Paradox

Nice work Leatherneck, that's amazing. Is there any way to dump the JATO bottles after takeoff? (maybe "launch" is a more appropriate term for that manoeuvre)

They don't know what version they will release under. 1.2.9 is still possible.

I can believe that.

You've got a rudder, just sideslip everywhere.

Whaaat? What panel is that? Whatever it is... it looks great.

How likely do you think that is? For me it's going to be the 190D. I'm not really convinced of the 109 yet. I'm sure that will change when it comes out but I don't like the low cockpit visibility.

I turn on the combination sight mode which shows you the fixed sight and the gyro sight, then I turn the gyro on and set the wingspan to 38 feet and adjust the distance to whatever's appropriate. I then open the radiators all the way and push the throttle up. Then I die over and over and over again to people who know how to fly. It's a hard life.

SAS is a wonderful thing for an air superiority fighter. And for probably everything else.

I think I'm going to go for the Dora and Spitfire but I'm seriously considering swapping the Spit for the P-47 depending on which one comes out first and whether VEAO are done with their MkXIV before ED is with the MkIX.

I like it like that....

RN-28 definitely isn't, I'm not familiar with the RN-24 though.

Normandy will be the next Nevada.

JATO!

Some British aircraft designs have plastic explosive lines installed between layers of glass/ plastic for the cockpit canopy. This is to aid in canopy release during ejection but can also be used as a reference or series of references to be used in flight. Not sure if this is quite what you mean, I've not seen the yellow thing you've mentioned.

The MiG-21 and VEAO's A4 might be up your alley when they come out.

Don't let them get you down, Cobra, 99% of us know that you guys are doing your best and working hard.

Well I'm not holding my breath for it.

Well fair enough then, chocks away!

Yeah, thought something was a bit off. I like the raised canopy of the Sukhoi barrelfighters. What are those probes on the wings?

But when?

My source almost entirely is the air support section of Field Manual 100-2-1, an unclassified assessment of the strategies that were understood to be employed by the Soviet Army from 1984. Along with patchy peices of information of dubious quality that indicate the aircraft flown by the Soviet Air Defence Force and Soviet Airforce during the 1970's which include the MiG-21Bis LAZUR and MiG-21Bis SAU variants. The part about taking the opportunity to export the MiG-21Bis to a wide variety of nations is educated assumption given the number of airforces today that operate the MiG-21Bis. I didn't intend my post to be audacious necessarily, only helpful to mission designers.

That's the spirit

The Soviet Union recognised that the MiG-21's time as a frontline fighter was long over when they began the Bis upgrades (and before then). Mission designers might think about the idea that Warsaw Pact doctrine was not to operate MiG-21MF and Bis as air superiority fighters, they were assigned to support units flying lightning strike missions against tactical targets following a comprehensive recon-in-force mission from aircraft like Su-24s. The idea behind Soviet armour deployment of the 1970's/ 1980's was to use fast aircraft in large numbers to eliminate soft targets and potential ambushes before rolling very large numbers of tanks and IFVs into the theatre to overwhelm enemy forces on the ground. This was the initial logic behind the development and employment of the MiG-21Bis in Soviet Union service, as well as being a natural choice for a relatively capable, cheap upgrade of an already popular aicraft to sell to Eastern European satellite states and third world allies.

We wish

I would like to know about this as well.