Spinners

Well, my IDF P-40 in the downloads section uses Raven's P-40 so it's clearly nothing personal. Things get released at both of the main sites and I'll give them all a whirl. Look at my posts here and you'll see that for yourself. Something being 'unavailable' could only be an issue if I was planning to release it here... and I'm not!

Supermarine Spitfire Mk.Ia - 1st Aviation Regiment, Estonian Air Force, 1940

DAT's all folks!

Curtiss P-40B - 1st Aviation Regiment, Estonian Air Force, 1941 In July 1938 a group of Estonian Air Force officers arrived at the Supermarine works for a technical presentation on the Spitfire Type 300 and, on a later visit, to watch a series of demonstration flights of the Spitfire flown by Supermarine's chief test pilot Mutt Summers. The Estonians left suitably impressed and made an advance payment for 12 Spitfires to Order No. C.186/39. This order was approved by the Air Ministry and a contract between the two governments was finalised on March 2nd, 1939. However, by then the Estonian order had already been made as a third priority on the Foreign Office's list and with war clouds looming Estonia looked elsewhere for a modern fighter aircraft but whilst also keeping the Spitfire order intact. Wasting no time, in April 1939 Estonian Air Force officers made the long journey to the Curtiss-Wright Corporation's main production facilities in Buffalo, New York to look at the Hawk 81A-2 (essentially the P-40B) that had been flying since October 1938 and had recently been purchased by the United States Army Air Corps whose order for 524 P-40's was the largest single order for a U.S. fighter aircraft at the time. With guarantees on prompt delivery (and ahead of the domestic customer) the Estonian government ordered 16 aircraft in May 1939. The first eight P-40B's arrived in Estonia during the early Spring of 1940 and equipped the 1st Aviation Regiment based at Otepää in southern Estonia but could do little to defend the country at the outset of the Soviet invasion on June 16th, 1940 and all Estonian forces were ordered to stand-down on the following day. The remaining eight P-40B's for Estonia were still in the U.S. and were eventually delivered to the Nationalist Chinese Air Force for use by the American Volunteer Group. Skin Credit: Charles

Dassault Mirage F1EA - Marineflieger 2, 1980 Skin Credit: Ludo.m54 (just tinted a bit darker) This would have been awesome with the M53 powered F1!

^ I especially like the Nammer Mandatory Screenshot

English Electric Thunderbolt F.1A - No.74 Squadron, RAF Fighter Command, 1964

En Route At Low-Level

Stars & Stripes

Lovely stuff!

Pursuit over the South Downs

The La-15 Fantail masquerading as the Heinkel He 344...

CXP-1001 (unbuilt project)

One for admin I guess... I was looking at the SF2 skins sub-category and it is showing 0 skins but they seem to be hiding in the Missions/Campaigns section.

Heinkel He 343 'Donnerkämpfer' - Jagdgeschwader 7, Luftwaffe, 1946

Gloster Meteor F.4

Roland Beamont's Meteor F.Mk.4

Gloster Meteor F.6 - 192 Filo, Türk Hava Kuvvetleri, 1956

Gloster Meteor F.6 - No.2 Squadron (The Hawks), Royal Dhimari Air Force, 1952

Gloster Meteor F.6's - No.611 Squadron, Royal Auxiliary Air Force, 1955

Gloster Meteor F.6's - No.500 Squadron, Royal Auxiliary Air Force, 1953

BTW there was a Meteor F.6 on the drawing board at Gloster's in early 1946 but, in appearance, it was essentially an F.8 and did not have swept-wings.

Gloster Meteor F.6 - Prototype Testing 1947

The Spirit of '76 Bravo paulopanz