Bristol Type 188, the 'Flaming Pencil' was a British highspeed research aircraft. Designed to meet operational requirement ER.134T for a testbed capable of speeds greater than Mach 2. Due to the anticipated effects of kinetic heating at high Mach numbers, the fuselage was constructed of stainless steel. Two aircraft were built, XF923 and XF926. First flight of XF923 was on 14th April 1962 and then XF926 with upgraded Gyron Junior engines on 29th April 1963. Ironically, the Maximum speed achieved was Mach 1.88 at 36,000 ft. Although the top speed of the Type 188 was disappointing, the airframe advanced understanding and knowledge of structures, oils, electrics, hydraulic fluid, bearings, tires, windows and cabin environment at high temperatures as well as telemetry which was used during the development of Concorde. Last flight was 11th January 1964.

One Bristol Type 188 remains at the RAF Museum, Cosford.

General characteristics:
Crew: one
Length: 77 ft 8 in (23.68 m)
Wingspan: 25 ft 1 in (10.70 m)
Height: 13 ft 11 in (4.23 m)
Wing area: 396.25 ft² (36.85 m²)
Gross weight: 37,500 lb (17,010 kg)
Powerplant: 2 × de Havilland Gyron Junior DGJ.10R turbojet, 10,300 lbf (44.4 kN) dry, Reheat 14,000 lbf (62.2kN), 20,000 lbf (88.9 kN) at 36,000 ft.
Landing approach speed 188 knots.
Top Speed: Mach 1.88.

Install Instructions:

1. Copy tgsims-bristol-t188 folder to your MSFS 2020 Community folder.
2. Copy tgsims-t188-effects folder to your MSFS 2020 Community folder.

Thanks:
This aircraft was made using Blender 3.1.0, Adobe Photoshop and Substance 3D Painter.

Thank you to the FSDeveloper and FS2 community for all your help.

Contact and Feedback:
[email protected]

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Legal:
This file is freeware. It may not be distributed without permission in any form. The
software is provided as-is, and the author does not accept any liability with
regards to its use.

This software is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
PLEASE DO NOT place these files anywhere that requires a fee for downloading.
PLEASE DO NOT place any of these files in any commercial package or any CD collection.
They (the files contained here in) cannot be used in any payware/shareware or any method that requires payment.

Model, textures, coding and documentation: Tyler Gladman

Version History:
V1.0.0 - Initial release.

Tyler Gladman
June 2023

Absolutely fantastic piece of freeware - I don't think I've seen any from-scratch freeware project as polished as this! Please keep developing and can't wait to see what else is in store 💙

21 days ago

Silvy

very surprising!!!
good looking model nice smooth flight
i am not sure if it is like this in real life but it was very very fast and it got up to speed too fast again not sure how it is irl but it flies very good and it was also very maneuverable (it could pull about 8 g's) which isn't realistic but pretty fun to fly.
if you don't use trim it would be very hard to fly but if you do and don't mind fideling with it go for it.
the cockpit textures were very nice aswell

1 months ago

reembiderman

The engine used in this aircraft is a single-spool turbojet (which presumably was the rule back in those days). Did you have to take that into account in some way when setting up the behaviour in MSFS? Looking into your engines.cfg I see that for instance low_idle_n1 and low_idle_n2 are different, even though by definition a single-spool jet engine doesn't have separate N1 and N2. Is this because that is the only way to make the engine behave reasonably, or was it just easier to not even try to make MSFS understand that N1 and N2 should be identical, perhaps you tried and it lead to horrors? (Sadly the MSFS engine is known to not really cater for edge cases. Like only very recently did it even start supporting more than four engines. So I wouldn't be surprised if they haven't given single-spool pure turbojets any thoughts.)

Asking because working on an add-on aircraft myself that also is a historical one with single-spool no-bypass turbojets.

2 months ago

tml

Incredible job, the level of a payware addon.

