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sandar
June 15th, 2009, 11:37
Sorry if it has been posted before, but A.F. Scrub has released a Fairey Swordfish for FS9 and FSX, available at Flightsim.com
Mathias
June 15th, 2009, 12:24
Appears to be FS9 only as I can't find an FSX version.

Funnily, I was just going to donate the CH Swordfish source file to the community since I lost interest in finishing it.:engel016:
SkippyBing
June 15th, 2009, 12:29
Interesting Mathias, I have a ship in the yard that she'd fit on perfectly!
sandar
June 15th, 2009, 12:33
It is definitely for FS9 AND FSX, it has a dedicated FSX texture file. I have downloaded it and flown it. It flies very well, slow, steady and stable. Haven't had a chance to check the accuracy of the flight dynamics yet, but it does look god.
stiz
June 15th, 2009, 12:34
Funnily, I was just going to donate the CH Swordfish source file to the community since I lost interest in finishing it.:engel016:

oooo purdy purdy please :engel016:
sandar
June 15th, 2009, 12:37
Appears to be FS9 only as I can't find an FSX version.

Funnily, I was just going to donate the CH Swordfish source file to the community since I lost interest in finishing it.:engel016:

file nmae=
swfish.zip (http://www.flightsim.com/kdl.php?fid=136192) one download, you just need to move the FSX textures and overwrite the FS9 ones.
empeck
June 15th, 2009, 13:01
since i lost interest in finishing it.

:(

I was waiting for your Swordfish...
Mathias
June 15th, 2009, 13:02
Interesting Mathias, I have a ship in the yard that she'd fit on perfectly!

You can have it if you like.
It's in max9 or 3ds format, imports easily to Gmax.
Just give me a howl.

EDIT: some shots below. Engine needs work and cockpit needs to be done.
And now...thread hi-jacking mode off. Appologies Gentlemen.
Mathias
June 15th, 2009, 13:11
It is definitely for FS9 AND FSX, it has a dedicated FSX texture file. I have downloaded it and flown it. It flies very well, slow, steady and stable. Haven't had a chance to check the accuracy of the flight dynamics yet, but it does look god.

Not really, the mdl is MDL8 format, it's a port.
gajit
June 15th, 2009, 13:14
:(

I was waiting for your Swordfish...


Same here :kilroy:
Mathias
June 15th, 2009, 13:18
Same here :kilroy:


No worries, you'll get her. Skippy has just adopted her.:ernae:
gajit
June 15th, 2009, 13:26
Great - How is your excellent 110 shaping up?
Mathias
June 15th, 2009, 13:29
Great - How is your excellent 110 shaping up?

Quite good, mate.:wiggle:

Interesting note on this new Swordfish release, they are using the textures of our old Groundcrew CFS2 Stringback.:bump:
peter12213
June 15th, 2009, 13:48
yeah it looks like poor texture quality like!
crashaz
June 15th, 2009, 14:10
Interesting Mathias, I have a ship in the yard that she'd fit on perfectly!


Hmm interesting... British or German? IE as in her home carrier or her most famous target?
SkippyBing
June 15th, 2009, 14:14
Hmm interesting... British or German? IE as in her home carrier or her most famous target?

HMS Victorious although it'd work for any of the first three Illustrious class. I used to have a model of the Cavour floating around that someone lent me as well. What does Taranto harbour look like in FSX?
crashaz
June 15th, 2009, 19:11
HMS Victorious although it'd work for any of the first three Illustrious class. I used to have a model of the Cavour floating around that someone lent me as well. What does Taranto harbour look like in FSX?


Hmm I got a Bismarck... maybe we should push out some ships. :icon_lol:
Lateral-G
June 15th, 2009, 19:37
FWIW the old AlphaSim Stringbag works great in FSX. Nice though to have an alternative.

-G-
Morton
August 29th, 2009, 00:14
If you need some new skins for Swordfish, check the thread:

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?t=21881

(you will also find them at bottom link)

Not certain however how these CFS2 textures work in FSX. Never tried before..


