allenjb42

Great series - Independence Day meets The Winds of War

Something like this, though obviously the stripe on the Weasel needs to be fixed:

OK, when the F-4G's arrive Bull Morgan says "C J is bringing in six G-models in for us from the States." So they would have the code from a CONUS based (TAC?) unit when they arrived. But later Waters says "I'm putting the Weasels under Steve Farrell in the 377th." My interpretation would be that the Weasel det was integrated into the squadron and took on the Stonewood tailcode. When the action starts they fly in mixed G & E hunter-killer flights. Didn't the Spang units operate similarly? So if you stuck with the ST code would it simply be a matter of renaming the F-4e bmps for the 377th skin to F-4G and editing the decals .ini and making a decals folder for the F-4G to get the tail codes & stripe to show?

Kevin is there any chance of a skin for the F-4G_89 to represent C J Conlon's 6 plane detachment? They were assigned to the 377th according to The Book. If you're too busy I can have a stab at it.

Going back to this thread http://combatace.com/topic/55294-somebody-asked-about-this/page__pid__414709#entry414709 The tailcode when the 45th was based in Egypt was AX and SW for Stonewood. If you want to code any specific aircraft, the 'hangar queen' bird is 80-744, with 'Muddy' Waters as pilot and Ambler Furry as WSO. Locke & Bryant's F-4 is number 512, figure it was an 80 bird too?

Sorry Sony you can't have my copy! But there are some going cheap on ebay http://books.shop.ebay.co.uk/Fiction-/171228/i.html?_nkw=the+warbirds&_catref=1&_fln=1&_trksid=p3286.c0.m282 @Wrench: Kevin, I always imagined that the Phantoms wore the grey (Egypt 1, Hill grey?) skin like on the book cover. Would that be the right scheme for a late '80s setting?

They have a forum at SimHQ http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/forums/167/1/Yankee_Air_Pirate_2.html

Maybe they shot down a Taiwanese 'F-28'

This one? No, you meant this one didn't you?

http://www.win-rar.com/download.html http://www.7-zip.org/

Are you doing the desert camo version too? http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww4/v/70/89/0/3

Anyone remember hitting the sub pens in the North Cape with an FAE? You had to come in low over the water, toss the bomb through the open doors and then climb to avoid the cliffs, which put you on radar, and all hell broke loose!

Many happy returns!

I've not been to London for a while, but Motor Books was pretty good for military & aviation stuff, and quite near Leicester Square. http://www.motorbooks.co.uk/locations.asp This games shop looks like it might have what you want too, and seems to be in the same area http://www.orcsnest.com/shop.htm http://www.orcsnest.com/sinresult.asp?entered=avalanche+press Have fun.

For a new helicopter, maybe the Bell Jetranger/OH-58 Kiowa, or if you want to stay Euro, how about the SA Dauphin or Westland Wasp or Scout?

Awesome screenie. I thought it was a photo!

Something for the Persian Gulf terrain. From ACIG: Iran acquired 24 Mirage F.1EQ/BQs when these were flown by defecting Iraqi pilots to Iranian airfields, in January and February 1991 - together with three plane-loads of spare parts and weapons. By 1993 all were introduced in service with the IRIAF, and based at TFB.14, Mashhad, in eastern Iran. Iranian Mirage F.1EQs were used extensively in the fighting against Afghani and Pakistani drug-smuggling bands, as well as against Taliban - inside southern Afghanistan. Still got a bit of decal work to do and permission from whomever did the base skin (it's from the IranIraq pack, so I'll have to have a look at the readme).

LOL - I thought it was just me!

RIP

But why attack a nuclear facility that's being used solely for peaceful purposes?

Looks great FC. Presumably you could also do a 1980s deck with F-14, A-6, EA-6B & A-7, and a 1990s deck with F-14, F\A-18, EA-6B & A-6 too? E-2, SH-3 & SH-60 are DAT models only at present so they couldn't be included, but maybe the S-3 could be added too? Does the model have folded wings?

Personally I subscribe to the cock-up theory. I think TK disabled runway starts when he was testing the patch so that he could start with the plane in the air, and then forgot to enable it again when he finalised the patch for release.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards have shot down two "Western spy drones" in the Gulf, a senior Iranian commander has been quoted as saying. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12105225 Looks like we're going to need Gepard's Persian Gulf terrain pretty sharpish....