FSX/FSX acceleration Supermarine Swift
The Supermarine Swift was a British single-seat jet fighter of the Royal Air Force (RAF), built by Supermarine during the 1950s. After a protracted development period, the Swift entered service as an interceptor, but, due to a spate of accidents, its service life was short. A photo reconnaissance variant resolved some of the Swift's teething problems.
The first flight of the Swift (Supermarine Type 510) was in December 1948, it was the first British jet aircraft with swept wings and tail plane. Trails were carried out of on aircraft carriers and as such, the Swift became the first swept-wing jet to land and take-off from an aircraft carrier (the US would carry this out a number of years later). Sad to say, the Royal Navy lost interest in the Swift
The first type Swift to enter RAF service was the fighter version, the F.1 and this was in February of 1954 with 56 Squadron (Sqn), there were a number of problems with this first version and the F.1's were replaced with F.2 very quickly. The F.3 never entered service with the RAF.
The F.4 enter service with the RAF, however, again there were problems, one being, when flying at high altitude, the reheat would not work. Only nine F.4 Swifts were ever built. Production then was switched to a fighter reconnaissance version, the FR.5. This version was designed to replace the outdated Meteor FR.9's. The FR.5 was basically a F.4 with a larger nose to house 3 F.95 cameras, one camera being mounted facing forward, the other 2 mounted for taking oblique imagery facing out on each side of the nose, just forward on the air intakes.
The FR.5 retained its two 30mm cannons from the fighter version and a 220 gallon "belly" fuel tank was fitted as standard. The FR.5 underwent trails at Boscombe Down in July 1953. The first production version flew in 1955 and in January 1956, II(AC) Sqn RAF, stationed in Germany, began to receive their FR.5's. The FR Swift's were slowly replaced with Hunter FR.10's which started to entered service in 1960.
Carrying out fighter reconnaissance along side II(AC) were 79 Sqn, however,  they were disbanded in the first months of 1961 with all their equipment being merged with 4 Sqn. It was during this period the Swifts were replaced with Hunter FR.10's.
However, a number of Swift FR.5's were operated with 4 Sqn during this re-equipping period. With some the aircraft carrying markings for both squadrons. A total of 94 FR.5s saw service with the RAF, it was the last true Swift variant to enter service, although, fourteen F.7s were produced, but they were only used as 'test' aircraft.
There were plans to produce a totally photographic reconnaissance version, the PR.6 (XD143). However, it was a short-lived program due to ever-present reheat problems. By the early 1960's, the Swift was being replaced by the Hunter FR.10.

Installation:
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-Unzip " Swift" into a temporary file and move the "Swift" folder into the main Aircraft directory.
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-Read instructions carefully when installing the gauges ,  say YES...when asked if the gauges sources should be trusted. If you say no....most of the gauges are not going to work !
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-Leave all gauges in the Swift panel folder  or move them to the Flightsim\gauges folder.
-Copy the effects into the   Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator X\effects folder.
-The nav/GPS switch is on the popup switches panel (icon upper left).  
-The last notch of flaps act as a speed brake and should only be used if you have trouble slowing down. This aircraft does not have a separate speed brake.



CREDITS
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Special thanks to : 
-GMAX for the drawing program and Microsoft for their makmdls.mdk.
-Alpha freeware for a nice model
-Panel and gauges: P Perrott 
-Textures: H.Pralle
-Optimized flight model and effects: Bob Chicilo

LEGAL:
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The project is released as freeware.  You may modify it and repaint it. You may upload this file to another website as long as it is not for profit.  
You need the written permission of the original authors to use any of these files for commercial purposes, otherwise a simple credit would be nice. Non commercial repaints-remakes are  welcome but I would appreciate very much receiving a copy of your model.
This file should not cause any problems with your computer, but I accept no responsibility if you think it does


Happy Landings!

A.F.Scrub
February 2015
Email:  af_scrubbypc@hotmail.com




Feb 2016, conversion to FSX native MDL X format, by LLS

Not 100% perfect, the VC lost some of it's click spots, as often happens. The cockpit guru's can retifiy that in due course, I'm sure.
Again, with respect to bumps and specs, this may be applied now that the model can be handled in FSX MDL X.
A big BZ for Henk and Arno, and warm thanks to Phil and the boys at Vitravia for their encouragement and for their freeware policy.


