IL-2 and Rise of Flight

[ZiggyM]

B.A.T. (JTW - The Jet Age)

Special Aircraft Service - Index

Special Aircraft Service - Index

www.sas1946.com

Carrier qual enroute to Korea, June 1950.

 

[Highbank]

No way...they have a Panther mod

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B.A.T. (JTW - The Jet Age)

Special Aircraft Service - Index

Special Aircraft Service - Index

www.sas1946.com

Carrier qual enroute to Korea, June 1950.

 

[ZiggyM]

No way...they have a Panther mod

Yep! It's got just about everything that ever took the sky in the 20th century!

B.A.T. comes with 4 eras (can't cross them, sadly) - Dawn of Flight (Not sure if the Wright Flyer is in there but Bleriot's flight across the English Channel through the 20s is), The Golden Age (1930s), World at War (1940s/WWII) and The Jet Age (late 1940s through 2000).

It's MASSIVE! 13 x 4GB downloads, after you install the 12 x 1GB IL-2 Megapatch 4.12.2m.
I think they said there were a total of 2100 total aircraft.

BAT Downloads

BAT Downloads

www.sas1946.com

 

[ZiggyM]

July 3, 1950 - Pyongyang airfield​

 

[mtblillie]

You should make a Bridges at Toko-Ri mission

 

[ZiggyM]

You should make a Bridges at Toko-Ri mission

I've forgotten so much about making missions and campaigns, but if I start into it, it will be on the list. I want to make a Tuskegee Airman campaign, starting in training, then the P-40, P-39, P-47 and finally the P-51.
I dated the daughter of Lt Col James Henry Harvey III (first "Top Gun") about a decade ago and when she told me who her dad was, I was shocked. He waited to have kids until he was done with his service so he wouldn't leave any orphans. When I got to meet him, I was like a kid at Christmas! Such a soft spoken, kind, great man.
I'm wondering in the Bridged at Toko-Ri already exists.. I'll have to look for it. The guys/gals at SAS have a LOT of missions and I've only skimmed the surface.

 

[Highbank]

I used make missions and run them then watch the replays over and over from different aircraft....

 

[ZiggyM]

You should make a Bridges at Toko-Ri mission

I just checked the "Screaming Eagles over Korea" d/l and mission #18 briefing says something like "06:00, October 12, 1950 - The Bridges at Toko Ri are a major choke point in the North Korean Highlands."

I just have to survive 16 missions to get there!

 

[ZiggyM]

July 4, 1950 - Pyongyang Railhead
Mission #3 of "Screaming Eagles Over Korea" - https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,49345.0.html
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[mtblillie]

I just checked the "Screaming Eagles over Korea" d/l and mission #18 briefing says something like "06:00, October 12, 1950 - The Bridges at Toko Ri are a major choke point in the North Korean Highlands."

I just have to survive 16 missions to get there!

I figured if it didn't have the movie version maybe it would have the mission the movie was more or less based off of. Except in that mission the F2H Banshee (used in the novel version and in real life) had the duty of suppressing anti-aircraft guns as they could not carry bombs heavy enough to knock out the bridges. AD (later A-1) Skyraiders were given the task of taking down the bridges.

 

[ZiggyM]

I figured if it didn't have the movie version maybe it would have the mission the movie was more or less based off of. Except in that mission the F2H Banshee (used in the novel version and in real life) had the duty of suppressing anti-aircraft guns as they could not carry bombs heavy enough to knock out the bridges. AD (later A-1) Skyraiders were given the task of taking down the bridges.

Screaming Eagles mission #18 says "VF51 Panthers will have the job of dropping the bridges themselves. VF52 will fly Top Cover and the Corsair and Skyraider squadrons will handle flak suppression." so it's more based on the movie.
I'm betting I could rearrange stuff so the SPADs take out the bridge and the Panters take the 'wild weasel' roll. I have yet to check out the F2 Banshee missions but I have a feeling it's in there.

 

[ZiggyM]

July 5, 1950 - Close Air Support near Kaesong
Mission #4 of "Screaming Eagles Over Korea" - https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,49345.0.html​

 

[ZiggyM]

July 6, 1950 - Combat Air Patrol over the Yellow Sea, SW of Kaesong
Mission #5 of "Screaming Eagles Over Korea - https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,49345.0.html​

 

[Highbank]

Party over for the Yak

 

[ZiggyM]

July 7, 1950 - Intercept over Kaesong
Mission #6 of "Screaming Eagles Over Korea - https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,49345.0.html
IL-10 puts the "DAMN!" in "damaged" (no kill)​

 

[Highbank]

It's a tank!

 

[ZiggyM]

July 9, 1950 - Close Air Support near Uisong and Osan
Mission #7 of "Screaming Eagles Over Korea - https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,49345.0.html​

 

[ZiggyM]

July 21, 1950 - Close Air Support near Chinju (Jinju)
Mission #8 of "Screaming Eagles Over Korea - https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,49345.0.html
T-26 puts the 'AA' in "Aargh!" (aircraft lost after crash landing on carrier, pilot walked away unhurt)
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[mtblillie]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvyBrX1eK4I


"They'd never expect us to come back."

 

[ZiggyM]

August 8, 1950 - Close Air Support just North of Pusan
Mission #9 of "Screaming Eagles Over Korea - https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,49345.0.html
2xAN-M64 500 pounders putting the 'light' in "Light Um Up"​