Bad Kitty SE5a WWI Fighter Full Perm Mesh Kit (V)

This full perm Royal Aircraft Factory SE5a comes with two full perm aircraft, one with the plain texture templates applied and one with the coded texture templates as a texturing reference. You can achieve a very high quality texture using the provided templates. Prim cost to rez this mesh model is 29 prims. The propeller is a separate mesh object and can be script animated to rotate or unlinked and replaced with a prim propeller of your choice.

Mesh created by me in 3DS Max 8. Ready to use textures are not included but may be for sale in the future.

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History of the SE5a:
The Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 was a British biplane fighter aircraft of the First World War. Although the first examples reached the Western Front before the Sopwith Camel and it had a much better overall performance, problems with its Hispano-Suiza engine, particularly the geared-output H-S 8B-powered versions, meant that there was a chronic shortage of S.E.5s until well into 1918 and fewer squadrons were equipped with the type than with the Sopwith fighter. Together with the Camel, the S.E.5 was instrumental in regaining allied air superiority in mid-1917 and maintaining this for the rest of the war, ensuring there was no repetition of "Bloody April" 1917 when losses in the Royal Flying Corps were much heavier than in the Luftstreitkräfte.

While the S.E.5 was not as agile and effective in a tight dog fight as the Camel it was much easier and safer to fly, particularly for novice pilots. The S.E.5 had one synchronised .303-in Vickers machine gun to the Camel's two, but it also had a wing-mounted Lewis gun on a Foster mounting, which enabled the pilot to fire at an enemy aircraft from below as well as providing two guns firing forward. This was much appreciated by the pilots of the first S.E.5 squadrons as the new hydraulic-link "C.C." synchronising gear for the Vickers was unreliable at first. The Vickers gun was mounted on the forward left dorsal surface of the fuselage with the breech inside the cockpit. The cockpit was set amidships, making it difficult to see over the long front fuselage, but otherwise visibility was good. Perhaps its greatest advantage over the Camel was its superior performance at altitude – so that it was a much better match for the Fokker D.VII when that fighter arrived at the front.