The Panavia Tornado is a family of twin-engine combat aircraft, which was jointly developed by the United Kingdom, West Germany and Italy.
There are three primary versions of the Tornado:
- The Tornado IDS/GR1 (Interdictor/Strike) fighter-bomber,
- The suppression of enemy air defences Tornado ECR (Electronic Combat/ Reconnaissance)
- The Tornado ADV (Air Defence Variant) interceptor.
Developed and built by Panavia, a tri-national consortium consisting of British Aerospace (previously British Aircraft Corporation), MBB of West Germany, and Alenia Aeronautica of Italy, the Tornado first flew on 14 August, 1974, and saw action with the RAF, AMI (Italian Air Force) and Royal Saudi Air Force in the Gulf War. International co-operation continued after its entry into service within the Tri-National Tornado Training Establishment, a tri-nation training and evaluation unit operating from RAF Cottesmore, England. Including all variants, 992 aircraft were built for the three partner nations and Saudi Arabia.
The Tornado was designed as a low-level supersonic ground attack bomber, capable of taking off and landing in short distances. This requires good high-speed and low-speed flying characteristics. In general, an aircraft which is designed to fly at high speeds usually has poor low-speed characteristics. In order to achieve the desired high-speed performance, an aircraft has a highly swept or ‘delta’ wing platform. However, these wing designs are very inefficient at low speeds where unswept wing planforms are required. In order for an aircraft to be operated efficiently at both high and low speeds, variable wing sweep is a desirable feature; this was incorporated into the Tornado design.
General characteristics
- Crew: 2
- Length: 16.72 m (54 ft 10 in)
- Wingspan: 13.91 m at 25° wing sweep, 8.60 m at 67° wing sweep (45.6 ft / 28.2 ft)
- Height: 5.95 m (19.5 ft)
- Wing area: 26.6 m² (286 ft²)
- Empty weight: 13,890 kg (31,620 lb)
- Max takeoff weight: 28,000 kg (61,700 lb)
- Powerplant: 2× Turbo-Union RB199-34R Mk 103 afterburning turbofans
- Dry thrust: 43.8 kN (9,850 lbf) each
- Thrust with afterburner: 76.8 kN (17,270 lbf) each
Performance
- Maximum speed: 800kts IAS Mach 2.34 (2,417.6 km/h, 1,511 mph)
- Range: 1,390 km (870 mi) typical combat
- Ferry range: 3,890 km (2,417 mi) with four external drop tanks
- Service ceiling: 15,240 m (50,000 ft)
- Rate of climb: 76.7 m/s (15,100 ft/min)
- Thrust/weight: 0.55
Product features:
- Includes IDS / ECR / GR1 / ADV F2 / ADV F3 / ADV EF3
- Detailed outside and interior model inclusive animated virtual cockpit
- Extensive light effects
- Smoke effects
- Numerous animations
- Realistic flight dynamics
- functioning autopilot
- Avionics for navigation
- Engine animation inclusive Ramps for supersonic
- Functioning virtual cockpit
- Functioning Wing Sweep and Fowlerflaps
- Tailhook
- Recce Visor in some IDS VC Cockpits
- Pushback truck
- Covers
- Crew disappears when engines are off and brakes are engaged
- Thrust Reverser
- No reflective canopy
- No specular shine
Included Variants:
- Tornado F2 Prototyp Clean
- Tornado F2 Prototyp SkyFlash
- Tornado F2 Prototyp Bombs
- Tornado ADV F2 AIM9L
- Tornado ADV F2 SkyFlash
- Tornado ADV F2 ACMI
- Tornado ADV F2 Clean
- Tornado ADV F3 Clean
- Tornado ADV F3 AIM9L
- Tornado ADV F3 SkyFlash
- Tornado ADV F3 ACMI
- Tornado ADV EF3 ALARM
- Tornado GR1 ACMI
- Tornado GR1 Standard 1
- Tornado GR1 Standard 2
- Tornado GR1 ALARM 1
- Tornado GR1 ALARM 2
- Tornado GR1 SEAD
- Tornado GR1 Clean
- Tornado GR1 BSU50
- Tornado GR1 CBLS
- Tornado GR1 JP233
- Tornado GR1 LongRange
- Tornado GR1 Paveway
- Tornado GR1 SeaEagle
- Tornado IDS ACMI
- Tornado IDS Standard 1
- Tornado IDS Standard 2
- Tornado IDS HARM
- Tornado IDS Clean
- Tornado IDS Prototyp 1 Clean
- Tornado IDS Prototyp 2 Clean
- Tornado IDS BSU50
- Tornado IDS CBLS
- Tornado IDS MW1
- Tornado IDS LongRange
- Tornado IDS Paveway
- Tornado IDS Kormoran
- Tornado IDS ReccePod Neu
- Tornado IDS ReccePod old
- Tornado IDS Kormoran Prototyp
- Tornado IDS Bomben Prototyp
- Tornado ECR ACMI
- Tornado ECR Standard 1
- Tornado ECR Standard 2
- Tornado ECR HARM
- Tornado ECR Clean
- Tornado ECR LongRange
- Tornado ECR Prototyp
System requirements:
- Microsoft Flight Simulator FSX ® SP2
- Windows 2000 WindowsXP Vista Windows7
- 1.00 GB RAM
- Graphics card with 256MB
- 4.00 GB free disk space
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