Ryan Field (KRYN) is a quaint little airfield. Sitting out in the Sonoran desert west of Tucson, AZ, it’s by no means a large airport, although it has a tower, two parallel runways, and lots of occupied hangar space. At 10:30am on Thursday, April 10th, the infamous Tucson heat was already picking up but traffic […]
Introduction As a long time digital aviator, I’ve had a somewhat tepid relationship with Yaw. Frankly, it’s not the most exciting input one can make to an aircraft. In fact, it’s been relegated to clean-up duty for the mess other inputs make: Yank back on the stick in your Spitfire? Yaw’s there to deliver a […]
Long-time contributor Steve Serdikoff provided these March calendar images in honor of the US Navy Blue Angels and USAF Thunderbirds 2014 air show schedules. The US Navy Blue Angels were photographed at Andrews AFB in May 2012. Their 2014 show schedule is here. The USAF Thunderbirds were photographed in the diamond formation takeoff at Dover […]
I am a Warthog addict. Who isn’t, right? I do my best to immerse myself in the Warthog world: books, all the YouTube videos I can watch, and, of course, I spend as much time as I can afford in Eagle Dynamics’ DCS A-10C Warthog with my Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS. To us fanbois (and fangurls), […]
In this final article for our IL-2 retrospective, we look at the last chapter in the series, IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 and what came afterwards – the unique collaboration with a group of modders, Team Daidalos. IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 (2006) Tom Cofield once again leapt bravely into dark waters predicting in 2006 that IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946 […]
So far we have looked at the first chapters of the IL-2 legend, IL-2 Sturmovik and Forgotten Battles. Now we move from Europe to the Pacific. Fighting the Publisher: IL-2 Pacific Fighters (2004) “…in what has to be the final utilization for the IL-2 engine, Oleg Maddox, Ilya Shevchenko and company have released Pacific Fighters, […]
Review by Jens “McGonigle” Lindblad Introduction Having followed the development of Over Flanders Fields from its early inception as Phase 1, over the introduced refinements in Phases 2 and 3, to the Hat in the Ring release and the renaming to Wings Over Flanders Fields, the Old Brown Dog developers now release their long anticipated […]
In our first retrospective article on IL-2 we covered the release of the original IL-2 Sturmovik and took a walk down Oleg Maddox’s memory lane. Gone, But Not Forgotten Following hot on the heels of the successful IL-2 Sturmovik, came the Forgotten Battles release in 2003. This stand-alone title in the series came slightly more […]
SimHQ’s Jens “McGonigle” Lindblad talks with Matt Milne in anticipation of the planned December release of Wings Over Flanders Fields for which Matt has scored and produced the original soundtrack. UK composer Matt Milne has been writing music for 16 years, producing music for over 100 short, feature films, games, tv and trailers. Matt has also […]
Could there be a more daunting challenge in sim literature than writing a retrospective on the IL-2 Sturmovik series of combat flight sim titles? None that I can think of! So to help put more than a decade of work into context we have turned to the man behind the series, Oleg Maddox, to give […]
Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations – A brief bit of background Though this is a review of Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations, I believe it would useful to take a look at how it came to be, and who’s responsible for designing it. If you have no interest in this background info, you can skip right to […]
Ken “Arthonon” Cartwright took these WWII warbirds from Pacific Theatre of Operations at the Planes of Fame Air Show on May 4th in Chino, California. The Val is not authentic, it’s converted from an American plane. Visit Ken’s aviation web site, techflyer.net for more of his beautiful photos. Corsairs SBD Val Zero
