Shipbucket

There was a red and white scheme and a plain blue with white undersides scheme AFAIK.

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Blood and Fire

This one?


or This one?

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Worklist:
- Victorian Navy - LINK
- ROC/Taiwan - 中華民國空軍 / 陸軍航特部 / 海軍航空兵 - LINK
- RHKAAF / HKGFS - 皇家香港輔助空軍 / 政府飛行服務隊
- Gunbucket - LINK

天滅中共全黨死清光!

Yep... I will probably be appropriating these soon for North Point BTW.

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USN components, camouflage colors, & reference links (World War II only)

Y'know, I see the bottom one and I think SAAF... anywho, a forgotten member of the P-51 Family, the fastest, lightest, longest, most manouverable, and least produced P-51 of the family of P-51s, the P-51H, why they ceased production after 500 airframes, is beyond me, it out performed the D models. Also while trying to update the D to the H, I found out our D is 2 pixels too short, an easy fix.

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"It is better to type nothing and be assumed an ass, than to type something and remove all doubt." - Me

Looks good!

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Jabba's Worklist

Thank's Jabba, only problem is I forgot the green light on the wing, lol

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"It is better to type nothing and be assumed an ass, than to type something and remove all doubt." - Me

Because by that time the F-80 was already clearly in the pipeline. There is no way a piston aircraft will compete with a jet-powered one. The only reason why the F-82 even survived at all was because range was the sole area where that didn't hold up (and even then the F-82 certainly didn't survive long, with or without it being unusual at best and an abomination for those less kindly inclined).

BTW, some fun facts (IIRC) - the F-82 prototype was created by joining two lengthened YP-51F frames with a common wing section. The YP-51F was the first serious effort at creating a lightweight, higher performance P-51 through a number of features - slightly thinner alloys (the original P-51 was in fact originally designed to stress specifications well over what the USAAF deemed really necessary), engine design (comparatively) advanced beyond the Merlin-derived engine in the current Mustangs, and a subtly redesigned fuselage that nonetheless was so structurally different the USAAF seriously considered giving it a new designation (the original YP-51F was noticeably smaller than the P-51D when placed side-by-side, almost like one of those newer kitplane replicas). The YP-51F received additional refinement (I think mostly just a new propeller) and became the P-51H you see that Nighthunter provided.

Largely because of those alloy changes that I mentioned, the P-51H was deemed too fragile for the type of ground-attack work most prop fighters were doing in Korea, hence why they went back to the P-51D (if you're wondering why they didn't use P-47s in Korea, it's because the USAF determined that too many had already been scrapped to support war attrition rates - and most of the ones still flying at the time were P-47Ns which received a similar alloy switch-over to the P-51H and due to their high-altitude performance were deemed more critical for homeland defense/bomber interception).

Also, I'm not going to cry or complain too much if someone points out that any of this is wrong.

EDIT: or you can read for yourself: http://www.airvectors.net/avp51_2.html#m5

Actually, a piston aircraft could compete with a jet aircraft, but not in terms of speed but in maneuverability. A P-51 could out maneuver any modern day fighter jet.

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If anyone wishes for their nations to interact with the countries of the Salidan Altiverse, please send me a PM, after which we can further discuss through email.

Great work with the F-16's DP

Here's the North American T-6 Texan trainer, also known as the Harvard in Commonwealth service:



I'll work on the different national markings as soon as I have a bit more time, but I know there will be a lot of them!
I don't mind if someone wants to do a particular country, but could you please just drop me a message so we don't double up - I think I'll be doing Canada first though. Of course it would also be great to see in any of the many excellent AU's on the forum.

Well, technically speaking...

http://www.shipbucket.com/images.php?di ... 0Texan.png

Anyway, regardless of which one will be used, there will be Harvard in the Polish Wings - used by the Polish Air Force in Great Britain (as mentioned here: http://www.shipbucket.com/forums/viewto ... 785#p98785 ).