McDonnell Douglas Phantom FGR.5 - Royal Air Force Near East Air Force STRIKE FIGHTERS 1
Two simple modded skins for you to add to my McDonnell Douglas Phantom FGR.5 to place it in service with RAF Near East Command in the 1970's.
This should work in all of Third Wire Series One games as it uses the ubiquitous F-4E.

INSTRUCTIONS
1. Drag and drop the skin folders into your Phantom FGR.5 folder.
The decals are contained within the skin folder but it is essential that you have my FGR.5 installed to get the common decals (national markings and serial numbers).

CREDITS
Thanks to TK for a great little game/sim.
And thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community.
Regards
Spinners
Version 2 - 28/03/18
Version 1 - 01/01/09

McDonnell Douglas Phantom FGR.5 for STRIKE FIGHTERS 1
This is a simple mod of the stock Phantom F-4E to give a 'what if' Phantom FGR.5 tactical fighter with markings for No.6 and No.41 squadrons of RAF Strike Command as they might have appeared in the mid-1970's.
In theory, this should work in any 'first generation' game that has the standard F-4E LOD's.
 
BACKSTORY
The cancellation of the Hawker P.1154 in 1964 quickly led to the adoption of the LTV F-8E(RN) Crusader for the Royal Navy to replace the Scimitar and Sea Vixen and the adoption of the McDonnell Douglas Phantom for the RAF to replace the Hunter. However, anxious to improve the UK's trade balance with the US, the UK Government insisted that the RAF's Phantoms would adopt either the Rolls Royce Spey turbofan or the Anglo-French Rolls Royce/SNECMA Sequanna turbofan then under development for the proposed Mirage IVB and advanced Mirage III aircraft. The Sequanna was quickly chosen being lighter and slimmer than the Spey and fitted the F-4 like a glove whilst producing about 1,000lbs more thrust per engine than the stock J79-GE-15 turbojet but with a lower specific fuel consumption.
First flown in 1965 and entering service with the RAF in 1966 the Phantom F.1 supplemented the Lightning interceptors of RAF Fighter Command whilst the Phantom FG.2 re-equipped many Hunter and Canberra squadrons at home and abroad. The FR.3 was a planned version of the RF-4C that failed to materialise as the RAF adopted podded recconnaisance pods but the FGR.4 was the RAF's first true multi-role version of the Phantom taking advantage of the new F-4E airframe and a more powerful Sequanna RB.390 engine developing 19,000lbs with reheat. Only 50 FGR.4's were built before production switched to the FGR.5 with Sequanna RB.392 engines, slatted wings and more advanced avionics. The FGR.5's served at home and abroad, most notably with RAF Strike Command and RAF South East Asia Command before finally being retired in 2003.
 
INSTRUCTIONS
1. From the AIRCRAFT folder drag and drop the PhantomFGR5 folder into your Aircraft folder.
2. From the DECALS folder drag and drop the PhantomFGR5 into your Decals folder.

CREDITS
Thanks to TK for a great little game/sim.
Special thanks to Mike Druzolowski (mppd) for the superb shark-mouth decal that fits the F-4E really well.
And thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community.
Regards
Spinners
Version 2 - 05/03/18
Version 1 - 06/12/09

I thought I'd assemble together my Dhimari decals in one place for folks to try their hand at modding. So far, I've got 13 squadrons listed;
1.The Panthers (White & Green)
2. The Hawks (Black & Green)
3. The Bats (Black & White)
4. The Falcons (Red & Yellow)
5. The Leopards (Black & Yellow)
6. The Eagles (Green & Red)
7. The Rattlesnakes (Yellow & Green)
8. The Scorpions (Black & Red)
9. The Fennec Foxes (Yellow & White)
10. The Golden Jackals (Yellow & Dark Teal)
11. The Rams (Green and Blue)
12. The Ospreys (White & Red)
13. The Antelopes (Black,White & Green)
Each squadron has a simple checkerboard roundel marking, a checkerboard fin strip and a squadron badge.
It would be great to see what Dhimari aircraft you can come up with! Long live the King!
Regards
Spinners
Version 2 - 25/03/18
Version 1 - 29/12/09
 
 

Hawker Hunter FGA.9 - 1970's Wittering Wing for STRIKE FIGHTERS 1
This is a simple decal conversion of the sublime Third Wire Hunter FGA.9 to enable you to fly a mid-1970's era Hunter from the short-lived Wittering Wing that was created to keep RAF newly graduated ground-attack pilots 'current' whilst waiting for the Jaguar to enter service.
This will only work in 'Wings Over Europe' but you can, of course, also make it work in the other Third Wire Series One games by extracting and exporting all of the relevant files.

