The Hangar Bay

Covering the latest military flight simulation news for the week of 7 July 2024 including: The latest "briefing room" from the IL-2 Series developers The delay of the much anticipate June update for DCS BMS Update 4 Hotfix 1 Newly announced summer savings from Virpil and VKB Plus all the latest from the community and a whole lot more... Episode notes: https://thehangarbay20.notionlinker....

Covering the latest military flight simulation news for the week of 30 June 2024. Topics include the first developer diary "Korea. IL-2 Series," an update on ground unit detection in DCS, a price update on Moza Racing's FFB base, hardware announcements from Virpil, and a TON of community news! Episode notes: https://thehangarbay19.notionlinker.com Timestamps: 00:00 The Hangar Bay: Ep...

Covering the latest military flight simulation news for the week of 23 June 2024: Developer news from DCS, IL-2, B-17 The Mighty 8th Redux, The Mighty 8th VR, Combat Air Patrol 2, Nuclear Option, Cleared Hot Hardware news from Moza, Flitesim.com, Winwing, Tobii, Virpil, Next Level Racing and SimHatpics Plus all the latest from the community and a whole lot more... Episode notes: https://thehangarb...

Covering the latest military flight simulation news for the week of 16 June 2024. Topics include the Scramble: Battle of Britain demo live on Steam Next Fest, the slew of updates coming to DCS in the next update at the end of June, the bug (and workaround) for the DCS: F-15E radars, the "Stream Deck Connector" released by HCS Voice Packs and lots more developer and community news! Episod...

Covering the latest military flight simulation news for the week of 9 June 2024. Episode notes: https://thehangarbay16.notionlinker.com Timestamps: 00:00 The Hangar Bay: Episode 16 01:57 The Fly-By The Week's Military Flight Sims News in 60 seconds or less 03:40 Developer News IL-2 Great Battles developer diaries #362 and #363 (https://il2sturmovik.com/news/) Scramble: Battle of Britain demo a...

Covering the latest military flight simulation news for the week of 5 May 2024. Topics include the release of the new Kola map for DCS, a status update on Kola campaigns from Reflected and Baltic Dragon, an OH-6A mod debuts for DCS, a May sale for the entire IL-2 Great Battles series and a ton of community news! Timestamps: 00:00 The Hangar Bay: Episode 15 00:54 The Fly-By The Week's Military...

Covering the latest military flight simulation news for the week of 28 April 2024. Topics include the upcoming Kola map for DCS (releasing on May 3!), the announcement of Flaming Cliffs 2024 for DCS which will include the F-5E, F-86F and MiG-15, Thrustmaster's new "AVA" product line, and Polychop's live stream for the OH-58D Kiowa (releasing for DCS in late May or early June 2024...

Covering the latest military flight simulation news for the week of 21 April 2024. Topics include Update 5.203 for IL-2: Great Battles and its new Dynamic Resource Allocation System, the CH-47 is coming to DCS in June and pre-orders are now open, DCS release teasers for the OH-58D from Polychop and the Kola map from Orbx and Virpil releases the first in its Cadet line with a new, slim-form throttl...

Covering the latest military flight simulation news for the week of 14 April 2024. Topics include the developer diaries from IL-2 Great Battles and DCS, news from the BMS team regarding 4.37 Update 4 and screenshots from 4.38, a new patch (and campaign) for DCS, Virpil's updated collective product line and spring sale (10%) off, Enigma's interview of Falcon 4.0's dynamic campaign desig...

Covering the latest military flight simulation news for the week of 7 April 2024. Topics include the developer diaries from IL-2 Great Battles and Combat Pilot, an interview with Matt "Wags" Wagner by Casmo, a DCS Q&A about performance, Eagle Dynamics and RAZBAM, Flight Sim Expo 2024 announcements, and a TON of community news! Timestamps: 00:00 The Hangar Bay: Episode 11 00:50 The Fl...

