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  1. File Name: Vampire cockpit -single-engine Egyptian-modified (combat veteran) File Submitter: ordway File Submitted: 28 June 2010 File Category: Jet Cockpits This is a single-engine Egyptian-Modified Vampire jet cockpit for SFP2 with single engine gages based on the Thirdwire Meteor cockpit. You need SFP2 Israel and expansion pack. It is a combat veteran and fought air to air combat against Israeli Meteors, Dassault Ouragans, Mystere IVAs and later against Pakistani F-86 Sabres according to sources. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It has gages moved, and BMP gages and bitmaps added from multiple Vampire color cockpit photos and the DH Vampire cockpit manual. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COMBAT HISTORY: MIDDLE EAST: First Middle East jet combats occurred in 1955. September 1, 1955, - 2 Egyptian FB.52 vampires were shot down by an Israeli Gloster Meteor. Another Egyptian FB.52 Vampire was shot down by a Dassault Ouragan April 12, 1956.- Shlomo Aloni, Arab-Israeli Air Wars 1947-82, p23. Israeli victories -acig 29Aug55 117 sqn Meteor F.8 M.Lavon 20mm Vampire FB.52 EAF 1Sep55 117 sqn Meteor F.8 A. Yoeli 20mm Vampire FB.52 EAF 1Sep55 117 sqn Meteor F.8 A. Yoeli 20mm Vampire FB.52 EAF 12Apr56 113 sqn Ouragan D. Kishon 20mm Vampire FB.52 2 sqn EAF 31Oct56 101 sqn Mystere IVA S.Egoziz 30mm Vampire FB.52 31 sqn EAF 31Oct56 101 sqn Mystere IVA S.Egoziz 30mm Vampire FB.52 31 sqn EAF 31Oct56 101 sqn Mystere IVA A. Shavit 30mm Vampire FB.52 31 sqn EAF 31Oct56 101 sqn Mystere IVA A. Shavit 30mm Vampire FB.52 31 sqn EAF http://www.acig.org/...ticle_255.shtml By 11:00hrs also four Vampires strafed the Israeli column near al-Thamed, causing even more damage. They were followed by more Vampires and also Meteors of the 5 Sqn EAF, all of which were escorted by the MiG-15 and hit the Israelis very hard. The Israelis claimed destruction of four Vampires http://www.acig.org/...ticle_256.shtml ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ INDO-PAKASTANI War On September 1, 1965, during the Indo-Pakistani War, IAF Vampires saw action for the first time with India. No. 45 Squadron responded to a request for strikes against a counter-attack by the Pakistani Army (Operation Grand Slam) and four Vampire Mk 52 fighter-bombers were successful in slowing the Pakistani advance. However, the Vampires encountered two Pakistan Air Force (PAF) F-86 Sabres, armed with air to air missiles; in the ensuing dogfight, the outdated Vampires were outclassed. One was shot down by ground fire and another three were shot down by Sabres.[17] The Vampires were withdrawn from front line service after these losses. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FIGHTING IN THE VAMPIRE: The Vampire had a lower wing loading than the Meteor and therefore should be able to out turn the Meteor in a turning fight all other things being equal. The Meteor being much faster, faster climbing and more powerful will dominate a vertical fight. 1. Keep fast against enemy prop fighters...you are faster than them, but you lose energy fast and can't regain it easily. 2. Try to out turn enemy jets...you usually have a lower wingloading. The enemy Meteor is much more powerful than you, much faster than you, has a much higher climb rate then you and he can dominate a vertical fight. The Vampire reportedly had beautiful handling qualities but was extremely underpowered. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ DIRECTIONS: REQUIREMENTS: SFP2 Israel2 and expansion pack. Directions: 1. Download folder 2. Backup everything in Vampire52 folder (This has new Egyptian loading and hanger screens, and newini. and cockpit.ini as well as a new cockpit). 3. Download this into your aircraft folder usually located at C:\Mydocuments and settings\yourname\My Documents\Thirdwire\StrikeFighters2 Israel\Objects\Aircraft 4. Say yes when asked to overwrite. 5. Done. Enjoy! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Credits: TK and Thirdwire for the sim and their beautiful Meteor cockpit. Click here to download this file

