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'Rivet Haste’ F-4E USAF pack add-on


F-4E project ‘Rivet Haste’ add-on for ravenclaw_007 and Co’s F-4E USAF pack 2.0

 

 

 

2.0 Updates/ corrections

 

- Corrected tail tip color from green to red/ orange.
- Added historicly correct small serial numbers to tail fin
- Big thanks to mppd for the color reference photos (I could only find a single black & white one) and historical serial numbers.

 

 

 

Included:

 

- F-4E_72 ‘Rivet Haste’

 

You must have ravenclaw_007 and Co’s F-4E USAF pack installed for weapons & effects etc:

 

http://combatace.com/files/file/13932-f-4e-usaf-pack/

 

 

 

Animation / Function

 

- Canopy
- Hook
- Air Refuel
- Gun Vent ______________ automatic when gun is fired or as soon as the landing gear is deployed
- Brake Chute____________ works with the Air Brake below 150kts

 

 

 

Features of the ‘Rivet Haste’ F-4E:

 

- Slatted wings. The Rivet Haste F-4 were the only Phantoms in the Vietnam conflict to have slatted wings.
- MIDAS4 gun port.
- TISEO
- APR-35/36 RHAW
- Assigned to the 555th TFW but operated as a separate flight from the rest of the squadrons non Rivet Haste Phantoms.
- Operated without any tail codes or serial numbers. Aircraft had RRRRibit in yellow on the tail fin along with a green tailfin tip.

 

 

 

Hangar and Loading screens are in 1920 x 1080 , optional 1024 x 768 Hangar and Loading screens are included in a separate folder

 

 

 

Installation:

 

- Drop all files into your mod folder the way they are setup in this pack and overwrite if ask to
- If you are unsure about the way how mods are installed, check the knowledge base at CombatAce!

 

 

 

Credits:

 

- ravenclaw_007
- original model by TW , BPAO , Crab_02
- cockpits from TW
- Decals for the 34TFS , 469TFS and the original Templates from Sundowner
- Skins for the 57th FIS made by Soulfreak
- TISEO made by Crusader
- Testpilots , EricJ , Slartibartfast , JAT81500 , Dast24 , Centurion1 , Ianh755 , GodsLt
- new updated model , textures and weapons by ravenclaw_007
- mppd

 

 

 

Enjoy,

 

Dan.

 

 

 

Background on the Rivet Haste project:

 

With the soft (slatted) wing, the pinkie switch (basically the very first HOTAS), and the TISEO modifications for the F-4E, the USAF realized it had the tools to make its fighter pilots more lethal. In the late summer of 1972, the Rivet Haste program was established. Rivet Haste would be the Air Force's acknowledgement that years of substandard training and poor doctrine had to be reversed. Rivet Haste combined the slatted wing, TISEO, and 556 mod of the F-4E and teamed them up with handpicked crews with combat experience over Vietnam. They were assembled at Nellis AFB and here the key of Rivet Haste would take place- intensive training with the new F-4Es against the secret MiG force that Air Force flew out of Tonopah north of Las Vegas. Each Rivet Haste crew were paired up to stay together through training to deployment for combat- this allowed the pilot and his WSO to develop their own system of coordination in the cockpit and carry that to combat. Six pilots and six WSOs were in each Rivet Haste group and each pilot/WSO would fly at least three missions against the MiGs at Tonopah. Each month, a new group of six pilots and six WSOs were assigned to Rivet Haste. Crews assigned to Rivet Haste saw it as a quantum leap in air combat training that the USAF had never had before. Unfortunately they arrived in Vietnam to late to score any air-to air-kills and only flew a handful of Linebacker II missions before the end of the war.


 

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2.0 Updates/ corrections

 

- Corrected tail tip color from green to red/ orange.

 

- Added historicly correct small serial numbers to tail fin

 

- Big thanks to mppd for the color reference photos (I could only find a single black & white one) and historical serial numbers.

 

 

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