76.IAP-Blackbird

Early Morning raid against Katyushas near Stalingrad

Lets talk here about the game and keep the other topics of non related stuff clean. Hope you guys enjoy this game and the news as same as i do. Im one of the old il2 pilots from 2001 and flying it until today. This game is out since a while, so i want to point you guys right at it. I know some of you are already playing it, but for those who arent... here it is. http://il2sturmovik.com/ I have bought both, the BOS and BOM premium edition, and have not regret it! If you like WW2 sims, you will love this game. More and more accurate planes and theaters will be added, started with: Battle of Stalingrad Battle of Moscow Battle of Kuban announced and Battle of Okinawa and expanding to the pacific is on their list too.

This is the official screenshot section of this realy damn good looking and nice feeling game Some pics from the new Il2 Game, all are personal Screenshots from my PC, without any retouch, thats ingame grafics

Developer Diary No 140 its on page 4, you can find a link down here 140 Hello Everybody, My name is Roman and I'm one of the Aerodynamics/Software Engineers for the IL-2 Sturmovik project. I create aircraft flight models together with my colleagues. I worked on the Yak-1b series 127 which was just released and now I work on the Bf-109 G-4, but I'd like to tell you about our plans in the medium term regarding the Fw-190. We'll begin working on the Fw-190 A-5 relatively soon, at the end of winter, and when we do that we’ll have a chance to also correct the existing Fw-190 A-3 flight model, taking all the data we have recently acquired into account. The aircraft we recreate in our sim flew more than 70 years ago and this is a long time. Aviation historians have written many books on this aircraft in general. However, many original documents were either lost or there is no way to access them in government archives where they are kept. That's why such documents are interesting for us and sometimes are found only after the work on a plane in question is already finished. Such documents are needed to correct flight model after release and sometimes when we use data from those documents they introduce significant changes. When we were working on Fw-190 A-3 we didn't have data that could allow us to pinpoint its stall speed and maximum lift coefficient, two directly linked values. We didn't have its wind tunnel data and the maximum lift coefficient calculated from the wing profile somewhat differs from its value on the real aircraft. Also, its stall speed wasn't clearly given in the reports we had. For example, the flight manual mentioned the landing speed with flaps and a rough estimate of its landing speed increase without flaps, but these values can give only an approximate stall speed. The stall speed was mentioned in the British report on captured aircraft flight tests - but the mass of the aircraft, an important parameter for calculating the maximum lift coefficient using the stall speed, was omitted from that report. Last year some new data appeared on the Internet - excerpts from the Fw-190 Chalai-Meudon wind tunnel data report. We used this data directly and reduced the maximum lift coefficient to 1.17 as it was given in this report. This turned out to be a mistake as some people on our forums suggested. The mistake was verified by the full report, kindly submitted by the community member II/JG17_ SchwarzeDreizehn. The summary graphs of this report did not take into account the flow disturbances and the relatively low flow speed in the tunnel, which lowered the maximum lift coefficient results. At the moment, we continue to analyze the data we have in hand. Our estimate of the Fw-190 maximum lift coefficient is now 1.3-1.4. Increasing the maximum lift coefficient will also increase the maximum angle of attack. Pitch range of the flight stick till stall will be widened, making the aircraft easier to handle. The Fw-190 had an unusual wing warp as proven by documents which were found thanks to the community’s help, however, these documents have slight discrepancies. Changing this warp will result in different stall behavior, it's likely to become 'softer', but only after flying the corrected plane in the game can this be tested. The main performance characteristics - speed and climb rate - should remain the same. We would like to thank all the people who helped us in the search for additional documents. II/JG17_SchwarzeDreizehn, JtD, II/JG11ATLAN, JG13_opcode and all others who kept the discussion polite and constructive - it's a pleasure to communicate with you and recreate the aviation history in our sim together! To finish the today's Dev Diary, we'll show you the corrected and newly added Fw-190 A-3 skins made by paintjob devotee I./ZG1_Panzerbar who we continue to work with: To see the Pics, click on the link below http://forum.il2sturmovik.com/topic/168-developer-diary/page-4 They have Sale ongoing right now, if you purchase the game from their site, you will not pay STEAM for anyhting and all the money goes to the Devs!

Great Work Thanks my friend!!

Havent seen so many angry smileys for years Cant wait to see the other guys response and im realy astonished about your calm answer logan! My would look alot different and I would risk to get banned cause of many bad words I would use

Yes I remember his work in the past, there was just one Problem with it, the very high polycount and the non excistent distance LOD`s to compensate the high polycount model. That`s a fact I would suggest to you yunped ;) The avionics are suspiciously good to be a ripped model

This bird is from Julhelm

The interesting thing is ... that the rest of the world doesnt like him ... except americans / republicans funny fact isnt it His language doesnt cover his misbehaviour, his missing knowledge about history and political situation, I dont speak about awerness, his whole being is a shame for the US to have selected him as a representing presidential candidate.... guys .. realy? You made my day and for the rest of the world for the past month thanks Or is it a kind of export thing like the "horror Clowns"

What bothers me is ... the 98% of a real tomcat model in this mod .. there is no evolution or revolution in the development.. stealthy cat? ... here

I dont understand a word but the CG stuff is great!

Flanker over Syria

http://www.loser.com/ im amazed by the guy who did it !

Seems I Need to work on a Fencer Version to get those beauties out Fitter M and M2 will be released, more Version will be later avaible

To be honest, i have no idea The day i have posted this message, was the anouncment of the Luftwaffe order to Lockheed. Would be cool to have later some What if green camo Luftwaffe Hercs... But thats not your Business ;)

My Avatar .... a ghost on the wings ..

Ok, tomorrow Enoc will send me a skin, I have updated the mapping for the parts, ini integration works fine and if all goes well, its out tomorrow for you guys. Remember! It is just a visual update ;) with fakepilot parts So enjoy it that way

you need max 2009 or so ... thats what the exporter tool from TK was writen and coded for ;)

Guys, go for this new version 1.2 some stuff was upgraded and a minor 3D bug was solved!!! Thanks to Dennis!!!

You need the max file of the plane, but it is not distributed ... you need to build it your self, use 3 Views of the plane ;)

Hi kurdistan, you need to delete the parts with ini entries on the plane you want to add your parts to. Than you need to create those parts with 3D max, map them, and export it as fake pilot parts. Than you add them with ini entries .. but they will not move