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File Name: SBD File Submitter: BUFF File Submitted: 30 Nov 2004 File Updated: 14 Sep 2005 File Category: WW2 Aircraft Ok, so it's the wrong color and there are errors but it works and it's carrier ready. Normal deal, your options are pretty much open as long as you ain't trying to make money with it Click here to download this file

Deuces Effects Pack #1 View File Extract all of the zip files into your Effects folder with the exception of any sound files, those go into the Sounds folder...tricky eh? Included: Afterburner Effect Dirty Exhaust Effect Missile Fire Effect Cluster Bomb Effect (new) Flak Effect (new) Submitter BUFF Submitted 11/30/2004 Category Effect Mods

Curtiss Hawk China skin View File China theatre skin for Monty CZs Curtiss Hawk III Submitter BUFF Submitted 11/30/2004 Category USAAC/USAAF

View File Curtiss Hawk III Plane has no readme so I want to add credits for first Mustang TEAM (Crisis & Wolf-257) who made cockpit - originaly it is cockpit for Mustang but I thing it can be used (I cant contact Crisis so if there is a problem let me know). This plane was build for fun and I think there wont be any further development. Monty CZ Submitter BUFF Submitted 11/30/2004 Category Allied Fighters

SFP1_WoV_SPV3 View File 11/26/2004 This soundpack is meant to supersede my previous soundpacks (sfp1_spv1 & sfp1_spv2), and is specifically tailored for, and was tested on, Wings Over Vietnam with Service Pack 1, and Strike Fighters with Service Pack 3. What's new in this version? Correct tracer colors for WoV, new tracer colors for Nato MG's, more intense flak effects, adjusted volumes (hoooray!), new sounds for: all stock MiGs, A-4s, NR-30 cannon. Installation Notes: Before you begin, I strongly suggest that you have Skypat's SFP1E extraction utility (available at http://www.checksix-fr.com/ ), and familiarize yourself with its operation. You're going to find it indispensable! TO INSTALL: simply extract the contents of this zip file into your Strike Fighters or WoV folder. That's all! Warning: It will overwrite the following files (if you have them). Please back up the following, by dragging them to a safe place on your system: 1) Your entire "sounds" folder. 2) In your flight folder, backup your "soundlist.ini" 3) In your objects folder, backup your "gundata.ini" If you don't find the last two, don't worry, you're just running a default installation Submitter BUFF Submitted 11/27/2004 Category SF/WO* Sound Mods

View File Mig-29G Fulcrum-A Sp3 compatible German Mig-29 Fulcrum-A Submitter BUFF Submitted 11/27/2004 Category Mig-29 Fulcrum

View File Mig-29A Fulcrum A Sp3 compatible Soviet Mig-29A Submitter BUFF Submitted 11/27/2004 Category Mig-29 Fulcrum

File Name: F-15C Eagle File Submitter: BUFF File Submitted: 27 Nov 2004 File Category: SF Add-On Aircraft Sp3 compatible F-15C Eagle Click here to download this file

File Name: F-15A BAZ File Submitter: BUFF File Submitted: 26 Nov 2004 File Category: SF Add-On Aircraft Sp3 compatible Israeli F-15A Click here to download this file

View File Lightning Fmk6 English Electric Lightning Fmk6 by RussoUK Submitter BUFF Submitted 11/26/2004 Category British Aircraft

View File A-5B Vigilante A-5B Vigilante Submitter BUFF Submitted 11/25/2004 Category A-5A/B/RA-5C Vigilante

View File A-1H Skyraider A-1H Skyraider aka Spad Submitter BUFF Submitted 11/25/2004 Category A-1 Skyraider

File Name: F4U-1A Corsair File Submitter: BUFF File Submitted: 23 Nov 2004 File Updated: 14 Sep 2005 File Category: WW2 Aircraft Ok, forgot to include the read-me file but here it is more or less. You're free to distribute the zip file, you're free to repaint it and release those skins as you see fit. The templates are included. You can't charge for it or try to make money off of it (like anybody would actually pay for this thing) if you do I will hunt you down and kick your ass. Don't try to turn with the Ki-43 or you'll die. Watch your AoA cause this thing's a real bear when it stalls. Watch your airspeed on approach or you'll find out why they called it the "Ensign Eliminator", the name was deserved. This one is also carrier ready. Click here to download this file

