIMPLY EXECUTING THE INSTALLER. FINALLY, AND AGAINST POSSIBLE, BAT RESULTS TO BE THE RIGHT PLATFORM. IT WAS SO FROM THE UPDATE OF BAT 3.5 MUSKETEER, WE HAD ALREADY A SOLID BASE TO APPLY OUR WORK. SOMETIMES ARE STILL MISSING THINGS TO DO AND MAYBE WE HAVE TO CORRECT MANY OTHERS, BUT WE BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE MORE THINGS THAT ARE FINISHED THAN THOSE THAT ARE MISSING TO DO. BEFORE YOU BEGIN, WE DO NOT WANT TO STOP THANKING ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE SAS AND FREEIL2MODING COMMUNITIES FOR ALL ADDONS PUBLISHED TO THE DATE, WHICH WERE WITHOUT DOUBT ANY HUGE HELP TO PROMOTE OUR WORK. NOW WE CAN RETURN SOMETHING TO THE COMMUNITY OF WHICH FOR SO MANY YEARS WE HAVE NUTRIED. Finally, we want to clarify that our award will always be to share our work with the community, and never keep it alone for us. IN ANOTHER WAY IL-2 1946 HAD DIED A LONG TIME AGO. WE HOPE YOU ENJOY THIS ADDON, AS WE ENJOY DOING IT.

There is a more easy way to do [Move1] Type=INACTIVE NodeName=Cylinder02

https://www.patrulla-azul.com/FreeIL2modding/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=3106

following up above https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/06/world/a-russian-tug-tows-sub-toward-cuba.html of interest while searching https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a28794/1982-uk-sub-stole-soviet-sonar-device/

This? from 1983 https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/04/world/a-disabled-soviet-sub-surfaces-off-atlantic-coast.html United States Navy officials reported today that a nuclear-powered Soviet attack submarine had surfaced 470 miles off the South Carolina coast, apparently because of mechanical problems. ''The sub seems to be experiencing some sort of mechanical problem,'' a Navy official said. ''But we don't know what the nature of the problem is. They aren't talking to us.'' They said the submarine was barely making headway in rolling seas, but did not appear in danger of foundering. They added that the vessel had not issued a distress call on any international emergency frequency as of late today.

In the late 80th the soviet submarine force of the North Fleet made a big scale exercise, broke through the SOSUS line, shaked off the NATO submarines and Sub Hunter ships and disappeared in the mid Atlantic. Two weeks later the most soviet submarines were detected close to the US east coast. The incident you descriped could have happen in this timeframe.

Is it the USS McCloy (FF-1038) that got his towed-array sonar cable stuck in the propeller of a Soviet Victor III Class sub (K-324)?

Hi-Altitude Hi-Jinks..... Those contrails are F-102's at 47K feet flying top cover

Yeah I know that is always an option, and I appreciate it. I do/did that for some files like skins. But my preference was to keep the things that took much time and effort on a place of myself. I will see how it goes. Just wanted to give a heads up on this as early as possible. About the Internet archive mirror. I added the files that they missed, so everything is mirrored there now. :)

ALVIN!!!!! (found this while doing some major housecleaning here. working on some improvements)

View File SF2 Vichy French Air Force, Tiger Moth Skin UPgrade SF2 Vichy French Air Force, Tiger Moth Skin UPgrade 2/25/2020 -- Something for Fun -- = For SF2 Any and All= A small upgrade for LloydNB's Vichy French Tigermoth, as used in Indochina in the early 1940s. It is, obviously, for use on RussoUK's DH Tigermoth. The aircraft itself is available at the following URL: https://combatace.com/files/file/14081-sf2-ww2-dh-tigermoth-by-russouk/ This is a very simple mod; just a quickie repaint to remove the original painted on fuselage number, and the addition of 18 "plane-in-squad" numbers. No historical accuracy is claimed, as I've only found one image of the aircraft, and it had the number 5 on it. As said above, something just for fun! Enjoy! Wrench Kevin Stein -with thanks to LloydNB for the original skin!!- Submitter Wrench Submitted 02/25/2020 Category Other  

Ab durch die Mitte! Take the midway!

