The Jaguar project for X-Plane has been a long time in the making. The overall aim is to realistically simulate the Sepecat Jaguar aircraft in many of its guises and to a high visual quality.

I began developing this model back in 2007, and since then I have spent many hours, and a fair amount of money researching and gathering data to ensure the flight model is accurate as possible within the limitations of X-Plane.

Assistance has been sought from ex Jaguar pilots, and from current Jaguar technicians and museum restoration teams. Some very kind and skilled people have provided me with dimensions, access to a real Jaguar, and documentation to aid systems and flight modelling.

The entire flight model has been rebuilt multiple times, and the 3D model had a few iterations before good progress was made.

This blog will document the build process, and updates will be posted when decent steps are made.

This is a long term project, and it will be available to buy upon its completion.

15/06/2010

After some more testing i have decided upon a wing layout on which to go with now. However, after some more testing with drop tanks, i found that the cg being further forward was a problem for the stab aerofoil sections i had tuned, so i am re-working stab foils at the moment to try and re-gain some authority. It shouldn't be too difficult to re-tune the model to work with the new tail sections. I need to get this nailed, its taken waay too long so far!

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