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End of Summer Update As we near Summer, it’s time for another SITREP update. Here’s just some highlights of what’s been happening as we continue to evolve and enhance… …the Vietnam terrain to bring unsurpassed accuracy, topography features, elevation fields and more with special focus on working to complete the entire network systems of the Ho Chi Minh Trail, Trail Camps, and Northern Rail lines, wet season rice paddies and major city lay-outs such as Hanoi …our environmentals especially various cloudscapes and convincing stormy skies/IFR flying conditions …making refinements on the KC-135 for simulated air-to-air refueling with a high fidelity model, new details and evolving higher res textures …working to finalize our red-side love in the form of an exceptional quality Mig-17 as a token of respect and promise to Stary …creating numerous accurate airfield auxiliary support equipment including bomb loaders, crew vans, light carts, start carts, tractors, ground support crew and more. …creating insanely detailed target areas, such as the major strategic target area of the Northeastern Kep Railyard which includes over 50+ new models and leverages actual historic reference photos We’ve included some sample screenies to support each of these highlights, hope you enjoy.

Hello, for those interested in the When Thunder Rolled Project and recent updates... Since the General Discussion forum is the most visited forum, we wanted to post a few teaser WTR screenshots here. However, we encourage you to visit our dedicated forum with additional screenies and details, thanks! https://combatace.com/forums/forum/342-wtr-general-discussion/

You can contribute to the discussion in this forum https://combatace.com/forums/forum/342-wtr-general-discussion/

Journal of FSLt Douglas Bell-Gordon, RNAS Part 3 "He foolishly passed our machine without noticing us." Wednesday, 13 September 1916 It has been wonderful to be back in the air again. The M.O. cleared me to fly on Sunday and I was slated for an afternoon show on Monday, 11th inst. The wing thus far has been equipped principally with “Strutters” of the single-seat variety. My machine, however, is one of our two that carry both a pilot and a gunlayer. I am newly assigned Petty Officer Hayden as my back seat wallah. He is a very posh sort and worked in an art gallery before joining up. Still, he has a terrific sense of humour and we are on a first name basis when nobody else is listening. The first flight on Monday was up to the lines near St-Die. PO Hayden and I carried a few light bombs and were to trail our coats to attract any Huns that might be in the area. Meanwhile six single-seat Sopwith machines hid above, poised to attack. The ruse worked – such things scarcely happen in military life. Three Fokker monoplanes dived on us and we dodged about until, as in the pictures, the cavalry arrived to rescue us. At that point, I turned towards home. One unfortunate Hun decided to dive in the direction of our lines and try to hide himself against the backdrop of the hills and fields below before turning back toward his own territory. He foolishly passed our machine without noticing us. The HA (“hostile aircraft”, as the Air Service terms it) immediately began to tumble out of control and crashed into a wooded hill. The whole thing was witnessed by Stearns and my first victory was formally recognised by the Wing Captain. We repaired to the Pomme d’Or Hotel that evening to celebrate. The Yanks were already there but were too drunk to smash the place up, so the evening was uncharacteristically relaxing. The following day, Tuesday, we took a radio to spot for our guns. PO Hayden is very accomplished at Morse – much more so than I. But this time we were on our own and were once again interrupted by our Hunnish friends. Hayden hit one of them and I managed to get our machine behind it and sent it down, apparently out of control. Despite attempts to confirm the destruction of the HA, it seems that the Fokker jockey might have regained control. In any event, it was recorded officially as merely “driven down”. Today we flew a long distance to the east, the longest patrol yet. Our machines carried bombs for a railyard near Mulhouse. And once again, Mr Hun made an appearance, this time in larger numbers. What a fine scrap it was! PO Hayden and I punched holes in one yellow Fokker, and then his friends punched holes in our machine. After about ten minutes of milling about, both sides became bored and went home. Saturday, 16 September 1916 Another long patrol back in the direction of Mulhouse. We scattered bombs over the German frontline positions. Yet again our Hunnish opponents rose to interrupt our fun. At first we had the upper hand. There were eight Sopwith machines against five Fokkers. Just as we were feeling very pleased with ourselves, another six Fokkers appeared on the scene. This was a fight unlike any I have experienced to date. One could not aim. One could only point in the general direction of an HA and fire away. PO Hayden was turning his Lewis gun first one way and then the other. He expended three complete drums before we were done. I managed to get on the tail of a Fokker that was chasing one of our fellows and sent him down out of control. Flight Commander Draper saw the Hun crash, making this our second victory. We had taken some damage in the fight and begun to head west towards home when I heard the Lewis gun firing behind me. One of the German machines had decided to follow us. I came about and, after a few minutes of diving and zooming and turning in a vertical bank, I got behind him and sent him down streaming smoke. Sometime during the morning’s events, a bullet had grazed PO Hayden’s back. He was bleeding and our engine was beginning to sound ill so I abandoned the chase of the HA and headed for the French aerodrome at Belfort. We landed safely. Thankfully, PO Hayden was not seriously hurt and was able to make light of the whole affair. Today’s second Hun went down in the books as another “driven down”.

checking a few other things out, then caught the view

90-day rotation of Icelandic Air Policing because Iceland(NATO ALLIE), doesn't have an Air Force to protect them.

On-Mark B-26K Counter Invader in experimental Blue-Gray camouflage circa 1966:

Over Yougoslavia : (my plane is the small column of smoke on the runway)

Allen, as I previously said in the terrain's support topic, I'm not going to work on the terrain anymore at this stage. It burned me out badly. I have no motivation. For simplicity and gameplay purposes all of Bosnia is Red Side. If and when a campaign will be made, front line changes can all be controlled in the campaign data. If you prefer to have Sarajevo on Blue Side, you can change it yourself.

Out of Villafranca Proper lady for Italian sky. Hope that both of you are aware that private messages can also be used to ask someone questions... Especially in the screenshot thread. Just a small thing to keep in mind.

*still have time before the midnight line is crossed into Thursday .... * not just the Hogs, but the Slicks as well

HML-167 (top) VMO-6 (bottom) on the prowl for Charlie (revamps of Pasko's UH-1B. coming "soon")

some more cockpit progress pics for the Recon Norwegian birds (RF-5a) ..