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• Why I made this mod

  29 May 2016

  OwlyK

  The aircraft
  Who cares about the Vertibird pilots? I do. There is a whole chain of reasons for that and I'd like to explain it a bit.
  
  First and foremost I care about the Vertibird itself. I'm crazy about aircraft with vertical take off and landing (VTOL) capabilities, especially tilt wing or tilt rotor designs. I have tons of books and magazines about real life VTOL aircraft. The most interesting time for this kind of aircraft are the late 1940s until late 1960s; much crazy stuff was developed this time. It was a long way to the V-22 Osprey we know from the U.S. armed forces.
  
  As much as I like real world VTOL aircraft, I also like the fictional ones. The design of the Skyranger in The Bureau: XCom declassified made me smile, I went mad when I saw the...

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