f-100c

F-100c

Classic Warbirds Design Team F-100C
Minimum Requirements: P4-1.5 GHZ with
64 MB Graphics Card.

F-100 Super Sabre History
The North American F-100 Super Sabre was a jet fighter aircraft that
served with the USAF from 1954 to 1971 and with the ANG until 1979. It
was the successor to the F-86 Sabre, the first of the century series of US
jet fighters, and the first US fighter capable of supersonic speed in level
flight.
Development work began in 1949 for a supersonic interceptor and
prototype construction started in 1951 when the company won a contract
for 110 aircraft. The first YF-100 prototype flew on May 25, 1953 with a
Pratt & Whitney J57 engine, and broke the sound-barrier on its first flight.
The YF-100 set a world speed record in October 1953 at 754.99 mph
(1,215 km/h). The first aircraft, the F-100A, were delivered in late 1953
and became operational from September 1954. Despite the testing, there
were a number of operational crashes that grounded the aircraft from
November 1954 until February 1955 when the problem (stability) was
identified and solved (larger control surfaces).
The F-100A was followed by the F-100C (1954, 476 built) and the F-100D
(1956, 1,274 built) fighter-bombers, with increased wing-area, fin and
rudder size, six underwing hard-points, and improved electronics. The F-
100D was an unforgiving aircraft, over 500 were lost in accidents by USAF
pilots. The final production variant was the F-100F tandem trainer (339
built), first flown in 1956 it was stretched by 3 m to accommodate the
second crew.
The Super Sabre, especially the F-100D was widely used in the Vietnam
War, but was replaced from 1966 on tougher missions by the F-4 and the
F-105. The aircraft served in Vietnam until 1971. The Skyblazers of the
36th TFW flew the C model from Sept. 1956-Jan. 1962, and the D and F
models from April 1957-Dec. 1957 and again from June 1963-Feb. 1964.
The Thunderbirds flew the C model from 1956-1963, and the D model from
1964-1968.
France’s Armee de l’Air was the first foreign air force to receive the Super
Sabre. The first Armee de l’Air Super Sabre arrived in France on May 1,
1958. It was an F-100F two-seater. Eventually, 85 F-100Ds and 15 F-
100Fs were supplied to France. They were assigned to two Escadres,
Nos. 3 and 11. Since at that time France was a full member of NATO,
French Super Sabres were initially attatched to the NATO 4th Allied Tactical
Air Force and were stationed in Germany.
When President Charles De Gaulle pulled France out of NATO’s command
structure in 1967, German-based Armee de l’Air F-100s were transferred
to air bases on French soil, these bases having recently been vacated by
USAF personnel.
The last French Super Sabres were withdrawn from service in 1977-78,
and were replaced in service by Jaguars. The surviving Super Sabres
were returned to American control and they were flown to Great Britain for
storage and eventual scrapping.
The F-100 also saw service in Denmark, Turkey, and Nationalist China.
Sources:
· Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
· Henk Scharringa of http://home.wordonline.nl/~hsc/F100LIST.htm
· http://home.att.net/~jbaugher1/f100_9.html
· http://www.marchfield.org/f100c.htm
Liveries for the Classic Warbirds Design Team F-100C:
From
2D and 3D Panels:
2D Panel
Virtual Cockpit
Installation:
· The plane is packaged in an automated installer which will install the plane and additional file s
into the proper location in FS9. If you would prefer to place the plane into FS9 manually, simply
redirect the installer to a temporary folder and the files will be unpacked for manual placement
into the sim.
· Seven liveries are included with installer. Main external textures are in 32-bit format with alphachannel.
Interior and minor part textures are in DXT3 format.
· An alternative panel.cfg is included that uses the excellent gauges from the FSD gauge guru
Alex (Backfire) Bashkatov. The gauges needed are available for download at
w ww.flightsim.com . Search for FSD_B58-2.zip or FSD_B58gauges.zip in the FS98 Aircraft
section. To activate this panel, Extract the gauges from the B58 gauges.zip and place them in
your [FS9_root]/Gauges folder. Next, open the F100_SuperSabre folder in the
[FS9_root]/Aircraft folder, find the FSDgauges_panel.cfg and rename it to panel.cfg. A backup
copy of the original panel.cfg is named panel.cfg.stock and can be used to restore the original
panel.
Keyboard Commands:
· Shift + E opens/closes canopy, “wingfold” keystroke tilts up the pitot tube on the front of the
plane (you have to assign this to "settings"under "wingfold" assignment,
· “ Tailhook” keystroke drops and raises the tailhook and opens the drag chute or releases it (also
check to see if you need to assign a keystroke to the tailhook command),
· / lowers and raises the speed brake,
· Slats automatically deploy at airspeeds below 250kts .
· L turns the lights on and off .
· Control + / stops engine and boarding ladder appears after the engine rpm drops down .
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CREDITS:
•Exterior textures and VC textures by George Lindell .
•FSDS2 model and animation by Gerald Lindell. Flight Model by Andrew Wai. Panel assembly,
screenshots, and other help by Theophanis Simantirakis. Additional panel work and installer by
Mike Wagner
•Rob Barendrecht graciously granted us permission to modify the DSB Afterburner gauge for
use. Other gauges by Mike Wagner.
·The drag chute animation is the work of Luca Davide who adapted Luka Midic's work with
permission.
·Several older FSD gauges by Alex Bashkatov are also used in an alternative panel.cfg. See the
Installation instructions above for details on how to enable this panel.
•An update for a CFS2 version by Luca Mengotti is planned for free download to purchasers o f
t he FS9 version. Check the forum at w ww.sim-outhouse.com for details.
•Special thanks to our “ace” beta tester, critic, advisor, and good friend, Panther_99FS .
·To anyone we may have forgotten to mention...THANKYOU !
Absolute “must views” for this plane are located on the following
sites:
· http://www.geocities.com/supersabref100/f-100-main.htm
· http://www.f-100.org/hun.shtm l
· http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com/walk-jet.htm
· http://home.worldonline.nl/~hsc/F100LIST.htm
· http://home.att.net/~jbaugher1/f100_9.htm l
· http://aircraftwalkaround.hobbyvista.com/f100/f100.htm
Revisions (May 24, 2005):
• Airfile updated to remedy instability above 550kts.
• Auto-Slat Deployment gauge (airspeed triggered) added.
• Textures updated. All interior and minor part textures converted to DXT3. Main external textures
are still in 32-bit format.
• All 6 textures included in revised installer.