Helwan Ha-2000 'Khopesh' - 76th Squadron, 222nd Tactical Fighter Brigade, Egyptian Air Force, 2002 The abandonment of the Helwan HA-300 single-seat jet fighter in 1969 seemed to have brought an end any hope of Egypt fielding an indigenous combat aircraft but in the aftermath of the short 1977 Libyan-Egyptian War the Egyptian Air Force issued a requirement for a single-seat multi-role fighter to replace the Su-7's and MiG-21's and also supplement the newly introduced MiG-23's. The Camp David Accords of 1978 saw a sudden lurch in Egyptian foreign policy towards the West and away from Egypt's Arab backers including Saudi Arabia who abruptly cancelled it's previous agreement to purchase a batch of 50 Northrop F-5E's and transfer them to Egypt. Whilst the US State Department had agreed to supply Egypt with 35 ex-USAF F-4E Phantom's (under the project name of Peace Pharaoh) Egypt's President Anwar Sadat was anxious not to become totally reliant upon one political block and authorised several project studies for indigenous weapons for the Egyptian Armed Forces including a new main battle tank and a new single-seat multi-role fighter. The German engineers who had assisted the Egyptian General Aero Organisation in the design and production of the Helwan HA-300 had gone back to Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB) in Ottobrun in 1969 and had continued to work on various project studies including the TKF-90 single-seat delta wing twin-jet fighter aircraft being developed for the Luftwaffe. However, this could be seen as being slightly too big and also too expensive for Egypt's requirements so MBB assembled a new project design team led by Günter Ludwig Bölkow tasked with designing a small multi-role lightweight fighter for the Egyptian Air Force with a planned in-service date of 1990. Bölkow's team produced the innovative ECA90 (Egyptian Combat Aircraft for 1990 a small, single-engined design with a delta-wing having 50 degrees of sweepback at the wing root leading edge but with 63 degrees of sweepback on the outer wing leading edge providing better high-alpha performance characteristics than conventional wing designs. MBB needed to look no further than the excellent Turbo-Union RB199 afterburning turbofan that was ideally sized for the ECA90 and had been running since 1972 under the test Vulcan bomber and had accummulated plenty of flight hours in the Panavia Tornado test programme. By early 1981 the ECA90 design had met with the approval of the Egyptian Air Force and at the insistence of President Anwar Sedat the design was re-designated as the Helwan HA-2000 'Khopesh' with orders placed with the Helwan Aircraft Factory (a division of the Egyptian General Aero Organisation) for 90 aircraft. The assassination of President Anwar Sedat in October 1981 might have created a hiatus in the HA-2000 programme but incoming President Hosni Mubarak was previously a career officer in the Egyptian Air Force (indeed, a former air chief marshal) and was a keen supporter of the HA-2000 programme. Whilst Mubarak's support for the programme was solid he did allow for a slight stretching out of the programme calling for a first flight in March 1987 and a service entry date of April 1992. Mubarak considered that this would give the Helwan Aircraft Factory sufficient time to better marshal it's industrial resources, recruit personnel, create infrastructure and understand which advanced technologies could be developed locally and which advanced technologies would need to be imported. Undoubtedly, the MBB team imbedded into Helwan's Factory 36 facility helped smooth out any difficulties and Helwan and MBB worked miracles to meet the prototype first flight deadline but some slippage crept in to the flight test programme to delay the entry into service. The HA-2000 'Khopesh' entered service with the 76th Squadron of the 222nd Tactical Fighter Brigade based at Cairo-West Air Base in May 1993 and eventually equipped six tactical fighter brigades and also the 'Silver Stars' aerobatic team who performed a flypast at the funeral service of former President Hosni Mubarak in late February 2020. 3D Model: Ale Ducat Skin Credit: Torno (Banidos Team) Decals.ini attached Decals.ini

Development of SFP1 stopped around 2008 time and it was replaced by SF2 so in that sense yes very dead.

Into Action

Skins are all done, now ini dance will start

Brilliant sabres Pappy mand screen

Looks like a stare down from Peterson AFB in Colorado Springs..... Mandatory Pic

More "H" model Sabres from the 474th FBG. The C/O of the 474th in the colorful markings of 53-1313, 426th FBS blue markings in 53-2174, 429th FBS in yellow markings in 52-5750 and from the 430th FBS in red markings flying 52-5730.

Simple as Black and White. U.S. Navy QF-86F Sabre painted Flat Black on the right side only to evaluate its effect on radar signature, 21 July 1987.

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

I hope the work on this continues. I mostly wanted to drop this post so I could keep track of this project in my activity section. Really looking forward to this one (like many I think)