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  1. On reflection, you might be right ; )
  2. It was released four years ago and was uploaded by dk1257.
  3. Very briefly and from memory - Make them quite big (at least 512 x 512) in the 'main' colour then select that colour and add a border of about 2,3 or 4 pixels (experiment) and fill with your new colour (sometimes I'll do this with a brush with a feathered border). Then I'd normally scale them back down depending on whether they are serial numbers or individual letters and lower the opacity to suit.
  4. Republic Thunderchief FGA.2 - No.33 Squadron, RAF South East Asia Command, 1971 Skin by Daddyairplanes and Centurion.
  5. File Name: [Fictional] Republic Thunderchief S.1 (RAF & RAAF bonus skin) File Submitter: Spinners File Submitted: 04 January 2009 File Category: What If Hangar Republic Thunderchief S.1 for STRIKE FIGHTERS 2 This is a very simple mod of the stock Third Wire F-105D to create a fictional Thunderchief in service with the Royal Air Force in the 1964 to 1973 timeline. In addition, a bonus RAAF 'anti-flash' white skin is included together with an RAF SEAC skin. BACKSTORY At the onset of the fatigue problems suffered by the Vickers Valiant in 1964 it wasn't only the RAF that urgently looked for a quick replacement. With the October 1962 Cuban Missile crisis relatively fresh in their minds, the American administration led by LBJ realised that a quick infusion of European striking power was required and authorised the transfer of a batch of 39 F-105D-25's from US stocks to the RAF and these arrived in December 1964 under "Operation Hastings" (later discovered to be an American jibe at the incoming British Prime Minister Harold Wilson). Entering service with No.207 squadron at RAF Marham in February 1965 the Thunderchief S.1 soon also re-equipped No.49 and No.148 squadrons (also based at RAF Marham) and were initially armed with American Mk28 (B-61) free-fall tactical nuclear bombs before switching to the UK WE.177B in late 1966. Due to their relative short range the Thunderchief S.1's were regularly deployed to RAF Germany until the Victor K.1 tanker force had built up in sufficient numbers. In RAF service the Thunderchief suffered from a high attrition rate and the type was never popular with pilots and began to be supplanted in RAF service by Blackburn Buccaneer S.2's in 1968 with the remaining Thunderchiefs being transferred to RAF South East Asia Command before being retired in 1973. INSTRUCTIONS 1. From the AIRCRAFT folder drag and drop the ThunderchiefS1 folder into your Aircraft folder. 2. From the DECALS folder drag and drop the ThunderchiefS1 folder into your main Decals folder. CREDITS Thanks to Third Wire for the continuous improvement of a great little game/sim. Thanks to Daddyairplanes for the 'Euro 1' skin and also to Centurion for the tweaks to this skin and ludo.m54 for the F-105D templates. And thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community. Regards Spinners Version 1 - 08/09/13 Click here to download this file
  6. Pnawn da. I can see that it's a Bagera drawing so it might not be a real design... but I like it! I'll dive into my Secret Projects book and report back. CL-1000 was an FX fighter design study dating back to the late 1960's. A whopping 91 design configurations were studied with TO weights from 24,000lb to 46,000lb and top speeds from M2.3 to M2.7!
  7. Republic Thunderchief S.1 - No.207 Squadron, Royal Air Force, 1966 At the onset of the fatigue problems suffered by the Vickers Valiant in 1964 it wasn't only the RAF that urgently looked for a quick replacement. With the October 1962 Cuban Missile crisis relatively fresh in their minds the American administration led by LBJ realised that a quick infusion of European striking power was required and authorised the transfer of a batch of 39 F-105D-25's from US stocks to the RAF and these arrived in December 1964 under "Operation Hastings" (later discovered to be an American jibe at the incoming British Prime Minister Harold Wilson). Entering service with No.207 squadron at RAF Marham in February 1965 the Thunderchief S.1 soon also re-equipped No.49 and No.148 squadrons (also based at RAF Marham) and were initially armed with American Mk28 (B-61) free-fall tactical nuclear bombs before switching to the UK WE.177B in late 1966. Due to their relative short range the Thunderchief S.1's were regularly deployed to RAF Germany until the Victor K.1 tanker force had built up in sufficient numbers. In RAF service the Thunderchief suffered from a high attrition rate and the type was never popular with pilots and began to be supplanted in RAF service by Blackburn Buccaneer S.2's in 1968 with the last squadron (No.148) disbanding in 1970.
  8. I'll post this as a bonus skin within a revised RAF Thunderchief asap.
  9. Fairey Firefly Mk.5 - Royal Dhimari Naval Fleet Air Arm, 1950
  10. Er, those stripes weren't just for D-day (the Firefly 5 entered service well after WW2).
  11. During the course of the last year? I don't think so. I repeat, that's the timescale posed by the OP.
  12. I'm hopeless at adding carriers unless it's SF2:NA.
  13. Isn't it for the OP (on the original thread at Third Wire) to reply to TK's question as to what exactly has been taken away from him during the course of the past year (the OP's timeframe btw)?
  14. Yes Dan. It was released a few days ago.
  15. The Hispano Ha-200E 'Super Saetta' masquerading as the Saab SK-59A Swedish jet trainer.
  16. Petlyakov Pe-11 'Fastfin' - Soviet Air Force, 1946 Whilst Vladimir Petlyakov was arrested in 1937 on the totally ficticious charges of aiding the Russian Fascist Party by 1939 he had been moved from prison to Moscow to work alongside many ex-TsAGI people in designing aircraft for the Soviet Air Force. Petlyakov was initially tasked with designing a high-altitude fighter and was progressing well with this design but was then instructed to redesign it as a dive bomber with the result being the outstanding Pe-2 which served in a variety of roles gaining Petlyakov not only his freedom but also the Stalin Prize in 1941. After surviving an air crash whilst flying a Pe-2 in January 1942, Petlyakov studied a more advanced fighter aircraft during his long convalescence and sketched an unusual configuration featuring a rear wing with forward canards. Designated Pe-11 his design was revised to feature a tapered fuselage with the wings now mounted mid-fuselage but set back to the rear of the aircraft with a widened fuselage designed to accept the Klimov VK-250 engine formed from two Klimov M-125 V24 liquid-cooled piston engines joined side-by-side just aft of the cockpit ahead of which was a nose section designed to carry the heavy armament of four Volkov-Yartsev VYa-23 cannon. The vertical tail was mounted beneath the fuselage and a tricycle landing gear arrangement further added to the revolutionary look of the Pe-11. As with all things at this time, Petlyakov had to sell the idea to Stalin but the success of the Pe-2 during 1943 and early 1944 saw Petlyakov's radical design given Stalin's blessing and a production contract was awarded on May 1st, 1944 with an instruction to achieve a first flight within one year. Thankfully, development moved swiftly during 1944 and, on April 30th 1945, after some short taxiing 'hops' the prototype Pe-11 took to the air before an 'official' first flight on May 1st, 1945. With Germany defeated it might have been thought that production orders would be cancelled but development continued with the first Pe-11's entering service in early 1946 with the 3rd Aviation Squadron (part of the 73rd GIAP) commanded by Lidiya Vladimirovna Litvyak.
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