I only have one question and it may be because of my lack of knowlege on this aircraft.
But on final with Full flaps and both engine on idle, the aircraft doesn't bleed any speed.
I can keep up with 150 - 180 kt easily.
Is it because on idle, the engines produce thrust ?

3 months ago

The_LAW__tOot

Literally a blast in VR. Hawker P1103 & Vickers Type 559 & BAC TSR2 next, please. 😎

WhiskyWalker

Thank you! This is very high quality freeware. Been flying this non stop lately, really enjoying the "flaming pencil"!

5 months ago

CLASSICAV

fantastic airplane please make another one because this one is beautiful

Emanuele76

Really enjoying this one. A lot of fun in VR. Would love an in-game checklist at some point, if possible. But even without, fantastic job.

nthgtofear

For me is it a superb Job what you have do. Wonderful easy to fly. The Cockpit looks great for a Freeware. Keep it up!

EDWI_WHV

person5615563

Most things were well constructed.

MeanderingBros

Really like this aircraft, cockpit feels great in VR! I have a small issue where anything above 70-80% throttle causes the in-game throttles to vibrate back and forth and the vent lights to flicker. I have a similar issue with the Raphael, but no other aircraft, the other aircraft 100% throttle on my throttle slider is 100% throttle in the aircraft. I have the slider set up as throttle 1,2,3 and 4, but not "throttle".

Other than that this thing is great. Great to take it out of Cosford for a spin!

Markypea

für mich unsichtbar dann .....

Alois

Greater than 2 mach?? Nah bro i am cruising over the atlantic at 17000 knts: 26.424090 mach

6 months ago

Jasonjj

What a fantastic bird! Looks terrific, flies like a dream and the feeling of speed is fantastic ! Thanks a lot for this gift .

PhilRun974

Thank you.

TangoGolf

Thank you. It was a high speed research aircraft, but you should not be able exceed much more than Mach 2.

Hi tml, Thank you for the five stars. I haven't found a manual for the Bristol 188, but I have pieced together information for this aircraft from may articles and books and have also manged to track down a manual for the Gyron Junior engine. Although a single spool engine, I found during tweaking the engine.cfg that a lower N1 speed provided more acceptable engine responses for acceleration and EGT. Matching the N1 and N2 speed seems to lower the indicated EGT readings and limit engine RPM. The lower N1 also simulates engine choking at low altitudes due to the static intake of the 188. I'm not sure if the sim takes into account variable inlet guide vanes, compressor and turbine stages, momentum and angular velocity etc.

Glad you like it. Yes, at idle the engines still produce thrust, but the engines need to be running higher than idle during landing to maintain electrical and hydraulic services etc and for a possible over shoot and go around. Deploying air brakes will allow higher RPM settings and a better range to control airspeed. This will result in a higher landing speed to stay out of the stall region and use of the chute (I still need to find a way to make the chute slow the aircraft in the sim, other than just link it to the wheel brakes, which I have not done as I don’t think that would be the right effect).

👍 Thank you.

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Thank you very much for the update.

Ginete

Epic fun to be had with this, all works as expected and the "chute" to slow down after landing is fun to watch too!
great work

4 months ago

Jimcarmar

dude help me please ive done everything but the planes is nt throttling froward even at 100% throttle help what shud i do ??

Hi, Are you using the Modern Flight Model?

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JoNeSNJ

I have it on the to do list and need look into how to do that.

Loved this plane ! Check out my video on YouTube https://youtu.be/7neF0l3MMAg

Fantastic video!

wanchaibanzai

Hey, for some reason I am having issues installing this mod. I've unzipped it to my community folder like all my other mods but it doesn't show up in game. Any tips? Thanks!

Hi,

you should be able to drop the two folders into your community folder.

1. Copy tgsims-bristol-t188 folder to your MSFS 2020 Community folder.

2. Copy tgsims-t188-effects folder to your MSFS 2020 Community folder.

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