Lockheed P-2V7 Fire Bombers?

[stealthshadow1]

I wonder if anyone has thought about designing one? I wish I knew how to design aircraft for FS personally. But the reason they interest me is I fly air tanker missions with 5 or 6 friends of mine all the time and the P-2 is the only aircraft that isn't on the air tanker list. Living in California we see them fly quite a bit on fires out here. SOH does such an awesome job with it's aircraft designs and maybe it's just a pipe dream to me and a few others that maybe someone would design one. I've always liked the way they looked without that radome on the bottom of them. The P-2 is just an awesome plane anyway.

[Sid2008]

Please give me 3-views and cockpit photo and I will do it in FSDS 3.5

[BillgjCook]

Hi I have some good 3-views and some detailed photos in a zip file
http://rapidshare.com/files/386911842/neptune.zip.html

[stealthshadow1]

Cockpit



I hope this helps and thank you!

[airattackimages]

I'm so glad someone asked about this... we've been needing one of these for a LONG time! The last P-2 air tanker I've ever found was for FS2000 I think. We need an awesome high quality firefighting P-2 Neptune that doesn't have the radome underneath! Alphasim had a nice flying Neptune, but it of course was the Navy version with the radome.

The 2 drawings that stealthshadow posted are great examples. The first one is Neptune Aviation's P-2 paint scheme. They fly P-2V5s and P-2V7s, (which of course look identical.) I'm putting one of my photos of a Neptune Aviation tanker below, just so you can see what they look like in action. They have slightly changed the paint scheme recently to include more red. But even if the paint were to be the older scheme, people would still love it.

The 2nd one he posted is Aero Union's SP-2H, which are now retired, but I would still love to see it in flight sim!! They had a few of those and they were beautiful birds. The one you see, and 01, and 03.

There is a 3rd operater that still uses them, and that's Minden Air. They have Tanker 48 (which is a long tail SP-2H) and Tanker 55. I put one of my shots of Tanker 55 below. Tanker 55 is an SP-2H, with an odd half Neptune tail. Beautiful bird though!

Whoever takes this project on is going to be a hero to a lot of people!

[BillgjCook]

Hi there

Anyone working on this aircraft?
If not I will be slowly working on One my self. I only get a few hours a week to do so.
I will post some WIPs shots as I progress, My VC building is not the best but I will do the best that I can.