Morton
IanP
August 29th, 2009, 03:20
My grandfather was on one of the carriers (I'm not sure which - my Dad could tell me) in the Med Theatre that was sunk. Although his job was a gunlayer, as is usual in the Navy, tasks are doubled up and another one of his jobs was to pull the chocks out from Swordfish at full power and lie very flat while the torpedo went overhead and the tailwheel hopefully missed his head (it always did, thankfully!)

One of our favourite tales, when I was young, was about a raid that the Stringbags went on where they counted them all back in except one, which no-one had seen since the attack itself . Assuming it was lost, they started clearing the deck of all the debris dropped by the others has they hand landed with battle damage. Suddenly there was a cry of "LOOK OUT!" from the rear of the boat and the missing Swordfish climbed over the rear of the carrier with black smoke pouring from the engine and strips of fabric flapping all over the place. People went everywhere. My grandfather went over the side as he literally had nowhere else to go. Fortunately his long, about to become very wet, drop was interrupted by the tarpaulin covering a lifeboat which unceremoniously caught and held on to him.

Less than two weeks later, the news was reported that the carrier had been sunk. The day after that, my grandmother received a letter that he had been transferred to a destroyer as a gunlayer on that. Shortly afterwards, the destroyer was sunk escorting a convoy with massive loss of life, because the convoy couldn't stop. No letter followed.

He turned up on the doorstep instead, on a very short shoreleave before joining a North Cape convoy to Russia on a different destroyer.

I'd love a native FSX Stringbag. I'll take a look at both this one and the Alphasim I already have, but ported prop aircraft don't tend to last long.
SkippyBing
August 29th, 2009, 03:35
Quick update, I've played around with Mathias' source file which I can hopefully combine with a cockpit section I was already working on to produce a decent 'Fish for FSX. ETA is a bit uncertain at the moment due to real life but once I get back into a routine I should have a better idea!

I'm trying to think which carrier Ian's Grandfather could have been on, I know Ark Royal was sunk in the Med but I'm not sure which other ones were.
IanP
August 29th, 2009, 03:50
I think it was the Ark, but didn't name it because I'm not 100% sure. My dad has all the service histories and my sister wrote Grandad's biography when she was at school, so all the evidence is in different counties than I am. ;)

I need to speak to Dad later anyway, so I'll ask if he can remember. I know his father was on Victorious for a while as well, but that was still very much intact when he left it. None of the ships he served on were actually sunk with him on it, although I think it was either twice or three times that Gran heard that ship he had been transferred to had been sunk before receiving news that he had left it before that happened. The closest he came to losing a ship was due to ice build up on the Murmansk convoy, when the entire ship's company was brought up to break off the ice because the ship was in serious danger of capsizing and they were hiding under a storm so the Luftwaffe bombers in Norway couldn't get at them.

Edited to add: It should actually, with a bit of research and assuming that the sequence of events really did happen in that order and weren't turned around in the passage of time and telling, be possible to work it out. When was the Ark Royal destroyed and when was the big convoy to Murmansk? Anyone know?
guzler
August 29th, 2009, 03:50
Great story Ian, sounds very interesting.
IanP
August 29th, 2009, 12:21
Well it turns out that the carrier that was sunk just after he left it was actually his first - not his second - floating airport. Not the same one that the Swordfish incident was on. The carrier was HMS Courageous, sunk off the coast of Ireland while on Anti Submarine Warfare patrol. The carrier he was on in the Mediterranean when the Swordfish incident took place was "either Illustrious or Victorious".

This is what happens when you were told the stories the best part of 30 years ago... Sorry! :redface:
Bone
August 29th, 2009, 12:39
Well it turns out that the carrier that was sunk just after he left it was actually his first - not his second - floating airport. Not the same one that the Swordfish incident was on. The carrier was HMS Courageous, sunk off the coast of Ireland while on Anti Submarine Warfare patrol. The carrier he was on in the Mediterranean when the Swordfish incident took place was "either Illustrious or Victorious".

This is what happens when you were told the stories the best part of 30 years ago... Sorry! :redface:

Holy seagull excrement! Sounds like your Grandfather had the knack for dodging the torpedo's! Good story.