1.Description of this aircraft
2.Specification
3.About the installation
4.About the operations
5.About free software
6.About the directions point in FS2004 and FSX
The Douglas F-3D Skyknight was the world's first jet fighter designed for use as carrier-based night fighter.
Its radar equipment required a wider-than-usual fuselage, so it was nicknamed "Willie the Whale."
The Navy asked Douglas to develop a carrier-based night fighter in 1946. Specifications included twin-jet power, side-by-side seating for a radar operator, a top speed of 500 mph, a combat radius of 500 miles, an operating altitude of 40,000 feet, and an escape system that allowed the crew to depart downward through the bottom of the fuselage.
The result was the straight-wing, two-seat, twin-engine F3D. The first of 28 production-model F3D-1s was delivered to the Navy in late 1950, as work began on the more powerful F3D-2. The F3D-2 flew 100 mph faster and had twice the range. It incorporated new electronic and radar equipment, air-to-air rockets, a thicker bulletproof canopy, wing spoilers to improve rate-of-roll, and an automatic pilot.
Douglas produced 268 Skyknights, including several conversions to special-duty variants. During the Korean War, in 1952, an F3D Skyknight shot down a Yak-15 in the first jet-to-jet aerial victory scored at night. One Marine Corps night-fighter squadron went on to rack up the best night-fighter record of the Korean conflict.
After 1953, Skyknights were converted as trainers for radar intercept officers and for use as electronic reconnaissance and countermeasure aircraft during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War. The Skyknight was the only Navy/Marine fighter to fly combat missions in both Korea and Vietnam, and the last was retired in l978.
Length: 45 ft 5 in (13.85 m)
Wingspan: 50 ft 0 in (15.24 m)
Height: 16 ft 1 in (4.90 m)
Wing area: 400 ft2 (37.2 m2)
Empty weight: 14,989 lb (6,813 kg)
Loaded weight: 21,374 lb (9,715 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 26,731 lb (12,151 kg)
Powerplant: 2~ Westinghouse J34-WE-36 turbojets, 3,400 lbf (15.1 kN) each
Maximum speed: 460 knots (529 mph, 852 km/h)
Cruise speed: 395 knots (454 mph, 731 km/h)
Stall speed: 80.6 knots (93 mph, 149 km/h)
Range: 1,195 nm (1,374 mi, 2,212 km) (with 2 x 150 gallon tanks)
Service ceiling 36,700 ft (11,200 m)
Rate of climb: 2,970 ft/min (15.1 m/s)
Wing loading: 53.4 lb/ft2 (383 kg/m2)
Thrust/weight: 0.32
Armament:
Guns: 4~ 20 mm (0.787 in) Hispano-Suiza M2 cannon, 200 rounds/gun
Missiles: 4~ Sparrow I air-to-air missiles (F3D-2M)
Bombs: 2 x 2000 lb (909 kg) bombs
Crew: 2
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3. [ About the installation ]
The airframe must copy the \F3D Skyknight folder as it is in the Aircraft folder of FS2002 or FS2004.
Please copy all files in the \gauges folder onto the gauge in the Gauges folder of FS2002 or FS2004.
A general gauge is saved for the gauge bundled this time.
The gauges of EXTRA-200, kingair and GPS are not bundled.
Please setup it by yourself.
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4. [ About the operations ]
A special key operation is not used for this model.
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5. [ About free software ]
All aircraft that I made are free software.
The reprint and the repaint may go freely.
However, please defend the following conditions.
1.The change in contents of this file is prohibited.
(Please distribute it like the Zip file of the current state when distributing it. )
2.Please neither reverse-assembly nor never remodel(convert) it of the aircraft model.
3.Please don't bundle my airframe(MDL file) in the package of your works when you open the repaint to the public.
(Please open only the texture to the public. )
4.Don't use DXT format for making texture.
Please make it by the format that everyone can change.
It is necessary to be able to read and change with usual drawing software.
5.It is prohibited to bundle and to open a new panel to the public to my aircraft model.
(Please open only the panel to the public.
It is included in this file, and remodeling the panel that uses the panel background and the change in the panel background are prohibited. )
6.I maintain the copyright of the aircraft model and the panel background.
7.The copyright of the gauge belongs to the author.
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6. [ About the directions point in FS2004 and FSX]
This aircraft model is made by using FSDS Ver2.24.
Therefore, it is possible to play basically in FS2004(FS9) and FSX(FS10).
However........!!
In FS2004.
For a wide large-scale aircraft, the distortion is caused and the phenomenon of the aerofoil tip's disappearing happens in the spot shooting mode.
If this phenomenon happens, Please switch to the spot shooting mode by using other small aircraft.
Afterwards, if this aircraft is selected, it is normally displayed.
And........
In FSX.
Because gauges do not correspond to FSX, the gauges in the cockpit are not displayed.
Please you looks for a suitable gauges and setup Panel.cfg by yourself.
Sorry...............
I like military aircrafts. Especially, fighter!!
But, It is because the shape is unique and the manoeuverability is good.
I like aircraft that can freely fly in the big sky.
However............I hate war and combatting.
When I thinks the airframe that I made launches the bullet and the missile, I become scary.
Therefore, I'm prohibiting convert of my airframe for CFS.
If it is possible, I am wishing my airframe not to be used in CFS.
Though you might be said "Because it's simulation world"..........
Please..........Please.......
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Please give mail to the following mail address when there is a recommendation of making the opinion and the thing that doesn't come.
KazuIto0926@aol.com
2008/09/21
Fukuoka, Japan
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