Rick Rawlings

He certainly gets around a lot!

Release the Kraken!!!

10 hours ago, CaptSopwith said:

I love this idea, Rick!

I remember loving Crimson Skies but I also don't remember being able to enjoy it for very long before we moved to Windows XP and the game just stopped functioning. Into the bin it went at some point...

The closest we have to the real thing is a project over on the SAS boards, who work on all things IL-2 1946. Check it out! https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php?topic=62309.0

Cheers!

PS: Loving the flight videos you upload! Great stuff!

Thanks, Capt! Also, I have 1946...I'll have to check this out...not that I wouldn't love a new version (hint, hint, imminently arriving AI overlords...)

I wish someone would remake Crimson Skies in the WOFF/Falcon BMS style where you play as a pilot in some fanciful-but-realistically-based alternate history planes where you fight in the sky over control of various areas of the globe, having a career with plausible missions randomly generated and interspersed with some "plot" missions...kind of like UBOAT, I guess. You would be able to create and modify planes based on some modular plane system that would track how effective they would be. Pretty unlikely that will happen, although I guess there is a chance that there will be an AI program that I can explain that to and it will make the game for me, possibly even before a development team could do it...

Now to just stay alive that long...

Here comes 26!

#25. Seems like just last week we were only 23-24...

#23 and, for reasons that will become clear, #24

I said "Just a bit off the top." They listened!

...or the universe in general...#22

#21

I'm beginning to think these people want to kill me...

Number 20!

(Always smoking wrecks in my wake. Better than BEING a smoking wreck, I guess...)

Has the world spun around seven times already?

Two steps forward...

Back on the horse!

#16 for Jasta 27...

Nasty business, this warfighting...

Maybe someday we'll need one for radiators? 

And then there was 15...

I think it's a pretty solid paint scheme. Now to live long enough to use it!

Double lucky #7

#13 Short and to the Point!

Very good!

A Dozen!

Followed shortly by #11!

A little #10 action for you!

Back to the Jasta for #9