Spinners

LOL - The 'Super Heavy' is clearly a Vickers product (Valiant wing and VC10 tails).

Took Mrs. Spinners to see it on opening night last night. The three star review in a well-known British tabloid (famous for high-brow features like 'News in briefs') had me a bit worried but it was absolutely outstanding and I can't quite remember a cinema audience bursting into applause before. I've earned Brownie points

Welcome to Combat Ace mate. Anyone who's enthusiastic about SF2 is alright by me!

Republic F-7C Thunderstorm - 428th and 429th Tactical Fighter Squadrons, USAF Vietnam, 1968 During late 1958 the Langley Laboratory made the breakthrough that led to the realisation of a valid variable-sweep wing and by early 1959 Tactical Air Command (TAC) could see that this massive technological breakthrough could be the key to help them in their search for a tactical strike fighter to replace both the F-100 Super Sabre andthe F-105 Thunderchief. Pretty soon however the numerical values for unrefuelled range and payload that TAC had attached to their mission requirements had the effect of turning all the paper studies from F-105 sized machines to much larger tactical bombers with a corresponding increase in cost and price and this reduced affordability was of great concern to TAC. In the Autumn of 1959 TAC wisely decided to split their requirement into a smaller tactical fighter to replace the F-100 and a larger tactical bomber to replace the F-105, B-57 and B-66. The larger aircraft would evolve into Specific Operational RequirementNo.183 that would launch the important TFX (tactical fighter experimental) programme and eventually lead (via a tortuous route) to the outstanding but highly compromised F-111 family whilst the smaller aircraft would lead to Specific Operational Requirement No.182 or TAX (tactical aircraft experimental). Issued in March 1960 SOR182 called for a single-seat tactical fighter aircraft with “reduced dependence of paved runways” and with “the ability to carry a nuclear bomb at supersonic speed at tree-top height”. Requests for Proposals were immediately sent out to industry and Republic Aviation’s proposal soon gained the support of TAC by virtue of its use of a variable-sweep wing but also by the use of the existing J75 turbojet and F-105 avionics. With the end of F-105 production on the horizon Republic Aviation pushed hard for SOR182/TAX and in February 1961 they were rewarded with a contract for 24 prototype and pre-production YF-110 aircraft and 400 production F-110A machines and Republic wasted no time in bestowing the name of ‘Thunderstorm’ to the latest of their long line of fighter aircraft. Republic Aviation were fortunate in being awarded the contract before Secretary of Defence Robert S. McNamara had got into his stride and the programme largely escaped McNamara and his whiz-kids. Development moved swiftly and during 1962 the programme was re-designated F-7 under the new tri-service designation scheme and the first prototype took to the air on December 22nd 1962 a full year ahead of the F-111A. Entering service in June 1965 the F-7A was followed by the F-7B two-seat trainer version and the more advanced F-7C version that first deployed to Vietnam in March 1968 when a two-squadron wing transferred to Takhli Royal Thia AFB, Thailand in a deployment called ‘Combat Lancer’. Soviet green wheels replaced with white!

Wow! Didn't see this coming!

Republic F-7C Thunderstorm - No.1 Squadron, Belgian Air Force, 1971

Red Dawn

Agreed. Imagine an Expansion Pack with a Third Wire F-111A and flyable A-6's with new cockpits and avionics.

De Havilland Venom F.55 - Jagdgeschwader 73 "Steinhoff", West German Air Force, 1956

Dassault Mystère NG (Nouvelle Génération) EC 1/12 "Cambrésis, 1993

View File [Fictional] Yak-23P 'Flora' - Parani Air Force Yakovlev Yak-23P 'Paran for STRIKE FIGHTERS 2 This is a very simple mod of the stock Yak-23 'Flora' to give a fictional export version for the Parani Air Force. Since my first 'Flora' mod we've had a superb cockpit by Stary so I've included it within this package. INSTRUCTIONS 1. From the AIRCRAFT folder drag and drop the Yak-23P folder into your Aircraft folder. 2. From the DECALS folder drag and drop the Yak-23P folder into your Decals folder. 3. From the PILOTS folder drag and drop the PILOT_PARAN folder into your Pilots folder. CREDITS As always, thanks to everyone at Third Wire for a great little game/sim. Big thanks to Stary for his superb 'Flora' cockpit - it's bloomin' lovely. And thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community. Regards Spinners Version 2 - 29/01/19 Submitter Spinners Submitted 01/06/2013 Category What If Hangar  

Tuck in time

Yak-23 'Flora' - 1st Fighter Regiment, Republic of Paran Air Force, 1950 In the aftermath of World War 2 Shah Mushani of Paran quickly allied his country to the Soviet Union who supported his country's long-standing claim for the Mazadran oil fields on the Dhimar-Paran border. During the late 1940's, Soviet equipment poured into Paran culminating with the delivery of the first jet aircraft into the region when the 1st Fighter Regiment re-equipped with the Yak-23 'Flora' in 1949.

Yes, just tweaking it a bit.

And I seem to remember that the original SFP1 that reeled us all in includes Dhimar and Paran.

How extremely rude to hijack someone else's post!

@ Copperhead - welcome to Combat Ace.

Yak-38 'Forger' - 1 Esc. Comando de Aviación Naval, 1982

Yak-38 'Forger' - 3 Esc. Comando de Aviación Navale, 1988

Forging ahead