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CF-104 over Bodø

Arsenal de l'Aéronautique VG.33's

Over wide, wide water.

Fairey Fulcrum Mk.I - No.15 Squadron, RAF Bomber Command, 1938 During 1931, the British Air Ministry released Specification G.4/31 calling for a general purpose aircraft capable of carrying out level bombing, army co-operation, dive bombing, reconnaissance, casualty evacuation and torpedo bombing. Fairey's proposal was the Fairey G.4/31, a single-engine, two-seat biplane but this was rejected by the Air Ministry and the requirement was eventually met by the Vickers Wellesley. But even as work proceeded on the construction of the Fairey G.4/31 prototype, the Fairey design office had already started work on Operational Requirements for a light-bomber to Specification P.27/32 and also for a naval torpedo-bomber to Specification P.2/33. Marcel Lobelle, Fairey Aviation's chief designer, led the design team responsible for the light-bomber (a project that would eventually lead to the Fairy Battle) whilst John Walvis led the design team working on the naval torpedo-bomber. With the Air Ministry strongly favouring a radial engine for the naval torpedo-bomber, Walvis set about designing the Fairey P.2/33 as an all metal, single-engine monoplane powered by the promising Bristol Pegasus XX nine-cylinder, single-row, air-cooled radial aero engine with a planned rating of 925 hp. During the design phase Walvis was able to incorporate aerodynamic innovations such as wing fillets, a fully enclosed cockpit and a fixed landing gear covered in streamlined spats. By mid-1934, Air Ministry officials could see such a high demand for the Rolls-Royce PV-12 (Merlin) engine that a decision was taken to prioritise production of the PV-12 for the planned interceptor/fighter aircraft (most notably F.36/34 & F.37/34) and the Fairey Battle. However, the Air Ministry were so impressed with Fairey's P.2/33 radial-engined design that they asked Fairey to submit it to a new Specification P.41/34 for a general purpose attack bomber for the RAF and authorised the production of three P.41/34 prototypes. Renamed as the Fairey Fulcrum, development moved swiftly and on December 8th 1935 the first Fulcrum prototype (K4404) equipped with an early Bristol Pegasus IV rated at 680 hp made its maiden flight at Hayes in Middlesex before being transferred to RAF Martlesham Heath for service trials. The second and third prototypes were both powered by Bristol Pegasus VI engines rated at 750 hp and completed an accelerated programme of service trials during the Spring of 1936 leading to a production order of 145 Fulcrum Mk.I aircraft. Entering service with No.15 Squadron in March 1937 the Fulcrum Mk.I eventually served with seven RAF Squadrons and whilst largely obsolete by the start of the Second World War it remained in front-line service. However, it was not deployed to France as part of the British RAF Advanced Air Striking Force but served at home with No. 1 Group in operations against German shipping massed in the Channel ports for Operation Sealion. Their last combat sorties included raids on Boulogne and Calais in late 1940 but by early 1941 the remaining Fulcrums were transferred to Northern Ireland for coastal patrol work. Skin Credit: Charles In case you haven't recognised it this is the Northrop Gamma 2E. Reading up on this, I already knew about the A-17 Nomad but I had no idea of the later A-33 which, in turn, led me to learn about 'Little Norway' - gotta love wikipedia!

The sat pictures, which i used to made the city tile, showing a lot of trees. Thatswhy i planted 460 trees on the tile. I think so it looks a little bit more realistic.

Starfighter over Lake Michigan.

Fairey Fulcrum Mk.I - No.600 (City of London) Squadron, Royal Auxilliary Air Force, 1938

Thud near Hanoi

Death Dive

Saudi Tornado on a mission to Kuwait

No. CA still shows "light". I think it may be a question for the site admins. I don't know if it is possible to have the CA webpages detect and honor the dark/light setting. Firefox makes it sound like it is a site specific thing. I suspect Google's "dark" setting may work the same.

Hey! Really beautiful, and very nice background story.

Welcome back! I use Firefox myself which also has a "dark" setting. The comment with the setting says, "Some websites adapt their color scheme based on your preferences. Choose which color scheme you’d like to use for those sites." I don't know if the admins can do anything for CA that might allow it to adapt to a dark setting. I will tell you the same issue exists in Firefox. I go "dark" and CA still shows up as usual.

there's tons of pics out there of Reserve birds with Eagle "kill" marks from the mid 70s. but for perspective, the Reservists had all done time over Vietnam, while the Eagle crews were just learning their jets as well as writing the book on how to employ them. they engagements i heared about the most were DACT between VF-202 out of Dallas and Eagles from the training wing out of Luke. not so sure about the Viper, unless the pilot did something incredibly stupid (like try to fight with stores still on). it was a revolutionary leap all around, for instance with Viper teams taking top place in bomb comps using just the basic computer and dumb bombs. well before they got "smart" with the Block 40s and 50s. the only advantage the Phantom had at the time was long range Sparrow shots, but she was on the way out the door when the Viper actually started using Sparrow capability and fully taking in the Arizona sun when they got AMRAAMs cleared hell, B-52 tail gunners got lucky at Red Flag when Eagles tried for a gun kill, and A-10s have some cool gun camera phootage of all the teens when they'd try to get into the Hog's element (low and slow)

I can't answer you question, but I can say it good to see you back again!

Thunder at Dawn

Okay but I'm still against dogfighting in it, especially with the flight model in the game, which remains to be seen if I will fly it anyway in the future.

I've loved F-4's, especially the D model ever since I grew up around them at the 184th TFG. I believe the Phantom could hold their own as interceptors, which was a role of theirs. Dogfighting was where their maneuverability hindered them however, experience crews could lick F-15's and F-16's if they fought within their capabilities.

Fairey Fulcrum Mk.I - No.15 Squadron, RAF Bomber Command, 1938

Niceeeeee!!!!! i also tweak some F-4 Avis last time. i have change a little bit, since i sent you my files. Specialy, since ravenclaw_007 give us his perfectly F-4D's Pits There is a nother gunsigt i think early F-4D's like in the Thunderchief (F-105?) you post a Picture of that.. And, what are these dark fields on the HUD you do???? you named it REFLEKTOR.TGA

Another wonderful addition to the game. It REALLY shone when I ran into a S-400 nest, and we had to get low & fast in a hurry. It was (in 1 word) dizzying!!!

the Battle of Topeka, in an alternate 1987...

Nakajima Ki-27P - 2nd Fighter Regiment, Parani Army Air Force, 1940

As one of the pilots said: "Flying a Starfighter is like driving a sports car. Just fun."

just another Zipper ...

Oh Canada!!!

just made this new tga´s based on the few pictures i have AVQ10 tga NEW.7z AVQ10_Track.tga AVQ10_Lock.tga

Semper Fi

That SAM & AAA nest off to the left was 9 miles off the EOR. Imagine my surprise blundering into it...

Emil's over London.

London Ontario, May '88 Dayton Ohio Jun '88. really, why did they change the Iranian flag to a Syrian one? watching the practice run on a Thursday, summer '88

F-104 Starfighter with SF2 generic skin. Historical not correct, but i think it looks pretty cool.

Dornier Do-22P - 4th Attack Regiment, Parani Army Air Force, 1940

Going vertical.