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It's been a long time since I had any activity around here and I'm glad that in late 2023 there are still people who put effort to keep this game alive. Merry Christmas to everybody! Mirage F1EQ-2 S/N 4005/4009 circa 1987

one up and waiting approval working on wrapping number two up....

Guess what I just watched on Disney+ tonight... Someone else on their way to Lakenheath, tonight in 1957, who had a problem en-route....

Gloster Meteor NF.6 (Trop) - No.176 Squadron, RAF South East Asia Command, 1945

With all the terrible things going on in this world of ours, stop for a moment and look around you, and be glad for what you've got!! Here's hoping everyone (wiether you celebrate Christmas, Xmas - watch out for Santa!- , Hanukah, or what ever winter festival you have), has a wonderful time with friends and family! Don't forget, New Years is right around the corner. Don't bother making any resolutions, because we all know they don't get kept!!!! LOL!!!

I remember those days........

Happy holidays for you guys, hoping you are having a blast there!!!

Kongelige Danske Flyvevåbnet 1949. Meteor F.4 Esk. 723, Aalborg. 1951. Meteor F.8 Esk. 724, Aalborg. 1951. Meteor T.7, Aalborg Air Base. 1956. Meteor NF.11Esk. 723, Aalborg. 1958. Meteor TT.20, Aalborg Air Base

View File Bye Bye Bitburg! Last Years of the 36th FW in Germany Bye Bye Bitburg! Last Days of the 36th Fighter Wing in Germany This skin pack is to represent the 36th FW with its 22nd and 53rd Fighter Squadrons during Bitburgs last two years of operations. During this time the 36th still deployed to Aviano AB in support of Operation Deny Flight, the no fly zone over the former Yugoslavia. Included - 3 F-15C skins - 2 F-15D skins all as historically accurate as currently possible Installation first get the F-15C_91 aircraft, commonly found here after you extract the F-15C_91 aircraft and put it into your aircraft folder alternately you can use the F-15C_91 from this mod without having to hunt for it unzip this mod. open "To Mods" Folder. place contents into your chosen mods folder and allow overwrites Credits Viper63 templates for their F-15 skins daddyairplanes research, skin improvements, tga work Thank you for downloading this mod and i hope you enjoy flying it as much as i did creating it Kevin Unruh aka daddyairplanes 24 Dec 2023 ************************************************************* This is freeware; it CANNOT be distributed unless permissions are granted by myself. The original readmes, if any, and all other pieces of the package MUST remain intact. The names of all contributors, modders, suppliers, etc =MUST= be listed in any new readmes. This package and any part of it may NOT in any way, shape, or form be used in any payware additions. See the original readme documentation, if any, for further allowances and restrictions Any persons wishing to make further modifications, contact me first. Any persons wishing to make further modifications MUST remember to put everyone's name in it. ************************************************************* THIS AIRCRAFT MOD OR ANY PART OF IT MUST NOT BE HOSTED OR POSTED FOR DOWNLOAD ON ANY OTHER WEBSITE WITHOUT MY EXPRESS PERMISSION, OR USED FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE THAN THIRDWIRE FLIGHT SIMULATORS, AND MUST NOT BE SOLD OR OFFERED FOR SALE BY ITSELF OR WITH ANY OTHER FILES OR MODS. ************************************************************* Submitter daddyairplanes Submitted 12/24/2023 Category F-15  

Lockheed F-104H Starfighter - 318th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, Aerospace Defense Command, USAF, 1971 On March 15th 1963, two Soviet bombers overflew Alaska and despite a desperate chase the F-102A's of Alaskan Air Command were unable to intercept them. The immediate response to this embarrassing intrusion was to deploy ten F-106A's drawn from various Aerospace Defense Command Fighter-Interceptor Squadrons to Alaska and to recall the remaining F-104A's that had previously been transferred to the Air National Guard back in 1960. Despite the excellence of the F-106A it did come with a pretty hefty price tag and Aerospace Defense Command realised that in order to replace the earlier F-101's and F-102's a cheaper alternative was required. With Lockheed's multi-role F-104G Starfighter in a high-rate of production the relatively low unit cost attracted the attention of the US Secretary of Defence Robert McNamara who authorised production of the F-104H a dedicated interceptor version based on the F-104Gand an initial order for 200 was made. The F-104H was powered by the uprated General Electric J79-GE-10 engine rated at 11,905 lbf dry thrust and 17,844 lbf thrust with afterburner although initial deliveries were powered by the earlier J79-GE-8B. The F-104H incorporated the advanced Litton LN-3 inertial navigation system and also featured the Autonetics NASARR F-15J-50 radar and fire control system optimised for the air-to-air mode with all ground-mapping, contour-mapping and terrain-avoidance modes deleted. After some debate, the M61 20mm cannon was retained but the main armament for the F-104H was the AIM-7 Sparrow semi-active homing missile, the AIM-9 Sidewinder infra-red heat-seeking missile and the AIR-2 Genie unguided air-to-air rocket with a 1.5 kt nuclear warhead. Entering service in April 1965 the F-104H eventually served with nine squadrons and was gradually withdrawn from Aerospace Defense Command service from the late 1970's onwards - a relatively short service life. Template Credit: bobrock (you'll find it in the SF1 downloads section). Stock decals apart from the 318th FIS' tail marking. 318STARFIGHTERTAIL.TGA DECALS.ini

Checking a radar site.

