Spinners

It was a delight to find the Hunter and Spey-engined Phantoms in WoE so a Buccaneer would be the cherry on the top of the cake for me.

Still can't shift the pylons! So let me try 25% fuel and just the pilot! RESULT It did just creep over the 25,000m mark (my picture shows just after the apogee). Great fun. Any thoughts on the optimum speed/altitude at which to haul back on the stick?

I couldn't get rid of the pylons but here's my stock F-4B on the level just before the zoom part (I didn't have time to snap the apogee shot).

Modern Combat Aircraft No. 1 by Bill Gunston has a short but brilliant chapter on these record breaking flights including High Jump, Sageburner, Skyburner and Top Flight. Project Top Flight in 1959 saw a pre-production prototype F4H-1 (F-4A) attain 30,041m (98,560ft) but during Project High Jump a production F4H-1 (F-4B) not only reached the time to height target of 30,000m (98,425ft) in a new record of 230 seconds but soared past the 100,000ft mark too! As I'm typing my stripped down F-4B (no weapons, 50% fuel but with wing pylons) is having a crack at replicating this! RESULT Only 24,600m from doing 1000km/h at 12,700m and zooming up. A cracking bit of fun!

The F-4A's and F-4B's broke many speed, climb and altitude records. I'm trying to replicate them using a stock untweaked F-4B but I would like to shed the pylons. Is this possible?

F-4 Phantom F-14 Tomcat TSR.2

Not a big problem but I hope that you can help me. I've copied the stock F-4E file from WoE to create an RAF F-4X (just a tweaked F-4E really) and it's showing up on the menu screen and is playable just fine. But now I haven't got the that small 'head-on' load-out piccie that you get when choosing your ordanance.. Can you help?

F-4X - I've changed it back to F-4E and it works! Thanks for the quick response!

WoE for me. Apart from liking the game, the add-ons and the modding community - quite simply it works! Whereas LOMAC just won't run smooth on my PC at all.

The Dambusters.

Great thread this. Inspirational! I've copied the guns from the Lightning F.Mk6 and stuck them in the A-5B.

It's the Thud for me! Followed by the Sexy Six.

Not so! The North American F-108 never flew and was only ever built as a mock up.

Re. IL-2 1946, I picked up mine in 'Game' today for £10. They were doing 2 games for £15 but I couldn't see another game I liked! I gave the Tempest a quick spin lunchtime and just about managed to shoot down a Storch... tricky little blighters.

I've stuck armourdave's F-105's into SFG and really had a blast last night! On reflection, they're all good!

I only downloaded WOV last night and flew two missions (Thunderchief and Corsair 2) but thought it was excellent. I'd still put WOE ahead of it though as it has the Hunter FGA.9 in tactical camo and markings . After a modest upgrade of my PC I'm really enjoying these little gems and can't wait for WOI - a real interest of mine.

I had mine off ebay for about 6 euros. WoV is quite rare on ebay so I'm downloading it as we speak (type).

Buccaneer - mega underrated and should still be in production! Canberra - it might have been a modest performer but it was just so graceful. Concorde - simply stunning. A visual tour de force. Hurricane - it and it's pilot's were the real heroes of Britain's finest hour. F-111 - but must be long-span C's or FB's! Foxbat - all angular and jagged but with added 'Warp 9'! F-4 Phantom - my first love. The bg-assed RAF versions are cool but I love the F-4E too! Spitfires - especially those with symetrical radiators and without bubble hoods (PR19 in particular). Tempest - especially the Mk.V with invasion stripes. TSR.2 - it just wasn't to be though. Vigilante - whould have been an interceptor in my 'what-if' world. Vulcan - iconic in it's home country.* * and it must have impressed some USAF fighter jocks looking up at it when it sailed into the USA during a NORAD exercise

When I was about 13 I built an Airfix F-4B and decided to weight the nose by filling it with glue... by the morning the front end had melted off.

I've been playing IL-2 (Woolworths £3.74), Strike Fighters Gold (ebay £2.99 inc. postage) and today I've bought LOMAC (also in Woolworths for £3.74). How much fun can you have for pennies!!! My PC's a bit old now so Strike Fighters Gold does it for me as jets are more my thing and I really must get WOV and WOE especially at these prices. I've stuck LOMAC on my laptop with Vista (my PC won't run it) and I'm having teething problems but I'll give it time as I've only had it a couple of hours! I think I'll get my PC upgraded and stick LOMAC on that. Oh. BTW I just love the mods and skins thing! Not long after buying SFG I was in a Thunderbirds F-4E! (Thanks Streakeagle).

An option to have the Hawker Tempest in the BoB! In the book 'Typhoon and Tempest at War' Hawker's test pilot Roland Beaumont considered just how good the Tempest would have been in the BoB. (I know, I just want to have it easy).