Simviation Forum - Thunderbolt!

Aug 23^rd, 2003 at 9:58am

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Duxford, summer 1944

P-47D Thunderbolts of the 82nd Fighter Squadron, 78th Fighter Group USAAF, prepare for a seek and destroy mission in occupied France.

Heavy with fuel and ammo, the 82nd gets airborne.

82nd on the prowl.

An enemy airfield makes for a juicy target!

The business end! A spot of strafing.

The defenders scramble and it all kicks off.

A classic dogfight.

With no ammo left and only fumes in the tank, the sight of Duxford is a very welcome one indeed.

Now, the ground crew need to patch her up before another big day tomorrow.

Thanks to Sock for reminding me how great this plane is Wink

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Reply #1 - Aug 23^rd, 2003 at 10:44am

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Looks like you had a lot of fun in that there Jug Roger.

Mark Wink

There are two types of aeroplane, Spitfires and everything else that wishes it was a Spitfire!

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Reply #2 - Aug 23^rd, 2003 at 11:35am

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too bad that they keep a hard runway for you in1944....I seem to remember pics of grass air-"fields" Roll Eyes

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Reply #3 - Aug 23^rd, 2003 at 11:54am

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Well your welcome! I'll get the rest of those pics up Sunday night or Monday morning. Great shots of a great plane. Did you get that Fokker?

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Reply #4 - Aug 23^rd, 2003 at 5:01pm

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Well your welcome! I'll get the rest of those pics up Sunday night or Monday morning. Great shots of a great plane. Did you get that Fokker?

Sock Grin

One Fw 190D Destroyed, one damaged. My wingman got another but my flight lost one plane.

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too bad that they keep a hard runway for you in1944....I seem to remember pics of grass air-"fields"

Ken pal, Duxford has both, but the Jug likes the hard one better Wink

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Reply #5 - Aug 23^rd, 2003 at 5:50pm

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Ken they were called Aerodromes back in those days Wink

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Reply #6 - Aug 23^rd, 2003 at 7:49pm

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awesome pix! where did u get the scenery??? i want some descent british airfields for the CFS2, all my european shots are taken over Spanish Civil War fields Tongue

(no one notices, i never show the runways... Roll Eyes

) anyway thats a great jug!!! is that a repaint of Kristof Malinowsky's (spelling please???)

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Reply #7 - Aug 24^th, 2003 at 6:02am

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awesome pix! where did u get the scenery??? i want some descent british airfields for the CFS2, all my european shots are taken over Spanish Civil War fields Tongue

(no one notices, i never show the runways... Roll Eyes

) anyway thats a great jug!!! is that a repaint of Kristof Malinowsky's (spelling please???)

Thanks pal, glad you like them. The plane is one of the K M Thunderbolts (one of three in the collection called KM_P-47_Pack_4-6_DP). All the scenery is from here at Sim V. The Duxford set is the GZR Duxford scenery. It's quite old now, but it still looks great and is easy to install.

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Reply #8 - Aug 24^th, 2003 at 4:20pm

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k, thanx

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Reply #9 - Aug 24^th, 2003 at 7:43pm

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i love the screenshots. and the plane looks great

Still have a nice PC but I just switched to a hella nice mac

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Reply #10 - Aug 25^th, 2003 at 8:48am

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Hawker,
Great pictures!
The captions make for an interesting story!
NICE!!
Dave 8)

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Reply #11 - Aug 25^th, 2003 at 2:12pm

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Thanks for all the comments guys. It may be getting old, but CFS2 still rocks Grin

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