U.S.A.F. Early Model Sabres SF2

16th July 2009 SF2 version updates by knx, all props go to original creators listed below the dotted line.

 

Install instructions, drag and drop Objects folder into your mod folder.

 

Notes: I will try to figure out why the magnetic compass to the right of the cockpit isn't showing up, just a case of finding the appropriate bmp from first series games I think. Will update as and when. Please let me know if you spot something else that needs updating/tweaking. I'm sure there is something I missed, so point it out to me please if you can, the reason I'm uploading now as it is, is so that issues can be pointed out and resolved before the rest of the packs to follow. Regards, Gwyn.

 

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The original readme follows, note that this pack is only one specific part of what is described here, the next lot I will be updating are the later model USAF Sabres (I don't know who is doing the MiG-15s)

 

F-86 Sabre /MiG-15 README:

 

 

First of all I would like to think “USAFMTL” for allowing me to be a part of this effort.

 

 

Secondly thanks go to David Zurawski for his wonderful F-86 Sabre that is such a work of art.

 

 

Thirdly thank you to all that have modeled and skined the work to developed individual sub-models of the F-86.

 

 

Thanks to Jimmy Bib for all his graphical engineering.

 

 

Lastly thank you to “Fubar 512" for his expert guidance in my effort in Flight Modeling.

 

 

 

If ever the was an aircraft the looked, felt, smelt, and tasted like a fighter aircraft ; it’s the F-86 Sabre!

 

 

And being an actual jet rated pilot, with a little over 1,200 actual flight hours, compelled me to tweak , my “Sweet Sabre”.

 

 

Being my all time favorite aircraft and being an avid history nut about the Korean Conflict compelled me in an effort to add to these works that so many started.

 

 

First of all. All data contained in the data.ini files was deeply researched by “USAFMTL” and myself.

 

 

Only minor tweaks where utilized, building on the work of those that created the aircraft models.

 

 

All aircraft preform to Dash 1 specifications to the degree of 99.9%.

 

 

All aircraft where thoroughly tested by hundreds hours of actual, not autopilot, testing.

 

 

 

The yank and bank style of A.C.M. with this aircraft is gone.

 

 

 

Key points are :

1) Keeping a high energy fight.

 

 

2) Thinking well ahead of what the aircraft is, or what you want it to do.

 

 

3) The required use of the speed brakes to alter or set up YOUR fight or flight, in reference to turning radius. Not just chopping the throttle, that is a only a good way to die.

 

 

4) And for the self proclaimed, “Fighter Aces”, fly these models on the HARD setting, to truly test your skill.

 

 

5) All F-86 and MiG-15 are uniform in performance. The aircraft preform as did the actual models of this noble era.

 

 

6) The addition of armor to all aircraft end the ,“QUICK KILL”. These can be altered still to fit ones preference.

 

 

 

A little history:

 

 

 

106 OF THE F-86A-5 MODELS WHERE COMMITTED TO THE KOREAN CONFLICT.

 

 

THE LAST F-86A WAS NOT REPLACED UNTIL JULY1952.

 

 

 

127 TOTAL OF THE F-86E-5 MODELS WHERE COMMITTED TO THE KOREA CONFLICT.

 

(37) F-86E-1 MODEL.

 

(45) F-86E-5 MODEL.

 

(45) CANADIAN BUILT F-86E-6 MODEL (SHIPPED BETWEEN FEBRUARY AND JULY 1952.

 

 

FIRST F86E WAS THE FIRST MODEL TO FEATURE THE "FLYING TAIL".

 

 

SHIPMENT BEGAN TO KOREA IN JUNE 1951, FIRST ARRIVING WITH THE 4TH F.I.W..

 

 

FOLLOWED BY SHIPMENT IN NOVEMBER 1951 TO THE 51ST F.I.W., REPLACING THE F-80C.

 

 

 

 

91 OF THE F-86E-10 MODELS WHERE COMMITTED TO THE KOREAN CONFLICT.

 

FIRST F-86 MODEL TO FEATURE THE "FLAT WINDSCREEN".

