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McDonnell Douglas A-4FP 'Falcão' - Esquadra 301 "Jaguares", Portuguese Air Force, 1997 The skin is the 'Euro' skin tucked away in the A-4F_BAF by James Fox. Check it out!

Curvacious!

I love your passion for the Canberra Carlo - well done! Interesting that the textureset.ini's in ArgiCamo1, 2 and 3 can actually be set to 1968, 1982 and 1983 default start dates respectively and that skin will then be selected as appropriate. I've just tested Carlo's B.62 in 1981, 1982 and 1983 and it used the 1968 skin, the 'Malvinas' skin and the post-war skin respectively - it saves a lot of time not having to alter your wingman/wingmen.

The subsonic and supersonic thing is a complete red-herring (Mirage was twice as the Sea Harrier) and wars are not won by ifs, buts and maybes. Supermarine Spitfire IIIA v. Junkers Ju-87B, September 1940

Great work!

Heinkel He.444 'Viktor' - KG40, Luftwaffe 1947

Really nice PH.

Focke-Wulf Ta199, Luftwaffe '46

The Saab J-29F masquerading as the Focke-Wulf Ta199...

Here at Combat Ace. Use TOMCAT in the search field (downloads), it's just a few lines down.

The 'C' and the 'D' - wow! There's nothing like a nice pair of jugs... I do like the P-47 - a handsome but purposeful looking aircraft.

Timmy's 'Projekt Two' masquerading as.... The Lavochkin La-13 'Fireball' Even before the end of WW2 the Soviets were in a desperate rush to catch up with British and American technologies and particularly in military aviation. Almost all captured German designs were studied with several being pressed into service in the immediate post-war era including the Lavochkin La-13 'Fireball' jet fighter despite it being an essentially flawed design. Based on the Focke Wulf 'Projekt Two' the La-13 was powered by a Klimov RD-10A (a direct copy of the wartime Jumo 004A) and was little more than a FW-190 with an underslung jet engine kept clear of the runway by a stalky and fragile undercarriage. Whilst this crude 'modified piston-enginned fighter' configuration was also adopted by the MiG-9 'Fargo' and Yakovlev Yak-15 'Feather' the La-13 was heavier and had viscous handling qualities being initially rejected by the VVS evaluation team and heartily loathed by VVS service pilots. First displayed at the Tushino Aviation Day on 18 August 1946 the La-13 entered service in 1948 (later than its home-grown rivals) and was soon dumped on unsuspecting client states. It was later given the entirely appropriate NATO reporting codename of 'Fireball' which became the fate of many La-13's. Action has been slow in this thread so I've dredged this one up from the archives.

@ amariani - Nice Dhimari Mirage! Gunrunner's lovely A-4G mod.

Outstanding!

Arrival...

Beautiful!

OK EricJ, I'll bite! Why is this 'Tophatters' F-18E in the 'what if' section. AFAIK they do operate the Superbug.

Hot!

Works for me!

Eagles Ascendant!

McDonnell Douglas Eagle FG.2 - 892 Naval Air Squadron, Royal Navy, 1982

McDonnell Douglas F-15K Eagle FG.2 - 800 Naval Air Squadron, Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm, 1988 Whilst the F-4 Phantom and the Rolls-Royce Spey turbofan engine were an unhappy marriage the top-brass of the British Royal Navy realised that this was solely due to British political interference and, having worked closely with them at St. Louis, were generally impressed with the attitude and service of McDonnell Douglas. It therefore came as no surprise that the 1972 announcement of two 'Victory' class aircraft carriers of approximate 75,000 tonnes displacement for the Royal Navy saw McDonnell Douglas push their two-seat F-15N (N for Navy) to both France and Britain whilst still hoping for the Grumman F-14A Tomcat to fail in USN service. With the BAC Lightnings of RAF Germany rapidly approaching obsolescence the RAF were urgently seeking a modern agile interceptor-fighter for the Central Front and their interest in the F-15A quickly led to an audacious McDonnell Douglas offer of 100 F-15's to the United Kingdom with 40 single-seat Eagles configured for air defence and 60 two-seat Eagles configured for use aboard the proposed British aircraft carriers due to enter service in 1979. This bid was accepted and the Eagle F.1 (essentially an F-15A) entered service with No.19 and No.92 squadrons in 1976 and 1977 whilst the Eagle FG.2 for the Royal Navy entered service in 1980 with No.800, No.801 and No.892 Squadrons. Despite lacking wing-fold the two-seat Eagle FG.2's were very popular in Fleet Air Arm service and achieved legendary status in the 1982 Falklands war by downing 22 Argentinian aircraft with no losses. The aircraft also saw service in the 1991 Gulf War but were prematurely retired in 2001 when corrosion problems grounded the entire UK Eagle fleet.