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
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1. [ Description of this aircraft ]
The Short SA.4 "Sperrin" (named after the Sperrin Mountains, a range of hills in Northern Ireland) was a British jet bomber design of the early 1950s built by Short Brothers and Harland of Belfast, popularly abbreviated "Shorts".
It first flew in 1951.
Although it was not put into production because swept-wing designs such as the Vickers Valiant were by then available, the Sperrin prototypes were valuable for research data on large jet aircraft.
In the post-Second World War war period, the British authorities felt there was a need for an independent strategic bombing capability in other words that they should not be reliant upon the American Strategic Air Command.
In late 1948, the Air Ministry issued their Specification B.14/46 [1]for an advanced jet bomber that should be the equal of anything that either the Soviet Union or the Americans would have.
The exact requirements included a weight of 140,000 lb, the ability to fly to a target 1,739 miles distant at 500 knots from altitudes of 45,000-50,000 ft and be simple enough to maintain at overseas bases.
A further stipulation that a "special" in RAF jargon, a nuclear bomb, weighing 10,000 lb and measuring 30 ft (length) and ten ft (diameter) could be accommodated.
There had already been specification "B.35/46" the previous year for a "medium-range bomber landplane" that could carry a "10,000 pound [4,500 kilogram] bomb to a target 1,500 nautical miles [2,780 kilometers] from a base which may be anywhere in the world."[2]
The 1947 request anticipated that the fully laden weight would be under 100,000 lb (45.4 tonnes), the bomber have a cruising speed of 500 knots and that the service ceiling would be 50,000 feet (15,200 m).
This request would be the foundation of the V-bombers.
However the Air Ministry accepted that the request might prove to be beyond the reach of Britain's aircraft manufacturers and prepared for a fall-back position in the form of an earlier specification B.14/46 which was more conservative in its demands and under this they placed a contract for two flying prototypes and a static test machine with Shorts.
The design known initially as SA.4 and later as the "Sperrin" had more in common with the Second World War designs than the new jet age.
It was straight winged, although the leading edge was slightly swept.
The engines were mounted in nacelles mid-wing; two engines per wing with one engine stacked above the other.
The airframe was built largely of aluminium alloys with tricycle undercarriage.
The nose gear retracting backward and the main gear in the wings towards the fuselage.
The SA.4 was designed for a crew of five: pilot, copilot, bombardier, navigator and radio operator, though only the pilot had an ejection seat.
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.
EXTRA-300, Beach_baron, GPS gauges are not bundled.
Please introduce it by yourself.
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4. [ About the operations ]
"/" key = Air Brake Open/Shut
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!! A special key operation !!
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Concorde Nose Key = Bomb Bay Door Open/Shut
This key is an arbitrary key that you are setting as key for Concorde Nose operation.
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* for special key operation, *
* It is likely not to operate according to a set method of *
* your FS or the state of other Add-on tool. *
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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...............
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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.
Kazu16643VT@aol.com
2007/06/11
Fukuoka, Japan
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