ValAstur

Panavia/Mitsubishi F-3J Tornado - 302nd Hikotai - 1983

Sorry for having taken so long for updates but as some of you all might know, real life™ is sometimes a real b****. I don't think that I have to mention anything else. Mirage 2000Bx - New Zealand - 2nd Squadron 75th Squadron Mirage 2000Bx - Australia - 75th Squadron Mirage 2000BxF - El Salvador Mirage 2000BxF - Pakistan - 15th Squadron "Cobras" The bulgarian one only needs serial numbers and then it will be ready.

All characters appearing in this thread are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. Please read the text first. It makes it more interesting! Farnborough, 15th July 2014 Planes from every era and every branch are standing on the fields and in opened hangars being watched by fans of aviation. One hangar stays closed with no name on it and no sign indicating its content. Michael Holte, journalist from FLUG REVUE has an appointment with the CEOs from Dassault Aviation (Francois Moyen) and Air France (Jean-Marie Petit), where both will probably announce a new joint venture in civilian transport. Since no information was leaked, Mr. Holte does not really know what he has to expect. Holte: Mr. Petit, can you please tell me what is it about that rumour, that both Dassault and Air France formed a joint venture for a new way of civilian transport. Petit: Well Mr. Holte, first of all I would like to ask you to keep all classified until we unveil what will be a new exclusive service of Air France. The official presentation is scheduled for tomorrow twelve o'clock. Holte: Of course. Petit: You maybe made the same experience once. You miss a plane for reasons you could not prevent and worse, you lose an important opportunity to get a great story. Well, the customers we want to serve in this new service are exactly those, who need to be elsewhere in short time. When you miss a plane and nothing else can bring you faster to your destination. When time and speed are essential! That's where our new service somes into action! Apart from flight schedules and standard flight routes, our new aircraft only needs open airspace to travel. We took several possibilities into consideration and we decided in favour of Dassault Aviation, supporting the french economy by the way (laughs). Holte: And what is this new plane? Mr. Moyen? Moyen: The plane is a heavily modified Mirage 2000B, now designated 2000AF. Holte: A Mirage 2000AF?! But how? Moyen: The plane has been stripped from all warfaring equipment, avionics have been reduced to serve navigational purposes only. The only things that have been left in the plane are the countermeasure dispensers. You never know when some hot jocks launch a missile at you (laughs). Holte: Have there been modifications to the engine? Moyen: The engineers at SNECMA managed to reduce the fuel usage by improving the combustion process by achieving a higher thrust, both dry and wet. Improvements were effectuated by using lighter and more resistant materials, which does also contribute to reduce the plane's weight achieving another reduction in fuel burn. We are speaking of net weight reduction of 9.7 percent by a thrust increase of 12.1 and a fuel usage reduction of 9.5 percent. Holte: Mr. Petit. How will this service be called, what will be the price for transportation and what services do you offer to the passenger? Petit: The service will be called V.I.P. Express Service. Prices for transport have not been fixed yet, but we think that they will be in the five-figure area, starting at around 20.000 euros. The onboard services are pretty small, since the plane does not offer a place for a stewardess (smiles). The passenger will be seated behind the pilot at the former WSO position. The passenger has the possibility to entertain himself with movies, music and internet. The plane sports a internetconnection via Satellite with 256bit-security, enabling the passenger to continue his work even in air. We are negotiating with several movie and music providers for streaming contracts to offer the passenger a widespread variety of media, including the newest movies and music. Holte: How about personal security of the passenger and who will pilot the planes? Petit: All passengers have to read and sign a disclaimer, that they know the risks of using this service and therefore neither Dassault nor Air France could be charged for any harms caused to the customer. In the case of being shot down or a massive malfunction of the plane, the ejection seats have been preserved but the ejection process can only be initiated by the pilot. This was added to prevent ejection of the passenger in panic leading to the loss of the plane. The pilots are all former Armee de l'Air pilots, which already flew the combat version during their career. This way we don't need to invest money and lose time training our civilian plane pilots. Holte: How much time will it take between the purchase of the ticket and taking off? Petit: We aim to get our customer in the air within one our after the signing of the disclaimer. Holte: What destinations will be offered? Petit: First we will serve inside France, but we plan to expand all over Europe if the service is accepted. We will now proceed to do some final checks and tests and think that we can start this service at the end of this year at latest. Holte: Thank you both very much for this interesting interview. Now I can't wait to see the plane! Both Moyen, Petit: Thank you. Petit: Remember. Tomorrow twelve o'clock. The next day at Farnborough, the great moment has arrived and the Hangar opens: Rolling to runway Entering runway Pilot and Passenger Closing canopies for liftoff Reached altitude and aproaching travel speed

Hey Spillone Those Starfighters are looking completely aweseome! Of course. But during take offs and landings your bag has to be stored .

So say we all!

