A Poll, FSX Freeware Aircraft Wish List

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love the Defiant, nice lines, plus a turret for self defence
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Actually the turret was for offence. That was one of the main weaknesses of the Defiant: no forward firing armament at all, plus a turret and second crewman being lugged around by the same engine as the Hurricane, which added nothing to the manoeuvrability.
 
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Actually the turret was for offence. That was one of the main weaknesses of the Defiant: no forward firing armament at all, plus a turret and second crewman being lugged around by the same engine as the Hurricane, which added nothing to the manoeuvrability.
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Yeah. Turret added weight and drag tremendously. Defiant succeeded a few times at first, mainly because german fighters at first mistakenly identified it as a Hurricane and attacked it from behind straight into the bullet storm of four .303s. After that for its inteded role, it was a disaster.

Still, Defiant was later on quite succesful as a night fighter before Mosquitos and Beaufighters replaced it. It had enough speed advantage over bombers and due to turret it could position itself quite freely related to the target and tail, head on or difficult deflection attacks weren't required. Interesting plane and wuould indeed be a nice model for the sim :wiggle:
 
If you've got no better ideas, I suggest a Mixmaster/Jetmaster.


Otherwise I'd do one someday.
 
My military bucket list ...

  • Transport: Lockheed Lockheed Jetstar. I consider it truly a sad waste the FSD model never got released. Yes, used by the NASA and USAF ... :)


  • UK Military: Seafire FR.47


  • US Military: North American FJ Fury. -2/-3/-4 - wouldn't matter which. Douglas D5D Skylancer.


  • USSR: Yake-28R Brewer


  • Other: Northrop M2F3 Lifting body



Even if only exterior models were available, and one needed to bolt on another native VC from a similar model - I'd be happy. For example, owners of the Milviz Sabre VC could employ it for the Fury - not perfect, but better than nothing ... No breach of IP, just a few tweaks to a few cfgs ....

DL
 
I have been monitoring the thread and reading every post. I am compiling everything in a spreadsheet with vote counts. So far some of the aircraft with multiple votes are some I have been considering and this is stimulating my appetite. There have been some suggestions that I had not thought about and find quite intriguing.

To those whom have suggested them, I need to add fixed wing only. That is because I can't fly a helo to save my life. :frown:

No X planes please. The aircraft must have served in a military capacity and is no longer in service by the military. My reasoning behind this is that it is probably easier to find reference material on obsolete aircraft. Any nationality is OK and any era aircraft.

I have considered a few of the hybrid jet/prop combos but it would be to difficult to do this in FSX without external programming.

It has been mentioned that I would need to have a particular fondness for the aircraft and anything I make would be welcome. To that I say that I have a fondness for all aircraft and I would like to make something that my SOH brothers and sisters would like to have in their hanger as well as myself.

I'm going to wait until the thread wears out then I will post the results. Please keep up the suggestions and votes for those that have been suggested.

To simplify things I have only taken the first suggestion from posts with multiple suggestions as I think the first one is the posters true desire, so please suggest one aircraft or vote for one already suggested.

This is turning out very nice indeed.

Paul
 
Paul - I really appreciate you taking the time and care to consider making a fan favorite aircraft for the SOH natives - much appreciated

As much as I would like to see the Norseman in FSX and done to your well qualified standards..TuFun reminds me of the F3F-2 (or any) Grumman Flying Barrel
probably the most important Grumman aircraft or any aircraft in US history for that matter, having been the predecessor to the Wildcat, Hellcat and every other 'cat ever since....

Someone needs to build that tribute to Roy for FSX someday - :kilroy:
 
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