Spinners

Bearcat Over The Bocage!

Grumman F8F-1 Bearcat - No.1482 Naval Air Squadron, Royal Navy British Pacific Fleet, 1946

Actually, no. There was a reference to 'Operation Downfall' over at What If Modellers with speculation over what colour invasion stripes would have been used (if any). The above is my trial at SEAC blue tones but someone suggested orange and yellow so I also tried that on a Kiwi Bearcat (below);

Cruisin' for a bruisin'

BAC Bullfinch FR.2's - No.234 (Reserve) Squadron

Bristol Bullfinch FGA.1's of No.234 Squadron, RAF, 1962

Aeritalia G.91YS - Fighter Squadron 20, Swiss Air Force, 1976 Skin Credit: Kulbit80

Bristol Bullfinch FR.2 - No.611 (West Lancashire) Squadron, Royal Auxiliary Air Force, 1963 In late 1953 a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) committee drafted NATO Basic Military Requirement 1 (NBMR-1) detailing the specification of a future requirement for a "light weight tactical strike fighter" capable of carrying both conventional or tactical nuclear weapons from dispersed or even rough airfields with minimal ground support. Intended to produce an aircraft that would become standard equipment across the air forces of the various NATO nations the competition stipulated many basic specifications on speed, range, weight and field length but also specified the preferred engine choice of the Bristol Siddeley Orpheus turbojet which was already funded by the US Mutual Weapons Development Program and which promised to meet the challenge of providing an engine that matched the requirements of lightweight, power, reliability and ease of maintenance. After extensive testing and evaluation against it's competitors, NATO Defence Ministers met in April 1957 to announce that the Fiat Aviazone G.91 would be the first NATO lightweight strike fighter. But, almost immediately, there was considerable controversy surrounding the decision and all hope of unity and standardisation looked to be lost when the French government bailed out to pursue development of the Dassault Étendard whilst the UK government initially ignored the competition to concentrate on the continued production of the Hawker Hunter and the requirements of Air Ministry Operational Requirement 339 (OR.339) that would lead to the Hawker P.1121 project. However, following the infamous 1957 Defence White Paper, the UK government began planning (plotting) to consolidate the remaining British aviation manufacturers into as few companies as possible and pulled Bristol Siddeley Engines back into Bristol Aircraft as a stepping stone to the early creation of the British Aircraft Corporation. Bristol's reward for a further merger involving English Electric, Hunting Aviation and Vickers-Armstrong was a production contract for 150 licence-built G.91's as the Bristol Bullfinch FGA.1 and Bullfinch FR.2. This order rejuvenated the entire G.91 programme leading to orders from Belgium, Holland, Greece, Spain and Turkey requiring Fiat Aviazone to expand their production facility at Piedmont and grant a licence production arrangement to the Flugzeug-Union Süd consortium consisting of Messerschmitt, Heinkel and Dornier. In return for the licence agreement with Bristol Aircraft, Fiat Aviazone were able to negotiate a comprehensive licence manufacturing agreement for the Orpheus engine for all non-British users of the G.91. Entering RAF service in April 1961 the Bullfinch served with several front-line squadrons in RAF Germany and also with three squadrons of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force before finally being retired in 1988.

De Havilland Vampire F.8 - No.500 (County of Kent) Squadron, Royal Auxiliary Air Force, 1956 The Vampire F.8 was developed to a 1949 Air Ministry requirement for an interceptor fighter for the home defence squadrons of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force and was based on the airframe of the Vampire FB.5 but with the more powerful Goblin 35 engine of the Vampire T.11 trainer. The Vampire F.8 entered service with No.500 (County of Kent) Squadron in 1951 and served with eight auxiliary squadrons until the sudden disbandment of the Royal Auxiliary Air Force in March 1957.

Mikoyan MiG-41SM - 678 Squadron, Syrian Air Force, 2018 Following the second wave of strikes against suspected Syrian chemical weapons plants and storage facilities in late April 2018, Vladimir Putin (President of the Russian Federation) ordered the immediate transfer of 6 MiG-41's to the Syrian Air Force. Arriving at Abu-al-Duhur airbase on April 30th the aircraft were hastily given Syrian Air Force markings but were allegedly flown by Soviet pilots on attack missions in support of Bashar al-Assad's Syrian government forces against targets in the A'zaz area north of Aleppo in May 2018. This move prompted President Trump to specifically authorise the deployment of F-22A Raptors to Incirlik Air Base in Turkey later in the same month.

Southern Voodoo

View File [Fictional] Dhimari RF-101C Voodoo McDonnell RF-101C Voodoo for Strike Fighters 1 This is a very simple mod of ErikGen's superb RF-101C to give a fictional RF-101C in service with the 20th Recon Flight of the Dhimari Air Force. INSTRUCTIONS 1. From the AIRCRAFT folder drag and drop the RF-101Cdh folder into your Aircraft folder. That's it! Any existing RF-101C's you may have are completely unaffected by this mod. CREDITS Thanks to ErikGen for giving the Voodoo to the SF community. It's 'Hall of Fame' stuff! Thanks to TK for a great little game/sim. And thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community. Regards Spinners Version 1 - 16/04/18 Submitter Spinners Submitted 04/16/2018 Category F-101 Voodoo  

McDonnell RF-101C Voodoo - 20th Recon Flight, Dhimari Air Force, 1970

I.Ae. 30 Ñancú - Grupo 4 de Caza, Fuerza Aérea Argentina, 1952 Hornet F.1 standing in unfortunately. Perhaps one day we'll see the real Ñancú in Strike Fighters! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I.Ae._30_Ñancú

The de Havilland Hornet masquerading as the I.Ae. 30 Ñancú

Hawker Hunter FGA.9 - No.1417 Flight, RAF Strike Command, Belize, 1970

Hawker Hunter FGA.9 - No.1435 Flight, RAF South Atlantic Command, 1971

https://combatace.com/forums/topic/84835-hunters-of-the-lost-ark/

Crated for sure.

'Eagleski'

McDonnell Douglas Eagle F.1 - No.5 and No.11 Squadrons, RAF Binbrook

Soaring Eagle