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Your G.O.A.T. aircraft.

G.O.A.T. aircraft? Still not sure.

Might this be the longest-running third-party add-on in flightsim history? The one aircraft that seems to have always been there for me is the HP Hampden. I first flew it in CS2 (AlphaSim) and more recently on my friend's MSFS 2020 setup with Virtavia's (previously known as AlphaSim) native MSFS 2020 version. No doubt, it will make its MSFS 2024 debut at some point.

FYI, it's available for X-Plane 11, too.

Tommy
 
Shessi said:
And I have to agree with you Huub, Nigel's Avro's are superb, works of art. Shame it was a one off series.

Cheers

Shessi
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It wasn't going to be a one-off; it was going to be a series of 'silver wings birds' there was also plans afoot for a Supermarine Southampton, a Gloster Gauntlet and the baby Avro Cadet.
Unfortunately Nigel fell off the planet ( as far as anyone can tell) during a time of particularly bad storms in the Halkidiki area of Greece where he lived. A couple of us tried to contact him but all messages ( even via 3rd parties) came back negative.
I for one miss his input.

Ttfn

Pete
 
for military, it's "Sapphire"

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custom 2D panel
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or the "missile with a man in it"
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otherwise my Bonanza V35, turbo-normalized, with Garmin 1000 cpit
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or the trusty Beech C17
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flew this one from Columbus, OH, through the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, across the Bering Straight, down through Siberia, Sakhalin, Japan, Guam, Malaysia, Indonesia, to Perth, Australia for our club recreation of the Australia Air Race (painted as an actual competitor in the race, this plane continued flying into the nineties, then restored in New Zealand and now a museum display)
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Possible to tell us what the planes are?
Especially what the 'Saphire' is, plane & paint please.
As well as the "missile with a man in it"

Much appreciate it if you do.
(the only 'Sapphire' I can find, is the name of the radar used in the Mig-25, & the original engine used in the Vulcan)
 
"Sapphire" is a P-38J, paint is my own, based on the thirties blue/yellow of the USAAF but done in gold and much deeper blue, with no military insignia; the name is on both sides of the nose, which of course is not visible in a head on view. Shown here with optional ferry tanks which allegedly give 3000 mi range at economical cruise.

"Missile with a man in it" was a nickname for the F-104; this one in markings of one of the NASA test aircraft. NASA's Dryden Research Center used 11 F-104s over a span of 38 years, in various liveries from bare metal USAF aircraft to aluminum with red/yellow trim, to white with blue flash to this white and two-tone blue. Only photo of all five of the latter in flight -
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Nice!!! I should have picked up on that F-104... Which/whose model is that?
Your P-38J ... really nice.. can you post/share that paint?
 
That F-104 is the Alphasim model, was free but returned to pay status when updated for FSX/FS2004 as Virtavia product; NASA livery was a separate download from somewhere.

I have a base version of the P-38 livery (without "Sapphire" on the nose) created for someone on flightsim a year or so ago, can upload that here (is there a library?) or post in message. Haven't flown her in a while so went out for a "photo shoot" flight from Montgomery to Mobile AL.

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Thanks, I actually have the Alphasim F-104 in my library - time to dust it off & find the NASA paint.
It will be great if you can share that P-38 texture in our library here.
In anticipation.. Thanks. :jump:
 
jgf said:
"Sapphire" is a P-38J, paint is my own, based on the thirties blue/yellow of the USAAF but done in gold and much deeper blue, with no military insignia; the name is on both sides of the nose, which of course is not visible in a head on view. Shown here with optional ferry tanks which allegedly give 3000 mi range at economical cruise.

"Missile with a man in it" was a nickname for the F-104; this one in markings of one of the NASA test aircraft. NASA's Dryden Research Center used 11 F-104s over a span of 38 years, in various liveries from bare metal USAF aircraft to aluminum with red/yellow trim, to white with blue flash to this white and two-tone blue. Only photo of all five of the latter in flight -
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@Kurdt_Cocaine
 
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