homepage Forums Air Combat & Civil Aviation Rise of Flight - The First Great Air War WWI sim, based on the IL-2 engine announced

I want an HMS Argus, and tail hooks.....and zeppelins...and poison gas....

This has been a long time coming. At least 2 promising wwI cfs since the days of RB3D never saw the light of day. I hope this one makes it.

And a Macchi M7 please, to rebuilt the fights other Venise

Looking forward to see how this will go! Been waiting for a new WWI sim since Flying Corps and Red Baron II

Stocking up on housebricks here, great news!

Ming

This genre just has too few good sims, the more the better.

You bet I'm interested. Last weekend I happened to be watching the movie "The Blue Max." I remember thinking that it would be great to have a flight sim like IL-2 but focussed on WWI.

Se5a is a MUST, i've not doubts about it in the sim....

Some info about the WW1 aviation:

http://www.airwar.ru/fw1e.html#p8

Interesting, and it will make a great upgrade from my aging copy of Red Baron 3d

Interesting. Oleg said he wouldn't go there himself because there wasn't enough data to make reliable FMs. But who's going to argue 90 years after the fact? IMO there's enough anecdotal evidence to make it near enough; e.g. the Camel is tourque-y and has a magneto switch instead of a throttle... good enough for the armchair pilot. Bring it on I say! Then progress to Spain and China... you beauty!

Ming, are you expecting lots of house to house riots around here? Some washing machines don't like blokes heaving half-bricks at em

I'm really looking forward to this, my last WWI simulation was the original red baron...

translations of the russian anyone???

the Dr1 is a good sign of it Nice shot, look forward to more er.. updates

Please don't let this be too good to be true...

Ok, from the little Russian I know:

"период с 1916 по 1918"
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The period 1916-1918.

These planes should be present:
"Fokker Dr.1, Nieuport 17/17bis/23, SPAD XIII, Albatros D.III, Gotha G.V, Sopwith Camel, R.E.8"

"авиасимуляторов на 2006 год"
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The flight sim will be out in 2006...

Babelfish:

"Company GT officially declared about the beginning of the works on the new play project for PC in the genre of aviasimulyatorov, under the working name: "the first world: Knights Of sky ".

Actions on the subject of game are developed in the period from 1916 through 1918 at the western front, when three sides: England, France and Germany engaged the defensive positions on the borders of Belgium and France. Specifically, then, at the dawn of the origin of aviation, combat aircraft for the first time obtained mass application, and the first aces glorified their names by audacious victories in the first air battles.

In the territory of more than 100 000 square kilometers the players can take part in the known to us on the historical literature glorious battles in Ypres, Mal'mezona, in the operation in To kambre, in the battle on the river of foxes, and the Verdun meat grinder. In game are planned to include 13 controlled by player legendary aircraft, derailed to us from the historical illustrations: Fokker Dr.1, Nieuport y"/.y"bis/и, SPAD THE XIII, Albatros D.III, Gotha G.V, Sopwith Camel, R.E.8, and also to 30 aircraft and dirigibles under control OF THE II and more than 60 models of ground-based technology and units of kinetic energy. In the game it will be represented as single, so also net regime (game through the Internet), and companies for the players for each of the sides of participants in the conflict and convenient system of instruction will be also developed.

At the basis of project lies the deeply modified nucleus of game "Il-2 the attack aircraft" from company Maddox Games, into initial code of which command GT plans to introduce thousands of changes, which are concerned not only the addition of new 3d- models of technology and change in the model of landscape, but also improvement in the graphic and sonic specials-effect, correction of the mission model and model of ballistics of rifle armament, and much other, which will make it possible to raise the level of game to the contemporary standards of aviasimulyatorov in 2006.
Preliminary date of reliza of project - end of the autumn of 2006. The publisher of project is the company of yS."

Sounds great, be looking forward to a good WWI flight sim.

Oh man...I am now a Happy Camper again! JG1 in the skys again! Woot!!

Wonderful news! Thx

BF

While I undoubtedly will buy this sim, I would still give my left nut for a Korean War sim based on the IL-2 engine.

Spritle