Spinners

Chance-Vought F4U-6 Corsair - Royal Dhimari Air Force (ChampionVA56's new USMC AU-1 skin).

Very thoughtful and a good read but I think the right decision was made when the Navy checked out. Of course, further back in time the wrong decision was made to merge the two programmes together. Do you know that in many ways, the Navy came off best. They had the first true modern multi-role jet fighter coming off the production line and entering service in spades and got the F-14A in double quick time once the right decision was made and it was just a pity that they had to use the TF-30 engine. The Air Force, who never wanted side-by-side seating and wanted a slim nose for ground-attack, got a seriously compromised aircraft (don't think about how good it was, think about how far short of the actual specification it was) at an horrendously high cost. When you throw in GD's misery of the aircraft having weight and drag about 25% higher than their estimates, a poor engine and a poor inlet design then the programme was a good example of how not to do things. The best account I've read about the whole genesis and development programme is the F-111 chapter in Bill Gunston's excellent book, "Attack Aircraft of the West". Slightly OT, there are some great 'in service' profile drawings of the Boeing TFX submission here; http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,20663.0.html

I was unwell yesterday... One of ghostrider883's lovely new skins for Florian's superb Mirage 2000D

Looking very good Torno.

Sukhoi Su-9A Fishpot A - Voyska PVO

Very nice skins - thank you!

And Decals in the Objects folder too.

Bell Airacomet FB.2 of No.263 Squadron, RAF 2nd Tactical Air Force

Spot on advice.

2 views and already 5 stars. It must be good!

Ilyushin Il-28 of EB2/92 Aquitaine, Tunisia, 1959

Heaven help those Paranis...

Looks like you're already on the case!

Parani Beagles

Gosh!

File Name: McDonnell Douglas F4H-1 'Project High Jump' File Submitter: Spinners File Submitted: 31 January 2010 File Category: F-4 McDonnell Douglas F4H-1 'Project High Jump' for STRIKE FIGHTERS 2 This is a simple mod of the stock F-4B to give a representation of one of the most famous Phantoms of all time - F4H-1 149449 that was used to set eight 'time-to-climb' records during early 1962 at NAS Brunswick, Maine and at NAS Point Mugu, California. Most books on the Phantom make reference to this astonishing series of record-breaking flights (even more remarkable as they were production machines and not stripped down prototypes) and there are some good articles on the interweb too. N.B. Stopwatch not included! INSTRUCTIONS 1. From the AIRCRAFT folder drag and drop the F-4B_PHJ folder into your Aircraft folder. 2. From the DECALS folder drag and drop the F-4B_PHJ folder into your Decals folder. CREDITS Thanks to Third Wire for the continuous improvement of a great little game/sim. And thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community. Regards Spinners Version 2 - 23/08/13 Version 1 - 31/01/10 Click here to download this file

Actually, I'd be grateful if someone could write a simple mission to give no wingman and no enemy aircraft! I understand that to smash the lower altitude records they took off without flaps, kept nice and low to get the speed up and then zoomed upwards. In the sim, if your airfield is in a flat area, you can take off without flaps, wing level at 20m and hit Mach 1.2 at sea level (reminiscent of 'Sageburner') before hauling back on the stick. Huge fun!

Very nice preview - really looking forward to this!

21/02/62 Project High Jump: Lt. Cdr. J. Young flew his F4H-1 (F-4A) to 3,000m in 34.523 secs, breaking the previous record by 1.101 secs. 21/02/62 Project High Jump: Cdr. D. M. Longton flew his F4H-1 (F-4A) to 6,000m in 48.787 secs, breaking the previous record by 2.642 secs. 01/03/62 Project High Jump: Lt. Col. W. C. McGraw flew his F4H-1 (F-4A) to 9,000m in 61.629 secs, breaking the previous record by 3.131 secs. 01/03/62 Project High Jump: Lt. Col. W. C. McGraw flew his F4H-1 (F-4A) to 12,000m in 77.156 secs, breaking the previous record by 18.584 secs. 01/03/62 Project High Jump: Lt. Cdr. D. W. Nordberg flew his F4H-1 (F-4A) to 15,000m in 114.548 secs, breaking the previous record by 16.552 secs. 31/03/62 Project High Jump: Lt. Cdr. T. Brown flew his F4H-1 (F-4A) to 20,000m in 178.500 secs, breaking the previous record by 44.490 secs. 03/04/62 Project High Jump: Lt. Cdr. J. W. Young flew his F4H-1 (F-4A) to 25,000m in 230.440 secs, breaking the previous record by 35.590 secs. 12/04/62 Project High Jump: Lt. Cdr. D. W. Nordberg flew his F4H-1 (F-4A) to 30,000m in 371.430 secs, breaking the previous record by 533.490 secs.

April 3rd, 1962 - Lt.Cmdr John Young. 80,000ft ... and still climbing!

Parani Su-2's attacking Dhimari oil installations in Mazadran Desert, June 1946.

From the Dhimari Air Force archives...

Gloster Gemini FB.2 of No.33 squadron, RAF 2nd Tactical Air Force, Germany 1947. Actually the A-Team Skunkworks Ryan FR-1 Fireball but I guess you aviation buffs already knew that eh?

Gloster Gemini FB.2 undergoing prototype testing... (A-Team's Ryan Fireball FR-1)