Search the Community

Hello! Today there will be a very small issue of diaries for the reason that we are preparing a release candidate for version 4.008, which we told you about before, we are doing the final tests so there is a lot of work and little time. However, even if this DD is short, it’s still significant - because for the first time we will show you screenshots of one of the English planes that will be in Battle of Normandy – the Supermarine Spitfire Mk.XIVc. In fact, this aircraft will have an additional modification with heavy machine guns, the Spitfire Mk.XIVe, but we will show you that version a bit later. This plane is quite different from the MK. IX Spitfire, which was previously included in BOBP. The main thing that catches your eye is the massive 5-rotor Rotol propeller, driven by the Rolls-Royce Griffon engine. To provide a much more powerful engine with sufficient cooling, radiators of a larger area are installed on the aircraft. Also, the tail area had to be increased for added stability. The aircraft will be presented with two types of weapon configurations - modification "c" with two 20mm guns and 4 x 7.69 machine guns, and modification "e" with two 20mm guns and 2 x 12.7mm machine guns. A 150-octane fuel option will also be available causing the already powerful engine to develop up to 2,200 horsepower. Work on this legendary aircraft is at a rather early stage, but much has already been done as you can clearly see in a small selection of screenshots:

View File Spitfire 9e Cockpit Spitfire IX (E Type) Cockpit, and for other late Merlin-powered variants. I hope that you will like this mod. Cheers, Starfighter2 Submitter starfighter2 Submitted 08/10/2019 Category Prop Cockpits  

View File Mercenary Sand Skin for Spitfire 9C (fictional) Mercenary Sand Skin for Spitfire 9C (fictional) by Gerwin 21-4-2019 DESCRIPTION: Made for the Wings over Israel Expansion Spitfire 9C model. For use by the nation of Paran. This skin is part of a Skin set, all in the same style, by the same author. This work is based on existing skins (EAF camo). INSTALLATION: Make sure you have both Wings over Israel and its Expansion pack, The SF2 versions of these products should also work fine. Copy the included folder with contents to the folder that contains the Spitfire 9C files, for example: WOI\Objects\Aircraft\Spitfire9c or: My Documents\ThirdWire\Strike Fighters 2 Israel\Objects\Aircraft\Spitfire9c Optionally add "Paran" to Spitfire9C_UserList.ini, like below: [Paran] ServiceStartYear=1946 ServiceEndYear=1955 Availability=COMMON In case one want to use this skin for the Spitfire 9E The two wing bitmaps for the 9E are included in the folder "Spitfire9e_wings" You have to mix these two bitmaps with the 9C mod to get a proper 9E texture set. THANKS TO: Third Wire for the Strike Fighters Based Games. Submitter gerwin Submitted 04/21/2019 Category Spitfire  

View File [Fictional] Supermarine Spitfire F.Mk22 'Norway' Supermarine Spitfire F.Mk 22 - Royal Norwegian Air Force This is a very simple mod of the stock Third Wire Spitfire F.Mk 22 to give a fictional Norwegian Spitfire F.Mk 22 with markings for the following squadrons; No.331 Squadron RNoAF in standard RAF Camo. No.332 Squadron RNoAF in NMF/Silver finish. No.91 Squadron RAF in standard RAF Camo (not a real world user). This mod requires AI Plane Pack 2 and should not conflict with the stock Third Wire Spitfire F.Mk 22. I have elected NOT to make this Spitfire F.Mk 22 nation specific for the RNoAF but have kept it as RAF so as to allow other future skins to be dropped in. INSTRUCTIONS 1. From the AIRCRAFT folder drag and drop the SpitfireF22 folder into your main Aircraft folder. 2. From the DECALS folder drag and drop the SpitfireF22 folder into your main Decals folder. At this point it might be a good idea to change the pilot to whatever you've got in your install suitable for the early post-war period. CREDITS Thanks to Third Wire for a great little game/sim. Special thanks to Kesselbrut for the Spitfire cockpit (an oldie but goldie). And thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community. Regards Spinners Version 1 - 15/02/19 Submitter Spinners Submitted 02/15/2019 Category What If Hangar  

View File [Fictional] Nakajima Ki-101 (IJAAF Spitfire IXc) Nakajima Ki-101 'Heavenly Lion' for STRIKE FIGHTERS 2 This is a simple mod of the stock 'AI' Thirdwire Spitfire F.9C to give a flyable 'what if' Nakajima Ki-101 interceptor-fighter of the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force in mid-1945. This mod requires you to have Expansion Pack 1 so that you have the necessary Third Wire Spitfire LOD's that are, of course, not included here. BACKSTORY In February 1943 the unfortunate Pilot Office P. Lonker of No.64 squadron descended through the fog to land his brand-new Spitfire IX at the Luftwaffe airfield near Brest in the mistaken belief that it was his home base of Hornchurch. Whilst the Spitfire was no secret to the Germans this pristine example was gratefully received and sent to the Dornier factory in Altenrhein (Switzerland) where it was studied in detail with production drawings made and tooling fabricated for the proposed production of the Spitfire for the Swiss Air Force. However, during the early Spring of 1944 the decision was made to ship the drawings and tooling to the Nakajima Aircraft Company in Japan for production of the Spitfire for defence against American bombers including the B-29 then just coming into service in forward bases in China and India. Designated as the Ki-101 'Heavenly Lion' production started quickly enough but disaster struck when the Ota factory was bombed (ironically by B-29's) in December 1944 with only a handful of aircraft completed and all without engines as Aichi Atsuta had failed to deliver a single example of the licence-built Daimler-Benz DB605 engine. Miraculously, production restarted in February 1945 with the first Aichi built engines arriving in March allowing the first squadron to re-equip in May 1945. Production records indicate that only 45 Ki-101's were manufactured and there were no recorded incidents of air combat between the 'Heavenly Lion' and allied aircraft INSTRUCTIONS 1. From the AIRCRAFT folder drag and drop the SpitfireF9_IJAAF folder into your Aircraft folder. 2. From the DECALS folder drag and drop the SpitfireF9_IJAAF folder into your main Decals folder. Pilot - Almost certainly you'll have a Third Wire 'Jet Jock' flying your 'Heavenly Lion' so you'll need to swap him out for something more appropriate. N.B. Once you installed your aircraft you'll find it named Ki-101 'Heavenly Lion' in the drop-down menu. For best results you will need to manipulate your nations list to include the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force. That's it! CREDITS As always, thanks to Third Wire for a great little game/sim. Extra special thanks to Kesselbrut for the Spitfire cockpit. And thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community. Regards Spinners Version 2 - 21/05/2020 Version 1 - 09/04/2011 Submitter Spinners Submitted 04/09/2011 Category What If Hangar