Stealthy plane, not so stealthy liveries are the things that jumped out at me was I was reading about a new aircraft release done in partnership between developer KwikFlight and iniBuilds. This release is a recreation of the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber and its a bit… flamboyant? For a stealth bomber at least. I couldn’t resist not writing something about this. Let’s have a look!
The Spirit of the thing
iniBuilds have announced a new partnership and a new addition to their growing online store today with Kwikflight joining the mix of products available. Their just announced Spirit for Microsoft Flight Simulator is a B-2 stealth bomber… although the liveries are anything but.
The message, posted to the iniBuilds forum, appears to suggest that KiwkFlight are more about having fun with the sim than in-depth modeling. I can’t fault them for that but they’ve certainly chosen an interesting airplane to dress up in some truly interesting and slightly over the top schemes. The hardcore military simmer in me struggles with the setup while the fun loving flight simmer in me thinks this might just hit the spot for some flight simmers.
Here’s what they had to say:
At Kwikflight, we are all about fun, interactive experiences, and we thought long and hard about what unique aircraft we could make as our first product that customers could enjoy on their own, but also with their friends; and the Kwikflight Spirit was born!
Kwikflight on the iniBuilds forum
Features, pricing, interest?
Among the features are a functioning FMS with GPS, VOR and TACAN support, 6 independent Multi Function Display (MFD) screens and Engine Function Display (EFD), autopilot functionality, an animated air to air refuelling point, and stealth mode which inhibits the full travel of some control surfaces to improve stealthiness.
It also appears to have a detailed exterior model and several liveries.
The cockpit seems passable as well and we know at least a few “fun oriented” projects out there don’t have a cockpit so its good to see that this at least has something here. It actually looks reasonably close, to a point, with the available photos of the B-2’s cockpit.
As far as military aircraft go in Microsoft Flight Simulator, we seem to have a wide range of a few extremely authentic high quality options, several that sit in the middle of the range, and then some very cheap feeling options that aren’t worth your time. This one looks like it fits in the middle of the range with a low price, fun oriented liveries, and a mix of basic systems. I wouldn’t know for sure without a review of course.
I’m not sure how big the market is for this sort of thing but maybe there are plenty of folks who would love to fly this. Let me know in the comments if you’re one of them!
If this all sounds like something that you’d like to fly in your copy of Microsoft Flight Simulator, this aircraft is available for £13.99 GBP from the iniBuilds webstore.
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