This is meant to be an historical campaign, based on the carrier battles of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons (22-25 August 1942) and the Battle of Santa Cruz (25-27 October 1942. I named the campaign “Desperate Battles” because at this stage of the war the US Navy was fighting uphill. That is, they had fewer resources than the Japanese, in many ways inferior aircraft and less experienced pilots. In both battles, the Japanese are the attackers and the USN has to fight a defensive struggle. The dates, times and locations of each engagement (mission) are as close as possible to the actual ones. Ship names, locations and courses as well as aircraft numbers and types are as accurate as possible. Attack angles and targets are set up to give historical results, but you, the player can change history (slightly). The campaign consists of various missions; recon, strike, defensive and land based as well as carrier based. Random chance plays a big role in the numbers of defensive aircraft and in some cases, whether or not a target will be there at all. Call signs and aircraft skins however are not historical. Carrier task forces are set up to sail into a 15 knot wind on takeoff and landing. Using the alternate dps provided for the Usio ships and the FDG alternate files for US aircraft should make this campaign even more realistic and challenging.

McDonnell-Douglas MD-83, cn 49846, registration YV481T. Textures only for SGA's latest Douglas MD-80 series release, (sga80.zip), by Erick Cantu & Frank Idone package. Fully reworked textures, tail and wings. By Juan Ernesto Oropeza.

By the late 1930s, Beechcraft management speculated that a demand would exist for a new design dubbed the Model 18 which would have a military application, and increased the main production facilities. The design was mainly conventional for the time, including twin radial engines, all-metal semi-monocoque construction with fabric covered control surfaces and "taildragger" undercarriage, while less common were the twin tail fins. Work began in earnest on a variant specifically for training military pilots, bombardiers and navigators. The effort resulted in the Army AT-7 and Navy SNB. Further development led to the AT-11 and SNB-2 navigation trainers and the C-45 military transport.

This is a fictional repaint I did for the payware A2A Piper Cub. This livery represents a fictional outfitter and air service out of Sitka, AK. I've also included a special pilot repaint; he's wearing Cabelas camo, and an Elkhorn Outfitters hat. This is intended to be the tundra version.. Enjoy!

CFS3 Bf 110C-3 3./ZG 26 U8+DL Attack in the West spring 1940 Paintscheme in RLM 70/71/65 Original plane by James Grimes stand alone version Flight dynamics by Bill "Spitfrnd" Wilson Weapons by AvHistory Flight testing by Bob "Wulfmann" Ruff repaint & hex editing by Foute Man filename: fs_bf110c3_u8dl.zip To fly this plane you need to have the fs_bf110c_shared files installed. 1.8MB

CFS2 "A Tomb in the Clouds, Mission 2: Save the Lexington" is the second in my series of CFS2 single missions. In this fictional mission, you command a group of F4F Wildcats with the simple mission objective of protecting the USS Lexington. Unfortunately, its not that simple, it's the beginning of a large battle with your base, at Wake Island, in the middle. Are the Japanese after the island or the carrier? Richie Barrett. 62K

CFS2 Fokker VIII Landplane twin-engined floatplane, designed as torpedo bomber for the Dutch Navy. The first T.8 prototype flew in 1938. The aircraft entered production in 1939. After May 1940. This version (T-8L) was based on a unique pic of the prototype and there are no further information about it. Model and textures by Richard Alexander van Hien (Payakan). CFS2 conversion Pepe Rezende. 10.4MB

CFS2 A6M3-Type32 of Zuikaku at Bouganville during 1943 This is a repaint of Gerald Lindell's fabulous Mitsubishi A6M3 "Hamp" fighter for CFS2 (and FS2002), version 1.0. An orginal multi-resolution design with breaking parts and full animation. credits: fsds2 model by Gerald Lindell. Original Textures by George Lindell. Current textures by Phanis Sima. Flight model, damage profile and vc gauge animation by Andre van Duin. Panel by Lobo da Silva. 3.8MB see update below

FS2004 Airbus A320 Splashscreen. Created from an image found on the net. Original author unknown. Adrian Varro. 1.6MB

FS2004 Video-This is a Windows Media Player video of many of the default and addon aircraft for FS9. It has mostly military but also has vintage aircraft. Video by: Ryan Osborne-This is a Windows Media Player video of many of the default and addon aircraft for FS9. It has mostly military but also has vintage aircraft. Video by: Ryan Osborne. 18.5MB