SKY ACES

SKY ACES 1.15.0 - Osprey & Airbase

New aircraft: MV-22B Osprey (tilt-rotor)

• Press the hook key to tilt the nacelles up and hover like a helicopter. Tilt them level to fly as a fast turboprop. On the ground the nacelles stay up.
• Cabin for 6, a cargo ramp that opens on the ground and a ramp machine gun. Built in the Aircraft Factory.

Supply drops

• In flight, a C-130, V-22 or Chinook drops a supply crate from the ramp with the sonar key (B). The crate opens a parachute and drifts down.
• When it lands it turns into a barrel with food, arrows, iron, golden apples, torches and signal flares, plus a smoke marker. You carry 4 crates, and they reload when you land.

Airbase: ILS, tower and runway lights

• The Landing Lens now also works on land runways. Place it at the touchdown point while looking down the runway and it becomes the runway's ILS. The HUD shows glide slope, line-up and distance.
• When you are on the approach, the tower clears you to land on the right runway number.
• New blocks: Runway Edge Light (white) and Runway Threshold Light (green). Both give off light level 15, so you can land at night. Made at the Fuel Refinery (8 per craft).

Aces and air shows

• 5, 10, 15 and 25 air-to-air kills make you an Ace, Double Ace, Triple Ace and Ace of Aces. You get a title, a fanfare, and a server-wide announcement.
• Air show: when you switch on your smoke, wingmen flying in formation with you switch theirs on in the same colour.

Assembly line buildings remade

• Fixed roofs: they are now closed, stepped roofs with eaves, fascia and a ridge. There are no more gaps or open gables.
• Fixed wrong textures: big wall and roof panels no longer show bits of other materials (orange/black and green/red patches).
• Aircraft Factory: pilasters, a strip of windows with mullions, a hangar door with a roll-up drum, a back wall with a door and canopy, and rooftop air units.
• Warbird Workshop: plank walls, a back wall with windows and a door, and folding barn doors at the exit.
• Heavy Hangar: closed arch end walls, buttresses, high windows, ribbed sliding doors, and a gantry crane that stays inside the roof.
• Interiors stay lit at night.

Notes

• New content is for MC 1.17+. Legacy builds (1.7.10-1.12.2) only get the version bump.
• Already in the mod (not new): KC-135 refuelling, E-2 AWACS, C-130, Chinook, F-35B, SAM sites, flak, CIWS, fuel pumps, ejection seats, night vision, wingman orders, missions, storms and turbulence, repair wrench.