Spinners

My favourites are Dambusters, Battle of Britain, Top Gun, 633 Squadron, Flight of the Intruder. Is it OK to admit to enjoying Firefox as well? BTW 'Foxbat' by Peter Cabe was a far better book and would have made a better film.

SF2 isn't just made for 64 bit systems.

Not quite the end but I know what you mean.

Who fired the Python 3? Yes, dead on arrival does happen but very rarely in my experience.

McDonnell F4H-1 Phantom - VF-84, July 1943

A new patch (sorry TK - lol) has caused your fully merged install and favourite add-ons to become stuck on one year. Doh! But if you had a choice, which year would you choose? For me it would have to be 1967. SF2I covers the Six-Day War brilliantly whilst over in SF2V the Vietnam War is reaching boiling point. Closer to home, in SF2E the RAF's V-Force is at it's peak, the Lightning, Canberra and Hunter are all in service whilst across la manche a sexy little delta is making Marcel Dassault the legend he rightly deserves to be. Finally. I can just about get an early F-4E into the Desert skies to help Dhimar in their eternal struggle against the evil Parani empire. That's my choice. But I'd like to know your choice and why!

We'll have to wait for SF2:Korea for that

Rising Star

Kamina Dawn using JSFAggies Desert terrain

Yes I don't think the SUU-23/A ever saw service on the F-4K's with the Royal Navy but the F-4K's that were later transferred to the RAF were definitely modified to carry it but I'm not too sure about the F-4K's that went straight to RAF No.43 Squadron at Leuchars. The RAF's F-4M certainly carried the SUU-23/A when in the Strike/Attack role with RAF Germany and No.38 Group and also when tasked with Air Defense.

Delightful mod this - thanks Wrench!

Yes please Ed!

Crikey. Anyone would think I was asking you to choose your favourite child...

633 Squadron?

McDonnell Douglas F-4EU - VF-111 'Sundowners'

Does that mod use an 'auto installer' and, if so, where does it point to?

Great work! It's given a fresh look to a very tired terrain.

By early 1968 the senior Admirals of the United States Navy saw the failure of the F-111B programme as an opportunity to get the green light for their VFX 'back-up' plan and the cancellation of the F-111B in May 1968 was an important step in their plans. In July 1968 the Naval Air Systems Command issued a Request for Proposals for the Naval Fighter Experimental (VFX) programme calling for a tandem two-seat, twin-engined air-to-air fighter with a maximum speed of Mach 2.2 with an inbuilt M61 Vulcan cannon and a secondary close air support role but the primary focus remained long-range interception using the AIM-54 missile. Bids were received from General Dynamics, Grumman, Ling-Temco-Vought, McDonnell Douglas and North American Rockwell and such was the urgency of this programme that Grumman and McDonnell Douglas were selected as finalists in December 1968 with Grumman expected to be announced as winners shortly afterwards. However, the incoming Nixon administration had other ideas. Faced with the highest inflation since the Korean War era, the massive costs of the Vietnam War and the Apollo programme the new administration demanded cost savings in all departments and soon the new Secretary of Defense, Melvin R. Laird, had identified the VFX programme as being ripe for pruning and ordered an urgent cost review. McDonnell Douglas knew that their variable-geometry F-4S was unpopular with the Admirals and was likely to require as much test and development time (and associated costs) as Grumman's exciting 'clean sheet of paper' design and decided to offer a lower-cost solution. With perfect timing, they met senior Defense Department officials in early February 1969 and reminded Laird that the F-4 Phantom II programme was now benefiting from the economies of scale from high production to such an extent that Phantoms were pouring off the production line at barely two-thirds of their 1962 costs. They proposed a new multi-service version of the F-4E called the F-4EU for 'Universal' and suggested that they could meet 80% of the VFX specification at about 40% of the expected cost and Laird found this hard to resist but delayed cancellation of the VFX and associated AIM-54 programmes until July 20th when he knew that the domestic audience would be watching Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin taking a giant leap for mankind and Laird calmly considerded that there was no need to announce the 'new' programme as it was just a new version of an existing design. McDonnell Douglas quickly undertook the detail design to transform the long-nose cannon-armed F-4E for carrier use and smoothly introduced the F-4EU on the production line where it followed on from the F-4J for the Navy with just the first few F-4EU's retaining the 'hard' unslatted wing. Production machines entered service with VMFA-333 and VF-111 in 1972 and service pilots considered that the inbuilt cannon far outweighed any visibility problems caused by the longer nose and VF-111 put their new mount to good use in February 1973 claiming a Mig-17 kill. F-4EU's served until with the United States Navy until 1989 and the United States Marine Corps until 1991. VF-111 'Sundowners'

A 'Jolly Rogers' F-4EU shows off the classic curving approach to the carrier necessary due to the longer nose Third Wire Rocks!

Vickers B-59C Valiant

View File [Fictional] Dassault Super Etendard 'Belgium' Dassault Super Etendard 'BZ' for STRIKE FIGHTERS 2 This is a very simple mod of Foxmonter's Super Etendard to give a fictional export version for the Force Navale Belgium / Belgische Zeemacht. INSTRUCTIONS 1. From the AIRCRAFT folder drag and drop the SuperEtendardBZ folder into your Aircraft folder. 2. From the DECALS folder drag and drop the SuperEtendardBZ folder into your Decals folder. 3. From the PILOTS folder drag and drop the PilotFNB folder into your Pilots folder. 4. From the WEAPONS folder drag and drop both fuel tank folders into your Weapons folder. That's it! CREDITS As always, thanks to Third Wire for a great little game/sim. Big thanks to Foxmonter for creating the Super Etendard and his other excellent aircraft. And, finally, thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community. Regards Spinners Version 2 - 01/05/2020 Version 1 - 23/10/2011 Submitter Spinners Submitted 10/23/2011 Category What If Hangar  

View File [Fictional] Vought F-8E 'BZ' Crusader 'Belgium' Vought F-8E 'BZ' Crusader for STRIKE FIGHTERS 2 This is a very simple mod of the stock F-8E to give a fictional export version for the Force Navale Belgium / Belgische Zeemacht in an approximate 1970's timeline with markings an equally fictional Osprey squadron. INSTRUCTIONS 1. From the AIRCRAFT folder drag and drop the F-8E_BZ folder into your Aircraft folder. 2. From the DECALS folder drag and drop the F-8E_BZ folder into your Decals folder. 3. From the PILOTS folder drag and drop the PilotFNB folder into your Pilots folder. CREDITS As always, thanks to TK for the continuous improvement of a great little game/sim. And thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community. Regards Spinners Version 2 - 02/05/2020 Version 1 - 22/10/2011 Submitter Spinners Submitted 10/22/2011 Category What If Hangar  

There are loads of templates in the SF1 download section http://combatace.com/files/category/33-skin-templates-decal-sets/ and EricJ posted a really good tutorial a while back. I can't find it but perhaps someone could.