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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)

Rockwell-MBB Mustang FG.2 - No.54 Squadron (temporary arctic camo).

Rockwell-MBB Mustang FG.2 of No.6 squadron 'The Flying Canopeners'

Mirage 2000C - Soviet Fighter Weapons School (Gepard's new 'early' Mirage 2000C)

Twins...

Rockwell-MBB Mustang F.1 of No.5 squadron, Royal Air Force during Operation Desert Storm

Gepard's F-31G Wirbelwind mod of Del's superb F-31A Mustang II

I hear you bro'. So good-looking it should have been a 'Century Series' aircraft! One of the US Navy evaluation team said of the XF8U-3, "It was by far the best airplane we ever cancelled."