Copyright and Distribution
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This aircraft is released as Freeware. Copyright (C) Hayden Scott-Williams
(fang@southernafrica.com). As freeware you are permitted to distribute this
archive subject to the following conditions,
- The archive must be distributed without modification to the
contents of the archive. Redistributing this archive with any files
added, removed or modified is prohibited.
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This means, for example, that you may not upload an archive that uses
our visual or flight models with your own aircraft or include it in a
package containing a panel or aircraft sounds without first obtaining
the authors' permission.
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The Aircraft
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The specifications for the F-86E are:
Span: 37 feet
Length: 37 feet
Height: 14 feet
FIRST FLIGHT: Sept. 23, 1950
POWER PLANT: General Electric J-47-13 turbojet Thrust: 5,200 pounds
PERFORMANCE: Speed: 565 knots (650 mph) Class
Range: Approximately 870 nautical miles (1,000 statute miles)
Service Ceiling: over 45,000 feet
WEIGHT: Combat weight: 14,000 pounds
ARMAMENT: Six .50 cal. machine guns 16 five-inch HVAR rockets or 2,000 pound max. bomb load
MISSION: The destruction of hostile aircraft in flight.
DEVELOPMENT: The F-86E is basically an F-86A modified to incorporate aerodynamic and system changes. The original model, the F-86A, was first operational swept-wing airplane to fly in the United States.
DESCRIPTION: Special features are swept-back wing and tail, electrically operated flaps, hydraulically operated speed brakes, automatic wing leading-edge slats, hydraulic-power-operated irreversible controls with artificial feel for the all-movable horizontal tail and ailerons.
The Model
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This is my first attempt at aircraft design, so please be gentle *grins*.
While I have attempted to get it as close to the real thing as I can, I realise that there are a number of inaccuracies and omissions. Hopefully, as time goes by, I will be able to correct these.
Credits
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While I claim the Model, Air file, Textures and Panel as my own, there are a number of people who I feel deserve mention. They have contributed to this aircraft both directly and indirectly and I feel they deserve mention here. They are:
Louis Sinclair for giving us FSDS and all the support and help we could need
Mike Crosthwaite for his brilliant SDL editor and the tutorials to match
William M. Roth For AirEd
Tom McGoodrick for his brilliant monograph on flight dynamics. Without it, this plane would never have gotten off the ground
And especially to all the boys and gals in the forum at www.freeflight.com.
The one section of this aircraft that I cannot claim as my own are the gauges. These gauges have all come from other aircraft that I have downloaded and in most cases I was unable to track down the origional developers. If you see a gauge here that you developed, please drop me a line at fang@southernafrica.com. I will be only too happy to remove it if you require.
Instalation
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Unzip this file to your root FS2000 directory (eg. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\FS2000). The gauges and aircraft files will automatically be placed in the correct places.
