Spinners Posted January 12, 2009 Posted January 12, 2009 View File [Fictional] Saab Draken F.1 Saab Draken F.1 for STRIKE FIGHTERS 2 This is a 'what if' Saab Draken F.1 with markings for No.56 and No.74 squadrons of the Royal Air Force as they might of appeared in the 1960's in service with RAF Fighter Command. I've used the excellent Draken J35D 'David' from the Draken pack uploaded at CombatACE by lindr2 to create this 'what if' RAF Draken but heartily recommend the Draken pack which has no less than 8 Drakens and is a superb effort by all concerned. Apart from a simple bit of overspray onto the superb Bare Metal Skin I've simply used my decals to create RAF Drakens for No.56 sqd (The Firebirds) and No.74 sqd (The Tigers) and these two squadrons were never far away from each other during that era. I've tweaked the data.ini and also the loading.ini to give RAF style loadouts and also used the stock Su-7 drop tanks which are a good match. The Draken itself was an amazing achievement and has a similar WOW factor to the contempory 'Century Series' of fighters - you just cannot believe it first flew in 1955... it just looks so cool! As much as I love the English Electric Lightning you must remember that the Draken had half the power but effectively did the same job plus another half-a-dozen! In addition, it cost dramatically less and it certainly required a fraction of the maintenance man-hours! Suggested further reading - Saab Draken (chapter) 'Early Supersonic Fighters of the West' (Bill Gunston) INSTRUCTIONS 1. From the AIRCRAFT folder drag and drop the DrakenF1 folder into your Aircraft folder. 2. From the DECALS folder drag and drop the DrakenF1 folder into your main Decals folder. 3. From the WEAPONS folder drag and drop the Firestreak1 folder into your Weapons folder. CREDITS I've lifted these credits from the Draken pack and also from the skin I've used. If I've left anyone out then please accept my apology and do not hesitate to contact me to allow me to amend this download. Lud von Pipper -- Lead 3D Modeller BPAO -- Additional 3D Modeling Sony Tuckson -- Textures and Decals Crab_02 -- Weapon and Drop Tank Models column5 -- Flight Model and INI files Matthew Ouellette -- Bare Metal Skin As always, thanks to Third Wire for a great little game/sim. Special thanks to russouk2004 for the Firestreak missile from his superb Lightning F.6 package and this is added just in case you don't have the Third Wire version. And, finally, thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community. Regards Spinners Version 3 - December 13th, 2023. Submitter Spinners Submitted 01/12/2009 Category What If Hangar Quote
Wrench Posted January 13, 2009 Posted January 13, 2009 Can one assume it'll work in the others as well??? (SF/WoV/WoE/WoI)??? Always thought the shape was soooo cool!! Nice job! Wrench kevin stein Quote
Spinners Posted January 13, 2009 Author Posted January 13, 2009 Can one assume it'll work in the others as well??? (SF/WoV/WoE/WoI)??? I can't see any reason why not but I've only got SF2 on my Vista PC. Quote
dsawan Posted January 14, 2009 Posted January 14, 2009 Hi, Spinners. these sf2 compatible planes are nice. Any chance you could do the f-105 thud. there are several released includung the woe versions and a RAF what if recently released here. thx. Quote
Spinners Posted January 14, 2009 Author Posted January 14, 2009 My 'what if' RAF Thud can be made to work to SF2 if you extract the LOD's from WOE. Has anyone ripped the wings off their Draken yet? This is the first time I've seen structural failure in this game! At first, I assumed I'd been 'Atolled' (a new word - remember where you saw it first) but it's happened a few times now. Quote
Kirsten Posted January 14, 2009 Posted January 14, 2009 My 'what if' RAF Thud can be made to work to SF2 if you extract the LOD's from WOE. Has anyone ripped the wings off their Draken yet? This is the first time I've seen structural failure in this game! At first, I assumed I'd been 'Atolled' (a new word - remember where you saw it first) but it's happened a few times now. With the latest patches in WOE the wings of the Draken come off like leaves in autumn when pulling abrupt high G at high speed. Same for the Hornet but not for instance with F16's or F104's and lots of other planes. No such thing in my SF install (no October patch). Aju, Derk Quote
Spinners Posted May 22, 2010 Author Posted May 22, 2010 (edited) Lifted from the SF1 section and brought into the hangar! Updated with revised decals, loadout tga, weapons and data ini's, etc. Edited May 22, 2010 by Spinners Quote
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