The Fly-By:

The FlightSimExpo has a new home: the Rio Las Vegas on June 21-23, 2024
OpenHornet, the community-developed F/A-18C home cockpit has it’s first beta release (0.2.0)
A new collector’s edition plane is coming to IL-2: Sturmovik (the Focke-Wulf Ta-152)
Heatblur released the 2nd in their series of pre-release F-4E Phantom videos detailing the aircraft’s flight model
Eagle Dynamics released a few details about their in-progress changes to the payload settings window including the in-mission rearm and refueling pop-up for DCS
Virpil announces bundles and a “new” product to their control panel lineup
Is a T-38 mod coming to DCS? A team at Veco Simulations is working on it…

Developer News

New Collector’s Plane in development
The Ta 152 is one of the last German aircraft designed/developed that took part in combat operations during WWII
- Evolution of the Fw 190D “Dora” with improvements designed for high altitude combat
- Equipped with one centerline 30 mm cannon and two 20 mm cannons in the wing roots
- Went into production at the end of the war and appeared in the skies over Germany in January/February 1945
- Estimated less than 100 were produced
Artists have been at work for a while while engineers have just started to create the Flight Model
- Expected release date sometime this summer