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Henschel Hs299 'Skorpion' - Luft' 46

Play the game again and notice the color of the text... a pattern will emerge.

McDonnell Douglas A-4K Skyhawk - 2 Smaldeel, Belgian Air Force, 1976

Why not use the excellent template available in the downloads section?

McDonnell Douglas A-4K Skyhawk - 1 Smaldeel, Belgian Air Force, 1986 In early February 1968 the outgoing Belgian Paul Van den Boeynants announced that the Dassault Mirage 5 was to be purchased as the desperately needed Thunderstreak replacement for the Belgian Air Force. However, within days, massive student unrest and questions of discrimination against the ethnic Flemish population led to the bringing down of the Van den Boeynants government and a new incoming government led by Gaston Eyskens. The new government immediately cancelled the order for the Mirage 5BA and instead purchased the American A-4K Skyhawk in a reduced purchase of 48 A-4K single-seaters and 12 TA-4K two-seat trainers.

"If you see any planes overhead they'll be ours"

Little Friend

Very nice.

The ultimate Spitfire with the ultimate bad-ass unit!

Beautiful!

Thanks guys. It really needs a better sharkmouth decal.

Hawker Hurricane Mk.1 - 1st American Volunteer Group ('Flying Tigers') China, 1941

Beautiful Ed. I can remember making the Airfix model of that version about 40 years ago!!

The Northrop YA-9 masquerading as the Yakovlev Yak-37! Yakovlev Yak-37 'Fatfrog-A' - Soviet Air Force, Afghanistan, 1981

Excellent work Gepard!

Agility! Nice work Gepard.

Grumman A-6N Intruders - No.1 Squadron, Belgian Air Force, 1983

Sorry mate, It's not mine to upload.

It sure is.

Lone Defender

Bell A-28B Mamba - 432nd Attack Squadron, United States Army Air Corps, 1946 Following the failure of the Allied invasion at Calais in April 1944 and the success of the German counter-offensive in the East there was a change of focus with the US throwing more effort into the Pacific theatre whilst continuing to support the UK in 'holding' the European theatre. Following lessons learned from the failed Calais invasion the USAAC drafted a specification for a new heavily-armed attack aircraft described by General Spaatz as a "requirement for an airborne artillery piece" capable of carrying a 75mm automatic cannon. During the Summer of 1944 the introduction of the jet powered Gloster Meteor and the first appearance of the Luftwaffe's jet (and rocket) powered aircraft led to the USAAC to crank in a demand for the new attack aircraft to be jet powered. Bell's experience with the P-59 Airacomet gave them an early advantage and with General Electric forecasting a thrust of 4,500lbs from their new I-45 centrifugal jet engine they proposed a design using an airframe loosely based on the P-59 Airacomet but much larger and incorporating two of the new I-45 engines. Even using the new engines Bell knew that the installed thrust would be marginal so, early in 1945, Bell asked USAAC officials for permission to switch to the lighter British Molins 57mm automatic cannon which had just been evaluated by the US and which had a much higher rate of fire than the 75mm (which was, in any case, proving difficult to convert from manual loading to automatic). Once USAAC officials gave permission for this sensible substitution the Bell team forged ahead and got the pre-production prototype YA-28 into the air on February 2nd, 1946 and were rewarded with a production contract for 400 A-28B's barely one week later. Initial deliveries of the A-28B, now christened Mamba, commenced during July 1946 with the 432nd Attack Squadron being the first unit to re-equip.

North American P-51D - 15th Pursuit Squadron, 46th Pursuit Group, 1944

Wedell-Williams P-34A Petrel - 46th Pursuit Squadron, United States Army Air Corps, December 1941

Wedell-Williams P-34C Petrel - 47th Pursuit Squadron, United States Army Air Corps, Hawaii, Dec 1941 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedell-Williams_XP-34