Yes. This bird was under constant development...For sure early F.3 with Welland engines never had extra tanks. 'Mid' production F.3 (I called it F.3 '45 - was retrofitted with ventral tanks - as there are photos with and without tanks - same flight/flight line. That is the time when they start trials with those tanks. So I might add them to F.3 '45 in the next update The last 15 production F.3 (with long nacelles) had a ventral tank retrofitted, and I believe wing tanks were added too at this point. Not to mention that the first F.4 were with long-span wings. Basically, it was late F.3 with Derwent 5 engines - where the difference was only in nacelle shape and two small oil vents on the nacelle starboard side - and those F.4 were later retrofitted with short span wings. So on blurry, crappy photos, it is hard sometimes to spot the difference. Even in some older publications, photos are described wrongly. Like many other things wrongly interpreted and mistakes were repeated over the years - famous longer and much longer noses on NF.12 - NF-14 or strange camouflage colors on FR.9. My pm box is always open for additional reference.

View File Meteors. - Kongelige Danske Flyvevåbnet Royal Danish Air Force Meteors. This mod is not to compete with the previous Meteor mods that I was part of. It is just my, different approach. Basic modding skills are required to run this mod. (copy/paste, mod folder structure, etc.) Install: Copy and paste specific folders into the correct destination. A fake pilot is required to run this mod. Also, the Thirdwire Meteor cockpit is required from the original game. Fuel tanks- not to be afraid. Overwrite or just leave it. 100 gal tank is the original TW tank. You can overwrite or just simply do not copy. 175 gal tank also. Tanks are just ini files. The mod uses tanks that are part of aircraft lod. Yes, again Meteors. But I made this revamp to fix what I wanted to fix for some time already in old models..plus a few new things. In the game under a prefix .KDF. * you will find Meteor F.4, F.8, NF.11, and TT20 that served in the Royal Danish Air Force. * Kongelige Danske Flyvevåbnet TT.20 target tug works the same way as one in the RAF Meteors pack. I fixed data files a little - collision points and hitboxes..as the previous ones were quite weird. But I believe that the flight model could be improved for this aircraft. But this is not my cup of tea nor coffee. All skins are in 4096x4096 format. You can easily resize as needed. Now all Meteors are using the same common color standard. Skins represent all squadrons that operationally used Meteors. Decals represent historically correct serial numbers assigned to aircraft during their service in the Danish Air Force. Under no circumstances do not use any part of it with older Meteors done by me and published here in CA. These new ones have some differences in mapping. Some things were changed, some mapping issues and small thingies. So please do not mess up things. Credits. Veltro2k - the original old model of t7 Yours truly - model rework, mambo jumbo like skins, decals, research... No animal was harmed during the creation of this mod. Only Italian coffee was used, mod may contain cookie crumbs and nuts. Seat - all credits to the creator - unfortunately I don't remember who made this seat. I guess the skin was painted by Kulbit. Pilots - RAF pilot by Geezer another one I have no idea / don't remember who did it. All credit to him/her. Weapons. RP-3 rockets from Ravenclaw. All should have those RP-3 rockets in their installs but I am adding them anyways as those are the only ones that work with this aircraft lod. This model is designed/checked only to work with Ravenclaw's RP-3 rockets - so there might be some strange positioning in other (stock) rockets. Have fun. Report bugs. * Expect the unexpected. Live long and prosper. Jarek Hereda THIS MODEL IS ONLY TO BE DISTRIBUTED AS FREEWARE AND IN NO OTHER CIRCUMSTANCE SHALL IT BE USED, EVEN IN PART OF ANYTHING THAT IS PAYWARE. UNDER THE COMBAT ACE MODDERS AGREEMENT * report BIG bugs...If I misspelled something or forgot to add a sound file...for dog's sake try to fix it. Not like this mod is using some ancient or extraterrestrial files.. Submitter yakarov79 Submitted 12/25/2023 Category Meteor  

Merry Christmas to all our supporters, may you and your families have a great New Year 2024 too. For Christmas cheer here's a shot from the refreshed Nieuport 17 coming in the Belgian Expansion, new features, improved texture (French Colours) and remapped surfaces and so on.

Spend it how YOU like it! Enjoy the food and festivities and indulge, or create a cocoon to hide in for a time... Whatever floats your boat, have a good one! Muesli & The Dude

Whilst the ventral tank was trialled on the F.3 I really don't think it was standard equipment until the F.4. The classic 1/72 scale Airfix kit of the F.3 certainly didn't have it.

