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A new historical skin and decals for F-4B Phantom. VF-92 squadron (including CAG plane) in 1965 Made on Sundowner great templates and update, following RustyKurnas input. TO INSTALL: - all in main mod folder Enjoy @paulopanz

It is little-known history* that in the late 1950s, their Lordships of the Admiralty recognised that the Supermarine Scimitar was an unmitigated failure. As an American observer noted at the time, only the British could build a jet fighter with 22,000lbs thrust, that still remained stubbornly subsonic. Not only was its performance rather disappointing (British understatement?), the Scimitar was extremely unreliable. At one point it required 1000 maintenance hours per flying hour, and over 50% of the Scimitar fleet was lost in accidents. Its best contribution to the Fleet, was as a Ground Instructional Airframe (which is where the author first saw one, at RNAS Arbroath in the late 1960s). In an act of some desperation, therefore, in 1958 the Admiralty cancelled the remaining 50% of Scimitar production, and instead discreetly obtained 40 F4D-1 Skyrays from US Navy stocks. Capt Eric (“Winkle”) Brown was highly influential in this decision. A navy test pilot with the world record for carrier take-offs and landings (2,407 and 2,271 respectively), and an objectively strong advocate of American naval ac designs, his advice on procuring the Skyray was decisive. (Besides, he was a Scotsman. From the right side of the country)(ie the East Coast - did I mention that I'm from Arbroath?). Modified to carry the British Firestreak IR missile, and also to perform the light strike/attack role, the F4D-1 thus entered RN service as the Skyray F1. These ac proved to be particularly useful on the smaller British carriers, Victorious, Centaur and Hermes. For example, in Hermes, the Skyray allowed 892 Sqn to deploy a full 12-ac sqn, instead of the originally-mooted 8-ac Sea Vixen "sqn-lite". This had the serendipitious additional social advantage of eliminating all the Sea Vixen coal-hole observers from the Wardroom. Later in their career, 20 RN Skyrays were modified to FAW2 standard. This entailed replacing the original AN/APQ-50A radar with a lightweight version of the Lightning's AI23 "Airpass" radar, installing compatibility for both the Red Top all-aspect IR missile and the US Bullpup AGM, and replacing the original 4 x Colt 20mm cannon with a harder-hitting package of 4 x ADEN 30mm cannon (albeit with halved ammunition loads). Deployed in HMS Victorious in 1965 during the Malaysian Confrontation, one of these Skyray FAW2’s shared with an RAF Javelin in the double kill of 2 Indonesian C-130B’s, caught in the act of attempting to infiltrate Indonesion paratroopers into Borneo. The RN’s Skyrays were finally retired with the decommissioning of HMS Eagle in 1972. Their last service was to familiarise a generation of FAA pilots with USN ac types, in preparation for the introduction of the superlative F-4K Phantom (another Winkle Brown protogé). *Alternative history. The reader is encouraged to decipher what is fact, and what is fiction above. For it is not all the latter.. :) Installation: the usual, simply download and unzip the "Objects" folder, and drop it into your SF2 mod directory of preference. Always always always backup your original stuff before trying out new mods like this. Credits: this mod is based on the SF2 Skyray 1.1 mod, which I think is the work of Julhelm and NeverEnough. Regret not sure to whom credit is due for the Firestreak, Red Top and Bullpup missiles, and the SNEB Can, so if I missed you out, sorry, but I tip my hat to you! Legal Stuff: all the usual disclaimers, ie use at own risk, always always always backup your original stuff before trying out new mods like this (bears repeating). Plus this mod is consistent with both Queen's Regulations for the Royal Navy, and the Official Secrets Act. Cheers, Tally-Ho etc Mike D

Mirage 5 Gheddafipedia Mirage 5D : Export single-seat ground-attack aircraft of the Mirage; 53 built. Mirage 5DE : Single-seat radar-equipped fighter-bomber version for Libya; 32 built. Mirage 5DR : Export version of the Mirage 5R; 10 built. Mirage 5DD : Two-seat trainer for Libya; 15 built. WHAT'S IN: - All planes done, with Matra Magic rails in 77 upgrade - a plenty of skins 3 and 2 tones (maybe fake but nice). - EAF skins for borrowed planes 1971-73 (Kippur War) - new LARAF pilots (no oxygen mask tubes outside the pit anymore!) - historical decals (3 decalsets for each type) - historical loadouts - weapons - real ATAR sound CREDITS: - 3D parts & Rhinoplastic surgery: Dr. Denis Oliveira - new pilots (4 types): GKABS - loadouts and avionics: Crusader - Weapons: Ravenclaw & The Mirage Factory - template base: Ludo - sounds: Spillone104 - references & testings: RustyKurnass - skins, decals, screens, ini edits: paulopanz INSTALL: - You need SF-2 or SF-2I and DLC 28 - delete all your previous Mirage 5D and Mirage 5DE mods - put all in main mod folder and overwrite OPERATIONS: - Mirage 5D/DE/DR: Key 10 to canopy open NOTES: - inside DE and DR folders you'll find some reverse camo skins as option. I followed mostly Crusader in this skin confusion, but if you don't, you can change! - this mod starded from the RustyKurnass who liked to use Matra Magic on Mirage 5 in 77 agaist Egypt campaign. It needs upgrades. Please send a good OBB if you have to edit it. No more LARAF MiG-17, please! - Denis gave me some of his famous spare noses and now its's a real Mirage 5 Gheddafipedia - this pack waits a second one from Ludo, Denis, Crusader, Pierre, etc. etc. Go on gents, please. - try some ship kill using AS-30 .... a scourge (see pics!). Enjoy @paulopanz

Sukhoy Su-21 Flagstone A For SF2 (Full-4/5 Merged Recommended) in a moment of pure madness, I add in max a delta wing to my old F-4VS then Spinners, after I upload to the CAF forum, had the idea of making soviet I then change the model around a bit make made more Russian here´s the result to install just drop the zip files contents into your mod folder and go fly model ini edits skins by CAF team cockpit and decals by TW enjoy Cocas CAf team

J7 pg J7 B and j7pg Reds Chinese display team planes....some of the loadouts need checking as I was half way through doing them based on one.....B model has integral tanks in the aircraft lod.....the Pg and Reds has ordinary tanks (weapons folders supplied.) all have drag chutes etc... there are some issues as i said with loadouts as I abandoned it half way through....so its up to users to sort ,sorry...any 3d problems let me know...should be fine though... you are lucky to get them at all lol...j/k contact me if any serious 3d issues...anything else is your problem...lol...j/k...im sure theres enough knowledge here to fix and small probs... Cheers Russ