Covering the latest military flight simulation news for the week of 30 March 2024. Topics include the pre-order announcement of the DCS: Afghanistan map, a discussion of "new" games Thunder Helix and Scramble: Battle of Britain, new hardware from Etsy vendor "OnYourTwelve", a DIY ejection seat handle, managing keybinds in DCS with the DCS: Keybinds Manager software, the Flying...

Covering the latest military flight simulation news for the week of 23 March 2024. Topics include the official announcement of the Mig-29A for DCS, an update on the Afghanistan map for DCS, Nuclear Option adds TrackIR support and a new aircraft, Winwing announces an Airbus 320 Flight Control Unit, Virpil announces legal action against FC Technologies, and the FlightSimExpo announces their 2024 exh...

Covering the latest military flight simulation news for the week of 17 March 2024. Topics include Heatblur's delay of the F-4E Phantom release, Spring Sales for DCS World, IL-2 Great Battles and Cliffs of Dover, Virpil's 8th anniversary sale, Combat Box Kuban for IL-2 GB, DCS: Retribution patching to v1.3.1, tutorials on the DCS mission editor and Razbam's F-15E and updates to Reflecte...

Covering the latest military flight simulation news for the week of 9 March 2024. Topics include IL-2's Spring 2024 sale, Eagle Dynamics highlights performance improvements to the DCS terrain engine, Flicon Tech releases updated renderings of their new throttle, Virtual Weapons Academy is welcoming pilots for DCS training, and RJSimTech unveils a new HeadTracking IR camera. Timestamps: 00:00 T...

Covering the latest military flight simulation news for the week of 2 March 2024. Topics include the Flight Sim Expo finding a new home in Las Vegas, the OpenHornet community-developed F/A-18C home cockpit reaching it's first beta release, a new collector's aircraft coming to IL-2 (the Ta-152), Heatblur releasing the 2nd in their DCS: F-4E Phantom series, Virpil releasing hardware bundles...

Covering the latest military flight simulation news for the week of 24 Feb 2024. Topics include major updates for IL-2 and DCS, a new free Typhoon campaign is in development for IL-2 BoN owners, FlightSimForge released an F-16 ICP on their Etsy store, SimFab announced a mounting pattern update for new Winwing/Virpil products, a ton of community updates including news from Enigma's Cold War ser...

Covering the latest military flight simulation news for the week of 17 Feb 2024. Topics include IL-2's career mode coming to the WWI "Flying Circus" series, Ugra Media releases videos for 3 new airports coming to DCS: Normandy 2 and DCS: Syria, Heatblur releases the first in a series of F-4E "hype" videos, AuthentiKit's P-51D throttle kit is on sale, the Android/iOS app...

Covering the latest military flight simulation news for the week of 10 Feb 2024. Topics include Enigma's YouTube interview with the developer of Nuclear Option, the OH-58D Kiowa is undergoing release testing, IL-2: Battle of Normandy owners will receive the Spitfire IXc for free when it releases next patch, more changes at Honeycomb, Virpil has sale and you can land on the Bonhomme Richard (CV...

Covering the latest military flight simulation news for the week of 3 Feb 2024. Topics include the 2024 Flight Sim Expo having to find a new home, Heatblur's CEO discussing upcoming modules on the Air Combat Sim Podcast, PolyChop release an OH-58D Kiowa FAQ and the We Run Liberation campaign (and HolyOrangeJuice) are doing some great things with DCS: Retribution (plus I rant a bit about Winwin...

The inaugural episode of The Hangar Bay, covering the military flight simulations for the week of 27 JAN 2024. Topics include the latest IL-2 and DCS weekly updates, DCS unifying its game branches, Heatblur teasing the F-4E (release date imminent?), Winwing rudder pedals go on sale soon, Virpil starts shipping its Apache collective grip. Timestamps: (00:00) The Hangar Bay: Episode 1 (03:25) The Fl...