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McDonnell Douglas Eagle F.1 - No.5 Squadron, RAF Strike Command, 1985

Get 'em. Get 'em all.

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After a difficult start, with some founding members of the consortium bailing out and the ever constant threat of cancellation in the high inflation 1970's, Panavia's Tornado programme had matured to produce an outstanding aircraft but by the mid-1980's the Panavia consortium could see the end of the production line looming and began to openly discuss a follow-on programme. Politically, they were steered away from anything that might interfere or compete with the recently launched Eurofighter project and with whispers that both the US and the Soviet Union were studying low-observable technologies the Panavia board decided to seek funding for a small tactical attack aircraft with stealth technology based on the 'in house' MBB (Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm) Lampyridae design for a medium range missile-armed interceptor. Scaled around a non-afterburning version of the General Electric F101 (licence built by the Turbo-Union consortium) rated at 18,000lbs dry thrust the development of the Firefly initially proceeded quickly helped by data from MBB's previously secret scale models and wind tunnel testing but the fall of the Berlin Wall in late 1989 led to a sharp reduction in funding and with almost no possibility of a production order from Germany due to the expected costs of reunification. The programme was effectively reduced to a 'technology demonstrator' status with BAe Warton being selected for the manufacture of a single prototype with the UK government independently issuing BAe with a paid study contract to explore the possibility of equipping the aircraft for carrier operations in a seperate UK only programme confusingly known as Firefly NSF (Naval Strike Fighter). However, the success of the F-117 Nighthawk in the Gulf War of 1991 led to the programme securing full development funding and an initial production order for 200 Lampyridae for Germany, Italy and the UK was authorised in June 1991 with an additional UK order for 40 Firefly NSF's. The first flight of Firefly P.01 took place from Warton on April 29th, 1993 almost a full year before the first flight of the Eurofighter prototype and this was almost immediately followed by an export order for 80 Firefly aircraft for Saudi Arabia (as an amendment to 'Al Yamamah II') leading to much heated debate in the UK on the export of stealth technology and a later scandal regarding alleged bribes to Saudi officials. The first production aircraft was the Firefly GR.1 for the RAF and the first examples entered service in 1997 with No.41 squadron. The first Firefly NSF's entered service with 767 Naval Air Squadron of the Royal Navy in 2001 as the Firefly GR.4 only remaining in service until 2010 when they were sold to India. Russouk2004's cracking little MBB Lampyridae has a beautifully simple single PSD template available making it easy to produce an 'in service' example of the Firefly.

A company was created to make it.... but they folded!

BAe/SAAB AF2000 Lodjur (Lynx) - F21, Flygvapnet, 1985 Russouk2004's splendid 'Barracuda' design with a Flygvapnet skin and national markings.

BAe/SAAB AF2000 Wildcat FRS.1 - 899 Naval Air Squadron, Royal Navy, 1982

Cool Bird!

I enjoy a good dig around in the SF1 archives and rediscovered this so gave it a basic grey skin. You realise it's big when you go to tweak a decal co-ordinate and it starts with 45 despite being well behind the cockpit!

SF1 downloads section - I think it's in the 'Modern Aircraft' towards the front. It needs a bit of TLC.

LOL The break hasn't stopped this place being full of F-16's so here's an antidote...

Not sure about cockpit and avionics but you can reference the Netz where possible. Other than that just check that all .ini files are in ANSI format (they might already be so).

Black Sea Patrol cadeteBRA's J-14 dressed up in Ukrainian markings

Love the 'Six' designs!

Dassault/Dornier AlphaJet - Ukrainian Air Force, 2009

SF2 cannot end! I mean to say, what would people whinge about? Despite being borderline fanboi I can see that TK's 'game' is running out of steam but how long will it take DCS (or whatever) to match the stock Third Wire planeset? 5 years? And how long will it take DCS (or whatever) to match the planeset we see in the Downloads section here at Combat Ace? 10 years? Dunno. But what I do know is that mobiles/tablets leave me cold so TK's plans in that area are of no interest to me although I wish him well and suspect he'll make a success of it. BTW nice posts FC!

Just French and Spanish variants with (possibly) Libyan and Iraqi skins. South Africa as a DLC.

Streakeagle's thoughtful thread 'Competition for SF series' over at Third Wire got me wondering about what to (possibly) jump to if the end is nigh. Out of curiosity, I bought and installed Lock-On (CD version - £5) this morning and after four 'flights' before uninstalling. I've tried it before but my PC was a bit weak back in 2008 but I was quite excited to buy it so cheap. However, it was a huge disappointment. Perhaps I've been enjoying SF too long to adapt but I really didn't find the options very intuitive and gave up. Any thoughts on what to try next?

Amen to that brother! :clapping:

Voted YES but will refrain from using this rather innocent post to vent my spleen....

F-16XL 'Scamp' - 496th TFS, 1991 (I've been raiding the SF1 section.... There's gold in them thar archives!)

View File [Fictional] Yak-41M 'Freestyle' Ukrainian Armed Forces Yakovlev Yak-41M for STRIKE FIGHTERS 2 This is simple mod of Gabilon's Yak-41 'Freestyle' to create a fictional Yak-41M in service with the Ukrainian Naval Aviation and the Ukrainian Air Force. Gabilon created his Yak-41 in 2007 (his first 3D model - Chapeau!) and Fubar512 improved the FM and those improvements are duly incorporated here along with a few modifications by me. Three new Ukrainian skins are included; 1. Ukrainian Naval Aviation in a blue splinter scheme for maritime operations. 2. Ukrainian Air Force in a 'Flygvapnet' splinter scheme for tactical operations. 3. Ukrainian Air Force in a modern (boring) grey scheme. INSTRUCTIONS 1. From the AIRCRAFT folder drag and drop the Yak-41M folder into your Aircraft folder. 2. From the DECALS folder drag and drop the Yak-41M folder into your main Decals folder. 3. From the SOUNDS folder drag and drop both the sound files into your main Sounds folder. 4. From the WEAPONS folder drag and drop all four weapons folder into your main Weapons folder. That's it! CREDITS Thanks to Third Wire for a great little game/sim. Thanks to Gabilon for creating and uploading his Yak-41 back in 2007. Thanks to Fubar512 for his FM tweaks. And thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community. Regards Spinners Version 2 - 03/02/19 Version 1 - 13/05/12 Submitter Spinners Submitted 05/13/2012 Category What If Hangar  

Yak-41 Freestyle - Ukrainian Naval Aviation, 1999