Bomber_12th
SOH-CM-2025
Here is another classic and very fun aircraft to fly, by FSAddon, now flying in P3Dv5.
You've got to love an aircraft that is described as having a "surplus of power" and is so maneuverable. A pilot who flew these in active service once described that, for amusement, you could climb to altitude simply by pulling into a climb and doing a roll off the top, and go on climbing with rolls off the top, consecutively one after another, until you'd be at 6-8,000ft. All of the years I've had this aircraft since its original release, every time I fly this aircraft in the sim I always have to fit some rolls and loops in somewhere. The product's flight dynamics are absolutely superb, as are the sounds, though I personally prefer to use the Gary Jones "Single Bristol Mercury" soundset.
These screenshots were taken using a repaint I released (what feels like a lifetime ago) depicting the Duxford-based The Fighter Collection's restored Gloster Gladiator Mk.II N5903, registered as G-GLAD, which I felt was necessary to compliment the product's included paint scheme of the Shuttleworh example (both aircraft have a long history of association). The TFC's aircraft is finished in the markings of 72nd Squadron, which was the first frontline RAF squadron to be equipped with Gladiators at Hornchurch, Essex in March 1937. The paint scheme also sports the blue fin and forward horizontal stabilizers denoting it as the personal aircraft of the ‘B’ Flight commander. Having originally been acquired by TFC in 1994, after an initially slow restoration process the aircraft was eventually completed in 2007 and made its first test flight just ahead of Flying Legends 2008. Unfortunately the aircraft has been out of commission for the last few years due to an issue with its Bristol Mercury engine.
This flight, following a common route that I've done time and time again, going back to the FS2004 VFR Britain days, is from Duxford out to over the enormous 3,000-acre Wimpole Estate, which, especially for its miles-long Grand Avenue, is so easy to spot from the air.
You've got to love an aircraft that is described as having a "surplus of power" and is so maneuverable. A pilot who flew these in active service once described that, for amusement, you could climb to altitude simply by pulling into a climb and doing a roll off the top, and go on climbing with rolls off the top, consecutively one after another, until you'd be at 6-8,000ft. All of the years I've had this aircraft since its original release, every time I fly this aircraft in the sim I always have to fit some rolls and loops in somewhere. The product's flight dynamics are absolutely superb, as are the sounds, though I personally prefer to use the Gary Jones "Single Bristol Mercury" soundset.
These screenshots were taken using a repaint I released (what feels like a lifetime ago) depicting the Duxford-based The Fighter Collection's restored Gloster Gladiator Mk.II N5903, registered as G-GLAD, which I felt was necessary to compliment the product's included paint scheme of the Shuttleworh example (both aircraft have a long history of association). The TFC's aircraft is finished in the markings of 72nd Squadron, which was the first frontline RAF squadron to be equipped with Gladiators at Hornchurch, Essex in March 1937. The paint scheme also sports the blue fin and forward horizontal stabilizers denoting it as the personal aircraft of the ‘B’ Flight commander. Having originally been acquired by TFC in 1994, after an initially slow restoration process the aircraft was eventually completed in 2007 and made its first test flight just ahead of Flying Legends 2008. Unfortunately the aircraft has been out of commission for the last few years due to an issue with its Bristol Mercury engine.
This flight, following a common route that I've done time and time again, going back to the FS2004 VFR Britain days, is from Duxford out to over the enormous 3,000-acre Wimpole Estate, which, especially for its miles-long Grand Avenue, is so easy to spot from the air.
