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McDonnell Douglas F-4M - No.323 Squadron, Royal Netherlands Air Force, 1988

Lovin' the new DLC F-4 skin pack!

It's the Ferris scheme from the new DLC F-4 skinpack modified to fit the F-4M_75 (but retaining the black radome) and some toned down decals.

Angel 6

Epic!

That IDF Intruder is so cool.

One of the best displays I've ever seen was these boys at RAF Brawdy in the mid-1980's. I'm not really into collectables but I bought a signed photo and have it framed.

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I've also thought that a USAF F-8 in SEA Camo would look cool and did put out a request for templates for the TW model a few months ago. Before I discovered WoV I never really liked the F-8 but I'm now a fan and consider it to be an outstanding design. How could it have so much internal fuel, be equipped for carrier operations, carry a pretty respectable radar and yet totally outfly the contemporary F-100 whilst using the same J57 engine?

I get this occasionally in SF2:NA - can't explain why

If I could only have one it would be SF2:E for the Hunter and Harrier.

Breaking news! This just in. Apparently downloading the F-4 skin pack is NOT compulsory...

So far, so good. I like it.

Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation Firefly - ARDU, Royal Australian Air Force, 2007

A Third Wire Hunter T.7 and a Third Wire Meteor T.7 please!

DecalMaxLOD= I've never really understood this entry on a decal.ini and would like to know what it does and what different values do.

Great work!

Welcome back! And what a way to come back!

The Aero L-29 Delfin masquerading as the... Bedek Aviation Company Hoopoe T-1 - 201 Squadron, Heyl Ha'Avir, 1973 Founded in 1953 the Bedek Aviation Company progressed from maintaining Heyl Ha'Avir aircraft to the licence production of the French Fouga Magister in 1959. By late 1961 they had commenced their first original design the Hoopoe advanced jet trainer a fairly conventional and conservative design but planned to have a reserve role of light attack and by 1965 had several prototypes flying with production machines beginning to roll off the Lod assembly line. After the French arms embargo of 1967 Bedek proposed a single-seat attack variant with an uprated engine but this was rejected in favour of the Douglas Skyhawk. Hoopoe's served with all major Heyl Ha'Avir training squadrons plus 201 Squadron who operated the aircraft in the light attack role during the 1973 Yom Kippur war.

Tomcat FRS.1's - 899 NAS (foreground) and 893 NAS, Royal Navy, 1991

Great news and it should be with us by the weekend.

Northrop F-5I Tiger II - 119 Squadron, Heyl Ha'Avir, 1973 In September 1966 Israel became the launch customer for the new Mirage 5 when they placed an order for 50 Mirage 5J's. However, rising tensions between Israel and their neighbouring Arab states during the early summer of 1967 (allied to General de Gaulle's increasingly pro-Arab stance) led to a French arms embargo to Israel announced on June 3rd, 1967 just two days before the forthcoming Six-Day war despite Israel having paid for the aircraft in full. Despite the dazzling success of the Israeli Air Force's strikes against Arab runways that were a key factor is Israel's victory the IDF were desperate to replace combat losses and strengthen the Heyl Ha'Avir and Israel looked towards America soon ordering Skyhawks and Phantoms. The Heyl Ha'Avir had already evaluated the Northrop F-5A in the early 1960's but in late 1968 Northrop offered Israel a version of their proposed F-5E Tiger II as the F-5I and Northrop's success in the 1970 International Fighter Aircraft competition led to renewed interest by the Heyl Ha'Avir and they became one of the launch customers by ordering 72 F-5I's. Deliveries commenced in 1972 and by the time of the 1973 Yom Kippur War both 119 Squadron and 253 Squadrons had been re-equipped with the F-5I with eventually four squadrons serving until the mid-1980's when most of the surviving aircraft were sold to Argentina leaving a small Heyl Ha'Avir 'Aggressor' squadron flying the type until 2003.

Not quite as simple as that I'm afraid...