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awesome stuff..
Originally Posted by Rawsthorne
What Skynight is that? I feel that you can tell the influence this had on the Intruder in these shots.
Sean
Nice screenshots Rawsthorne and beautiful clouds
Cheers,
Huub
Thanks, Huub - the skies were generated using Flight 1's "Flight Environment" for FS2004, that gave you a lot of nice water effects tooNice screenshots Rawsthorne and beautiful clouds
Cheers,
Huub
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Cheers, buddy
Hi, Sean - I'm afraid I don't remember where I got it - I took these screenshots years ago and only found them again recently. It might have been freeware from "PC Pilot" - I'll see whether I can find it & get back to you, mate
Mid 1943 the FW190s from JG1 at Deelen received checker board cowls. This was done to to make the aircraft easier to recognise and would facilitate easier re-formation. These checker boards disappeared as fast as the were introduced.
Until recent unclear for me why, but I was reading a nice story about the (possible) reason.
A 1./JG 1 mechanic named August Michalski stated the following:
"one day our airfield at Deelen was raided by P-47s - their cowlings were also finished in the chequer board scheme. Because of this the airfield flak failed to open up on them - they thought they were our own aircraft- and the P-47s were able to strafe the field entirely unhampered...following this debacle our Fw 190s quickly had their checker cowls over-painted."
Now this could be a very plausible reason, however I have my doubts. Personally I can't recall a unit flying P47s in 1943 which has checker board cowlings. As far as I have seen the P47 flew in the standard scheme with the front end of the cowling painted white and a white strip on the tail unit late spring 1944, when the first deviation of this scheme started to appear.
But still it is a nice story and good reason to post some screenshots
Cheers,
Huub
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