Gepard

F-16D over stock desert terrain.

The first flightsim which you could mod was USNF. This was back in the 1990th, when i started to create terrains for USNF. Then EAW followed, which had a great gameplay and was able to mod too, but not as easy to mod as USNF. When SFP1 came out i found that it was a good mix between gameplay and easy to mod. SFP1 had a very good graphic for the time. It looked much better than Falcon 3.0 or so. But it was full of bugs. First i thought, that it was a waste of money, because it was nearly unplayable. But i found out, that a community was forming, were guys started to mod. They made not flyable planes flyable and they started to create new terrains. The first was Korea. It was simple, only some blue and red airfields, nothing more. Someone had made a F-86 Sabre and so you could play MiG-Alley. The opponent was the MiG-17, but who cares ... So it began. I thought, that i could make better terrains and i started with Israel terrain. Others followed. Step by step it became better. Then i found CombatAce site ... I wrote the topic "My way to create a terrain", which paved the way for a lot of modders to make their own terrains. ... Great time.

F-7A Red Hawk. So it could look, if the Pentagon decide to buy a fighter version of the T-7A.

Depends on plane. Some planes are made so, that they are very easy to fly. One example is the An-14 Pcholka (Little Bee). Oleg Antonow gave out the target, that an average "traktorist" (tractor driver) must be able to fly this plane. And in that way the plane was developed and finally the target was achieved.

Logans MiG-Ye-8-144

F-4 Phantom near London Gatwick Airport

Heathrow Airport as it was in end 1950th, early 1960th Heathrow in front, RAF Northolt in the back

Original: Convair 201 Copy: FWD-83 Habicht, Jagdfliegergeschwader-9, Peenemünde 1985

Convair 201

Gatwick Airport in early 1960 style The problem was that no correct distances and sizes are available. Only the runway length was said 7.000 feet, which is around 2.133 meters. The rest is guesswork.

I found that photo of a F-4E New Jersey Air National Guard with a cool skin: Unfortunatlly my paintshop skills are not good enough to make a proper skin.

I love it when a plan comes together.

Hunter over Ames Type 80 radar. (Okay, its a placeholder, it's GK's airfield radar mixed with building3. )

Release End March 2024 in german language:

F-113A

Shadow games.

What i found in the loadout.ini file: Loadout[10] and Loadout[11] are not made for Air to Air Weapons must be: Loadout[15] and Loadout[16]

Nice finding. Very usefull for civil air traffic.

F-113A Retaliator, Heavy Navy Fleet Defender

The answer is simple: No. Not on legal way.

Kuril islands terrain and Faroe terrain have USMC in nation list too. In Faroe you must look in the folder goodies, there you find some nations inis with diffrent friend or foe setting, including USMC vs Soviet.

It's a F-16 seen from gun camera of a MiG-21. It is said, that it is from 1982 Lebanon War. I'm not sure, wheter real or fake.

Kaboom!

MiG Ye-8 "Vosmyorka", East German Air Force, Jagdfliegergeschwader-9, JG-9, Peenemünde, 1965