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Oshkosh 2023 Live: The Greatest Generation. WWII Veterans And Their Memories https://youtu.be/7Rz9_8Ip8Vo

Public-released modern Jet Fighter's 6 Fight tactic manuals in the attachments. Extra-Added manuals: Basic plane public tactic manuals are in this folder: https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=kZr8X2VZVAC8fjy0WbFWvsNtEsQS9ugtt6bX alternate link with access code 1234...

Anyone seen the trailer of the most recently announced Ace Combat 7? It is going to be set in the Strangereal universe, unlike Joint Assault, AH, and Infinity, which were set in the real world. It seems that there will be a location called the Lighthouse. The airbrone superweapon with many...

User Name: T Bolt Name: Glenn Category: Advanced Kit: AMT Grumman F7F-2/2N Tigercat Scale: 1/48th Accessories: Some scratch building in the cockpits and CMK resin wheels 48 F7F-2N Tigercat BuNo 80323 from VF(N)-52 as seen during carrier qualifications on board the USS Antietam April 1945 The...

All, The other day a few folks at work were discussing the use of WW II produced aircraft after the end of WW II, and the combat records of some of them in the early days of jets. That leads to a question, what was the last WW II produced aircraft that was lost in combat? I mean aircraft...

Seen a few of these, are they any, are they worth buying, or...?

I am sure that we have all come across people who have remarkable stories and over the last week I have come across two who stand out for opposite reasons. One is the youngest pilot to fly combat missions for the RAF and quite possibly the youngest combat pilot of any airfirce. The other is the...

Hi. A question here. There is lots of USAAF and USNAF combat reports in the web and all of you can read it if you want. I bought a japanese combat reports book. It is pretty thick, expensive and it wrote with kanji. I need long time to read it completely. However I cannot found Luftwaffes one...

The Battle of Britain Combat Archive. 'Wingleader', publishers of the excellent 'Luftwaffe Crash Archive' series of volumes, have just announced the future publication of their new series of ten volumes, title as above, which will be available as of the 15th September, and can be pre-ordered...

Hi all, Its been a while, but I'm back after being insanely busy with work for about 12 months. While I've got a little more spare time, I'm working on a long-ish piece on the realistic(-ish) possibilities for a long-range Spitfire emerging in 1941-1942. With that in mind, does anyone...

How often has an aircraft been retired before its successor was ready, creating a capability gap? And how often has a force (Air Force, Navy, etc) gotten away with the gap vs suffering in combat for it?

What was the greatest altitude where combat between fighters took place. I know the RAF intercepted Ju86 PR planes at 40,000ft+ but that was a specially lightened Spitfire against a converted bomber. I am asking how high did regular combat take place between standard service models of...

Italian plane exported to Belgium captured by Germans. Most captured ones joined the Luftwaffe in a training role although a few did see combat action again. Falca ve službách Luftwaffe , Fiat CR.42 aces of WWII, Osprey aircraft of the aces 90, by Häkan Gustavsson and Ludovico Slongo. It has a...

Couple of manuals for teaching fundamentals. Enjoy!!!

The much feared scourge of Pacific, the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, is still a best known Japanese fighter. I'd love to see it's combat record for the early days of it's use, as well as other interesting facts. Spurred by the post of our parsifal, where is this stated, among other:

I have an odd question that has come up in conversations with several other people and I wanted to run it by you guys. If a military plane was destroyed on the ground during Pearl Harbor, would that aircraft be considered as having been lost or destroyed during combat?

As always it is sometimes hard to find good info about Russian planes on the internet. Something i am wondering is in regards to the Yak-3's prevalence during the battle of Kursk. All i can find so far is that there were enough of them that the Luftwaffe seemed to notice them enough that this...

Ok guys, here's some Big Band music to get you "in the mood" while working on the next Group Build or reading a book about the air war over Europe. Or for that matter, it's just good stuff to listen to anytime! These are high-quality WAV files that were proprietary to a great combat sim that...