  2. Version

    443 downloads

    Mig-27K (Flogger-J2) ground attack fighter cockpit (SFP1 series) made by Ordway, Starfighter2, lindr2 based on color cockpit photos and cockpit diagrams. Original cockpit made by Armourdave and Sal. Avionics and optional advanced flight model by Nele. You need avionics 70 and the latest patch updates from Thirdwire. Tested on Windows XP and not Vista. However it might work on Vista too. This is the cockpit for the ultimate Soviet MIG-27K ground attack fighter in 1980. It was the ultimate MiG-27 version. It has a different cockpit from all the rest of the MiG-27s with more complexity and by far the most complex HUD. The MiG-27K added a laser designator and compatibility with TV-guided electro-optical weapons. Around 200 were built. It would probably have been one of the first attackers against NATO in a NATO versus Soviet block confrontation in the 1980s (under the tense relations of the American administration of "Ronney-the-Ray Gun". It is referenced from color photographs and original cockpit diagrams. The real TV screen will appear as usual, in the upper right hand corner when using many guided bombs/missiles. No one I knew could figure out how to make it work on the instrument panel in the correct area.... ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MiG-27K History: Initial flight of the ultimate MiG-27K prototype was in December 1974. It was finally accepted into service in 1980. Its avionics were so state-of-the-art (for the Soviets), that it took quite a while to work out all the bugs and make it operational. The MiG 27, had superb low altitude, high speed capabilities and could out run many other fighters. The MiG-27K could carry all the "smart" munitions including the KAB-500L LGB. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Directions: 1) Download Lindr2's Mig-27 series at http://forum.combata...p;showfile=6576 2) Back it up just in case. 3) Just download the contents of whole filefolder Mig-27K intact into your aircraft folder as one folder. 4) When asked to overwrite say yes. -Finished! Thanks to Lindr2 for all his sustained hard and dedicated work. Thanks to Armourdave and Sal for the original cockpit. Thanks to Lindr2 and Epizikl for help with the cockpit research and photos. Thanks to Lindr2 for the various TV (optical) cockpit images. Thanks to Armour Dave and Sal for the cockpit. Thanks to Starfighter2, lindr2 for the Mig-23P HUD which has stymied modelers until now that I know of. Thanks to the Mirage factory for the Mig-23ML downloadable as a pack from combatace in the pack called Mirage Factory MiG-23 "Flogger" Series.
  3. Hmmm, I've looked into it. The Mig-23MF seems to load the standard 3rd wire SF2 Mig-23MF stores. However, some stores are not visible in the exterior mode. Now, when I added the cockpit, cockpit.ini, avionics.ini, Mig-23MF.ini into the standard 3rd wire sfp2 Israel Mig-23MF folder (which I unwrapped and exported), I could now fly it and see all the stores from the exterior view ... However, when I look into the rearview mirror...all I see is the stores flying behind me in space and no aircraft is visible from the cockpit mirrors. Anyone got any suggestions?
  4. Thanks for info. I will look into it.
  5. The short answer is yes. They were basically the same aircraft in the cockpit...but maybe more electronics/replaced newer items in the later Saar. Unless I can find a cockpit photo of a Saar. The Saar might have had a blue artifical horizon added...if so I would make a separate Saar cockpit and release it in a jiffy!

