New de Havilland Sea Vampire F20 (freeware)

[robcarrich]

New Sea Vampire F 20 for FSX acceleration.
As far as I know it has never been modelled in flight sim, That's not surprising as only 18 were ever built.
The Navy liked them but did not use them in front line service due to their restricted range.
There is also an AI version.
It’s now available at....

www.robertjamesrichardson.co.uk (http://www.robertjamesrichardson.co.uk)

http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/bb400/robcarrich/Sea Vampire/Sea Vampire 2/2011-12-5_16-0-25-308.jpg

http://i1203.photobucket.com/albums/bb400/robcarrich/Sea Vampire/Sea Vampire 2/2011-12-19_11-6-45-590.jpg

Rob Richardson

[skyhawka4m]

nice!!

[huub vink]

Very nice Robert, thank you!

Cheers,
Huub

[bruce448]

TY Rob more things to fly from your Ford scenery.

Bruce

[Roger]

Wonderful:applause:

[OleBoy]

Thank You. I always enjoy your models! Especially the Beagle Basset

[noddy]

Great news, many thanks.

[Daube]

Sea Vampire ? Does it mean this plane can be used on aircraft carriers ?
Thanks a lot anyway, I love this airplane :)

[AndyG43]

Sea Vampire ? Does it mean this plane can be used on aircraft carriers ?
Thanks a lot anyway, I love this airplane :)

First jet aircraft to be landed on an aircraft carrier, on December 3rd 1945, by the Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown - one of the many records this truly great man holds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Brown_(pilot)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Vampire

[robcarrich]

Sea Vampire ? Does it mean this plane can be used on aircraft carriers ?
Thanks a lot anyway, I love this airplane :)



Fully compatible with FSX carriers.
Line it up with the catapult on any carrier then press Shift+I and the bridle will show, then press Shift+Spacebar and your doing 120 knots in about three seconds!

[warchild]

Thanks Rob!! Shes a real beauty..

[delta_lima]

THANK YOU!!!

I have so been hoping the navalised variant would materialise. This makes my day (and dulls the ache of waiting for my other naval dream beauty, the Flying Stations Bucc to come, hopefully another week or so! :jump:).


Yes, as Andy points out, Eric Brown did make some great firsts in this aircraft. He was also heavily involved in some bizarre "flexible deck" experiments - Vampires sans landing gear, landing on rubber decks ... :mixedsmi: Just stumbled across his book at my local library "Wings on my Sleeve" - a reference to where RN pilots wore their wings on their uniform:

http://www.amazon.ca/Wings-My-Sleeve-Eric-Brown/dp/0753822091/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1324316551&sr=8-1

There is extensive coverage of his assessment of the naval vampire, and of course a host of other types (virtually every operational military aircraft of the 40s and 50s). Great reading - not the rollicking story telling of some authors, but clear, factual, first person account of his experiences as a test pilot. I personally like his style, and heartily recommend it, especially to those of us with the incurable naval aviation proclivity.

Anyway - can't wait to try this when I return to my sim pc - but had to say a quick thanks Rob - much appreciated. I also hunted around your site, and saw the FB 5 coming update - eagerly awaiting that too. Superb stuff!

cheers mates,

Daniel

[danyboy21]

Great Job ! As always :icon_lol: Thank you Mr. Richardson :applause:

[Roger]

:ernae:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y203/rogera/seavamp-1.jpg

[noddy]

Lovely shot Roger.

[Bone]

I see the Sea Vampire in the AI section, but not in the flyable models section. I'm going to snag that Shackelton....I've seen it in screenshots from various people, but didn't know where to get it until now. All of them are very nice looking models.


EDIT: Ahh, never mind, I see it on the home page. I was looking in the Jet Downloads section for it.

[delta_lima]

... RNAS Ford - sweet!

What a gift to have a beautifully rendered RNAS Ford, with Attackers and Sea Venoms on the flight line. Christmas indeed.

Haven't checked out the RAF fields, but do yourselves a favour and check out the scenery section - some gems there I hadn't seen until today!!

http://www.robertjamesrichardson.co.uk/page5.html

Rob, thanks again!

