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Scimitar by Rob Richardson....

ejoiner said:
Rob please accept my apology if I have offended you! My question was to understand the flight dynamics of an airplane I am unfamiliar with. Not criticism! I am a 100 percent fan and appreciate the work you and many others put into our collective hobby.

Eric
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Eric, we all get a little passionate about this hobby from time to time!
The subject of Flight dynamics for simulator aircraft is never going to be an exact science
In my case All that can be done is to read every scrap of information available, any pilots notes, feed into the aircraft cfg file all weights and dimensions etc.... then at that point the real hard work begins when work starts on the air file.
One very small adjustment in one area often affects so many other parameters
The Scimitar was, as you have said, a large, but by all accounts nimble, twin engine jet.
The large flap area ( notice the huge fuselage flaps ) did generate significant ground effect, so I have read.
Looking at Youtube videos I noticed a high AOA on approach, not so good for us sim pilots, so something had to be done about that!
All in all, one thing has to be traded off for something else.
 
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Just painted: XD321 of 807 NAS which was based on the HMS Centaur in 1961-1962.
Thanks to Rob Richardson for the model & paintkit, Dave Booker for additional stencils and mods.
 

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Really enjoying using the Scimitar Rob... thank you...

And thanks for the additional paints guys.

Matt
 
The arrival of Warpaint#85 shows I got the nose number and fin letter wrong. It's not yellow.. it's sky blue!!:dizzy:
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The full revised download is HERE

ATB
DaveB:)
 
Here's another to the collection.. XD221 801/FD, No.801 Intensive Flying Flight FAA, RNAS Ford, 1958..

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Available HERE

ATB
DaveB:)
 
Rob was kind enough to provide me this beauty, and as a non-fighter simmer, I am loving it.

now on to downloading the paints and start practicing :biggrin-new:
 
Thanks Rob for yet another magnificent rendition of a British beauty. Great fun to fly.
Mike
 
I made a slight faux pas with the v2 textures in that the folder I put them in was wrongly named. They should be in texture.154 which is what the cfg calls for. Thanks to DaveH for pointing this out. The file has since been amended;)

ATB
DaveB:)
 
Thank you for the model Rob. She's a pretty girl and it's a pleasure giving her new clothes:encouragement: All we need are the carriers to go with them!!:biggrin-new: I remember Mark was doing Eagle back in the far mists of time towit I hope her keel eventually feels the lap of virtual water but I know of no other period carrier even vaguely in the works. Still.. we can be prepared;)
ATB
DaveB:)
 
Another new paint: XD220 from 736 NAS - Lossiemouth, 1963. (an updated version of my previous XD321 paint is also included in the zip file).
 

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