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Thanks mate

Ahh! brain fade! I forgot the invasion stripes on the Hunter! I know what I'll be doing tonight lol

After loseing EVERYTHING on a double HD crash I have been taking it easy and playing KAW but I cant resist some 'what if' skinning! Fell free to post your own KAW 'what ifs' here too! KAW Hawker Hunter F.1A & F.1B In order to meet the Mig-15 threat over Korea and with no capable fighters currently in the RAF inventory the British Ministry of Supply instructs Hawker Aviation to undertake a crash production program of its P.1067 fighter. Project ‘Huntsman’. In less than a year since the prototype flew and two years ahead of schedule the Hawker Hunter is deployed to the Korean Theater in early 1952. Since the Hunter F.1 designation was already assigned to the first full production Hunters due into service in 1954, the Hunters produced under program ‘Huntsman’ are (unusually) designated Hunter F.1A These aircraft are basically identical to the future production Hunter F.1 the most obvious difference being that they are finished in High Speed Silver. However the lack of paint means these Hunters are 21 Mph faster and 53Kg lighter than the full production F.1 Hunters. Operations over Korea immediately highlighted the Hunters inherent shortcomings. Of most concern was its lack of fuel and endurance with barely an hour’s flight time. Also of concern was the damage done to the fuselage caused by the ejection of spent cartridge links. These concerns (among others) would be addressed in time by future models of the Hunter, but in the skies of Korea in 1952 the lack of range and endurance had to be immediately mitigated. And thus the Hunter F.1B is born with the addition of wing mounted drop tanks installed in theater. Hawker Hunter F.1A Royal Airforce No. 43 Squadron Korea Early 1952 Hawker Hunter F.1B Royal Airforce No. 43 Squadron Korea Late 1952 And some others F-86F-30 Sabre Royal New Zealand Airforce No. 75 Squadron Korea 1953 Meteor F.8 Royal New Zealand Airforce No. 75 Squadron Korea 1952 F9F-2 Panther Royal New Zealand Airforce No. 14 Squadron Korea 1952 (WWII Leand Lease RNZAF Pacific style markings)

This is an outstanding tool! I don't know how many hours I have spent guessing node names i the past etc, so thank you! I have only just started using it and I can access TW stock aircraft lods no problem but is it possible to access stock TW cockpit lods? If so how?

It's outstanding!!!!

Thanks guys, I swear I live under a rock sometimes lol

Hay guys, does anyone know the node name of the gun blisters that TW SF2 Hawker Hunter F.4 has? Dan.

Your right here we are after 5 mins work: Hawker Hunter F.1 No 43 Squadron Korea 1952

Cheers lol

Does anyone know of a Bare Metal/ silver skin for the SF2 TW Hunter? Thanks, Dan.

Thanks for all the well wishes guys!

Thanks guys!

I second that!

5:28am this morning our 4th child and 3rd girl was born weighing in at 11 pounds! Mum and baby are happy, home and sound asleep

Royal New Zealand Airforce F-86F-30 No. 75 Squadron Korea 1953

F-86A Operation Stovepipe 1951

Thanks

Nice!

For some reason enemy aircraft are not showing up on my in game map screen, any idea why?

cheers for the sympathy guys I'm pretty gutted but from the ashes I shall rise! lol

Well after a valiant last ditch counter attack my friend has been pushed back into the sea and all is sadly lost. The disk from the hard drive will be going up in a cupboard for the next few years to give the software recovery technology out there some time to (hopefully) advance to the point where we can recover our lost photos etc. As I said before luckily most of our photos are on my wife’s facebook so we just have to save a copy of each one back to the computer etc. Tough lesson in how no matter how careful you think you are being with backing things up the most unexpected thing can happen and ruin it all. I’ve been through my messenger here at combatace and been surprised at how much of my WIP projects I had sent someone a copy of for input etc so I have been able to get a few thinks back I thought were gone for good. For now I’m sticking to just one ‘all in one’ campaign mod to play until I get my mojo back lol KAW here I come!

Thats awesome!!!!!!!!!

I defiantly recommend taking action now! Lol. I think recuva was one he was looking at although there is about two thirds of a terabyte of data on the back up hard drive I want to try and recover.

I used to burn a data dvd at the end of every month and store them at work but I got lazy and stopped a few years ago- kicking myself now! Luckily my wife is very active on face book and has uploaded a lot of our family photos there so not all is lost. On the Strike fighters front those two hard drives were my only copy. The thought of having to re-downloading EVERYTHING is demoralising. I don’t know about you guys but I usually make my own little tweaks to most add on downloads, especially with modern aircraft as I have my own standardised method for calculating reduced radar cross sections. Also in the works was a overhauled RNZAF A-4K Kahu pack with skins for their new owner Drakon International. A ‘what if’ RNZAF F-4E Pack using the new F-4E models. A historic WWII pacific war campaign for RNZAF P-40 Tomahawks. A separate specific install with campaigns that follow the ‘Tomorrow when the war began’ book series/ movie which has China invading Australia with just Australian and New Zealand fighting in defence. That had a ton of new and modified Australian and Kiwi air ground and sea units from 1945 till today. Plus a heap of ‘land lease’ F-16 skins and squadrons for the RNZAF (as per the book series) . On the data recovery front my colleague has tried all of his commercial software and is downloading a few of the better freeware ones to try. He doubts that will work so the next step is to remove the drive itself and put it into his computer. He thinks that is also a long shot so the last ditch effort will be to initialise the hard drive and create a partition. This will make it accessible again but will erase all the data on it so he will then run his best data recovery software to recover as much as possible. However he has warned me this still might not work and some of the data will still probably be lost.

Love it!