The fabled Martin-Baker MB-5 prototype, perhaps the most advanced prop fighter ever built, could have flown over Europe during the last years of the war.  However, the decision was to place the emphasis on developing jet fighters, and the MB-5 never went into service. 

HOWEVER, she will now prowl the skies of Europe and points East courtesy of the CFS2 conversion of the AlphaSim FSX model.*** 

Coming soon to a download site near you!  Stay tuned...you can be the first on your block to fly this beauty. 

***An official Keep-Collin-Occupied project.  He has a short attention span and needs something new to fly.  Charitable soul that I am.... 

ozzy72 wrote on Mar 13^th, 2011 at 4:07pm:


Yep, this is the same aircraft from FS9/FSX.   I've just converted all the files and animations to CFS2 format. 

Earlier today I uploaded her package.  She comes with a great 2D panel and a photo-realistic VC.

I've also just now uploaded a simple upgrade pack that will update the VC to a DVC with functioning gauges. 

It should all be available tomorrow.....

she looks very nice
she have 4 20mm cannons?

I've uploaded a pack of 14 alternate skins for the MB.5 that should be up at the same time as the aircraft download and the DVC upgrade.  These are by AlphaSim and Nick Bradin, and were converted to CFS2 by Rick Ruscoe.

Now, I'll have to slow down to do the droptanks from scratch, and work on payloads. 

Flying this airplane can best be described as being in a Mustang on steroids...what a ride!   She's subject to compressibility issues with the controls if your speed gets too high in a dive. 

She's a pure fighter plane, so I'm not going to dis her by hanging ordinance all over her little wings....just the wingtanks to supplement her small fuel supply. 

Her droptanks are finished, tested and packed.   I'll get them uploaded today. 

so know you know what you would have gotten if you mated a mustang with a spitfire

Does it have folding wings and a tail hook?
Need one for the 'Malta' Class.

This aircraft was available in 43 but Churchill thought that the Spitfire was already so well known and loved by the public that further manufacturing of a new aircraft was not on, so the world lost out with a fabulous aircraft to another Churchillian mistake.

I did speak to Martin Baker's grandson several years ago, he said while there were no specific plans drawn up for a naval conversion, the wingfold would have been just outboard of the wheel-arch, with a tail wheel like a Corsairs. Contact points for rockets would have been available, and a catapult connection somewhere under the cockpit area.
The contra-rotating also acted as an airbrake by closing down the throttle.

regards  Collin

Droptanks are up for download.....