![]() The F-4, on the other hand, was huge and looked amazing in the diamond formation. ![]() One of the things that was such a disappointment about the T-38 was that they could fly extremely close together and not look particularly impressive. Once having made the decision to acquire F-16s, there was never any going back. Further, at that time we only had plans to buy about 750 F-15s, but over twice that number of F-16s. However, the US economy was still struggling mightily, so it would have been a tough sell to Congress to justify a twin-engine frontline fighter as a T-38 replacement. ![]() It would have been a sight to see had they chosen the Eagle. Having watched the T-birds fly the F-4, a big, loud plane makes a real impression. Both the F-15A and F-16 were stressed for 9Gs (though I’m not sure today’s F-15s can still do that), so the bigger fighter should have been able to put on an impressive show. The decision to convert from the T-38 was undertaken in 1982, a few months after the T-birds diamond had plowed into the desert floor during a practice session (I was on the flightline at my training base when we got the word of a T-38 crash…then 4 x T-38s…then 4 x T-38s doing a loop - and at that point, we knew it was the Thunderbirds). The Thunderbirds had flown the F-4 in the late 60s & early 70s, but exchanged them for the T-38 because of the oil embargo after the 1973 Yom Kippur War between the Arabs and Israelis. The USAF went with the F-16 instead of the F-15 for cost reasons. X-Plane Thunderbirds F-15 Fictional Livery. & get her DOWN.in one piece, you really do have some potential! I've also got to thank all the folks at Virtavia and also Sean McLeod with keeping all of us upto date during theīuild of this beautiful piece of history. Wish to install her in the other versions. You will have to create your own icons if you I've included only the icon & thumb icon for the clean version only. Times to get the proper colour that they would show correctly & not be too dominant. (photos included) It was time consuming with maintainingĪll the seam lines for the different panels & also the inspection plates etc. I really want to thank a fellow simmer "eldo" for sending me pictures of thisīeauty and requesting me to put this livery together. She is like her name, a bolt of.a bolt of Now she is really pouring it on down the back stretch. She is starting to pull away from the rest of the field as they round The clocks counting down folks and here they come to the line.& they are off with a flying start with 09
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