Spinners

Really? I beg to differ. You make the courage, skill and sacrifice of the men of Bomber Command sound like a complete wasted effort. OK, there were dark days early on but by mid-1943 the RAF's heavies (and the Mosquitoes of the Light Night Striking Force) were a potent force that made a major contribution to the war effort so much so that during January 1945 the daily average was 1,420 sorties. The two-pronged strategic bombing of Germany during WW2 (USAAF by day and RAF by night) remains controversial but I'm pretty certain that the RAF's night bomber offensive would have been sharply curtailed if the Luftwaffe's night-fighters had the upper hand to the rather glib extent you've indicated by stating that they were 'cannon fodder'.

I'd echo Wrench's idea of having a dedicated 'downloads' folder, perhaps on your desktop, as downloading straight to desktop can spew out a lot files especially from some of the older mods (not so much from here though).

Northrop P-61A Black Widow - 586th Fighter Regiment of the Air Defense Force ('The Night Witches'), Soviet Air Force, 1944

Special FX

I know. This was a reply made by me on my long-running thread on the 'what if' modelers website. Spinners, how about a USAF ADC Skyray? I'm not really a request show but that's a good call as the Skyray was a fast-climbing interceptor and VF-3 was, in fact, the only USN squadron to serve with NORAD winning the NORAD Trophy in 1957 and 1958.

A beautifully streamlined Skyray but supersonic (Mach 1.4 on the same J57 engine). It just came to fruition at the same time at the Crusader and failed to get an order : (

Douglas F-6C Skyray - 178th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, United States Air Force, 1966 Even better if they'd had the little-known and underrated Skylancer.

As my German Mirage F-1CG uses stock decals I thought I'd share the decal positions. This is not a complete skin and you will need to add a skin from whatever Mirage F-1 takes your fancy (they're all good) and just carefully overpaint the existing 'painted on' national insignia. GAF_MirageF1C.7z

F-4F had them at the rear so there's no hard and fast rule on this. Anyway, I've moved on!

To quote the wise words of Del Boy Trotter, "Jeux Sans Frontières Rodney, Jeux Sans Frontières".

I really don't understand the point of this statement at all... and especially in the 'what if' section!

Half of the Alpha jet?

Mirage F-1C - JG71

It's a Lanc buster for sure!

Vickers Vengeance B.3 - No.27 Squadron, RAF Strike Command, 1977 Red Kettle away!

Moskito um mitternacht

Is your Frankenmissile working when carried by something else? Does your missile have the right 'ini' lines to make it work?

Above all else Ed - make what you want to make! Oh, and keep up the good work!

Vickers Vengeance B.3 - No.9 Squadron, RAF Strike Command, 1970

(Big thanks to Centurion-1)

Excellent - thank you.

Douglas F-6S Skyray - F21, Flygvapnet, 1974

Douglas F-6J Skyray - 203rd Hikotai, Japan Air Self Defense Forces, 1970

Czech out my stripes! (ndicki's D-day Spitfire IXc)