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Flying to Amesbury, near RAF Boscombe Down, to check possibility of weekend activities. Stonehenge, checked. Dinner, checked. The Mc's is better than the average british meal. I hate cooked boar in a delicate peppermint sauce. Okay, the base is there, where it should be. Okay, lets go home.

Weddel-Williams P-34A Cardinal - 48th Pursuit Squadron, 15th Pursuit Group, United States Army Air Force, December 1941 When the USAAC announced a competition for a new single-seat fighter in 1935 the three main contenders appeared to be the Curtis P-36, the Seversky P-35 and the Vought V-141. Whilst all three featured all-metal construction, retractable landing gear and an enclosed cockpit there was concern that none of these radial engined fighter aircraft would meet the projected performance of the sleek inline monoplane fighters then under development in Europe. There had already been some USAAC interest in the successful Weddel-Williams series of private racing aircraft earlier in the 1930's leading to the XP-34 but this did not proceed further than the drawing board. However, in early 1936 the USAAC asked Wedell-Williams to design a new fighter aircraft utilising the Allison V-1710 V-12 liquid-cooled engine. Chief Designer Jimmy Wedell quickly schemed a new streamlined low-wing monoplane design around the V-1710-19 inline engine and, favouring manoeuvrability over speed, his radical new design had a smaller wing area than the contemporary Hawker Hurricane and the Supermarine Spitfire with an unusually short fuselage. Whilst the design was known as the Wedell-Williams Model 46 for obscure budgetary reasons the USAAC continued to use the XP-34 designation. The Model 46 prototype first flew on August 15th 1937 and development and testing moved swiftly. When tested against P-35 and P-36 pre-production aircraft (in the USAAC trials held in March 1938) service pilots concluded that the Model 46 had several advantages over both - including being more manoeuvrable in level flight thus enabling it to quickly get behind its opponents by making tight horizontal turns. These trials led to an order for 240 P-34A's which first entered service with the 20th Pursuit Group at Barksdale Field in Louisiana in April 1940. In February 1941 forty-two P-34A's were delivered to Hawaii after being loaded on to the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise and flown off the carrier's deck by USAAC pilots when the Enterprise approached the coast of Hawaii. During the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 8th, 1941 only a handful of the 39 remaining P-34A's at Pearl Harbor were able to take off during the attack. One of the few pilots who managed to engage enemy aircraft was 2nd Lt. Philip M. Rasmussen of the 46th Pursuit Squadron. He was woken up when the attack began and, whilst still wearing his pajamas, Rasmussen raced towards the flight line where most of the P-34A's were either damaged or destroyed. Rasmussen jumped in to aircraft number '86' (belonging to the 48th Pursuit Squadron aircraft) and took off with another three pilots heading for Kaneohe Bay where they engaged eleven Japanese fighters in battle. After shooting down one Japanese aircraft, Rasmussen was attacked by two Japanese Mitsubishi A6M2 Zero fighters. Bullets and cannon shells shattered the canopy, destroyed the radio and severed his aircrafts hydraulic lines and rudder cable forcing Rasmussen to seek refuge in nearby cloud cover before flying back toward Wheeler Field. Landing without brakes, rudder or tailwheel his P-34A was riddled more than 500 bullet holes. * Sadly, Jimmy Weddel died in a flying incident in 1934.

nose door art. just another stickeriffic improvement i offer....

Still looks like the Greyhound Bus logo....

would that be considered a strategic target in the terrain?

I would go with grid for us military geeks. I mean map square or grid doesn't matter to me really, just as long as it's uniform across the map.

(cue Queen "One Vision" ala Iron Eagle) mando screenie

The post-war development looks awesome!

From my understanding, BoresightElevation and BoresightAzimuth define the direction of the beam. In this case, it will be 0 azimuth - straight center, and -2 elevation, meaning that it's angled down -2 degrees from the aircraft's centerline. BoresightBeamAngle should be the width of the cone, imagine it not as a "line" but as a "cone" with apex being placed at emitter and degree being measured from the centerline (or bore in that matter)

67-329 over Nam 1972

Weddel-Williams P-34A - 48th Pursuit Squadron, United States Army Air Corps, 1941

Yeah we say grid (USA)

Is there possibly a difference between british and american english by using "grid" or "map square"? Sit rep screenshots. Two new powerstations

depends on who your talking to. given the military nature of the game, grid would probably be better. you'd be looked at might strange for a few moments if you said map square in the US Army. probably followed by a lecture on terminology while youre in the push up position

I know, ain't is crazy!!!??!!! The APS-20 is the huge belly radome, as used on the TBM-3E, Skyraider AEW (and some Q models), EC-121, PB-1W and other I can't think of. Totally agree on the H & J SPADs. If your cockpit used has the scope, I suggest using this (bleow) for the screen. Some people, especially those of that grew up in the 1960s, will get the joke. Obvioulsy, it'll need renaming as I used in in the U-2 with the F-104 pit F104RADAR.bmp

This is this plane https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogožarski_IK-3

@OlWilly THANK YOU, i got it now. I think I understrand now. To clarify what you explained: BoresightElevation and BoresightAzimuth are hte offset for boresight to 'aim" by deafult. And that BoresightBeamAngle is 'core angle' like ice cream cone,s tart at one point, as it spread out toward 'searching' area. According to the radar set for AN/APG-6 I used the smallest angle, which is 40 from elevation of +20 and -20. Since I can:t define the angle of evelator / azimuth for boresight, so it:s best for me to use smalelst one. However, in-game, tested it, works perfectly! I set it to sesarch for target, then steered toward that, then switched to boresight, there it is , target with 'AIM DOT" to further ajust the path toward the target in AD-4 with radar. Works perfectly, which :simulate: AN/APG-6 peerfectly! Cheers! Eagle114th

“The game was hide and seek, played over a million square miles of ocean. The losers died.”

Ramstein, June of '86

Update: I just installed a new update for my laptop and the USS California textures now show up fine. The textures only showing up as black previously may have been a software bug in my laptop.

Cats in the clouds, stalking Bears.

Just face it.

I know you gentlemen. So besides these modern-cool stuffs, there is an UH-60A with almost no addons. And maybe an UH-60Q soon,now I need 2 weeks to read some books.

Seasons Greetings from the 86th Tac Fighter Wing

I do have a plan for that... =========================================== Picture and text are irrelevant

17th Air Force, having to be difficult. cant just shadow the tail code letters like everyone else. oh no. i will have to do the tails as decals for this and the 86th. how ever will i manage?

finally got all teh squadron patches done, so could finish the ZF Wing King..