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All measurements are correct except for the pilot and the Seats when not at the correct height and place. Thank you for the heads-up you're absolutely correct. I will update it.

Added bump map to the model

Added the wingtip lights, and ALR-15 antennas

its relative. maybe they knew the threat environment and dropped their seats low to feel safer from flak.....

Yes, thank you so much for pointing it out to me. I am working on it. Yes definitely with the first release of the A-6A

came up on my YT feed today. There's (literaly) thousands of si-fi stories like this one. This one made me laughT

Hunters over Alderney island.

WWWooo!!! I was wondering about the scaling too, from the screenies from yesturday. Looks much better now!** **because Hobbits don't fly Intruders

gawd, that would be like if the Army and Marines found an enemy whose weapons were tabacco and Rip-It based........

More progress

@Erik Thank you for the info. I decided to remove the hot-fix, most users downloaded the mod after January 20th 2024, so it's not needed anymore. I might post it to the support topic if necessary. The mod needs to be re-approved even though nothing has changed.

those blisters under the wings are AN/APR-25 - and should be a little bulkier longer and more rounded. APR-15 was on the wingtip itself little behind the wingtip lights - -where in late models were located formation lights. here is the visible place where ALR-15 was installed (flat squarish spot with 6 screws) ALR-15 was old shitty system that could look only left and right (more or less) and two lights in the cockpit indicating left - right side warning. later changed to APR-25 and later ALR-45 was added too (at this point ALR-15 was removed from use already) 1. those are speed break actuator fairing - so if you have fuselage speed brakes and no windspeed brakes this should be not there (very early A-6) 2. APR-25 3. here is more or less ALE-18 chaff dispenser...(do not remember if it is one or two slots) I will check next week.

Two Lightnings of Marinefliegergeschwader 1, Fliegerhorst Schleswig-Jagel, 1972, over the Baltic Sea.

Don´t forget that the navigator's position is a little lower and rearward in relation to the pilot

Looks good. You are missing wingtip lights, and ALR-15 antenas on wingtips (early A model), front gear doors - those 3 lights should be evenly spaced along the side of the door (angle of attack indexer lights), There should be a small slot on the lower fuselage (left-hand side) between the engine exhaust and speed brake for AN/ALE-18 chaff dispenser

Crew look like munchkins

Are the crew too small ? or the model too big ? Something looks a little strange to me.

anyone like those scenes in the movies, where the hero walks slowly away, puttin on sunglasses, as the stuff behind them blows up?

Upload no.11 The height-map is now upscaled to 4x the tile-map size. The main reason is that the Strike Fighters engine seems to run better with this change, for some reasons I don't know... It gives better frame-rate and has visually better horizon terrain buildup. So the _Data ini settings from the first post do no longer apply. It was not easy to upscale the height-map in a way that retains sharpness in the mountain- and ridge-tops. Had to program a custom upscale in TFDtool, then blend it with some filtered variants. It should be good now. Added some target-area's in the hills and at the DMZ. This is where the terrain looks best. The DMZ is not quite so demilitarized now. There are around 40 .tod terrain objects now. Solely for the full city tiles. Tailor-made to fit these. Then the usual tile-map and tile-texture adjustments.

Northrop F-5D Freedom Fighter - No.75 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force, 1968 The New Zealand Government's decision to send troops to Vietnam in 1964 was highly controversial but was simply an escalation of the previous position of New Zealand assistance via various support structures such as the Civilian Surgical Team and the supply of a small non-combatant military force of engineers. The Royal New Zealand Air Force had provided transport assistance since 1962 and this had begun to increase when a sufficiently large airstrip to accommodate the Bristol Freighters of No.40 Squadron was built at Nui Dat. American pressure on both Australia and New Zealand to increase their support to US Forces in Vietnam continued and on March 31st, 1966 Sir Keith Holyoake, the New Zealand Prime Minister, announced that the Royal New Zealand Air Force would contribute to a joint RAAF/RNZAF combat wing consisting of three squadrons (two RAAF and one RNZAF) operating a version of the F-5A 'Freedom Fighter' which had just finished a succcessful five-month combat evaluation during 'Operation Skoshi Tiger'. On April 30th, 1966 No.75 Squadron of the Royal New Zealand Air Force at Ohakea was disbanded and a new No.75 Squadron was formed on the following day at Bien Hoa Air Base in South-Central southern Vietnam operating a handful of F-5A's and F-5B's loaned from USAF stocks. Experiences gained from 'Skoshi Tiger' were incorporated into a new version of the basic F-5A designated as the F-5D and initial deliveries were made to No.75 Squadron of the Royal New Zealand Air Force during August 1966 and the squadron were declared operational at the end of September 1966. The joint RAAF/RNZAF combat wing at Bien Hoa operated in ground-attack operations over South Vietnam and gained an enviable reputation for bombing accuracy and aircraft availability. When the joint RAAF/RNZAF combat wing finally ceased operations at the end of 1971 only eleven F-5D's had been lost over Vietnam - nine to enemy ground fire and two due to an unfortunate collision at take-off. All remaining aircraft were handed over to the Republic of Vietnam Air Force in 1972 in a move financed by the Nixon administration as part of the wider policy of 'Vietnamization'. Skin Credit: Sophocles

AN/ALQ-131(V)-4 Block-1 ( deep ) with EURO-1 camo

when I first read this, I though he was asking for a small pilot -- I didn't know Hobbits could fly!!! (i'll let myself out ...)

The most powerful generation of birds pt2