Dubbo

Great find.

Granted. But as a Chihuahua, you are molested 3 times a day by the horny Pit Bull that lives next door. I wish I didn't have to work for a living

Nice stuff Carl. You do good work mate. And well laid out too. Looks like a good day.

LOL! That's like one of my dogs.

Really? What did they end up painting it as?

Me too JP. But these things are a lot shorter. I wish the museum would move the A-26 back inside. Mind you, being outside does allow one to lick it.

LMAO Very good.

Yeah, this game is cool. I think the Ju88 props do the same thing.

Here are some more pics - some show the early prototypes of which Udet set a speed record in. Later Hans Dieterle set the absolute speed record of 746kph in 1939 - in the 8th prototype. The museum shot is actually a replica buit from scratch (from original plans) and donated by a fellow wtih the strangely familiar name of George Lucas (no relation) - he did some others too a 109, 163 and a Natter - And he then donated them to the Chino museum. The night figher pic (indeed the first 3 below) was a propaganda pic and was identified as a He113. The world believed the propaganda and a number of He113s were "shot down" during the Battle of Britian. (The He100s were moved from field to field, painted with different schemes and numbers and photographed as many different squadrons) Sged, your pic is also a propaganda pic. Pretty successful ruse actually. Ernst Udet told Heinkel, after watching the 109 fly and the interest expressed in Messerschmit's design, to concentrate on bombers only. Had the ministery chosen the Heinkel design instead, it may have proven to be a very successful fighter.

Funny cause it's true. LOL

Excellent. I have seen the site and it's quite good. Your poster is better though.

Beautiful aircraft with an interesting history. Beebop skinned a Tony for me to look like one for an aborted Heinkel factory defence mission I was trying to make. IIRC, there is a connection between the Tony and the He100 but the Japanese had to redesign a lot of the aircraft. I believe the original aircraft was designed as a super-pursuit fighter and the design goal was supposed to be something like 700kph. It had a lot of streamling design stuff tried out on it particularly a wing surface cooling sustem - but these systems proved vulnerable in a fighter and unreliable to boot. Japan had bought jigs for the He100 and kawasaki was building the DB engines but the jigs never arrived - The Ki61 is considered to be heavily influenced by the design of the He100, even the one of the prototypes had the surface cooling system but the Japanese too abandoned the idea for a more traditional radiator. Skin by Beebop

I guess there aren't too many pics of the gunners doing their stuff in a Fe2 - but here's one on the ground -

:) Fe2b baby!! Now that's what I'm talking about. Both gun mounts are modelled so I wonder if a/ You can play as a gunner a la FB & b/ If the position of standing on the edge of the front cockpit and firing back over the wing will be modelled. Those front observer types had testicles of steel and they must have been quite large. Imagine the pilot is throwing the kite around and you had to stand, unrestrained, on the friggin lip of your fabric-covered open cockpit and then aim and fire your Lewis gun at a target that was firing back - all without a parachute.

I think you're right. Must be French rail then. The new update this week doesn't give any info but the pics were titled "Trashbird". Maybe a static ground object. Or maybe you can fly a Sopwith Tri-plane until it gets this badly bent. Quite the wreck though. Check out the bent undercarriage strut and all the sags in the airframe.

YGTBFKM!! I know one of the eye-candy gripes on Il-2 was the pointy corners on the railway tracks. Look at this......and check out the detail on the sleepers - no two are the same length. It's these little things that add up.

Nice find JP. I'd love to do some diving in some of these areas.

'nother update. Pretty impressive internals - look closely - some damage models of ground objects too

Well done

Geezum! Look at the lighting and detail on these. I really like the ripples in the canvas on the fuselage and the sheen on the doped wing surfaces

A treasure lost. You were fortunate to have hung out with him Kelly. RIP Lefty. S'

Fortifications.

Dad's Army. There's a blast from the past. Nice maps.

A few new terrain and object screenies. (Nice river). I was wondering though if the Castor oil output of some of these rotary engined jobs will be modelled. That way you'd have to assign a key to wipe your goggles down periodically ('W' I guess) and as your pilot becomes less steady as nausea builds you'd need a vomit key ('V') But using 'V' too much will cause your pilot to become weak. Or does ingestion of Castor oil cause the trots? Then we'd have to have an 'S' key assigned.............

Wow. The Sights. The Sounds. Roll on Autumn.......that's if you can believe 'em.