  6. Version

    449 downloads

    New SFP2 Israeli-modified Dassault Super Mystere B.2 Early-Mid life cockpit for Wings Over Israel2 (I could not get the SFP1 version to work in SFP2 and had to start over again with SFP2). Gages have been moved, eliminated and added. Bitmaps were added. Color photos and cockpit diagrams of the Super Mystere were used as reference. You need the Wings over Israel 2 for the Dassault SMB2 Super Mystere. Originally inspired by CA_Stary (photo-realistic early to mid life additions added by Richard "Pitts2A"Ordway). version 1.0 June 07, 2010 You NEED SFP2 Israel and a previous SFP2 addon (with the F-100D Super Sabre) such as SFP2, WOV2, WOE2, to use it! 3D .LOD files not included! ________________________________________ ________________________________________ _____________________________ Credits: CA_Stary for all his hard work to make the brilliant basic Super Mystere B.2. in SFP1 Thanks to Frank Safrenek and Michel Gerard of Mirage Aircraft of Flightsimulator.com for pics of the Mystere IVA and Ouragan-many of which carry over to the Super Mystere. http://www.mirage4fs.com/ TK for Wings Over Israel2 and a bitmap image of a Meteor battery gage. Lexx_Luthor for his "Generic Cockpits: applications to strategic air warfare" at Thirdwire forums and cockpits MOVE editing discoveries. Really great stuff there! Wrench, for his tutorial about adding F-100D cockpit to unflyable WOI 1 planes. And suggestions to use Hun's pit in Super Mystere. ________________________________________ ________________________________________ _____________________________ This is a modification of Thirdwire F-100D sfp2 cockpit to represent the Dassault Super Mystere B.2 Early-Mid life cockpit. ________________________________________ ________________________________________ _____________________________ Installation: The 3D F-100D base cockpit is NOT included! If you have any previous merged SFP2 installs, you can just add the contents of this download to the Super Mystere folder and it should work. If you have only the SFP2 Israel alone, then you need to extract the F-100 contents and add it to the Super Mystere folder. It's two minutes work anyway. CAT File Extract Utility can be found at: http://combatace.com...3-catpack-archi ving-utility/ Included are ini files and all repainted textures. 1. Extract the archive to your C: MydocumentsThirdwireWings Over Israel2ObjectsAircraftSuperMystereB2 folder 2. Using the CAT File Extract Utility extract from SFP2 the F-100D_PIT.LOD...and all the other F-100 files if you want. More precisely, from "ObjectData.cat" found in "other_Thirdwire_jet_simulationObjects" directory extract the file: "F-100D_PIT.LOD" -this file is the geometry of the Super Sabre cockpit. It's core file and cannot be redistributed. Period. 3. Copy this file into C: MydocumentsThirdwireWings Over Israel2ObjectsAircraftSuperMystereB2cockpit folder. 4.That's it. Nothing more needed. Go flying! ________________________________________ ________________________________________ _____________________________ HISTORY: The Dassault SMB2 Super Mystere was the basic equivalent of the North American F-100 Super Sabre except smaller and much less powerful. It saw much air-air combat and gave stellar value to Israel. Over Saykal, the Israeli Super Mysteres encountered a pair of Syrian MiG-21s and although outclassed by the MiGs, shot both of them down. By the end of the first day of 1967 Six Days War hositilities, Super Mysteres had destroyed 5 aircraft in the air. http://www.geocities...anaveral/Hangar /2848/smbd.htm http://www.acig.org/...h/article_255.s html In 1975, Israel sold 12 complete airframes and 6 sets of spares to Honduras. The aircraft were involved in numerous border skirmishes with Nicaragua and were finally withdrawn from service in 1996. http://en.wikipedia....sault_Super_Mys t%C3%A8re ==================================== Tactics: The Super Mystere has almost the same thrust/weight t/w ratio as the F-100. It has a noticeably lower wing loading than the F-100 so can out turn it all other things being equal. It can't climb as fast as the F-100-(Mike Spick, Illustrated Directory of Fighters). Against the Mig-19 and Mig-21 and MiG 23, try to out turn them. Against the Vampire, Meteor, Mig-15, Mig-17 try to do vertical yo yos while turning. ===================================== Legal stuff: You can do whatever you want with this, as long as you don't include it in any payware package. Giving us credits would be fine. Richard "Pitts2A" Ordway Przemek "CA_Stary" Starkiewiczfor Wings Over
  7. SFP2 SMB2 Super Mystere cockpit almost finished. I used color cockpit photos as reference. I could not get the SFP1 Super Mystere cockpit working so I started one from a SFP2. I have moved some items and added colors and placards.
  8. Ouch! I will look into it.
  9. Thanks Kevin and Guyran! The fix works!
  10. Thanks! However, I can't see out of the dark green front window very well. Does anyone know of a way to make it clear? Thanks,
  11. Hi, I don't think there is much of a difference unless I made a note at the bottom of the notes saying version 1.0. or 1.1 or 1.2, etc,. I did keep adding more buttons as I got more updated photos from the East, however.

