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More specifically I will round it down to four contenders which were fairly established in the late 50's, early 60s Hawker Hunter Dassault Mystère F-86 Sabre MiG-17 Each has it's advantages and limitations, it's a tough choice, I think I'd go for a Hunter for it's all round...

from airliners.net B17 B24 Airliners.net Photos: Untitled (Experimental Aircraft Association) Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress (299P) Spitfire Airliners.net Photos: UK - Air Force Supermarine 349 Spitfire LF5B Airliners.net Photos: Untitled Supermarine 361 Spitfire LF9B P-51...

I have heard of stuff like filing down the rivets and waxing the airframe to eek out a few more mph, but your mechanic/crew chief would have to really like you or have owed you big time for all the effort involved in that for not a whole lot of gain.

have to admit that is pretty cool, looks like a cross between an F/A-18, Su-27 and the XP-55.

crunchy nut cornflakes

happened just the other month in the UK, an Irish pilot landed a Ryanair flight at a UK military base by accident

Anyone know if there are any aircraft featured? (surely they must have at least a token flypast or something somewhere in it?)

Well using my real name as it wont accept my username: R.O.S.S.: Robotic Organism Skilled in Sabotage

Now they are members of the six feet under club as well.

I doubt fight tactics have really changed at all actually. Speed is still king as it always has been. Why else do you think they are concentrating on supercruise, the faster aircraft always has the advantage because it can dictate the fight. Long range missiles are fine, but have one very...

The mushroom cloud will probably be from the Pe-8 Bomber which carries a monster bomb called the FAB-5000, nicknamed the mini nuke in game. You can fly the aircraft online sometimes, and it's great for completely screwing up the enemies airfield, unfortunately you need to be quite high (at least...

There are barrage ballons that you can shoot down (well make them eplode), look for them in the mission generator (or around airfields in some online servers)

What about those early Typhoons with the 'car' door, they probably wouldn't be that easy to get out either, especially if it was going fast and you were trying to open the door against the wind resistence. I imagine most bombers would have been something of a deathtrap, at least for the pilots...

A peroxide based explosive that can be made from commonly available products so they aren't releasing full details of what it was, it can't be detected by anything so they are banning all liquids from being brought on board. Of course they need a detonator as well so you kiss good bye to...

Found this on the Il2 Forum and thought you chaps might like a look. How Today's Media Would Report The June 6, 1944 D-Day Landings At Normandy June 6, 1944. - NORMANDY - Three hundred French civilians were killed and thousands more wounded today in the first hours of America's invasion of...