Stephen Posted September 24, 2018 Report Share Posted September 24, 2018 News! - New Default aircraft : F14 joins the stable from Laminar Research In the release notes for the coming soon now X-Plane 11.30 beta (Known internally here as X-Plane11 2.0) there are a few significant references to "F14" which means the Grumman F-14 Tomcat swing-wing fighter. Originally there was a few nice fighters provided with X-Plane, but currently only the F4 Phantom is carrying the flame, and that is quite or very old as well. There is a F-14F Tomcat by Colimata, but that is early X-Plane10 (2012), and much has been updated since, and it is now not available in X-Plane11. The release notes focus on the F14's ability for carrier born operations, in the swing-wing flaps and the "3-dimensional specification" tail-hook position for more accurate carrier landings... interesting. No doubt a more viable fighter in X-Plane11 for sales and promotion aspects are the goal for Laminar Research, and we will get to benefit also from the F-14's availability... coming soon to your local favorite simulator! ______________________________________________________________________ News by Stephen Dutton 24th September 2018 Copyright©2018: X-Plane Reviews (Disclaimer. All images and text in this review are the work and property of X-PlaneReviews, no sharing or copy of the content is allowed without consent from the author as per copyright conditions) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrstphd Posted September 27, 2018 Report Share Posted September 27, 2018 There's one at Dryden Sims too: http://www.drydensims.com/f-14b-tomcat.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Posted September 28, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2018 It is still an old XP9/XP10 F-14... not X-Plane11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted October 12, 2018 Report Share Posted October 12, 2018 Those are great news! Love the F-14 for it's size and good looks. Really can't wait to fly it. I just hope LM fixes the aircraft carriers as well. Right now they behave more like a dinghy than a floating airport with a displacement greater than 100k tons when confronted with moderate waves. Oh, and Colimata developed a F-18F "Super Hornet", not a F-14F. There never was a F-14F, only D. Also Colimata's F-18F is a native XP11 jet and not compatible with XP10, afaik never has been. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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