WeaponEditor 11_08_04 View File Weapon Editor for Sp3. You need to run it in Win98 compatability if on XP. Submitter BUFF Submitted 11/19/2004 Category SF/WO* Utilities/Editors

SF Gun Editor for SP3 View File Gun Editor for Sp3. You need to run it in Win98 compatability if on XP. Submitter BUFF Submitted 11/19/2004 Category SF/WO* Utilities/Editors

File Name: FW190 File Submitter: BUFF File Submitted: 19 Nov 2004 File Updated: 14 Sep 2005 File Category: WW2 Aircraft FW190A This model of the Fw190 series is fairly representative of the type found in the European Theater in 1944 through the end of the war. It's arguably the best all around fighter fielded by the Luftwaffe during the war. Click here to download this file

MiG-21PFM skin template View File PSD template for skinning the MIG-21PFM Submitter BUFF Submitted 11/16/2004 Category Skin Templates / Decal Sets

F-104G templates View File PSD templates for skinning the F-104G Submitter BUFF Submitted 11/16/2004 Category Skin Templates / Decal Sets

F-4E templates View File PSD templates for skinning the F-4E Submitter BUFF Submitted 11/16/2004 Category Skin Templates / Decal Sets

F4-B skin template View File PSD template for skinning Submitter BUFF Submitted 11/16/2004 Category Skin Templates / Decal Sets

A-4E skin template View File PSD skin templates Submitter BUFF Submitted 11/16/2004 Category Skin Templates / Decal Sets

File Name: Iraeli F-18 File Submitter: BUFF File Submitted: 13 Nov 2004 File Updated: 13 Nov 2004 File Category: SF F-18 Skins Fictional Israeli skin for addon F-18 Click here to download this file

File Name: F-4J_Sp3 File Submitter: BUFF File Submitted: 11 Nov 2004 File Updated: 14 Nov 2004 File Category: SF Add-On Aircraft Official F-4J addon updated for Sp3. This add-on contains all the components necessary to play the "J" model Phantom II used by the US Navy and US Marine Corps. It includes new external 3d model, 3d virtual cockpit model, hangar screen, a new loading screen, and several dog-fighting single mission files. F-4J Phantom II, built between 1966 and 1972, is the second and the final version of the Phantom to be produced for the Navy and Marine Corps. It was designed to replace the original F-4B model, and it incorporates many of the lessons learned from years of fleet service and combat experience over Southeast Asia. The F-4J is powered by more powerful J79-GE-10 engines, rated at an afterburning thrust of 17,900 pounds each. Its approach speed is decreased from 157 mph to 144 mph by introduction of slotted stabilator and "drooped" ailerons, which makes a downward deflection of 16.5 degrees the "neutral" aileron deflection when the flaps are deployed. Externally, F-4J model is distinguishable from F-4B model by its lack of nose chin pod, which used to house the infrared search and tracking device in the B model. F-4Js were used extensively by the US Navy and Marine Corps in the last stages of the Vietnam War. On May 10, 1972, Lt Randall H. "Duke" Cunningham and Lt(jg) William P. Driscoll of VF-96 Fighting Falcons, flying F-4J Phantom II with radio callsign "Showtime 100," shot down three MiGs in less than 6 minutes to become the first American aces over Vietnam. They were also the first F-4 aces, and first to make all their kills with air-to-air missiles. Click here to download this file

& is it wrong of the developer to go with a more relaxed flight model if he reckons that will sell more copies/be more profitable than a hyper realistic niche sim? TK obviously has a vision of what he believes will sell in the marketplace (which seems to be working so far) & can get a return on investment. I very much doubt that if TK doubled his budget to improve the games as you want that he would sell twice as many copies. We may not like it but at the end of the day it's about money & not realism - even Oleg Maddox has said that Il-2 etc. wasn't very profitable for him/his team (Ubisoft may well be another story ...). If it's profitable we get improvements added over time, if it isn't we get nada in the future. btw I'm told by those that have delved that the FM takes a lot of factors into account & is very accurate if so tweaked.

What I don't understand is how few of them get the idea that they can change all that in this series to be absolutely authentic If they have better research materials than TK, fine let him know & he'll take note of it.