Spinners

Prowling...

Gloster Meteor F.8 - 26th Fighter Wing, Republic of China Air Force, 1953 One of my favourites this!

Thunder in the mountains

I've made them using the BLU-1 Napalm weapon and just reskinned it. However, whilst it suits the silver Meteors it looks terrible on the camo'ed Meteors as the LOD has built in shinyness.

Gloster F-73D Reaper - 604th Special Operations Squadron, Vietnam, 1964

Well, do ya, punk?

Now with added tip tank goodness!

Fairchild (Gloster) F-73G Meteor - 366th Tactical Fighter Wing, 1981

[Decal011] MeshName=tail DecalLevel=2 DecalFacing=LEFT FilenameFormat=ARABIC3WHITE Position=-6.400,0.440 Scale=1.0 DecalMaxLOD=3 [Decal012] MeshName=tail DecalLevel=2 DecalFacing=RIGHT FilenameFormat=ARABIC3WHITE Position=-6.400,0.440 Scale=1.0 DecalMaxLOD=3

[Decal007] MeshName=vertical_tail DecalLevel=0 DecalFacing=LEFT FilenameFormat=METEORFR8/DHIMAR/DHIMARIFINFLASHMETEOR90 Position=-7.500,2.000 Scale=0.7 DecalMaxLOD=3 [Decal008] MeshName=vertical_tail DecalLevel=0 DecalFacing=RIGHT FilenameFormat=METEORFR8/DHIMAR/DHIMARIFINFLASHMETEOR90 Position=-7.500,2.000 Reverse=TRUE Scale=0.7 DecalMaxLOD=3 DHIMARIFINFLASHMETEOR90.7z

A quick fix would be to change the sound and afterburner to stock. If you've got SF2:I then the Netz would be the place to start. Or perhaps the F-15A from SF2:E.

Tee Time

Ilyushin Il-28 'Beagle' - F21, Flygvapnet, 1977 @ JonathanRL - what font is used for Swedish letters and codes?

Thanks Jonathan. Page 22 shows Myriad Pro Regular and it looks about right.

Landmarks

I'm not a fan of large aircraft in Strike Fighters but for the B-52 I recommend the stand-in pit done by X Ray (based on the A-6A pit) in the SF1 cockpit section.

A time to reflect....

Fleet Defender

Tbilisi Aircraft Manufacturing TAM-1 'Foolish' - PVO Stany, Soviet Air Force,1961 Following the movement of the Taganrog and Sevastopol aircraft factories to Tbilisi in Georgia during 1941, the formation of the Tbilisi Aircraft Manufacturing company (TAM) saw TAM manufacture large amounts of LaGG-3 and Yak-3 fighters for the Soviet Air Force during World War 2. After the war the company scaled down but continued to manufacture Yakovlev fighter aircraft including the first Soviet jet fighter, the Yak-15, in 1946 followed by the Yak-17 and Yak-23 gaining considerable experience before switching to the manufacture of the MiG-15. In early 1949 TAM sought official permission to design their own aircraft and, once granted, Irakli Chelidze was promoted to become TAM's senior designer. Meanwhile, in 1949 the PVO Strany (Soviet Air Defence Forces) was separated from the other Soviet Armed Forces services (but with equal status) with a declared principal aim of defending Soviet airspace and immediately issued a requirement for a supersonic interceptor with long range and heavy armament. Three OKB's submitted designs for this requirement; Lavochkin, Yakovlev and TAM. Lavochkin's La-190 was a small, highly swept-wing design ultimately let down by a poor engine whilst Yakovlev's Yak-1000 demonstrated such poor handling characteristics during ground tests that it never flew! TAM's design, however, was very well regarded and sufficiently large for the mission but engines of sufficient thrust were simply not available to realise the design's tremendous potential. At this stage, Stalin intervened by issuing a directive that the MiG OKB should design a smaller supersonic fighter eventually leading to the successful MiG-19 (first flown in September 1953) and allowing TAM to continue with their larger TAM-1 design whilst Tumansky refined their promising R-11 engine which would later power the MiG-21, Yak-28 and Su-15. The prototype TAM-1 took to the air in Tbilisi on September 29th, 1954 and even on the low thrust of it's early R-11 engines it exhibited excellent performance and was soon selected for series production. After a successful flight testing phase the TAM-1 eventually entered service in November 1956 with PVO units in the Moscow Air Defence District and Leningrad Military District before being issued to PVO units in the Byelorussian Military District and Far Eastern Military District in 1957 and 1958. Known as the 'Champion' in Soviet service the TAM-1 was given the rather less flattering NATO codename of 'Foolish' but remained in service until 1970 when the 689th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment re-equipped with the Mig-25 'Foxbat'.

Saab-GD JAS38 'Spöke' - F13, Flygvapnet, 2005

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23S Flogger-A - HävLLv 31, Ilmavoimat, 1975 The initial production batch of 60 MiG-23S aircraft were used for both flight and operational testing but did not actually enter operational service due to various teething problems and delays to the Sapfir-23 radar necessitating the use of the earlier S-21 weapons control system with the RP-22SM radar as used in the MiG-21MF. In 1974, 30 of the surviving MiG-23S aircraft were refurbished by Mikoyan-Gurevich for export to Finland for an undisclosed sum but believed to have been 'gifted' to Finland as a gesture of thanks to Finnish President Urho Kaleva Kekkonen for his acknowledgement of Soviet concerns regarding Finland's negotiations with the EEC for a free-trade agreement during the previous year. Entering service with HävLLv in late 1974 the MiG-23S served with just one squadron but suffered from high attrition leading to Ilmavoimat officials withdrawing the type from service in early 1978 and re-equipping HävLLv 31 with second-hand Saab Drakens from Swedish stocks. N.B. On this occasion, the Finnish roundel on the fin is deliberate and done as a request by someone over at the What If Modelers website.

Lavochkin La-19 'Freebird' - PVO Strany, 1962 Thanks to ndicki for the Hunter templates.

I'm not after a company logo. Just an 'award of excellence' badge (which I thought I had). Gepard seems to be indicating that the MiG design bureau had their own 'award of excellence' badge (I can certainly see a hint of MiG in that fin).

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Soviet_aviation_excellence_banner.svg