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Introducing LINUX Air Combat
Updated 18Apr2025

Fig. 1: Lockheed P38 “Lightning” and Vought F4u “Corsair” fighters pass by one another almost head-on. Clean, simple graphics contribute to glassy-smooth flight and high frame rates, even on inexpensive computers.

Linux Air Combat is a free, open-source combat flight simulator for the LINUX community. It is available as freeware with source code for those that want to compile it, or as a precompiled "AppImage", compatible with all of the most popular desktop versions of LINUX, for those that just want to run it.... read more

Here are pictures of hardware controls (Keyboard, Keypad, Joystick, Console Game Controller, etc.) in common use by LAC players. Also pictures of LAC's cockpit in flight and in combat. These pictures are used as components in other online LAC documentation. Having them here makes them "handy" for that purpose!