North American RF-100A 'Slick Chick'

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North American RF-100A 'Slick Chick'

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North American RF-100A for STRIKE FIGHTERS 2

This is a very simple mod of the stock North American F-100A to create an RF-100A 'placeholder' until something better comes along.

You'll need to have Expansion Pack 2 to access the F-100A.

This little known Cold War warrior today can lay claim to being the world's first supersonic recconnaisance aircraft and I'd encourage you to read what you can about the handful of RF-100A's starting here;

http://www.spyflight.co.uk/f100.htm

Now I'm not a 3D modeller so I've done the best I could using MiG-21 recon pods to create the broadly similar shapes seen on the real RF-100A. To get them to load I've classified them as non-jettisonable fuel tanks so don't worry about dropping your tanks on the return dash - your precious wet film will still be there for the CIA boffins to examine. The RF-100A's carried no armament so I've deleted the 20mm cannon and removed the gun smoke but unfortunately the gun troughs are still there but you'll soon forget about that.

 

INSTRUCTIONS

1. From the AIRCRAFT folder drag and drop the RF-100A folder into your Aircraft folder.

2. From the DECALS folder drag and drop the RF-100A folder into your Decals Folder.

3. From the WEAPONS folder drag and drop the SLICK_CHICK folder into your Weapons folder.

That's it!

 

CREDITS

As always, big thanks to Third Wire for the continuous improvement of a great little game/sim.

A thank you to whoever created the MiG-21 Recon Pod and I hope you don't mind it being used here.

And, finally, thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community.

Regards

Spinners

Version 2 - 13/01/13

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• Submitter
  Spinners
• Submitted
  12/29/2010
• Category
  F-100

 

[Wrench 9,848]

an interesting mod!.... you keep making historical aircraft, you gonna loose you 'what ifer' standing!!

 

but why not use the 'fake pilot' method to mount the camera pods? No worries about accidenteling dumping them, and they'll cast better shadows. Just a thought!

 

wrench

kevin stein

[Spinners 15,986]

Actually I did consider using the FakePilot method but found NoJettisonTank=TRUE to be easier. BTW if a 3D modeller fancies doing a better job of the ventral camera bulges it would be great!

 

 

[+Coupi 4,388]

Thank you Spinner!

 

The Super Sabre is an interesting and beautiful subject...

 

Coupi.

Edited December 29, 2010 by Coupi

[+streakeagle 871]

Excellent piece of history.

I hate that North American stopped winning fighter contracts.

They were the best.

[Spinners 15,986]

Excellent piece of history.

I hate that North American stopped winning fighter contracts.

They were the best.

 

Their fall from grace was absurdly sharp wasn't it? At one time they had the A-3J, B-70, F-107, F-108 and X-15 projects all on the go at the same time! Now that's what I call cutting edge!

[Spinners 15,986]

Minor update.