INSTRUCTIONS
1. From the AIRCRAFT folder drag and drop the HunterFGA9w folder into your Aircraft folder.
2. From the DECALS folder drag and drop the HunterFGA9w into your Decals folder.
Your stock Hunter FGA.9 will not be affected by this mod.

CREDITS
Thanks to TK for a great little game/sim.
And thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community.
Regards
Spinners
Version 2 - 25/03/18
Version 1 - 30/12/08

F-8E Crusader - Eskadrille 727, Royal Danish Air Force
This is a 'what if' skin for The Mirage Factory F-8E to place it in service with Eskadrille 727 of the Royal Danish Air Force.

INSTRUCTIONS
This is not a complete aircraft so you must have TMF's F-8E. This is just a skin for you to drop in to your Mirage Factory F-8E and fly.
1. From the SKIN folder drag and drop the Esk727 folder into your Mirage Factory F-8E folder.
The decals are inside the skin folder - nothing else is required.

CREDITS
Thanks to TK for a great little game/sim.
Special thanks to The Mirage Factory for creating the F-8E all those years ago and still right up there with the very best.
And thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community.
Regards
Spinners
Version 2 - 24/03/18
Version 1 - 25/08/08
 

As we're on the verge of wishing the RAF a Happy 100th Birthday (April 1st, 1918) I'm updating my RAF squadron marking decals for you to use on absolutely whatever you want - be it factual, fictual, historical or hysterical. As a keen 'what-iffer' I 'd especially like to see them appear where the shouldn't! So break out the Century Series, Mirages, MiGs and Sukhois and get 'whiffing' and remember to post your screenshots! I'd love to see them!
This decal set is also in the Series 2 section and that will be the one that gets updated from hereon in.
Regards
Spinners

F-8E Crusader - No.805 Sqd Royal Australian Navy
This is a 'what if' skin for The Mirage Factory F-8E to place it in service with No.805 Sqd of the Royal Australian Navy.

INSTRUCTIONS
This is not a complete aircraft so you must have TMF's F-8E. This is just a skin for you to drop in to your Mirage Factory F-8E and fly.
1. From the SKIN folder drag and drop the 805RAN folder into your Mirage Factory F-8E folder.
The decals are inside the skin folder - nothing else is required.

CREDITS
Thanks to TK for a great little game/sim.
Special thanks to The Mirage Factory for creating the F-8E all those years ago and still right up there with the very best.
And thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community.
Regards
Spinners
Version 2 - 24/03/18
Version 1 - 23/08/08

Hawker Hunter FGA.9 - RAF Far East Air Force
This is a simple mod of the stock Third Wire Hunter FGA.9 to place it in service with the RAF's Far East Air Force in the 1961-1970 timeline. That really did happen but not with the Hunter wearing 'SEAC' national markings! New decals are included including 26 new tail serials and 26 new underwing serials.

BACKSTORY
The growing threat to Thailand, Cambodia and South Vietnam from nearby Communist states saw the deployment of the Hawker Hunter FGA.9's of No. 20 Squadron to the Far East Air Force in September 1961 followed by No.28 Squadron in July 1962. The Borneo Confrontation of 1963 saw this ground-attack wing deployed to Kuching and Labuan to commence offensive operations against Indonesian forces seeking to infiltrate across the Malaysia/Indonesia border on the island of Borneo. The Commander of the Far East Air Force, Air Marshal Sir Hector McGregor, ordered the re-introduction of the wartime 'SEAC' markings to avoid any potential confusion with the Indonesian Air Force's red and white national markings. Both squadrons were successful in helping to repel the border incursions by the Indonesians, despite the difficult terrain, and stayed in theatre until the Borneo Confrontation was declared over in August 1966 eventually departing in January 1967 when No.28 Squadron was disbanded and No.20 Squadron returned to Tengah.

INSTRUCTIONS
1. From the AIRCRAFT folder drag and drop the HunterFGA9S folder into your Aircraft folder.
2. From the DECALS folder drag and drop the HunterFGA9S folder into your Decals folder.
It goes without saying that you'll need the Third Wire Hunter FGA.9 from 'Wings Over Europe' for this to work but if you have 'Wings Over Israel' you can use a substitute 'stock' cockpit as the aircraft LOD's are in that game.
The folder designation FGA.9S is just to avoid conflict with the stock FGA.9 aircraft in 'Wings Over Europe'.

CREDITS
Thanks to TK for a great little game/sim.
And thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community.
Regards
Spinners
Version 1 - 18/03/18