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Offline Greebo

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Desert Lightning
« on: November 24, 2019, 09:06:55 AM »
Thanks as always to Lyric1 for finding me the info for this skin.

In July 1942 the 14th Fighter Group flew their P-38 Lightnings to England via Iceland. In November they were transferred to the Algeria to form part of the 12th Air Force and here performed escort missions for US bombers, as well as long range strikes on Axis, trucks, shipping and transport aircraft. This 14th FG aircraft was given a field-applied camouflage scheme of brown splotches to help it blend into the desert terrain.





Offline Arlo

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Re: Desert Lightning
« Reply #1 on: November 24, 2019, 10:14:45 AM »
Beautiful!  :aok :cheers: :salute

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Re: Desert Lightning
« Reply #2 on: November 24, 2019, 10:35:58 AM »
Awesome!
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Offline Vraciu

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Re: Desert Lightning
« Reply #3 on: November 24, 2019, 11:27:33 AM »
Cool one.  Great job.

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Offline lyric1

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Re: Desert Lightning
« Reply #4 on: November 24, 2019, 01:18:12 PM »
 :aok

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Re: Desert Lightning
« Reply #5 on: November 25, 2019, 01:20:45 AM »
WOW, really nice !
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Re: Desert Lightning
« Reply #6 on: November 26, 2019, 08:07:59 AM »
 :aok
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Re: Desert Lightning
« Reply #7 on: November 26, 2019, 09:39:09 AM »
amazing work!
There must also be a flyable computer available for Nefarious to do FSO. So he doesn't keep talking about it for eight and a half hours on Friday night!

Offline Puma44

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Re: Desert Lightning
« Reply #8 on: November 27, 2019, 09:26:04 AM »
Very nice!  Well done! :aok



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Re: Desert Lightning
« Reply #9 on: November 27, 2019, 10:14:13 AM »
As the ad in Robocop says... "I like it".
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Offline hgtonyvi

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Re: Desert Lightning
« Reply #10 on: November 28, 2019, 02:12:43 PM »
Damn that is a sexy skin...great work... :aok

Offline CptTrips

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Re: Desert Lightning
« Reply #11 on: November 29, 2019, 04:49:51 PM »
Neato.

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Re: Desert Lightning
« Reply #12 on: December 05, 2019, 08:42:25 AM »
This is cool.
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Re: Desert Lightning
« Reply #13 on: December 09, 2019, 05:53:05 PM »
Love it!    :cheers: