The Flare Path: Hello Kittyhawk

IL-2 Sturmovik: Desert Wings - Tobruk

IL-2 STURMOVIK, DESERT WINGS - TOBRUK is an immersive, realistic and challenging combat flight-simulation set over the sands of the North Africa campaign in WWII. Experience what it was like to fly and fight in Messerschmitts, Macchis, Kittyhawks and Spitfires during the Desert War.

Last week’s FP ended mid-way through a ten-sortie Desert Wings – Tobruk campaign. Picking up where I left off…*

Meet Edwina’s replacement, Evelyn. A Kittyhawk rather than a Tomahawk, she has six hundred additional pegasi stabled under her engine cowling and all her firepower (6 x .50 Brownings) embedded in her wings. While she couldn’t be described as a Bf 109’s worst nightmare, any Messerschmitt pilot that sees her scarlet spinner and gaping chin scoop looming in his rear-view mirror is likely to wish pretty ardently that he was somewhere else.

* Partly because my long-in-the-tooth PC failed the MS Flight Simulator medical :-(

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