ndicki

Hi Stary - I think there must be a problem with the compression. I've downloaded it twice, from each link, and it opens the 7z file but says the zip files inside are invalid...

This is a pretend Spitfire MkVb - Shrikehawk did the FM which I then fitted to the latest generation of stock Spitfire MkIX, and while it isn't visually perfect, it should go like a MkV and shoot like a MkV, and that's the main thing. These are early-production MkVbs of No.92 Sqn in the summer of 1941. 92 was a breeding-ground for aces, and included at that time Jamie Rankin, Brian Kingcome, Alan Wright, Geoff Wellum, Neville Duke, Don Kingaby, Titch Havercroft and a number of other noteworthy pilots. The dark earth/dark green/sky scheme more typically associated with the earlier mark numbers progressively gave way to ocean grey/dark green/medium sea grey with effect from 15th August 1941, although it continued in service in certain units into early 1942.

Good stuff! I've got the MkVb coming out soon, based on your FM.

I don't think I need to say... The stock Spitfires, on a par with Monty's S-99.

Excellent work, Stary! And I'll go along with the generic concept, because it's better to have a reasonably credible cockpit than no cockpit at all... And they certainly do look the part.

8 .303 Brownings will give you serious FPS impact if it isn't right - good thinking Stary! By the way, AI bomber boxes with lots of guns kill my FPS dead the moment they all open fire. Any thoughts to make them less resource-intensive?

File Name: Bf109g-6/AS, JG1, Spring 1944 File Submitter: ndicki File Submitted: 11 May 2011 File Category: SF2 Series Add On Aircraft Bf109g-6AS, JG 1, Germany, Early 1945. In April 1944, JG 1 became the first unit to be equipped with the new Bf109g-5/AS and -6/AS with its uprated DB605AS engine. This entailed the introduction of a new streamlined cowling, compared to the original bulged model used on standard G-5 and G-6 aircraft. As the AS series were intended for high altitude operations, the initial production run were finished in overall RLM 76 pale blue-grey. Jagdgeschwader 1 was based in Northern Germany on Reich Defence duties (Stab was based at Paderborn) and was commanded at this time by Oberstleutnant Walter 'Gulle' Oesau, whose Green 13 is included in this pack. He was killed on 11th May 1944 over St Vith by P-38s of the USAAF. You will need the AvHistory Guns pack installed. For SF2 only. Credits: Visual model, flight dynamics and original skin template: Monty_CZ Cockpit including original paintwork: Kesselbrut Skin, decals, partial cockpit repaint, ini tweaks and loading screen: ndicki Click here to download this file

You can't have a series of Spitfires without a Polish one! This is from 308 (City of Krakow) Squadron in May 1941; they were the first Polish squadron to be equipped with Spits, and needless to say, they used them to terrible effect! The Poles had a reputation for fearless courage - or bloodthirsty recklessness, depending on your personal outlook - that even today continues to excite admiration from their RAF colleagues and the entire British people. So... here it comes!

Actually, 303 was the first squadron. Never mind...

Yes, a hero in the truest sense of the word. I don't see why anybody should feel embarrassed about his opinion of the Germans. It seems reasonably accurate to me.

Thanks! Need a few things for the Spitfires to chew up!

That sounds like a load of bollocks. Why should they throw you out because of your gmail account? I'm on gmail as well, and a lot of my CFS3 friends are too - and we haven't been thrown out. You may not use a gmail account to REGISTER with SOH, as it clearly explains at the top of the page, and it clearly explains why, too. They've been having terrible trouble over the last year with hacking and spamming, and a lot of it is through gmail, hotmail, etc, accounts. And if you haven't been able to register, that isn't throwing you out, is it? Read what it says and act accordingly. You make it sound as though the people at SOH are gmail-hate-filled avengers - they aren't. They are very good, helpful people trying to do a challenging job properly. And your post is thoroughly misleading - look how Slartibartfast, who perhaps doesn't know SOH as well as I do (it is my main flightsim home after all) has reacted to it.

File Name: Spitfire MkIIa, No.308 (Polish) Sqn RAF, 1941 File Submitter: ndicki File Submitted: 10 May 2011 File Category: SF2 Series Add On Aircraft Spitfire MkIIa, No.308 (City of Krakow) Sqn, Royal Air Force, Baginton, May 1941 No.308 Squadron was the among first of the Polish fighter squadrons to be equipped with the Spitfire while based at Baginton in March 1941. This made the Poles the first Free Air Force to use the aircraft - a fitting tribute given the way they had performed during the later part of the Battle of Britain; No.303 (Kosciuszko) Sqn for example claimed more German aircraft shot down than any other Hurricane squadron - despite joining the Battle only at the end of August. The Poles, for whom the RAF was their third home after their own Air Force in 1939 and the French Air Force in 1940, had a reputation for extremely aggressive flying which the RAF did not altogether understand - but their results were eloquent, and they were given the Spitfires they craved. The markings carried in the late spring of 1941 included the Sky 'Fighter Command' band and spinner introduced in December 1940 and returned to the all-Sky undersides again after a brief period from December to April when the port wings of fighter aircraft were once again painted black. At this time, the spinner and band were in fact generally painted not Sky but Sky Blue for some reason; the correct Sky colour appeared more generally in the second half of 1941. Serial numbers in this pack correspond to aircraft used by 308 Squadron during May 1941, although many of these aircraft were on strength only for some days, for obvious reasons. For use ONLY with SF2 including the Israel Expansion Pack. This will NOT work if you do not have the stock TW Spitfires installed and working. Includes 2048 and 1024 size skin sheets. Credits: Model by Third Wire Flight Dynamics by ShrikeHawk based on TW Spitfire MkIXc Cockpit by Kesselbrut Skin, decals, data.ini modifications, formations, sounds and assembly by ndicki Guns by AvHistory Click here to download this file

