Spinners

Beautiful!

Republic RF-84F Thunderflash - Esk 729, Royal Danish Air Force, 1962

Republic RF-84K Thunderflash FR.2 - No.2 Squadron, RAF Germany, 1972

Hawker Hurricane Mk.1 - 1st American Volunteer Group ('Flying Tigers') China, 1941

Thanks guys. It really needs a better sharkmouth decal.

Beautiful Ed. I can remember making the Airfix model of that version about 40 years ago!!

The Northrop YA-9 masquerading as the Yakovlev Yak-37! Yakovlev Yak-37 'Fatfrog-A' - Soviet Air Force, Afghanistan, 1981

Excellent work Gepard!

Bell A-28B Mamba - 432nd Attack Squadron, United States Army Air Corps, 1946 Following the failure of the Allied invasion at Calais in April 1944 and the success of the German counter-offensive in the East there was a change of focus with the US throwing more effort into the Pacific theatre whilst continuing to support the UK in 'holding' the European theatre. Following lessons learned from the failed Calais invasion the USAAC drafted a specification for a new heavily-armed attack aircraft described by General Spaatz as a "requirement for an airborne artillery piece" capable of carrying a 75mm automatic cannon. During the Summer of 1944 the introduction of the jet powered Gloster Meteor and the first appearance of the Luftwaffe's jet (and rocket) powered aircraft led to the USAAC to crank in a demand for the new attack aircraft to be jet powered. Bell's experience with the P-59 Airacomet gave them an early advantage and with General Electric forecasting a thrust of 4,500lbs from their new I-45 centrifugal jet engine they proposed a design using an airframe loosely based on the P-59 Airacomet but much larger and incorporating two of the new I-45 engines. Even using the new engines Bell knew that the installed thrust would be marginal so, early in 1945, Bell asked USAAC officials for permission to switch to the lighter British Molins 57mm automatic cannon which had just been evaluated by the US and which had a much higher rate of fire than the 75mm (which was, in any case, proving difficult to convert from manual loading to automatic). Once USAAC officials gave permission for this sensible substitution the Bell team forged ahead and got the pre-production prototype YA-28 into the air on February 2nd, 1946 and were rewarded with a production contract for 400 A-28B's barely one week later. Initial deliveries of the A-28B, now christened Mamba, commenced during July 1946 with the 432nd Attack Squadron being the first unit to re-equip.

Agility! Nice work Gepard.

Grumman A-6N Intruders - No.1 Squadron, Belgian Air Force, 1983

Sorry mate, It's not mine to upload.

It sure is.

Lone Defender

North American P-51D - 15th Pursuit Squadron, 46th Pursuit Group, 1944

Wedell-Williams P-34C Petrel - 47th Pursuit Squadron, United States Army Air Corps, Hawaii, Dec 1941 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedell-Williams_XP-34

Wedell-Williams P-34A Petrel - 46th Pursuit Squadron, United States Army Air Corps, December 1941

P-34C

The Shooter

The Tempest is one of my all-time favourites so I'm loving this!

Moonlight over Halifax

Great work Ed!

Sunderland Mk.I - Belgian Air Force, 1940

File Name: Fairchild A-14A Thunderfire (USAF AMX) File Submitter: Spinners File Submitted: 05 May 2014 File Category: What If Hangar Fairchild A-14A 'AMX' for STRIKE FIGHTERS 2 This is a very simple mod of Rafaels' AMX 2.0 to represent a fictional USAF version. I'm releasing this 'as is' (in response to a request) but it could do with a host of further refinements and I've quickly put the Third Wire A-7E_74 pit in there to get you up and running although I think there is a later AMX in the downloads section that might have a better cockpit. INSTRUCTIONS 1. From the AIRCRAFT folder drag and drop the A-14A folder into your Aircraft folder. 2. From the DECALS folder drag and drop the A-14A folder into your Decals folder. 3. From the WEAPONS folder drag and drop the AMX_EFT_580lts folder into your Weapons folder. CREDITS As always, big thanks to Third Wire for a great little game/sim. Massive thanks to Rafael Rodrigues for the AMX. And, finally, thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community. Regards Spinners Version 1 - 05/05/14 Click here to download this file

Fairchild A-14A Thunderfire - 555th Tactical Fighter Squadron, United States Air Force, 1991 OK, in my haste to stick 'HL' on the fin I've overlooked the fact that the 555TFS have never been based there! Thankfully, this is the 'what if' section so in the wise words of Mr.T, "Rules is for fools!"