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Mystery FS Aircraft

Willy

Willy

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How well do you know your FS GA aircraft?

1) What is it?

2) Who is the developer?

3) Who did the paint?

The first person to correctly answer all three questions wins a free virtual beer in the Cantina on Henry's tab.
 
7 Minutes!! Well that didn't last very long. The Swift was released long enough ago that I figured it would be a bit.

:ernae:

I was digging around and found it in the back of the hanger and thought I'd take it up for a spin. For a FS 2002 release, it's holding it's age pretty well.
 
Pete jumped the que, so he's officially disqualified!

1 - Globe Swift

2 - Lynn and Bill Lyons

3 - Leon Louis

Hold back on the beer though Willy, everyone here's virtually blotto already! :icon_lol:
 
I knew a bloke who had one of those a few years back. He converted it from a yoke to a stick controlled airplane. Never flew with him in it, but he said it really cooked along.

BB686:USA-flag:
 
That's okay Nigel, I'm working on another Mystery FS Plane. O' course if someone else wants to try one, please go ahead. If it's not guessed in 24 hrs, the post the answer and keep the drink. And please only one Mystery FS Plane at a time.
 
Beautiful plane in real life, and tiny. Very clean, very fast with a fairly small engine. Bad reputation over the years, I feel not totally justified. Generally a very nice flyer, but a true pilot's aircraft. A bit unforgiving, in exchange for small displacement/high performance rewards.
 
magoo said:
Beautiful plane in real life, and tiny. Very clean, very fast with a fairly small engine. Bad reputation over the years, I feel not totally justified. Generally a very nice flyer, but a true pilot's aircraft. A bit unforgiving, in exchange for small displacement/high performance rewards.
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The late Roy Lopresti and his family have developed an even more advanced version of the Swift known as the Fury that utilizes a fuel-injected Lycoming IO-360 and has a max speed of 222 mph, but I wish they'd gone ahead and continued developing the "Swiftfire", an one-off Allison turboprop powered screamer that not only topped out at 345 mph but looked damned amazing to boot!

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Lopresti Fury

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Swiftfire
 
The LoPresti airplanes are amazing, as are their various Speedpacks. I have several on my Saratoga and while it is a bit like the kids totting up the horsepower gains on their Golf GTIs and Honda Civics, I know that I get the same ground speed now with less fuel burn and wear and tear on the IO-540 pulling her through the air.
I was told by a few people in the know that the original hot rodded Swift was at the end of control stability at max speed. Any significant increase in power and airspeed led to control flutter and possible damage. Of course some of that can be offset to some degree by modifications to the airframe and controls but that then negates some of the gains in horsepower.

A turbine powered Swift would have to fly high to get anywhere reasonable fuel burns and that could balance out some of those flutter issues....as long as the PIC is not dumb enough to shove everything to the firewall at sea level :wiggle:

Cheers
Stefan
 
Ok, how about this one, you get a whole aerobatic team to play with....

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ttfn

Pete
 
Sorry Pete. That is the Casa C-101 Aviojet from F. Antonio Tena, available at Flightsim; as well as the full team you get models of the prototype and a Spanish Air Force trainer; the C-101 is also operated by Chile, who call it the T-36 Halcon, with an attack version known as the A-36 - I started to attempt an A-36 repaint back before my HD died, really must give it another go.
 
AndyG43 said:
Sorry Pete. That is the Casa C-101 Aviojet from F. Antonio Tena, available at Flightsim; as well as the full team you get models of the prototype and a Spanish Air Force trainer; the C-101 is also operated by Chile, who call it the T-36 Halcon, with an attack version known as the A-36 - I started to attempt an A-36 repaint back before my HD died, really must give it another go.
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B****y swot!!! :jump:

10/10 for that.

ttfn

Pete
 
AndyG43 said:
Nah, not really. It is just such a good model I snapped it up as soon as it appeared - and like I said, it is crying out for a nice Chilean camo repaint.
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Just pulling your leg old bean... but you're right, its been well overlooked.

ttfn

Pete
 
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