WORLD WAR II

[Ian Warren]

The Vickers Wellington , good skills Mike , this Bomber is going to play a very in the beginning of the war with a No. 75 squadron and even a VC winner , with your artistic skills , putting it into FSX is going to be worth it .

[Alfashark]

Stormclouds were brewing in Europe... Hitler eyeing up the continent, and the Spanish Civil War raged on.
Franco's Nationalists needed help to crush the Republicans... Germany sent in the Condor Legion to help out and in doing so, gave one of historys legendary fighters its first taste of blood
The Messerschmitt Bf-109. Heinkel He111's also flew in this theater, against aging Polikarpov I-16 and I-15's sent to help the Republicans, in what was to be the Luftwaffe's warm-up for bigger things...

[Ian Warren]

GERMANY 1938 February , The training is at a fever pitch , the teachers , many fresh from combat , The Spainish Civil War , an insight to was to be .
All countries now are building up , the general tension .. politics .. Germany using older fighters , the He51 , this already was built clandestine and used , further

as an advanced trainer , an equal to the British Hawker Fury

All Countries now are looking .. planning , were to place airfields and where not to .

This is only the start

[Alfashark]

Jeez Ian, looks like we both hit the old Spanish Civil War at about the same time
Nice Heinkel there!

[Alfashark]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Nov 29 2008, 12:37 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

SUPERB timing Alfa .. this guy no's his History

Cheers mate! Looks like there was a reason for reading all those dusty old books after all
Tried to get some 109/I-16 dogfight action going on, but my poor old I-16 just wont work in FSX... yet

[Alfashark]

Might be jumping the gun by a few months here...
September 30, 1938
Chamberlain returns from Munich after talks with Hitler - Declares "Peace in our time"


Apologies for quality here... Couldn't find an L-14 for FSX, so used the more familiar Hudson... I cant repaint either, so this is the result of a few hours swearing at the screen using PhotoFiltre

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Alfashark @ Nov 30 2008, 09:55 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Might be jumping the gun by a few months here...
September 30, 1938
Chamberlain returns from Munich after talks with Hitler - Declares "Peace in our time"

It could be one off the many meetings .... I dont see that White sheet of paper how many times did they say "Peace in our time"

[Naki]

As the aircraft strength of the Luftwaffe grew through the 1930s, the requirement for pilots also grew. Most of the Luftwaffe pilots primary training was carried out on the Bucker Jungmann - Luftwaffe's equivalent of the Tiger Moth or Stearman but generally considered to have superior handling to both.

[Alfashark]

Nice work Naki! This latest evolution of your FS is looking damn sharp

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Alfashark @ Dec 2 2008, 08:03 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Nice work Naki! This latest evolution of your FS is looking damn sharp

and could be any period early 1938

[Ian Warren]

[victor_alpha_charlie]

Cool shot Ian, I've got a photo just like that in a Boeing book of mine

[Ian Warren]

Thanx Tom , its amazing to see hold many models we really never get to see for flightsim , the older less well known and generally forgotten and many by designers that have spent many countless hours , there are so many from this period in the big WWW that never get seen .

I'm sure we will get the dateline and times sorted , those screens as placeholders , it dosent matter if you use the same model , a different view would suit a different day

[Ian Warren]

[Charl]

With what the Other Guys were already doing, you can't believe the Brits thought they could go to war with this stuff.
I've always wondered...idly...what happens in that bit between the pilot and the gunner, on the Fairey Battle

[Naki]

QUOTE (Charl @ Dec 11 2008, 02:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

With what the Other Guys were already doing, you can't believe the Brits thought they could go to war with this stuff.
I've always wondered...idly...what happens in that bit between the pilot and the gunner, on the Fairey Battle

Thats where they grew their Tomatoes

yeah they werent the best those early British bombers - on the fighter side of the equation things were a little different by 1939........

[Ian Warren]

These aircraft of the United States Army Air Corps , Northrop A18 are the counterpart to the Navy's BT-1 s and escort the new carrier out to sea .

[Ian Warren]

Other countries doing there own to build strengths in every area,all three arm forces of every country sourcing new weapons but still with there hands tied
both these new types don't enter RAF service till late this year .

[Ian Warren]

[Ian Warren]

With US bickering the strengths of its USAAC , the United States Airforce and the old dominion of the USN other countries were expanding

Japans new coastal reconissance flying boat the Kawanishi H6k , The "Mavis" as known buy the allied forces during WWII