These are from the first formally-constituted Free French squadron, No.340 'Ile de France' which formed in November 1941 in Scotland. For those who don't know, the term 'Free French' can be applied ONLY to those French nationals serving in Allied Forces before the 10th November 1942 when the Germans invaded the Unoccupied Zone of France. That means that these men were the hard-core fighters who did not accept the Armistice, and carried on the fight by whatever means they could find. And one of those means involved the RAF.

I get the impression I'm doing every single aircraft, even! All those serial numbers correspond to the type, the squadron and the timeframe...

It's the stock MkIX disguised, with an appropriate flight dynamics file to make it fly correctly for a MkI/MkII. So your observations are not wrong!

Get rid of it and use Martin Wright's DXTBmp program. Much safer and completely trouble-free.

This one is from 609 Sqn in May 1941. Just uploaded.

Know it well!

File Name: Spitfire MkIIa, No.609 Sqn RAF, 1941 File Submitter: ndicki File Submitted: 09 May 2011 File Category: SF2 Series Add On Aircraft Spitfire MkIIa, No.609 (West Riding) Sqn, Auxiliary Air Force, Biggin Hill, May 1941 After fighting throughout the Battle of Britain, during which it was based at Middle Wallop and produced a number of noteworthy aces, No.609 moved to Biggin Hill in February 1941. This was the time when the RAF began its 'lean forward' into occupied France, effectively turning the tables on the Luftwaffe and finally taking the fight back to the Continent. The markings carried in the late spring of 1941 included the Sky 'Fighter Command' band and spinner introduced in December 1940 and returned to the all-Sky undersides again after a brief period from December to April when the port wings of fighter aircraft were once again painted black. At this time, the spinner and band were in fact generally painted not Sky but Sky Blue for some reason; the correct Sky colour appeared more generally in the second half of 1941. Serial numbers in this pack correspond to aircraft used by 609 Squadron during May 1941, although many of these aircraft were on strength only for some days, for obvious reasons. Where a pilot has been identified as having flown a particular aircraft (The Royal Air Force did not attribute aircraft to particular pilots, although many did tend to have their favourites) that pilot has been listed in the menu. Two pilots of particular note were operational with the Squadron in May 1941; Australian ace F/L John Curchin usually flew P8098 'Z', the Enfield presentation Spitfire, and F/O John Bisdee P8264 'H' which carries his family's fleur-de-lys arms below the cockpit. For use ONLY with SF2 including the Israel Expansion Pack. This will NOT work if you do not have the stock TW Spitfires installed and working. Includes 2048 and 1024 size skin sheets. Credits: Model by Third Wire Flight Dynamics by ShrikeHawk based on TW Spitfire MkIXc Cockpit by Kesselbrut Skin, decals, data.ini modifications, formations, sounds and assembly by ndicki Guns by AvHistory Click here to download this file

File Name: Spitfire MkI, No.66 Sqn RAF, 1939 File Submitter: ndicki File Submitted: 09 May 2011 File Category: SF2 Series Add On Aircraft Spitfire MkI, No.66 Sqn, Royal Air Force, Duxford, September 1940 Operating from Duxford, No.66 was the second squadron after No.19 to convert to the Spitfire in November 1938. During early 1939, the highly coloured Type A1 roundels on the fuselage and mainplanes (see my 19 Sqn 1938 Spitfire) were toned down and replaced by more discreet Type B markings as here. Squadron codes were initially "RB" but during the reshuffle which took place in the course of 1939, these became the "LZ" codes which were subsequently carried throughout the War. The markings are typical of the period from early 1939 up until early 1940; although the uppersurfaces roundels remained of Type B until late in the War, fuselage roundels changed yet again at the beginning of 1940 to move back to red-white-and-blue Type A roundels. Black-and-white undersides were replaced by Sky according to AM Signal X915 of 6th June 1940. In common with many of the early Spitfires which were delivered with undersides painted Aluminium, this aircraft's ailerons were left in aluminium paint when the black-and-white scheme was applied. This was ostensibly to prevent "balancing problems" and is commonly seen on many fighter types of the immediate pre-War period. Serial numbers given in the menu list correspond to aircraft used by 66 Squadron during 1939. For use ONLY with SF2 including the Israel Expansion Pack. This will NOT work if you do not have the stock TW Spitfires installed and working. Includes 2048 and 1024 size skin sheets. Credits: Model by Third Wire Flight Dynamics by ShrikeHawk based on TW Spitfire MkIXc Cockpit by Kesselbrut Skin, decals, data.ini modifications, formations, sounds and assembly by ndicki Guns by AvHistory Click here to download this file

Quick question - I've seen the PAF insignia BOTH ways round, on both RAF and French aircraft - is this way OK?

There were one or two in the Kirkus Rosarius - I'll take a look once I get bored of RAF ones! They even went so far as to re-engine a MkVb (EN380 NX-X) with a DB601, just for fun. Aeroplane Heaven did a nice freeware version for CFS3 even.