1977Frenchie

Encountered this strange bug about one year ago with the engine sound (think it was one of the F-18E). I installed the bird in a mod and the engine sound file got corrupted somewhere... I download back the plane and it was ok (i put back the first version of every file and when i put the engine one i got a stealthy hornet)... I scratched my head to find it back then :)

CC-330 Husky (serial 330002) on final

Condolences to the family, close friends and evyone who had the chance to know him!

Took a while, but CFB Bagotville and Cold Lake will get their Lightning II.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canada-finalizes-19-billion-purchase-of-f-35-fighter-jets/

I saw schemes of F-18E, F-18F and F-14 of Top Gun Maverick, but not the bandit one... Well this one will be out soon :)

The US have kept secret the development of special weapons that were made for the newly Space Force.

In the year 2023, the United Space Space Force received their 12 first fighter pod for their Earth Base (tail code EB). In the year 2026, the squadron to be based on the moon (tail code MB) will received their 12 fighter pods.

Picture of the Space Force fighter pod 007 after takeoff from Earth base.

Well, look where i got with a Huey :)

Went higher but can't remember how high it was before i exploded

That simplifies a lot.

Note that the ''side'' roundels have changed in 2017-2018 period. See this image as exemple 

As for the squadrons, you must have the 410 as this is the Tactical Fighter Operational Training Squadron.

Would be a good thing to have the 401 or 409 (Cold Lake) as the West component, but i would surely put the 425 or 433 (Bagotville) for the East component. And i would not go with more than 24 birds (2 sqn of 12 unit) if it's to fill a gap (we don't have that much money) :)

For the Sqn decals, a lot have already been done on the CF-18 i made the decals for on the ODS30th anniversary project. Might have to take a look :)

As for the name, as there is already the CT-155 Hawk in RCAF inventory and going with the RCAF plane number designations, i would doubt they would name the F-15 CF-155. So I would go with CF-115 instead. All serials number will have 6 numbers beginning by 115 (115001, 115002, and so on).

You can send me what you will have done and test it with pleasure and give you my comments :)

Canadian F-15 version... a what-if that was almost reality when the US wanted us to buy the F-14 that were sold to Iran but not been delivered when the agreement collapsed due to regime change :)

Plan to do what exactly (sqdn, time period, etc.)

On 03/08/2022 at 11:23 PM, pappychksix said:

CF-116B

These CF-5A's (CF-116) always looked good.

My two cents : Your side decals are wrong :) ''CANADIAN ARMED FORCES'' on left side and ''FORCES ARMÉES CANADIENNES'' on right side. and Canadian flag is too big on the tail.

But great looking!

Went on to do a campaign with the O-1E Bird Dod  in Korea. Have been assigned to a rare Armed Recon mission and i laugth when i saw what was my target :)

Have you seen these sites :

https://www.airport-data.com/manuf/Fairchild_Republic.html 

https://www.spottingmode.com/opad/fleet/united_states/air_force/fairchild_a-10_thunderbolt_ii/

Hi Stratos,

Maybe these should help :) These are the templates for Tchad scheme i made for ODS 30th anniversary :)

RCAF taking delivery of their first two CF-355A

Made it as a decal as i did for my E-2C skins

[DecalXXX]
MeshName=nose
DecalLevel=0
DecalFacing=RIGHT
FilenameFormat=E-2C/VAW115/stripeR
Position=4.05,0.40
Rotation=100.0
Scale=2.8
DecalMaxLOD=2

[DecalXXX]
MeshName=nose
DecalLevel=0
DecalFacing=LEFT
FilenameFormat=E-2C/VAW115/stripeL
Position=4.05,0.40
Rotation=80.0
Scale=2.8
DecalMaxLOD=2

stripeL.tga

stripeR.tga

Canada did not fly US fighter jets only, they flew the CF-100 (fighter jet but referred as an interceptor), but hey we made it to the production line and it served with RCAF and Belgium :) 

Does the F-35 is the right choice? I can't tell but the JAS-39 Gripen E could have been a good choice too as it would have been assembled in Canada. Not to mention way more less expensive to buy and maintain. But we love to buy American stuff :)

Now I can't wait seeing them land at the airport the CF-18's (and various other) where i live land as a remote strip :)

Told ya that a camo schme made from water paint would not last :)

Skin pack V2.0 about to be done!

Still Voodoo time :)

2 scheme from Maple Flag '83 (the camo one need to be worked on as it was done with water paint and a mop and did not lasted long :)

Seems propaganda from my POV.

Maybe got inspired by this : 

#1 RCAF EF-101 with ''Lark One'' in the background.

#2 RCAF 425Sqn ''Lark One'' retirement scheme.

These are reworks schemes i made some times ago. Will release a V2.0 package soon with smoother skins/decals. As the original pack was one of my first skins :)

Happened to me two weeks ago... GPU probably generated a little bit more heat then usual then ate the Aim-9 coming at it...

GPU was a bit old (Nvidia GTX 960 2mb). I had it since 2016...

So went to Ebay to find a replacement and they were way too expensive, not to mention most of them were from China and i do not thrust them to send me ''real'' GPU but cloned one's.

I finally found one at an affordable price in Toronto and i put the biggest  i could put in my Alienware X51R3 (went for Nvidia GTX 1060 3mb). Runs smoother at higher graphic settings. I will use this until i can change the whole PC in the future :)

Good luck on your side!

I have not much time, but depending of the project i could take a look :)