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View File Sukhoi Su-17/20/22 (Fitter B-C-D-F) The Sukhoi Su-17 (NATO reporting name: Fitter) is a Soviet variable-sweep wing fighter-bomber developed from the Sukhoi Su-7. It enjoyed a long career in Soviet, later Russian, service and was widely exported to Eastern Bloc, Arab air forces, Angola and Peru as the Su-20 and Su-22. It is the first variable-sweep wing of Soviet origin. These are earlier models. What's In: 7 Flyable planes Su-17 Su-17K Su-17M Su-17M2 Su-20 Su-20R Su=22 New Skins, Decals Weapons, pilots, sounds Credits: - original model: Amokfloo - first SF-2 pack: Eburger68 - new templates, skins, decats, tweaks etc: Paulopanz Install: - delete any previous version - all in your mod folder Note: I started working on this plane many years ago. As the model was good I asked only for deleting dorsal antenna. All things stopped when someone told me a bigger project was started about ALL Sukhois family. In fact I saw a lot of fantastic pictures about it, but years went by and no Sukhoi was realised. So I lost any hope about it and decided to finish up my very ancient skinpack using Y. Gordon book. This plane has the same dorsal antenna I wanted to delete, but I think is quite good, now in a far better dressing than original one and this is the only one Sukhoi we have to fit in all comunity scenarios. I hope you like! @paulopanz Submitter paulopanz Submitted 09/10/2020 Category Su-17  

Fliegerhorst Guines

just a time tense question .. shouldn't be "post war"???

Yep will be decals...its the Geschwader Kommodore a\c

I hope you made the white angles and stripes as decals. It are the signs of a group commanders plane. the other planes of the group had had different markings. BTW, nice job. Looks good, but the camo is very unusual for WW2.

big lizards basking in the sun after only 7 years i finally got them titles on the doors

Douglas F-91B Skyshark - 36th Fighter Bomber Squadron, 8th Fighter Bomber Wing, USAF, 1953 The outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 came just one month after the first flight of the Douglas A2D Skyshark. Even before the Fall of 1950, the USAF could see that it had aircraft to suit every combat role except for the crucial close air support role where it had nothing inbetween the shiny new jets that were short on range and the F-51D Mustangs of WW2 vintage that were short on payload. A USAF evaluation team quickly studied a minimum change version of the Douglas A-1 Skyraider that was by now the backbone of the United States Navy carrier-based attack squadrons having exceptional payload ability and a very long range - indeed, some combat sorties were up to 10-hours long. However, the USAF evaluation team expressed concern that combat reports of these long-range missions constantly referred to pilots literally being dragged out of their cockpits such was their fatigue. In conclusion, the USAF evaluation team considered the A-1 Skyraider to be a good interim machine but recommended a faster follow-on aircraft that still had the A-1's exceptional payload ability. Whilst the USAF were aware of the development problems of the turbo-prop powered Douglas A2D Skyshark they considered that it was a better prospect than any clean sheet of paper project and urged the Department of Defense for more funding to fix the A2D's problems. This re-ignited the United States Navy's interest in it's own program and the resultant joint campaigning effort resulted in more funding for an ambitious accelerated program. With the USAF having withdrawn the A (attack) designation in 1947 the USAF version was confusingly designated F-91* and the prototype YF-91 (converted from the third A2D-1) first flew on July 31st, 1951. Development and testing moved ahead smoothly during the remainder of 1951 and early 1952 with an initial production batch of 12 F-91A's entering service in August 1952 with a joint-service test and evaluation squadron based near the Douglas facility at El Sugundo in California. The main production version was the F-91B which entered service in February 1953 with the 36th Fighter Bomber Squadron temporarily detached to Itazuke Air Base in Japan before deploying to Suwon Air Base, South Korea to commence combat operations in March 1953. Operating in the night attack role the 36th Fighter Bomber Squadron primarily flew bombing and strafing missions against enemy air fields but in May 1953 the 36th succesfully attacked the Kuwonga, Namsi and Taechon Dams. * There's no need to point out that there was a real F-91 (the Republic Thunderceptor) there's not many spare designations in the 'F' era before the Century Series.

VonS (and everyone else involved) thank you for pulling all of this together. The amount of work you did, researching and organizing, must have been phenomenal.

Ravens beautiful Hurricane MKIIc

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Both. The german development was during WW2. The use of the results was post war.

Taken from Midland Publishing...Luftwaffe - Secret Projects- Fighters 1939-45....well worth checking out. Suprising how much was made under countries names like UK Russia and USA when most are from captured German projects etc...after 1944\5 and this is just tip of iceberg...no wonder project "paperclip " was so important. name but few Mig15 Vampire etc were created directly inspired from German plans etc....influenced at least.

I never thought I'd see those two words in the same sentence

and guess where he got his ideas...like most pre war a\c from captured german secret projects...

Winter Hawks

Basics done...

new map of rivets and wing lines for the 190A AND D

A Dhimari F-20 fires his last Sidewinder at the luckiest Fulcrum pilot in the Parani airforce...

The Mighty Hunter (I need a name for this!)

After some days of seeing how the Dhimari reinforced their frontlines during late night convoys, the Parani HQ decided to get them a nasty surprise early at dawn, two brand new Su-7B will make their first operational sortie of the guard and will try to destroy the Dhimari reinforcements. The new beasts Say hi! Waking up the Dhimari gunners Rolling in The damn escort! Launching NAPALM...

Fuerza Aérea Argentina 'Cheetah'

Ready to pounce