Hey guys. No need to panic! You want air forces... you get air forces. @SayWhatt No pic of an australian bird doesn't mean that there can't be one. @allenjb42 2000BI would be the correct one for Israel I guess, because if you take a closer look on modern american fighters in israeli service like the F-15I Ra'am or the F-16I Sufa, the planes always have the "I" at the end of its designation. Same for the japanese planes. The F-4E is the F-4EJ in JASDF service and the F-15C and D are the F-15CJ and DJ respectively. @SantroM Believe it or not, but I was thinking of a pakistani one.

El Salvador is on my list.

Thx. Dunno how many weeks it took to get all those planes done. Bulgaria... why not? I'm open for suggestions.

I think I found the problem. In the weapon editor, the JSOWs are listed as not exported, but the plane in question is for the USMC. The year is 2014. I got the same prob with the Kormoran 2. Seems like they are binded to the country in their data.ini and can not be equipped by somebody else. That means that I have to switch weapons.

I've got a problem with the cluster munitions in the pack. I want to equip my plane with AGM-154B JSOW, but it does not show up in the loadout screen. Same applies to the Storm Shadow, APACHE and other types of cluster missiles. The only one working is the Taurus KEPD-350. Has it to do with the latest patch or where might be the problem? This is my data.ini's correspondent entry: [LeftInnerPylone2] SystemType=WEAPON_STATION StationID=9 StationGroupID=3 StationType=EXTERNAL AttachmentPosition=-2.313,-2.016,-0.925 AttachmentAngles=0.0,0.0,0.0 LoadLimit=1800.0 AllowedWeaponClass=SAHM,RP,BOMB,LGR,AHM,ASM,CGR,EOGB,TLR,EOGR AttachmentType=USAF,USN ModelNodeName=LIPylon PylonMass=72.58 PylondragArea=0.02 [RightInnerPylone2] SystemType=WEAPON_STATION StationID=10 StationGroupID=3 StationType=EXTERNAL AttachmentPosition=2.313,-2.016,-0.925 AttachmentAngles=0.0,0.0,0.0 LoadLimit=1800.0 AllowedWeaponClass=SAHM,RP,BOMB,LGR,AHM,ASM,CGR,EOGB,TLR,EOGR AttachmentType=USAF,USN ModelNodeName=RIPylon PylonMass=72.58 PylondragArea=0.02 And this is my loadout screen: P.S.: I'm working on some new planes... , so don't wonder about the blackscreen.

Look here: http://combatace.com/files/file/12724-semi-fictional-lockheed-martiniai-f-35i/

File Name: [Fictional] Chengdu JH-6 "Flashfire" File Submitter: ValAstur File Submitted: 25 May 2013 File Category: What If Hangar Fictional mod of the stock Mirage 5F modifying it to a fictional fighter plane for the chinese air force. YOU WILL NEED SF2:E and SF2:I AT LEAST TO GET THIS PLANE RUNNING! INSTRUCTIONS 1. Drop the folders into your Objects folder. If asked to overwrite, click yes. CREDITS Big Thanks to Thirdwire for the games and the superb models they have. To Spinners for the chinese serial numbers I borrowed from his Harbin H-5. And, last but not least, to Stratos for the idea to this bird. Kindest regards ValAstur Click here to download this file

Reduced color intensity to make it look less like an aggressor scheme

That is quite an interesting idea. I've made up my mind and got that one here: Chengdu JH-6 "Flashfire" - PLAAF, 1976 I hope that this is similar to what you had in mind...

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/08/world/europe/uk-margaret-thatcher-dead/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Looking great. Keep up the good work

File Name: [Fictional] Dassault Convair F-116A Scimitar File Submitter: ValAstur File Submitted: 01 May 2013 File Category: What If Hangar Fictional mod of the stock Mirage 5F modifying it to a fictional fighter plane for the United States marine Corps. YOU WILL NEED SF2:E and SF2:I AT LEAST TO GET THIS PLANE RUNNING! BACKGROUND After the enormous success of the F-114A among the pilots in the USAF, which described the plane as easy to fly, the USMC wanted a similar plane but with a major variety of arming possibilities. Regarding that, the hull was modified to allow the addition of two more weapon stations. The USMC was satisified with the result and ordered 72 planes. The squadrons represented in this pack are the VMA-231 "Aces", the VMF-232 "Red Devils" and the VMFA-333 "Shamrocks". INSTRUCTIONS 1. Drop the folders into your Objects folder. If asked to overwrite, click yes. CREDITS Big Thanks to Thirdwire for the games and the superb models they have. Also to Wrench for assessing me in US decal "matters". :-) And, last but not least, to Stratos for the idea to this bird. Kindest regards ValAstur Click here to download this file

I agree fully!!! :good:

F-116A Scimitar - VMF-232 "Red Devils", 1975 This plane was a request from Stratos

Skins need some minor detail fixing and then I'll upload it.

F-116A Scimitar - VMA-231 "Aces", 1975 F-116A Scimitar - VMFA-333 "Shamrocks", 1975

Rafale C, Grupo de Aviación N° 12, 2005

Mitsubishi T-2 - Royal Dhimari Air Force, 1991