  12. Version

    459 downloads

    Mig-27M cockpit (SFP1 series) made by Ordway, Starfighter2, lindr2 based on color cockpit photos and cockpit diagrams. Original cockpit made by Armourdave and Sal. Avionics and optional advanced flight model by Nele. You need avionics 70 and the latest patch updates from Thirdwire. Tested on Windows XP and not Vista. However it might work on Vista too. This is the cockpit for the Soviet MIG-27M ground attack fighter which would probably have been one of the first attackers against NATO in a NATO versus Soviet block confrontation in the 1970s and 1980s. It is referenced from color photographs and original cockpit diagrams. The BMP TV screen is just there for looks. The real TV screen will appear as usual, in the upper right hand corner when using many guided bombs/missiles. No one I knew could figure out how to make it work on the instrument panel in the correct area. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MiG-27M History: The MiG 27, had superb low altitude, high speed capabilities and could out run many other fighters. Concerns over the complexity (and unreliability) of the very advanced MiG-27K ground attack fighter led to the development of a simpler variant, the "MiG-27M". It retained much of the MiG-27K's electronics including a jammer, but featured a cheaper and less sophisticated nav-attack suite. The MiG-27M could carry all the "smart" munitions carried by the MiG-27K except for the KAB-500L LGB. The MiG-27M was externally very hard to tell from a MiG-27K. Initial flight of the first MiG-27M, a converted MiG-27, was in April 1976, and the type went into production in 1978 in Siberia . 162 Soviet-built MiG-27Ms were delivered into 1982. However, from 1982, the decision was made to upgrade most of the older MiG-27 fleet to MiG-27M standards and this of course evemntually added hugely to the over all total number of MiG-27Ms. The MiG-27M was license-built by one user, the Indian Air Force (IAF) starting in the mid-1980s, with the first HAL machine, assembled from a kit performing its initial flight on 11 January 1986. A total of 165 HAL MiG-27Ms -- sometimes referred to with the designation of "MiG-27ML ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Directions: 1) Download Lindr2's Mig-27 series at http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?autoc...p;showfile=6576 2) Back it up just in case. 3) Just download the contents of whole filefolder Mig-27M intact into your aircraft folder as one folder. 4) When asked to overwrite say yes. -Finished! Thanks to Lindr2 for all his sustained hard and dedicated work. Thanks to Armourdave and Sal for the original cockpit. Thanks to Lindr2 and Epizikl for help with the cockpit research and photos. Thanks to Lindr2 for the various TV (optical) cockpit images. Thanks to Armour Dave and Sal for the cockpit. Thanks to Starfighter2, lindr2 for the Mig-23P HUD which has stymied modelers until now that I know of. Thanks to the Mirage factory for the Mig-23ML downloadable as a pack from combatace in the pack called Mirage Factory MiG-23 "Flogger" Series. Not for payware. Enjoy!

  13. Su-25 for SFP1 and WoX

    ordway commented on Uhu's file in Soviet Union/Russian Aircraft

    Thanks, Really nice and needed! Nice cockpit too!
  14. Yes, the brakes are only linked to an on or off brake button. However, for il-2, it is hard coded so that when you turn with the brakes on, it acts like differential braking to me so the aircraft turns a little like differential braking. By the way, I have had these rudder pedals for over a year and they are some of the best I have ever had (since 1991 or so when I had some made of wood!). These are strong, offer resistance, are realistic and I highly recommend them and feel a lot like the real airplanes I have flown since the early 1970s.

  15. Mig-23UB Cockpit With Advanced Avionics

    ordway commented on Teras's file in Jet Cockpits

    Great job on updating this!
  16. Mig-27D cockpit repaint of Mig-23s nearing completion. I painted on a TV screen image and repainted, added, changed gages, levers, knobs, dials and placards and the gunsight in the cockpit according to color photos. The Mig-23BN ground attack version will not have a TV set on it. This is for lindr2's Mig-27 posted series located here: http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?autoc...p;showfile=6576 and a separate Mig23BN ground attack fighter. The progress of the Mig-27D cockpit so far:

  17. Is it just me.....

    ordway replied to godzilla1985's topic in General Discussions

    I'm with you Peter. The AI can be pretty good. When I fly the Neiuport 28 against Alb. D5s, they get altitude and boom and zoom me and won't get into a horizontal fight with me (theorectically, I should be able to out turn them.
  18. New possible gunsight color-pale yellow in Mig-27D as a color photo showed:
  19. Thanks!
  20. Very nice, I have it working! Can I use it in my/your cockpit for release?
  21. Thanks! I'm working on it! Alpha Mig-27K
  22. Thanks!
  23. Mig-27 Flogger D and Mig-27D ground attack fighter/bomber cockpits for SFP1 series now available for download. Mig-27D-(More geared for nuclear weapons and on standby alert like the F-111s) Mig-27-(first large scale production Mig-27 ground attack fighter) Available here: http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?autoc...p;showfile=9749

