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by Moggy
Tue Mar 05, 2024 3:14 pm
Forum: The Erk's Mess
Topic: Shamrock Spitfire: Film spotlights Irish flying ace
Replies: 1
Views: 2993

The Shamrock Spitfire review – Irish flying ace takes stage in nostalgic wartime weepie

The story of 1940s fighter pilot Brendan Finucane, AKA ‘Spitfire Paddy’, is told with panache, even if it lays it on a bit thick. https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a6e485c90d61bdb77342c89ab03ebd0624329e18/0_182_5472_3283/master/5472.jpg?width=1900&dpr=1&s=none he unabashed wartime weepie is a l...
by Moggy
Tue Mar 05, 2024 12:25 pm
Forum: The Erk's Mess
Topic: Little Wars and Obscure Planes
Replies: 6
Views: 188

Re: Little Wars and Obscure Planes

Thanks for the clean up job Ray!

:beer:

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by Moggy
Mon Mar 04, 2024 10:59 am
Forum: The Erk's Mess
Topic: One of the most important planes of the 1920s & 1930s
Replies: 4
Views: 88

Re: One of the most important planes of the 1920s & 1930s

Fixed it. Seems to be related to my slight reshaping of the wing.
by Moggy
Sun Mar 03, 2024 8:37 pm
Forum: The Erk's Mess
Topic: One of the most important planes of the 1920s & 1930s
Replies: 4
Views: 88

Re: One of the most important planes of the 1920s & 1930s

I'll get straight to that :yes:

Probably a few more to come as I work back through the various theatres.
by Moggy
Sun Mar 03, 2024 5:28 pm
Forum: The Erk's Mess
Topic: One of the most important planes of the 1920s & 1930s
Replies: 4
Views: 88

One of the most important planes of the 1920s & 1930s

Was the Fokker Tri-motor airliner. The 737 of its time for that then small class of people that could actually afford air travel. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/DonThomasPosters13_%2819291814749%29.jpg Also used by explorers and record breakers, and a few found their way to Pola...
by Moggy
Fri Mar 01, 2024 4:35 pm
Forum: The Erk's Mess
Topic: Little Wars and Obscure Planes
Replies: 6
Views: 188

Re: Little Wars and Obscure Planes

I've sent you the WN.21. Grateful for any improvements.
by Moggy
Wed Feb 28, 2024 6:34 pm
Forum: The Erk's Mess
Topic: Little Wars and Obscure Planes
Replies: 6
Views: 188

Re: Little Wars and Obscure Planes

Many thanks. I'll drop the file in shortly. Some more screens: http://mogggy.org/pictures/SCRN0364.jpg http://mogggy.org/pictures/SCRN0368.jpg http://mogggy.org/pictures/SCRN0369.jpg http://mogggy.org/pictures/SCRN0371.jpg http://mogggy.org/pictures/SCRN0372.jpg http://mogggy.org/pictures/SCRN0373.j...
by Moggy
Mon Feb 26, 2024 5:24 pm
Forum: The Erk's Mess
Topic: Little Wars and Obscure Planes
Replies: 6
Views: 188

Little Wars and Obscure Planes

One of the things that is so interesting in fleshing out the Italy/Balkans/Ukraine map is the unknown little skirmishes and and the forgotton planes that flew in them. When Adolf Hitler ripped up the Versailles Treaty and started redrawing the international boundaries in central Europe he opened a w...
by Moggy
Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:02 pm
Forum: The Erk's Mess
Topic: Battle of Britain campaign issue
Replies: 8
Views: 146

Re: Battle of Britain campaign issue

Hello! Not a question I can answer personally, as I don't run many campaign games these days. I'm concentrated on single missions. Maybe Jel might have a view. I recall he did some work on campaigns a little while back. Suggest you install 1.6 and give it a go. There is an updated BoB campaign among...
by Moggy
Sun Feb 25, 2024 1:05 am
Forum: The Erk's Mess
Topic: Exhibition remembers wartime B17 crash
Replies: 0
Views: 64

Exhibition remembers wartime B17 crash

Stanwick Lakes exhibition opens to mark military aircraft crash https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/11973/production/_132715027_b17rememberanceceremony-postingthecolours-usairforcehonorguard.jpg.webp The 80th anniversary of a fatal military aircraft collision has been marked with a temporary...
by Moggy
Wed Feb 21, 2024 1:36 am
Forum: The Erk's Mess
Topic: Moggy's Log February 2024
Replies: 2
Views: 147

Re: Moggy's Log February 2024

The odd thing is, sometimes it doesn't work if you give the FM dual nationality. Does work if it's one or the other. The workaround I have adopted is to have a pair of FMs, one British, one American, and use the one that works in a particular setup.
by Moggy
Wed Feb 21, 2024 12:54 am
Forum: The Erk's Mess
Topic: Screenshots from 22 years ago Jan-Feb 2002
Replies: 0
Views: 77

Screenshots from 22 years ago Jan-Feb 2002

Twenty two years ago, in January and February 2002, we were working a number of interesting EAW things. First of all there was the very first illustration of how a high res plane might be built from the paste-on files used by the complex four engine bomber models: http://mogggy.org/pictures/efg.jpg ...
by Moggy
Tue Feb 20, 2024 9:06 pm
Forum: The Erk's Mess
Topic: Chris Cartledge, Fleet Air Arm pilot who bombed Tirpitz
Replies: 5
Views: 159

Re: Chris Cartledge, Fleet Air Arm pilot who bombed Tirpitz

Oh, that's interesting. I wonder if some sort of flaps augmentation might have sorted the Seafire problem, lower speed landings.
by Moggy
Tue Feb 20, 2024 6:24 pm
Forum: The Erk's Mess
Topic: Fall Grun 1938. What if?
Replies: 0
Views: 84

Fall Grun 1938. What if?

September 1938. Munich Conference has failed. Czech Air Force supported by Soviet Expeditionary Force defend Bratislava against Luftwaffe attack: http://mogggy.org/EAW/EAW41.jpg http://mogggy.org/EAW/EAW42.jpg http://mogggy.org/EAW/EAW43.jpg http://mogggy.org/EAW/EAW44.jpg View the mission: http://m...
by Moggy
Tue Feb 20, 2024 4:50 pm
Forum: The Erk's Mess
Topic: Moggy's Log February 2024
Replies: 2
Views: 147

Moggy's Log February 2024

Continuing with the Italy-Balkans-Ukraine setup, I have made what seems to be good progress with sorting out the single mission selection CTD problem. My suspicion was that his was down to the limited useability of originally axis air bases on the other side of the frontline. We discovered many year...