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Total Members Voted: 18

Voting closed: December 29, 2014, 06:52:57 PM

[S3231541]

All of the above has already been partially or completely done  . Thank you.

[Typhoon Ib]

just thinking out loud...

[duffys tavern]

Nice video on the F/A-18 Hornet:

[SAS~Tom2]

Structural limits: -2 and +7.5G.
Swiss Air Force: +9 Pos.
That means the Swiss Air Force flies physically modified Hornets AFAIK.

They reach extremely high AOA and handle very well at high alpha and low speeds.
Sorry, deleted the links for NATOPs as per legally available links.
If you need them, I try to dig them up, a chap from another forum had the links.
I may add I could well go without all that weapons stuff as what kept me in sims was always the beauty and
FMs. And yes, I think IL-2 looks better than FSX.

[Dreamk]

No foreign user ever dares to make structural changes to jets produced elsewhere - except when deciding to produce locally a new aircraft based on an existing foreign model. The Swiss are no exception to the rule. But they can have sent their aircraft to  McDonnell Douglas in the States for upgrading. F/A-18 indeed started as a 7,5G machine, but was later upgraded to 9G.
McDonnell Douglas proposed a series of optional upgrades in 1996. These included upgrading to 9 g from current 7.5 g manoeuvre limit; 2,271 litre (600 US gallon; 500 Imp gallon) external tanks (land-based operations only); F/A-18E fuel tanks of polyurethane, offering up to 160 kg (353 lb) additional internal capacity; six additional chaff/flare dispensers; and cockpit upgrades using some F/A-18E technology, such as LCD upfront display and colour tactical situation display.

The F/A-18EF has a limit of +10/-4 G.
All g limits have a 150% design factor
U.S. aircraft prior to the F-15 were generally limited to 7.33 G ("design load factor"), which is 2/3’s of 11 G ("ultimate load factor") which is the structural fatigue limit that was specified and tested for those aircraft. That means the structure was designed to fail at the most critical 11g condition, considering fuel load, weapon load, airspeed, and altitude.
After the F-15, U.S. aircraft were advertised as 9 G aircraft. This would mean a structural fatigue limit of 13.5 G.

[S3231541]

Guys,

We're in need of cockpit pictures, especially the control stick.

Thank you,

S3

[ANDYTOTHED]

Guys,

We're in need of cockpit pictures, especially the control stick.

Thank you,

S3

Have no fear, Andy D is here!



The last one is the WSO cockpit.

[SAS~Malone]

thanks Andy, appreciate it, mate

[US_GRANT]

I have been working on an HD skin thanks to S3 and Bravo providing the template and HD skin as a guide.

Here is what I was able to do so far. Some refining is needed.
She's not much to look at, but she's fleet operational.

[BravoFxTrt]

Very nice Grant.

[duffys tavern]

Yea, she looks pretty good.

[Typhoon Ib]

VFA-2
and VFA-2
bold letters are slightly Cut... hornet spine / side fuselage transition on the bitmap?
safety warning triangles slightly big (covered by LERX)

Leading edge... ahaaa!!

Curious... and interested to see how it goes!
For your screenshots, i thank you lots!