CHECKERTAILS

HELLS ANGELS

MOSQUITO LEGENDS

 

My Story...

After years and years of playing every flightsim ever released for the PC along came IL2

I have been tinkering with the IL2 mission builder for many years, but it was only after reading many of my old WW2 books, and Osprey Aviation books again, that i realised nobody had made campaigns yet for many of these heroes and famous units...so if you want something done right - do it yourself !

• My first campaign  ' Enter The Eighth ' is the story of the early days of the 56th Fighter Group.
• My second campaign 'Reach For The Sky' - is the Douglas Bader Story.
• Next came - 'Checkertails Across The Med ' which tells the story of the U.S 325th FG in North Africa and Italy.
• For my latest work I released my first Bomber and first fully modded campaign - 'Hell's Angels'
• Work is now underway on my next campaign - 'Mosquito Legends!'

THE HISTORY SO FAR........

Flight simulation is one of the oldest video game genres that still continues to survive today. Many of us remember how incredible those first flight simulators seemed way back then a couple of decades ago. It’s even more amazing to look at flight simulators that are available today. They are ages beyond what we could ever imagine in our wildest dreams just a few years ago. Computing power of today’s home machines is finally approaching the levels that allow developers to create almost life-like 3d graphics and underlying physics modeling that make up a modern flight simulation.

For most of the history of flight sims the genre was dominated by products from large American publishers, focusing mostly on American and other Western aircraft. Thus when in late 1998 an unknown to the sim community Russian developer Oleg Maddox began promoting his new project focusing on the Russian Front of World War II the news were largely met with skepticism. However as more information on the project was revealed, and first screenshots began to appear, the international flight sim community’s attitude changed to ever more increasing anticipation. The project promised so much in terms of graphics and aircraft performance that some skeptics even claimed such a flight sim simply couldn’t exist, and was nothing but an elaborate hoax to swindle publishers out of some cash.

The first flight sim in the series, IL-2 Sturmovik, was released in November of 2001 and single-handedly revolutionized the genre. Not only did it instantly make all previous flight sims obsolete, even many of the competing products developed and released at a later time seemed dated to the original IL-2. The graphic engine, immaculately accurate and detailed aircraft exteriors and interiors, as well as highly advanced flight, damage and weapon modeling create a total package still unmatched by any flight sim to this day ! To learn the full story of IL2 click here.