Author: Patrice Grange Date: 27 Jul 2010
FS2004 Nord Aviation 1500 Griffon 2. Nord Aviation 1500 Griffon 2, complete package, fully reworked with an historical VC and photoreal textures. The Nord 1500 Griffon was the prototype of a dual turbojet-ramjet powered fighter designed and built by French aircraft manufacturer Nord Aviation, SNCAN, during the fifties. The prototype first flew on 20 September 1955, Griffon 1, and this one, the second aircraft, Griffon 2, flew on 23 January 1957. The Griffon reached the speed of Mach 2.19, 2300 km/h, in 1958. However, technical difficulties in developing an operationally reliable ramjet led to the cancellation in 1959 of the Griffon program to the benefit of Dassault Aviation's Mirage III.
Author: Edward Cook Date: 27 Jul 2010
FS2004 Miles M9 Kestrel, Version 2. A private venture advanced training aircraft that led to the Master series. G-AEOC was Based at Woodley in 1936. Improved sound by Gary Jones.
Author: Kazunori Ito Date: 27 Jul 2010
FS2002/FS2004 Whispercraft. Science Fiction Animation Plastic Model Series No.33. This aircraft is based on SF action movie "The 6th Day," in the 2000. Arnold Schwarzenegger played the owner of a small aircraft rental company specializing in VTOL "Whispercraft," advanced helicopter-like vehicles whose blades could be "fixed" in flight to function as conventional wings. Designed by the legendary conceptual artist Ron Cobb, the fictional "Whispercraft" were based on actual variable-wing VTOL concepts then under development by the U.S. government. As for this model, the transform can be done in the jet plane form and the helicopter form by "/" key.
Author: A. F. Scrub Date: 05 Jul 2010
FS2004/FSX Curtiss Hawk 75N. The Curtiss P-36 Hawk, also known as the Curtiss Hawk Model 75, was an American designed and built fighter aircraft of the 1930s and 40s. A contemporary of the much superior Hawker Hurricane and Messerschmitt Bf 109, it was one of the first of a new generation of combat aircraft, a sleek monoplane design making extensive use of metal in its construction and powered by a powerful radial engine. It was obsolete at the onset of World War II and is best known as the predecessor of the Curtiss P-40.
