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I’m a PonyI’m a Pony If memory serves, and it usually doesn’t, all three of the aircraft in this pack are (or were) available for free download, and I had a lot of them laying around in storage on an external hard drive from my review of Johan217’s mod. So, I thought to myself, why not take the free versions and compare them to the ones being offered by Third Wire? I don’t recall much about the Mystere IVA and even less about the Meteor, but I do remember playing through Johan217’s Suez campaign in an F-51D, so I figured I’d start there. There’s another reason. This aircraft marks the first time that a refined flight model has been made by Third Wire for a piston-engined aircraft meant and intended to be flown by the player. Up until now, it’s been flight models for AI aircraft when it comes to prop jobs in the Third Wire world. We now have a Third Wire-engineered flight model to test and play with.

The F-51D Mustang was illegally sold to the Hey’l Ha’Avir by the Swedish and Nicaraguan governments for its use in the 1948 War of Independence. It quickly became the best fighter in their inventory.

By 1959, the IAF had replaced the Mustang with jet aircraft, but not before it racked up an impressive record in combat service during the Suez Crisis. There is even a story floating around about an especially ballsy Mustang driver who effectively ended communications between Suez and units in the Egyptian front lines by cutting down telephone wires with his spinning propeller blades. There’s one for. Now, I also had to dig out and blow the dust off my old Strike Fighters: Project 1 CD because the only way to be fair is to test them both in their respective native game environments since a number of mods for the first-generation games start out of the gate with compatibility problems when placed in the second-generation games. External Model Right off the bat, I noticed an issue.

Along the tail of the third-party aircraft, there is a problem with the shadow, a dark gray mesh along the vertical axis of the rudder. It doesn’t go away until you shut the shadows off in the Graphics options.

Quarkxpress 10 Validation Code Cracking. Mustang P-51D – Third-Party Add-on for the SF1 Series Mustang P-51D – Suez Expansion for the SF2 Series The body panels look dated in the third-party model, there are also some discrepancies that I can’t tell who’s being more accurate. There appears to be what looks like an exhaust port on the ventral side of the Third Wire aircraft (the oil cooler, possibly?

I’m not up to speed on prop-jobs) that’s not there on the third-party aircraft. It appears that the third-party model follows the P-51D lines to the letter, whereas the Third Wire model clearly shows the Israelis must’ve modified them in some way if this is accurate. The weapons of the expansion pack are wonderful, but there’s not a lot to see. It’s not like the F-51D could carry a wide array of munitions. I used Bunyap’s Weapons Pack for comparison (what I still consider to be the gold standard in third-party instruments of destruction) and again, it’s not like the Mustang carried much more than drop tanks, a pair of bombs, and some unguided rockets. The big difference is going to come in the availability of DX10 shaders in the new expansion pack. Mustang P-51D – Third-Party Add-on for SF1 Series Mustang P-51D – Suez Expansion for the SF2 Series The exterior model of the Third Wire Mustang looks more polished than the third-party model, but let’s take a look at the cockpit for minute.

The Front Office The cockpits are similar, and the third-party effort is competent, but you can’t help but think you’re inside one of those folded-up cardboard boxes we used to turn into airplane cockpits in kindergarten. The Third Wire version is softer, rounder, and the gunsight is much more prominent an edifice in your frame of view. The benefit of the newer DirectX engine used in SF2 comes into play. For example, the difference of the zinc chromate coloring in the side panels and how the light affects the two planes surfaces is dramatic. Mustang P-51D – Third-Party Add-on for the SF1 Series Mustang P-51D – Suez Expansion for the SF2 Series The dials, panels, and other accoutrements are functional in both cockpits and both do their jobs well. There seems to be some (for lack of a better term) “seaming” in the third-party cockpit where some of the exterior world peeks in between some panels, but it’s one of those things that in the heat of battle you’re not going to notice much. The Flight Model I tested both aircraft in the Normal flight model.