Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[DarkBlueBoy]

Woo hoo!  Great news! :-) :-)

[mdewals]

Good news.

4S_Vega, are you also willing to do the F-5 and the F-104 for him pretty please?? Then I could fly some of the nicest jetplanes in the Dutch airforce history.

[Blazing]

Finished creating a slot for the F104A Franken

you will no longer have to miss flying the L139C

FM is on it's way



Also if someone know the actual loadout that the F104 actual had I come make it a little more realistic otherwise I'll just leave it.

[Fresco23]

Greatly depends upon the Nation being flown as, and the mission at hand..

Wiki:

The basic armament of the F-104 was the 20 mm (.79 in) M61 Vulcan Gatling gun. This weapon frequently had shell ejection problems resulting in avionic problems and crashes. The Starfighter was the first aircraft to carry the new weapon, which had a rate of fire of 6,000 rounds per minute. The cannon, mounted in the lower part of the port fuselage, was fed by a 725-round drum behind the pilot's seat. It was omitted in all the two-seat models and some single-seat versions, including reconnaissance aircraft and the early Italian F-104S; the gun bay and ammunition tank were usually replaced by additional fuel tanks. The gun's location was advantageous as gun-flash was not in the pilot's line of sight, therefore not robbing him of night-adjusted vision. Two AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles could be carried on the wingtip stations, which could also be used for fuel tanks. The F-104C and later models added a centerline pylon and two underwing pylons for bombs, rocket pods, or fuel tanks. The centerline pylon could carry a nuclear weapon; a "catamaran" launcher for two additional Sidewinders could be fitted under the forward fuselage, although the installation had minimal ground clearance and made the seeker heads of the missiles vulnerable to ground debris. The F-104S models added a pair of fuselage pylons beneath the intakes available for conventional bomb carriage. The F-104S had an additional pylon under each wing, for a total of nine.[citation needed]

ventral pylons and wingtip tanks


4 fuel tanks


various bombs


the cannon M61 Vulcan



just a few examples... there are dozens of loadout variations, dependant upon nation, and mission.. do a google search! 

hope this helps...

P.S.: for its own slot.. is it possible to lose that under nose Gunpod, and make it a bit faster??

[Fresco23]

P.P.S: great work and many thanks for a new slot... I actually just used these in a mission, and it was a hard choice whether to include "Starfighters" or "F-5" lol...

Now, I can do both!

Thanks again! cant wait for it to be finished!

[Blazing]

I may just leave the loadout as is for the F104, seeing as it is a franken, The cannon I can do but a little bit of 3d work has to be done for the hook placement but the center polygon will be removed I may keep it for for a loadout of missiles or bombs but for normal flight it will be gone. And for Speed, that what the FM is for I'm getting into that today.


 

[Blazing]

update.

No more pylon gun, I have removed the center pylon created a hook where I thing the gun would shoot from. I don't know if we have the 1 x 20mm cannon multi-barrel M61 Vulcan cannon, Will a Mini gun do?

Starting FM at the moment.

There is one problem at the moment if you bailout the game freezes/crashes so, if you died go down with your plane.

[Fresco23]

sounds awesome so far! wonder why it crashes when you bail out?? 

for the Gun, we do have the Vulcan Already, its on the F-4E currently

[Blazing]

we do, hmm guess I'll have to find it and update the gun part

[Blazing]

I updated the gun with the 61, its pretty good, I still want to make some changes to the FM it's not as fast and there is a small problem with wing.

[4S_Vega]

Good news.

4S_Vega, are you also willing to do the F-5 and the F-104 for him pretty please?? Then I could fly some of the nicest jetplanes in the Dutch airforce history.

F-5: maybe we will have a true one

F-104: in my opinion had to be based on F-80 shooting star (as in the RL) and not on the L-159

[Fresco23]

I updated the gun with the 61, its pretty good, I still want to make some changes to the FM it's not as fast and there is a small problem with wing.

Cool news!