Post by Phaser on Jun 24, 2007 2:53:23 GMT -5
Over two years in development, the IRIS E.A.P. is now available for FS2004 & FSX.
A real first for flightsim, the British Aerospace E.A.P. (Experimental Aircraft Program) was a technology demonstrator designed in the early 1980's and featured a full glass
c o c k pit with several multi-function displays and voice warning systems. The EAP demonstrator performed its first flight on 8 August 1986 and conducted 259 test flights up to its retirement on 1 May 1991. Pilots were wildly enthusiastic about the machine, one of them saying: "It goes like a ferret with a firework up its bum!" It was fast, it was agile, and it was easy to fly.
There was comment at the time and afterward that Britain should have simply picked up the EAP demonstrator and run with it, and in fact BAE had been promoting an operational fighter that leveraged off the demonstrator to the British Royal Air Force (RAF). However, it simply wasn't going to happen. The British government made it perfectly clear they didn't want to pick up the entire tab for a new fighter, and so any such new aircraft would have to be produced by an international collaboration.
In fact, such discussions had led to decisions on collaboration even before the first flight of the EAP demonstrator. In hindsight, it remains an open question that is very difficult to answer as to whether Britain would have been better off to go it alone.
Fortunately for the flightsim community, we have put our heads together and are pleased to provide three different combat variants of the E.A.P. based on the technology available around the time of manufacturing. The result is the Tempest F.2 and T.1 for the RAAF and RAF, the navy F/A-39 Vortex for the US Navy and US Air Force and the Cyclone ES.2A covering the role of Wild Weasel and battlefield reconsiassance quite nicely.
We at IRIS are confident that this product will earn a treasured place within any flightsimmers hangar!
View more details of this product at www.irissimulations.com and click on the IRIS EAP link!
A real first for flightsim, the British Aerospace E.A.P. (Experimental Aircraft Program) was a technology demonstrator designed in the early 1980's and featured a full glass
c o c k pit with several multi-function displays and voice warning systems. The EAP demonstrator performed its first flight on 8 August 1986 and conducted 259 test flights up to its retirement on 1 May 1991. Pilots were wildly enthusiastic about the machine, one of them saying: "It goes like a ferret with a firework up its bum!" It was fast, it was agile, and it was easy to fly.
There was comment at the time and afterward that Britain should have simply picked up the EAP demonstrator and run with it, and in fact BAE had been promoting an operational fighter that leveraged off the demonstrator to the British Royal Air Force (RAF). However, it simply wasn't going to happen. The British government made it perfectly clear they didn't want to pick up the entire tab for a new fighter, and so any such new aircraft would have to be produced by an international collaboration.
In fact, such discussions had led to decisions on collaboration even before the first flight of the EAP demonstrator. In hindsight, it remains an open question that is very difficult to answer as to whether Britain would have been better off to go it alone.
Fortunately for the flightsim community, we have put our heads together and are pleased to provide three different combat variants of the E.A.P. based on the technology available around the time of manufacturing. The result is the Tempest F.2 and T.1 for the RAAF and RAF, the navy F/A-39 Vortex for the US Navy and US Air Force and the Cyclone ES.2A covering the role of Wild Weasel and battlefield reconsiassance quite nicely.
We at IRIS are confident that this product will earn a treasured place within any flightsimmers hangar!
View more details of this product at www.irissimulations.com and click on the IRIS EAP link!
