Spinners

If that's a statement, I agree.

Great news!

Panavia Tornado F.3 - No.602 squadron, Royal Auxilliary Air Force

Totally agree. F-15A to F-15E Tornado IDS to Tornado ADV

I think it was to give TAC a slice of the nuclear action (funding).

I don't even remember that term being used until the F-15 era so I think not. I suppose it might have have made a respectable missile-armed interceptor in the late 1950's early 1960's in which case I'd rate it higher than the 'Deuce' but below the 'Six'. And in case anyone thinks I'm knocking the Thud, I love it! But, horses for courses. When I started out in Strikefighters I played around with the Thunderchief's thrust values to try get it to eclipse the Phantom for max. altitude (like the Project High Jump attempts) and ended up putting nearly 40,000lbs of thrust into it!

Are you seriously suggesting that modders make two versions of everything? With the 'first generation' version just for those with old PC's? It's time to move on and, besides, you can use the Knowledge Base to convert SF2 stuff back into SF1.

I have no idea about your first question but I think your SF1 skin will work on your SF2 F-35 but you can easily view the skin bitmaps and eyeball any differences first. BTW your computer won't break if you simply try it!

BAC Thunderstrikes of No.6 squadron, Royal Australian Air Force on an anti-ship training mission

To clarify, are you getting stock clouds, flames and smoke? If not, I'd post this at the Third Wire site.

A Panavia Tornado GR.5 of No.13 Squadron, RAF South East Asia Command gets airborne.

I've formally asked the creator for permission to release a 'what if' mod here. Stay tuned...

BAC Thunderstrike GR.4 - "Jaguares" (Esquadra 301) Força Aérea Portuguesa In a long 'letterbox' slot at the back. Don't think circular... think F-117A.

The 'fix' is to read the 'read me'. I can remember having the same problem but it was 'user error' on my part.

BAC Thunderstrike - No.6 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force, 1971

McDonnell Douglas/General Dynamics A-12A Avenger - No.6 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force

Huge fun! Well done, it's always nice to have something different and this aircraft is just so elegant!

It's available as a beta (at Check Six) and there's already a 'what if' PLAAF version here.

BAe/McDonnell Douglas/General Dynamics Avenger GR.2 - No.617 Squadron, Royal Air Force

Take me to your leader

Great work btw!

Well the Meteor was a jet fighter (allegedly) but a few M-262 and Arado Ar-234's were royally bounced by Mustangs in WW2.