 

THE F-86E-10 PRODUCED WITH PROVISIONS TO ACCEPT THE J-47-GE27 ENGINE, BUT WERE PRODUCED WITH THE J-47-GE-13 ENGINE OF LESSER THRUST.

 

SHIPMENT WHERE ACCEPTED SEPTEMBER 1951 - APRIL 1952.

 

 

 

 

The Spring of 1952 brought to a close a critical time period in the air to air conflict. The Communist forces ended an active campaign to win air superiority.

 

 

 

 

THE EARLY F-86F-1 MODEL BROUGHT TO THE PILOTS IN KOREA MANY ADVANCEMENTS, MAINLY THE UPGRADE IN ENGINE PERFORMANCE OF THE J47-GE-27ENGINE.

 

ALSO NOTABLE FEATURES INCLUDED THE A-4 GUNSIGHT AND INCREASED ARMOR FOR THE FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEMS.

 

THE F-86F-10 MODELS WHERE THE START OF, “A TRUE MIG KILLING MACHINE!", AND THE LAST OF THE SMALL WING SABRES TO SEE ACTION IN KOREA.

 

SHIPMENT TO THE 51TH F.I.W. IN JUNE 1952, FOLLOWED BY SHIPMENT TO THE 4TH F.I.W. IN SEPTEMBER 1952

 

MANY OF THE GREAT ACES GAINED THEIR VICTORIES IN THE F -1 THRU 10.

 

EARLY F MODELS SABERS COMMITTED TO KOREA

F-86F-1 59 AIRCRAFT

F-86F-5 8 AIRCRAFT

F-85F-10 34 AIRCRAFT

 

 

 

 

A TOTAL OF 40, OF THE 371, PRE-“6-3" EXTENSION , F-86F-30 MODELS WHERE COMMITTED TO KOREA, BEFORE THE ADVENT OF NORTH AMERICAN RETOOLING THE REMAINDER OF THE F-30 MODELS TO THE '6-3' WING CONFIGURATION. THIS MODEL BEING THE FIRST “DUAL STORE - FIGHTER BOMBER VERSION” OF THE SABRE AND THE FIRST OF THE “LARGE WING” SABERS.

 

 

DELIVERIES BEGAN IN OCTOBER 1952.

 

 

BEGINNING IN SEPTEMBER 1952 A TOTAL OF FIFTY “KITS” WERE SECRETLY SHIPPED TO KOREA TO CONVERT THE F-30S, AND REMAINING EARLIER F-1 THRU 10 ON HAND.

 

 

EVENTUALLY “KITS” WERE SHIPPED TO CONVERT ALL F MODELS WITH THE “6-3 EXTENSION.”

 

 

 

A TOTAL OF 208 F-86F-30 6-3 HARD WING SABERS WHERE COMMITTED TO KOREA.

MANY HERALD THE HARD WING SABRE AS THE ULTIMATE MIG KILLER OF THE KOREAN WAR.

 

 

 

INCLUDED IS A MODEL OF THE TEST PROJECT OF THE F-86F-2 “GUNVAL” . EIGHT F-86F-2 “GUNVAL” MODELS WHERE TESTED IN COMBAT WITH THE 4TH F.I.W., STARTING IN MARCH 1953.

 

 

 

INCLUDED IS A MODEL OF THE RF-86F Reconnaissance SABRE.

 

 

Comments and questions can be answered at Combat ACE.

 

 

Please remember the characteristic come from the Dash 1 manuals of the actual aircraft.

 

 

 

I hope you enjoy these “TWEAKS”!

 

And if you don’t, then you can make your own!

 

Again thanks to all the folks that did the hard work, the modelers that started it all!!!!!!!!

 

Respectfully,

Darrell G. Maddux

“Tazkiller”

 

 

 

 

Installation: Unpack the contents into a Temp Directory of you choice.

 

1) Place Aircraft into Aircraft Directory.

 

2) Place Sound Files into Sound Directory.

 

3) Place Pilots into the Aircraft Directory.

 

4) Go Fly!!!!