Finished the *other* naval turboprop attack plane..
Its the Douglas A2D Skyshark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A2D_Skyshark)
..while not such a slender beauty as the Wyvern its still an awesome design in its own right.

..Image
http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/3528/skysharkpreviewro9.th.jpg (http://img389.imageshack.us/my.php?image=skysharkpreviewro9.jpg)

..and Download
http://forums.civfanatics.com/downloads.php?do=file&id=9125
Edit: Changed the name of the .nif to "Mosquito.nif" to be on the safe side
(see "Uhu" thread -> http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?p=6938866#post6938866)

Uses Coyotes Mosquito animation as well - Thanks :crazyeye:

There's a database you know !

Nice one!!! Good job.

Thanks Asio :)

..Snipperrabbit: last time i checked i wasnt allowed to use the database, as it seems i am now so im gonna put it all there when im back from work..

good news ! I hadn't checked your postcount, thought you were a veteran from civIII.

nope, civ2 actually :)

Sweet, it looks like an Skyraider/Skyknight mix. Good job.

Thanks :crazyeye:

..she has pretty much the same airframe layout as the skyraider, but apart from that shes a completely unique plane..

again a nice one :)

That's a very good model, but I'm surprised you didn't choose the A-1 Skyraider instead.

Skyshark, Skynight, Skyraider ... Is there a Skywalker model by any chance ? ;)

Thanks Coyote and Xenomorph :)
@Xeno: I chose this one because i dig exotic planes... ..and i want my civ games to have a more *what if* feel to them.. ..for further reasons google for some pics of this plane, it just looks cool...:D

@Snipper: If any remains of Douglas still exist in some centuries.. ..why not? ;)

Thanks Coyote and Xenomorph :)
@Xeno: I chose this one because i dig exotic planes...;)
Then will we be seeing a Vought XF5U Flying Flapjack anytime soon?
http://www.koonysun.com/pics/XF5U_b.jpg
:lol:

lets just say i wont be running out of material in the near future.. :D

http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn62/Saschkin/planes.jpg?t=1208467570

What... no XB-70 Valkyrie?

http://www.aviationexplorer.com/aircraft_thumbs/XB-70_parked.jpg

...dont forget about the soviets..:scared:

http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn62/Saschkin/sovbomb.jpg?t=1208470387

You forgot the KM Kaspian Monster.
http://www.samolet.co.uk/jpegs/km_9.jpg
http://www.samolet.co.uk/jpegs/km_1.jpg
http://www.airbornegrafix.com/HistoricAircraft/Ekranoplans/orlyonok_3-view.jpg

yea.. ..i was thinking about an amphibious assault ship class replacing the transport later on, this one could be a russian unique unit then...
...but then again theres also the Lun..

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/aerodynamics/ground-effect/lun01.jpg

That aircraft was part of the whole KM project that fell apart after the fall of the Soviet Union.

true, but they had different purposes, the KM iself was afaik only a testbed to see how big you can make a WIG craft, the Orlyonok was an amphibious landing craft and the Lun was made to attack carrier battle groups..

These planes are all Fugly... are any of them particularly practical or likely to see combat, or is this just a flight of fantasy (pun not intended)?

its all a question of taste.. :)

some of them were intended for series production but were overtaken by ICBM development, some resulted in other projects like Harrier and Osprey and some were just *fantasy*..

The Soviets always had a penchant for function over form, just look at the Yak-28. The old Soviet system for reviewing designs and the controlled economy also meant that any design that showed promise was at least given a prototype, which is where a lot of these weird designs come from.