Spinners

Hovver Bovver

Sweeper

Hovering trials... Tricky but dooable!

F, H, C, D ?? ;) Great work on the Tiffie mate!

The X-Factor

Sea Kestrel FRS.1 - 893 Naval Air Squadron, Royal Navy, 1998

God bless Boston and all affected by this senseless and cowardly act.

Only in a galaxy far, far away....

If you have hit 'The Wall' there is no fix - the map cannot go on forever.

You might have reached 'The Wall' (end of map) where weird things happen like exhaust going at right angles to the direction of flight.

I thought we were the plastic pilots.

Me too! It's an exciting time on 'Planet Strike Fighters' at the moment.

Thank you Dan - I'm suffering with a nasty tooth abcess at the moment but will try to finish things off asap.

BAe Sea Kestrel FRS.1 - 899 Naval Air Squadron, Royal Navy, 2002 The cancellation of the proposed CVA-01 in 1966 left the Royal Navy with no replacements in sight for both HMS Eagle and HMS Ark Royal and thus began a slow and painful run down in the Fleet Air Arm's fixed-wing capability. But in April 1973 the Admiralty were given a glimmer of hope by being allowed to procure three 'anti-submarine warfare' carriers of the Invincible class. Whilst primarily designed to take large numbers of medium sized ASW helicopters the Admiralty allowed for the deployment of the V/STOL Harrier and quickly followed up the order for the carriers with an initial order for 24 Sea Harriers (later increased to 34). Entering service in 1978 (but not declared operational until 1981) the small Sea Harrier force performed remarkably well in the 1982 Falklands Conflict and with confidence high the Admiralty immediately planned for the attrition replacement of the six Sea Harriers lost, the speedy introduction of an improved version and also the design and development of a supersonic V/STOL successor. The first two elements of this plan were immediately approved but, in January 1983, the Admiralty were informed that the Sea Harrier replacement would have to be part of the RAF's Air Staff Target 403 (AST403) essentially for a planned successor for the Jaguar and Harrier in RAF service. During this time the British Aerospace (BAe) design team at Kingston (formerly the Hawker design team) had been sketching advanced V/STOL designs to meet AST403 and could see that the involvement of the Royal Navy would lead to a larger UK programme and also open up a larger export market for an aircraft designed for land-based and carrier-based use. By March 1983 the Kingston design team had dusted off their P.1214 project and offered several versions to the UK Ministry of Defence. The build-up to the 1983 British General Election saw the Conservative Party, led by Margaret Thatcher, make capital of the UK's victory in the previous year's Falklands War and on the promise of 'strong defence' they announced the decision to procure a successor to the Sea Harrier on June 2nd, 1983 with an order for 50 P.1214's for the Fleet Air Arm and a further 150 P.1214's for the RAF with initial deliveries going to the Royal Navy. Development moved smoothly and, as a nod towards the P.1214's lineage, the BAe design team renamed the aircraft Kestrel II. Entering service in May 1988 with the newly reformed 892 Naval Air Squadron the Sea Kestrel FRS.1 served with four frontline Fleet Air Arm squadrons seeing service in both Gulf Wars and also the Second Falklands War of 2002. Thank you Cocas!

BAe Sea Kestrel FRS.1 - 899NAS, Royal Navy, 1988 Against the light

Boeing-Saab Cutlass GR.1 - No.6 Squadron, Royal Air Force, 2010

View File [Fictional] Flygvapnet Skin for Cocas' F-32 Flygvapnet Skin for Cocas' F-32 Released 'as is' after being requested by Cocas for his very inventive F-32 'Joint Strike Fighter' early proposal this is a fictional Flygvapnet skin for F21. There is a slight limitation in that the nose insignia also appear on the inside of the aircraft but with your ejection seat in place you will hardly notice this. INSTRUCTIONS 1. From the AIRCRAFT folder drag and drop the F-32 folder into your main Aircraft folder and overwrite if asked. 2. From the DECALS folder drag and drop the F-32 folder into your main Decals folder and overwrite if asked. CREDITS As always, thanks to Third Wire for the continuous improvement of a great little game/sim. Thanks to the prolific and talented Cocas for bringing us this alternate version of the F-32. And, finally, thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community. Regards Spinners Version 2 - 31/12/13 Submitter Spinners Submitted 04/12/2013 Category What If Skins

Tipping point

Shiny 2

Black radome added plus some 'FARA' markings. Uploaded two minutes ago but give the admin's some time (they do it for free you know).

I'll release it 'as is' with a few basic decals for folks to pop into their F-32 folder.

Boeing-Saab JAS 40A (F-32A) - F21, Flygvapnet, 2011