Absolute gorgeous!!! Boss, after check some references and many photos I can say that all F.3s carried the belly slipper tank. The wind drop tanks only appears with F.4 onwards. Could you add it to the F.3s? And remove the wing tanks from F.3-46 please? Thanks!!!

Really Beautiful!!

Merry Christmas my friends !!!

Joy to all!

View File [Fictional] Dassault Mirage F-1AG for STRIKE FIGHTERS 2 Mod of the superb Mirage F-1AZ from the Mirage F-1 Team to make it look like a fictional fighter plane for the german air force and navy aviation element. For the weapons you'll need to have one version of the F-1 already installed. The Weapons were created by the Mirage Factory and therefore not covered by the permission. INSTRUCTIONS 1. Drop the folders into your Mod folder. If asked to overwrite, click yes. CREDITS Big Thanks to the Mirage F-1 team for the creation of this superb mod. Also thanks to Ludo for allowing me to release it. ORIGINAL CREDITS - Aircraft : BPAO and Centurion-1. - Cockpit : Brain32 and Centurion-1 - Skins : Ace888 and Ludo.m54. - Decals : Ludo.m54. - Templates : Brain32, ACE888 and Ludo.m54. - Avionics and data tweaks : Crusader. - FM : Baffmeister. - Interception light : Coupi - Missiles, rocket pods and seat : Ravenclaw_007. - Weapons : The Mirage Factory. - Hangars et loading screens : Ludo.m54. Kindest regards ValAstur Submitter ValAstur Submitted 12/24/2023 Category What If Hangar  

bigger boss from the heath....

Happy Christmas to all wherever you may be!

View File [Fictional] A-7E Corsair - Marineflieger Fictional A-7E Corsair II German Navy Air Arm service. This is based mainly on stock files. Basic modding skills are required to run this mod. (copy/paste, mod folder structure, etc.) Install: Copy and paste specific folders into the correct destination. A fake pilot is required to run this mod. Also, the Thirdwire Corsair cockpit is required from the original game. I have attached the needed files for weapon loadouts. You might want to edit the loadout.ini file to match your weapons in the weapon folder. AS-34 Kormoran and the fictional launcher 'Aero5' for Kormoran are made by Ravenclaw. All skins are done by me in 4096x4096 format based on my templates. New Bump maps. All decals are made by me and cover all historical serial numbers. Report bugs. * Expect the unexpected. Live long and prosper. Jarek Hereda THIS MODEL IS ONLY TO BE DISTRIBUTED AS FREEWARE AND IN NO OTHER CIRCUMSTANCE SHALL IT BE USED, EVEN IN PART OF ANYTHING THAT IS PAYWARE. UNDER THE COMBAT ACE MODDERS AGREEMENT * report BIG bugs...If I misspelled something or forgot to add a sound file...for dog's sake try to fix it. Not like this mod is using some ancient or extraterrestrial files.. Submitter yakarov79 Submitted 12/24/2023 Category What If Hangar  

View File [Fictional] Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21MR Fishbed Mod of the stock MiG-21MF to make it look like a fictional fighter plane for the argentine air force. It uses an aliased F-8E cockpit. If you want to use the original cockpit, you need to download Starys great mod here on CA. INSTRUCTIONS 1. Drop the folders into your Objects folder. If asked to overwrite, click yes. CREDITS Big Thanks to Thirdwire for the games and the superb models they have. Also big thanks to comrade for his template and to Spinners for the badge of the 4° grupo I used for the mod. Kindest regards ValAstur Submitter ValAstur Submitted 12/24/2023 Category What If Hangar  

Wrench... absolutely love it!! Thank you very, very much! I got my Crew Chief back at Da Nang to paint out my drop tanks. It's nothin' fancy, but he did a rough enough job (the mapping is pretty funky, and a skinner I am not!). B-57B_TANK.BMP Also got the mechanics to sort me some favourite loadouts. Anyone who wants to give 'em a try is more than welcome, and I also loaded in some 'Nam pilot skins from my downloads (sorry, I don't recall the artist after all these years, but someone will know; most CA members will already have then lurking around in their archives). These 500-pounders, I'm pretty sure, are by Ravenclaw, and I recall they came with a Mirage III or Israeli Air Force download; again, CA members probably already have 'em around... and I'm excited to see Raveclaw's Weapon Pack 3 has just dropped! I've used the SpecficStationCode statements to manage my ordnance, so some modding knowledge will be needed if anyone wants to try the 500-pounder loadout. I subbed out the NUC bomb bay for this SF2 Vietnam install, but will use them both in my SF2 Europe install. I'm still fine-tuning, but these are my current file versions for anyone interested: B-57B_COCKPIT.INI B-57B_DATA.INI B-57B_LOADOUT.INI Thanks again Wrench, you're an absolute legend! KB

Yup....animated rotors etc.. random screenie for the reply

Georgian Air Force Su-25A and Su-25UB Versions ( new camuflage )