  24. Version

    600 downloads

    This is both the MiG-27(MiG-23BM) and MiG-27D dedicated ground attack fighter/bomber variant cockpits for SFP1 series Lindr2's MiG-27 FloggerD and MiG-27D available below: http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?autoc...p;showfile=6576 It is based on the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 fighter aircraft, but optimized for the air-to-ground role. Additional cockpit armor was installed, along with a totally new nav-attack system. The MiG-27 was first operational in 1973. However unlike the MiG-23, the MiG-27 did not see widespread use outside the Soviet Union, as most other countries opted for the MiG-23BN ground attack fighter. It would have been one of the leading WARSAW Pact elements of a NATO central front attack. http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?autoc...p;showfile=6576 It has an extremely different gunsight (and no radar) and different panel compared to the Mig-23 fighter series. This was the first MiG-27 version. I had quite a hard time getting the plain MiG-27 working, so now both should work. They both have different loadout capabilties and operational time frames from one another. They also have different equipment from one another as they were basically the same except that the MiG-27D was more optimized for nuclear strike and had more panels for that. The Mig-27D was also apparently kept on nuclear alert much like the US used the F-111. Directions: 1) Download Lindr2's MiG-27 series at http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?autoc...p;showfile=6576 2) Back it up just in case. 3) Just download the contents of both filefolders MiG-27 and MiG-27D intact into your aircraft folder. 4) When asked to overwrite say yes. -Finished! 4) OPTIONAL: Add Nele's alternate advanced MiG-27 flight model/ECM (data.ini) which is in the NeilFlightModel folder called MiG-27_data.ini. Just pop it in and overwrite when asked...back it up as always. The original flight model is also included in the Nele folder titled "original" in case you want to go back to the original flight model and data file. I personally strongly recommend it for getting an accurate feel of the Mig-27 according to the published reports I have researched...but it is not for beginners. Thanks to Lindr2 for all his sustained hard, dedicated and excellent work! Thanks to Armourdave and Sal for the original cockpit. Thanks to Lindr2 and Epizikl for help with the cockpit research and photos. Enjoy!
  25. File Name: Mig-23UB cockpit tandem seat trainer/fighter with working UB HUD File Submitter: ordway File Submitted: 19 Aug 2009 File Updated: 20 Aug 2009 File Category: Jet Cockpits This is the Mig-23UB two seat trainer/fighter cockpit for Lindr2's masterful Mig-23UB. The Mig-23UB was the Mig-23M's two-seat trainer. Production began in 1970 with about 1000 airframes. It has the Mig-23M HUD from Starfighter 2 and Lindr2, but has no radar as it apparently seemed too problematic to maintain in real life. It was used for training and was heavily exported as some countries lost almost one fourth of their entire Mig-23 fleet to accidents. It had a backup fighter role...but without radar, it was limited. It apparently kept the ASP-23D sight, the Kh-23 Delta-NM missile guiding equipment, the camera, and the R-3S and R-13M missiles for a limited anti-air capability. It added, an AOA limiter and angle of attack indicator, the Poliot-1I-23 flight/navigation system with the SAU-23UB autopilot , a better failure warning system and a rear cockpit periscope were installed Thanks to Nele for the optional alternate detailed UB flight model. So the Mig-23UB usually had *no radar* on most airframes (some units might have retained radar). It has a map, pencil and stopwatch for those precision approaches. Oh...and why is 310 K/Hr plastered all over the cockpit- Read on! From flying a two seat Mig-23: "Then we retracted flaps to take off position as he let me do the take off and fly around the pattern again. From the back on final all the instructor kept saying was 310 kilometers airspeed over and over." http://www.warbirdsofdelaware.com/Airplane...87/Default.aspx Directions: 1) Back up your Lindr2 Mig-23UB folder or download it first from: http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?autoc...p;showfile=9712. 2) Just download the whole filefolder Mig-23UB intact into your aircraft folder as one folder. 3) When asked to overwrite say yes. -Finished! 4) OPTIONAL: Add Nele's alternate advanced Mig-23M flight model which is in the NeilFlightModel folder called MiG-23UB_data.ini. Just pop it in and overwrite when asked...back it up as always. I personally strongly recommend it for getting an accurate feel of the Mig-23UB according to the published reports I have researched...but it is not for beginners. Thanks to Lindr2 for all his sustained hard and dedicated work. Thanks to Armourdave and Sal for the cockpit. Thanks to Starfighter2 and Lindr2 for the HUD. Not for payware. Enjoy! Click here to download this file
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