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“I thought all Spey powered Phantoms were smokeless? Not like the J79s at all, only smokeless in burner” Not just Spey-powered ac, Wrench, but all RAF ac had cleaner exhausts than their US and European NATO counterparts. We used a more refined fuel, F-34 AVTUR (aka JP-8 or Jet A-1), rather than the wider-cut F-40 AVTAG (aka JP-4) used by everybody else. I think most of NATO changed over to AVTUR in the late 1980s. I’ve seen the difference myself when working with our Hercules C1 fleet back in 1978-79. When watching them flying around our base at Lyneham, you had to look quite hard to see the exhaust smoke. When operating overseas (inc in USA) and thus refuelled locally, they very noticeably trailed the Herc’s trademark “4 skidmarks in the sky”. I’ve (perhaps chauvinistically) set all British jet/turboprop ac in all my SF2 versions to have CleanExhaustEmitter. It’s a matter of maintaining one’s standards, chaps ;)

Testing a rivets dirt effect to be used on the Speculars, any critics are welcomed as always

Does it EVER get light around this place? But then, we do our best work in the dark...

Intercepting

yeah saw it on a FB group.... and was instantly amazed we havent done this yet. bring out your BUFFs MITO 1989 while the Tanker TOADs watch Dyess 1983 well somewhere in Texas anyhow now if we just had a north east and southeast US terrain (Loring, Seymour Johnson, Barksdale)

Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat - No.4 squadron, Royal Dhimari Air Force, 1943 With USN and USMC fighter squadrons replacing their Grumman F4F-3's with F4F-4's during 1942 the Royal Dhimari Air Force became the grateful recipients of surplus F4F-3's in early 1943 and used them to good effect in the fighter sweeps over the Valley of Kerman. When six gun F4F-4's later became available in 1944, Dhimari pilots were quick to express a preference for the slightly faster and considerably lighter earlier F4F-3 model despite it only having four guns. Skin Credit: Charles

Spitfire over London City Docks (on right edge of the picture you see Greenwich University)

https://hushkit.net/2020/10/27/flying-fighting-in-the-gloster-javelin-hot-humid-in-the-flying-flat-iron-an-interview-with-an-raf-javelin-pilot/ The Gloster Javelin was the world’s first twin-jet delta-wing fighter. It was the Royal Air Force’s best interceptor of the 1950s, and was almost brilliant. It did what it was asked to do. It was a large heavily armed (albeit subsonic), day-night all-weather fighter. Unfortunately, the opposition moved the goals by developing air-launched stand-off missiles, requiring the sort of high-speed interceptor performance that simply could not be delivered by the Javelin. We spoke to former Javelin pilot Peter Day to find out if it deserved its bad reputation.

B-1's in Desert Storm, MITO For all the "Cat drivers that think they have the best climb outs.......

View from right to left Beckton industrial area , Cityport, Charlton industrial area, Royal Artillery Barracks The Royal Artillery Barracks Charlton industrial area

looks ok ...Ive found nice way to give the rivets that sunken in view.....copy layer set them to a mid grey(for better spec(or white even for height surrounding rivets to do same)) and add small amount of blur,medium sharp,to make shadows as small as possible giving the sunken look... basic render no bump or spec.. Left Rivets...basic 1 pixel with layer below of same rivets,and low average blur to add shaded sunken look... mid rivets with same but with reversed colour blurred 1 pixel... right rivets 1 pixel black...layer below is same rivets with average blur as per left side with reverse colour(white)...with additional blur to give more shaded look..whn appled to spec...right looks like rivets are sunken slightly and with shadow...

Well I imported the Silkworm launcher & Styx missile over from OP Darius. It works fine as a baseline for what I have in mind long-term. Let's just say I really do like the idea of more targets for JDAMs and APTKS rockets! At least now I have some idea of how to put the 21st Century version in-game at a later date.

Some to come

Lighting up the predawn...... It's been quiet all the way so far...no Migs, no Sams, no nuthin, so it's with a $h*t-eating grin, we roll in towards the target... As per usual, I should have just shut up.... Drop a string on MK-82's, and head for home...

Don’t know about specific impulse etc Wrench, But I do know that the Propulsion Flight would get awfully upset if any of their ac spent too long away on detachment at a foreign base. Meant that they would have to swap out all the engines for “de-coking”..

Think I'll be fine now. Thanks

I'm not sure if this will work, but I think that the format of the file names of the LODs needs to match the ThirdWire format. So yours should probably be: [LOD001] Filename=ALQ-184_3Band.lod Distance=3 [LOD002] Filename=ALQ-184_3Band-002.lod Distance=10 I could just be making stuff up, but it's worth a try. Dels

No problem playing against the MiG 1.41 but I prefer...

1989... Fulcrum "29"... of the 968th IAP, East Germany.

NovaLogic Nostalgia, back to 1998 Viper Squadron, 32nd TFS, 16th AESOG (Air Expeditionary Special Operations Group) 300 Squadron, 7th Red Banner Guards Regiment, 11th Expeditionary Wing

I'm having a lot of fun with your Palestine terrain. Stephen, good to know that you are recovered. Recently FE2 attracted me. It's a great game. Since then I started to modding it. My next projects are a medal pack for all nations and several new menu screens (including plane hangars). This will take a lot of time. All screens will be in 1920x1200.

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Su-7U & Su-15UT Soviet Training Day

90s throwback night "gotta find a way, a better way, id better wait" "Red beans and rice didn't miss her" "DJ Soul was on a roll, I been told he can't be sold" "I know that you're gonna have it your way or nothing at all" "You don't like my point of view, you think that I'm insane" "Too much trippin' and my soul's worn thin" "Call my name through the cream, And I'll hear you scream again" 5000 internet points for getting the main theme, 10000 if you can name all the songs (okay a couple are outside the theme). FB friends, no cheating

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

Fox 1

The Shark rocks, on Paran coast.