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[Vampire_pilot]

Well, they asked for "speed at sea-level"?

[Vampire_pilot]

[Vampire_pilot]

Flying into a BAT near you.

I was in the mood and made a P-84A (or F-84B respectively in JTW). A Thunderjet with the earlier J35 engine as a pure six-gun fighter.




This plane has a unique device, called a dust sniffer. It is mounted in the forward wheel well and looks downwards. As soon as it sniffs dust at the end of the runway, take off is initiated...



FM is tailored to use up every last foot of a long paved runway in IL-2 with the lead plane of a four ship flightline.
But only if you use chocks and spool up the engine to 100% thrust before releasing the chocks. RATO is for weaklings.

[Geschirr]

Love it vamp! I always enjoy seeing jets wearing the pre-1947 insignia. Such a rarity. Thanks.

[Yaro59]

Very good. Interesting

[Vampire_pilot]

Yellow wings and no end... I have no idea if I ever showed you this. My "hack" of the USS Langley in it's mid-20s long deck configuration, before she was rebuilt as tender to comply with the Washington naval accords.  A can of paint, some wood work and a little rearrangement of the funnels.  It'll be in TGA BAT 4.2.2

On deck are Curtiss P1 and USMC Vought Corsairs. The skins will be out at some point too.

[Vampire_pilot]

Japanese Zeppelins, seriously??

Well, actually almost.

As a victory nation, Japan received LZ75, an R-class ship, from Germany as reparation in 1920. It was delivered in disassembled state, along with a complete hangar. Little is known about it's fate but it never was reassembled to fly. But the hanger was erected and housed Graf Zeppelin during it's world tour in 1929.

For a time, Japan had a determination to develop a Naval Airship Service, one of the more notable pilots being Takijuro Onishi who was trained in England after World War One and who went on to conceive the idea and tactics for the Kamikaze planes of World War II.

Now what if Onishi was reporting back about the trials with R.33 and parasite planes and what if that idea would have been adopted by the IJN...

Here we see LZ75 "Amaterasu" in it's late configuration over Mount Fuji, ca. 1927, approaching a BAT TGA near you.

[HaFu1939]

Just amazing... thank to your imagination I've read about Japanese Military Airships for the first time... I look forward to the next TGA.
Best regards,
HaFu1939

[CzechTexan]

I like that Rising Sun peaking up over the body of the zeppelin.

[Vampire_pilot]

Chance Hardman's first plane was a Jenny...

[Vampire_pilot]

[Ta183Huckebein]

Oooo, early USAAS stuff!

Looking great!