View File [Fictional] BAC Thunderstrike S.1 (TSR.2) BAC Thunderstrike S.1 for STRIKE FIGHTERS 2 This is a simple mod of bongodriver's outstanding BAC TSR.2 to give a fictional Thunderstrike S.1 strike aircraft in service with the RAF during the 1968 to 1980 timeline. Three RAF squadrons are covered and all with toned-down (pale) markings; No.100 Squadron. No.139 (Jamaica) Squadron. No.617 Squadron - The famous 'Dambusters'. BACKSTORY In the House of Commons on April 6th 1965, when Chancellor James Callaghan stood to deliver his budget day speech most of the British aviation industry were prepared for the worst but nothing about the TSR.2 was mentioned and a collective sigh of relief was heard. On April 9th, Prime Minister Wilson made an unannounced visit to BAC Warton and, after raised voices were heard coming from the boardroom, Wilson was given a tour of the TSR.2 front office by an enthusiastic and passionate Roland Beaumont. Playing to the assembled crowd of BAC workers and the Press corps, Wilson announced that whilst some economies were needed this important aircraft was "an amazing example of British engineering and will form the backbone of a modern Royal Air Force" adding that a production order for 30 examples would be immediately placed plus another four pre-production aircraft. Astounded BAC officials looked at each in disbelief, swallowed hard and smiled for the cameras. In the months that followed, everything seemed to fall into place. The undercarriage retraction problems disappeared, the new Olympus 321 engines ran faultlessly both at Filton (and soon after in the newly flown XR222) whilst various highly classified black boxes arrived at Warton, were fitted and worked like a charm. Testing continued into 1966 and on April 6th, 1966 Mary Wilson (the wife of Prime Minister, Harold Wilson) smashed a bottle of champagne across the nose of XR225 in a naming ceremony christening the aircraft 'Thunderstrike'. In August 1966, the Air Ministry announced that to ease the aircraft into squadron service a Thunderstrike Test and Evaluation Squadron (TTES) would be formed during 1967 at RAF Coningsby operating the last four prototypes (XR223 to XR226) and the four pre-production aircraft (XR556 to XR559). During the Spring of 1967 the excellent results coming from the Thunderstrike Test and Evaluation Squadron allowed the RAF to begin to plan the introduction into service of the BAC Thunderstrike S.1 and it was hoped to initially re-equip No.617 'Dambuster' squadron at RAF Scampton first and hopefully by April 1st, 1968 (the RAF's 50th birthbday). However, during August 1967 the RAF top brass became aware of the onset of fatigue problems with the two Victor B.2 squadrons at RAF Wittering and, fearful of another Valiant style mass grounding, it was decided to move the Victor B.2's away from the arduous low-level role as a matter of urgency and re-equip them with the Thunderstrike. Deliveries to No.100 and No.139 squadrons commenced in February 1968 but by April 1st only seven aircraft had been received and these early production machines had varying standards of both engines and nav/attack systems but the photo-shoot held on April 1st at least gave the impression that the aircraft had entered service but it was not until February 1969 that both squadrons were declared operational and available to NATO Sacuer. By this time, No.617 squadron at Scampton had also began to re-equip with the Thunderstrike S.1 and had moved to Wittering at the end of March 1969. During April 1969 all three squadrons took part in Exercise Clansman, a NATO exercise based on mock-attacks on several Scottish hydro-electric facilities, with all three squadrons returning exceptionally high scores for serviceability, penetration and bombing accuracy. Following this solid entry into service the Thunderstrike programme never looked back with orders placed for 60 Thunderstrike S.2's for RAF Germany plus 90 S.3's for RAF Strike Command as Vulcan replacements and a hugely successful export campaign saw the aircraft sold to Australia, Canada, India, Italy, Saudi Arabia and West Germany. Nurse, my medicene please. INSTRUCTIONS 1. From the AIRCRAFT folder drag and drop the ThunderstrikeS1 folder into your Aircraft folder. 2. From the DECALS folder drag and drop the ThunderstrikeS1 folder into your main Decals folder. 3. From the EFFECTS folder move the three 'Olympus' files into your Effects folder. 4. From the PILOTS folder move the TSRSeat folder into your Pilots folder. 5. From the SOUNDS folder move the two 'Oly' files into your Sounds folder. 6. From the WEAPONS folder move the AS-30 folder into your Weapons folder. COCKPIT Please note that this mod uses a slightly modified stock Phantom pit with the pilot position altered and the air-to-air modes disabled. Cockpits and Avionics are not my thing so I'm open minded to any suggestions for improvements but please note that I do like to make my mods as simple as possible so rivet counters need not apply. CREDITS As always, thanks to Third Wire for a great little game/sim. Massive thanks to bongodriver for bringing the TSR.2 to the Third Wire Community. Genius! It's impossible to improve on his outstanding TSR.2 add-on so this version is just a different flavour. Equally massive thanks to sundowner for the awesome skins on this version and, indeed, on all the TSR.2's plus his developed versions... check them out! And, finally, thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community. Regards Spinners Version 3 - February 6th, 2024. Submitter Spinners Submitted 04/05/2010 Category What If Hangar  

Version 2 - 07/04/10 (Adds 'patch' bitmaps to each skin folder, chaff and flares now working)

View File [Fictional] BAC Thunderstrike S.2 (TSR.2) BAC Thunderstrike S.2 for STRIKE FIGHTERS 2 This is a simple mod of bongodriver's outstanding BAC TSR.2 to give a fictional Thunderstrike S.2 strike aircraft in service with No.213 Squadron of RAF Germany during the 1970 to 1991 timeline. INSTRUCTIONS 1. From the AIRCRAFT folder drag and drop the ThunderstrikeS2 folder into your Aircraft folder. 2. From the DECALS folder drag and drop the ThunderstrikeS2 folder into your main Decals folder. 3. From the EFFECTS folder move the three 'Olympus' files into your Effects folder. 4. From the PILOTS folder move the TSRSeat folder into your Pilots folder. 5. From the SOUNDS folder move the two 'Oly' files into your Sounds folder. 6. From the WEAPONS folder move the two 'Martel' folders into your Weapons folder. COCKPIT Please note that this mod uses a slightly modified stock Phantom pit with the pilot position altered and the air-to-air modes disabled. Cockpits and Avionics are not my thing so I'm open minded to any suggestions for improvements but please note that I do like to make my mods as simple as possible so rivet counters need not apply. CREDITS As always, thanks to Third Wire for a great little game/sim. Massive thanks to bongodriver for bringing the TSR.2 to the Third Wire Community. Genius! It's impossible to improve on his outstanding TSR.2 add-on so this version is just a different flavour. Equally massive thanks to sundowner for the awesome skins on this version and, indeed, on all the TSR.2's plus his developed versions... check them out! And, finally, thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community. Regards Spinners Version 2 - February 6th, 2024. Submitter Spinners Submitted 04/07/2010 Category What If Hangar