X-Plane Projects
BAC One-Eleven
The original window shaking short range jet airliner
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BUA and Beyond: G-ASJI
The very long serving
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Aer Lingus
Ireland's national carrier since 1936.
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Supermarine Walrus
A collection of paintfiles for Jacques Brault's Supermarine Walrus.
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Miles Martinet
Purpose designed target and glider tug.
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Gloster Gladiator
A collection of paintfiles for Jacques Brault's Gloster Gladiator.
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Latest Resources
Cessna 337
Push-me pull-you twin-boom Cessna
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Reduced res Tenerife VFR
Modified dds and pol files for older machines
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Australian Roads Part 1
OpenStreetMap derived roads
(scenery)
Avro Anson Mk.1
Mid series unarmed Anson training aircraft
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CT-133 Golden Hawks
Classic Canadian display team's support aircraft.
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T-33A - Yugoslavia
The JRVs first jet type.
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T-33A KLu Whisky 4
1966 Dutch Display team
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T-33A Shooting Star JG71
Tulip Nose T-Bird.
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Blackburn Roc Mk.I Target Tug
Status: Alpha 0
X-plane version: 8.64
About:
The Roc was a "fighter" development of the Skua dive bomber using the same turret fighter concept as the Boulton Paul Defiant in that its sole armament was four .303 in (7.7 mm) Browning machine guns in a powered dorsal turret. The reduced firepower (compared to land based fighters such as the Hawker Hurricane) was offset by the ability to direct it in any direction. In practice, the weight of the turret made the Roc even slower than the already slow – for fighter purposes – Skua.
Like the Boulton Paul Defiant, the Roc was widely employed a target tug. Boulton & Paul, who actually built and did much of the Roc's detail design, realized even before production began that it would not have adequate performance as a fighter. Conversion was pretty basic and without any of the frills of the Defiant TT.
As a target tug the Roc had a relativly short working life and the last few were withdrawn during 1943 due to a lack of spares.
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