The AS-TBR ASW/Anti-Ship Sea Enforcement carrier or land based dual prop/jet turbine aircraft project: A what-if project supposedly from the 50's/60's that could still even be flying today as reserve or small nation type use. based 'loosely' on a combination of ideas... original USN TBF base, with ideas from the USN Guardian prototypes, British Navy Gannet types, and French Navy Alize types.

in Guardian skin guise:
http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg837...jpg&res=medium

in Gannet skin guise:
http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg860...jpg&res=medium

in Alize skin guise:
http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg841...jpg&res=medium

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg31/...jpg&res=medium

features: powerful Twin prop turbo prop jet engine, with turbine sounds. retains two Browning .50 cal mg's for small ship straffing/torpedo/mine exploding, several modern bomb loads, depth charges with parachute rigs, ship killer homing missiles, ship killer homing torpedo, drop tanks for long range. Note missiles and torpedo have 'special' high explosive shaped charges for one shot one kill on most ships. aim, fire, forget. fully useable on carrier or land air strips. multiple skins included, USN, British, French. three person cockpits for naval duties. main canopy opens and closes. plane handles very good, takeoff/landing from carriers easy.

more info and DL link here:
http://freeil2modding.free-forum.net...et-vt1025.html

ton's latest screenie of it...he does great screenies! :-)

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg19/...jpg&res=medium

ton made a nice youtube vid for the AS-TBR... ;)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV2zlAbkoBk&feature=youtu.be[/youtube]

sorry, no updates in awhile...i've been very sick.

here's a nice NEW MIG by S3.

http://i46.tinypic.com/ruxmah.jpg

get it at Free Modding, (of course.) ;) make sure you've got what you need to fly it. enjoy.

Uhhhh just a FYI .. the F-8 was a Crusader... the A-7 was a Corsair .. I know .. I worked on them.. ;)

right, thanks for the correction but yeah i am aware of the difference so no real need to overpower me with infinite knowledge.... you see as it is we're working on both the Crusader "and" the Corsair and i was thinking of the one while typing the other. i guess that's never happened to some of you guys, but as a sixty plus year old guy it happens to me a lot these days. :(

also, since the prostate cancer surgery, i pee my pants quite frequently. distressing to say the least and a whole lot worse than saying one thing while meaning another.

it would be embarrasing to admit that... except... that i know that 'sooner' or 'later'... all you guys will be in the same boat as me. it's just a matter of ...time.

:-P:-P:-P

the 'real' A7 Corsair project... a WIP that should go pre-beta for general early testing in a 'few' days (barring unforseen problems, of course.) Mario's work just gets better and better as he goes along.

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/117/readyforskin.png

i'll forward info soon as it goes gold.

S! :grin:

Beo

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg812...pg&res=landing

nicely done work of art... though for now AI only, Bravo's done a super job of getting this bird built and looking grand. read more about it at the DL post at Free Modding.

http://freeil2modding.free-forum.net...-0-vt1335.html

Super!

:D

Beo

here's a better pic of it, courtesy of ton.

http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg443...pg&res=landing

the final evolution of my old T6 Texan stand-in... almost complete redone by ton and with marvelous results.

http://i50.tinypic.com/dyoop4.jpg

available for download now:

http://freeil2modding.free-forum.net...-1-vt1383.html

be sure to give him a kind word on it. it's a very worthy download and he's put in MUCH hard work on it.

;)

Bell UH-1 Iroquois "Huey" Helicopter & Gunship

http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/8...2013144535.jpg

"Nam time in IL2. yee-haw!"

http://freeil2modding.free-forum.net...ip-vt1665.html