Daniel

[DagR]

What a béauty :-) Congratulations :-)

[Roger]

Lovely shot Roger.

Coming from one of our screenshot greats that's an honour noddy:ernae:

[Bone]

I bet you could make a right proper EE Lightning. Very nice stuff, thanks again. :)

[noddy]

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[Henry]

some early christmass prezzies there:applause:thank you!
DDDDDDDDDDH:guinness:

[oldpropfan]

One that I've hoped for, for quite a while, thank you Rob. Now I can replace my cobbled together version.

Found the carrier after takeoff from Marseille
http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll279/oldpropfan/foundthecarrier.jpg

Caught a wire first time out:applause:
http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll279/oldpropfan/success.jpg

Time to launch and try another landing
http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll279/oldpropfan/vampirelaunch.jpg

Got excited after 5 successful traps in a row and decided to try one of Rob's other planes, the Sea Venom
http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll279/oldpropfan/venomlaunch.jpg

First time around and I slammed her into the deck a little too hard, walked away though:icon_lol:
http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll279/oldpropfan/brokegear.jpg

Thanks again, wouldn't have half as much fun without these classic planes and also the work of the people that made all the fantastic carriers to land them on.

Al

[bmd]

Hello oldpropfan,

Thank you for yoursuperb screenshoots of he sea vampire and sea venom aboard the aircraft carrier. I hope to do the same exercice and obtain my carrier qualification after seven successful deck landinsg and catapult launchs.

Have a good day

Benoit

[Warrant]

Very nice! Hope one will make a Hawker Seahawk for FSX as well (if not already available).

[robcarrich]

INCREDIBLE screenshots!
Thank you Roger noddy and oldpropfan.

Rob R

[DagR]

Can anyone tell me how to make the external fuel tanks show. I cannot seem to fix that. I tried adding fuel to them etc.

Thanks
Dag

[Stefano Zibell]

I had actually adapted the old Rob's DH Vampire for carrier ops. Now we have a real one! Much thanks, and merry christmas!

[spatialpro]

Is there any prospect of a paintkit?

Andy

[robcarrich]

Can anyone tell me how to make the external fuel tanks show. I cannot seem to fix that. I tried adding fuel to them etc.

Thanks
Dag

Hi Dag,
You need to go to the fuel/payload section in game and fill external tanks, then toggle the clean/tanks switch.
Or just park in a fuel slot at any airfield, that has one, then that will automatically fill all tanks, you still need to toggle them with the switch.
Andy, I didnt bother with a paintkit for the Sea Vampire as all of them look more or less the same, I am working on a vampire FB 5 which will have the same texture mapping, I'll be
doing a paintkit for that, I'll maybe put a Sea Vampire layer in the PSP kit.

Rob R

[DagR]

Hi Dag,
You need to go to the fuel/payload section in game and fill external tanks, then toggle the clean/tanks switch.
Or just park in a fuel slot at any airfield, that has one, then that will automatically fill all tanks, you still need to toggle them with the switch.
Andy, I didnt bother with a paintkit for the Sea Vampire as all of them look more or less the same, I am working on a vampire FB 5 which will have the same texture mapping, I'll be
doing a paintkit for that, I'll maybe put a Sea Vampire layer in the PSP kit.

Rob R

Thanks very much Rob, that explains it :-)

[spatialpro]

Andy, I didnt bother with a paintkit for the Sea Vampire as all of them look more or less the same, I am working on a vampire FB 5 which will have the same texture mapping, I'll be
doing a paintkit for that, I'll maybe put a Sea Vampire layer in the PSP kit.

That would be ace and much appreciated! Yup, all the schemes are practically identical, but I'd like to change the serials (for instance for those based at RNAS Culdrose) as well as add more/less grime and stains etc.

On a related note, is the texture mapping for the Venom similar to the Sea Venom? I guess it is a long shot, but if it is the case it'd be wonderful to have a paintkit for the Sea Venom too... ;-)

And

[Henry]

agreat thank you is in order!H

[hschuit]

Anyone else not seeing the Sea Vampire gunsight glass? I also have the Vampire FMk.3 and the Venoms and they are fine:

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