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  1. Dassault Mirage 5BA - No.2 (Aggressor) Squadron, Belgian Air Force, 1987
  2. Much further back I would have thought.
  3. BAe Hawk Mk.105 - No.2 (Leinster) Squadron, Irish Air Corps, 2008
  4. It's actually $5.99 but I know what you mean.
  5. Grumman F-14J Tomcat - 203rd Kikotai, JASDF, 1987
  6. Phoenix working fine here.
  7. F-4M Phantom[ FGR2]

    A real 'magnum opus' and a fantastic reminder of my youth as my interest in military aviation probably peeked when the UK's Phantom Phorce wore green/grey camo with 'B' type roundels. Well done mate and chapeau to Ravenclaw too.
  8. Fandabidozi... Grabbing it NOW!
  9. BaC p.45

    Fix for Stabs [LeftStabilizer] SystemType=CONTROL_SURFACE InputName=PITCH_CONTROL SecondaryInputName=ROLL_CONTROL SecondaryInputFactor=0.30 MovingSurface=TRUE MaxDeflection=16.0 MinDeflection=-20.0 ControlRate=1.0 ModelNodeName=Stab_L ReverseModelOrientation=TRUE [RightStabilizer] SystemType=CONTROL_SURFACE InputName=PITCH_CONTROL SecondaryInputName=ROLL_CONTROL SecondaryInputFactor=-0.30 MovingSurface=TRUE MaxDeflection=16.0 MinDeflection=-20.0 ControlRate=1.0 ModelNodeName=Stab_R ReverseModelOrientation=TRUE
  10. Hawker Siddeley A-11A Buccaneer - VMA-231, United States Marine Corps, 1971
  11. On behalf of Her Majesty the Queen and her loyal subjects I humbly thank you.
  12. BAC Boreas Mk.51 - 302nd Hikotai, Japan Air Self Defense Force, 1972 Wing seal added
  13. Hawker Siddeley A-11A Buccaneer - VMA-231, USMC, 1971
  14. BaC p.45

    Nice one Cocas. I'd like to add an abridged overview of the BAC P.45 variable-geometry (VG) project. It reads like a backstory but it is the truth... The P.45 has a link with Barnes Wallis of 'Dambusters' fame who, whilst at Vickers Armstrong at Weybridge, tinkered around with VG from about 1944. Fast forward to the late 1950's and GOR.339 (the operational requirement that led to the magnificent TSR.2) the UK Government bullied the remaining British aircraft companies into partnerships to reduce the number of companies on the premise that future projects would be so rare and complex that only partnerships could cope. In 1960 Bristol, English Electric, Hunting Aviation and Vickers Armstrong were banged together to form BAC (the British Aircraft Corporation) and looked at VG as a means of meeting GOR.339 before moving on to the TSR.2's equally advanced very small but highly-blown wing. After the TSR.2 had moved out of the project stage the project staff at BAC revisited the VG concept and sketched the P.45 as a private-venture study into a military VG aircraft powered by two RB.172 afterburning turbofans (or one RB.168 afterburning 'Spey' turbofan) and designed as a supersonic light attack aircraft and trainer with follow-on air superiority and strike versions with more advanced avionics. BAC submitted the P.45 to the Ministry of Aviation in May 1964 but this was not the best time to be proposing a modern supersonic aircraft in the UK as the soon to be elected Labour government took out the three main British aircraft projects (the AW.681 VTOL transport, the P.1154 V/STOL fighter and the TSR.2 strike aircraft) and jumped into bed with the French which saw the Sepecat Jaguar project look after the light attack and trainer requirements and the larger AFVG project look after the air superiority and strike requirements. Echoes of the P.45 survived into the cancelled AFVG and the MRCA (Tornado).
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