#FSExpoFriday 2026: F-100D Super Sabre Now Available for DCS

Grinnelli Designs has announced from the stage at FlightSimExpo 2026 that their F-100D Super Sabre for DCS is now available for purchase.

The F-100D has been built with a detailed cockpit and external model, created using thousands of reference photos, photogrammetry, and laser scans of a museum aircraft. Grinnelli Designs has also included an era-correct pilot model, aiming to match the aircraft’s Cold War setting.

The module uses an external flight model tested against real short- and long-period dynamics reports, and handling has also been cross-checked against feedback from real F-100 pilots. As a demanding aircraft to fly in real life, the Super Sabre should make for a challenge flying inside DCS.

Grinnelli has also included several quirks of the real aircraft, perhaps most notably the zero-length launch system, which allows the aircraft to be fired into the air from a standstill, using a solid rocket booster mounted to the arframe, and the aircraft can perform this with a full payload.

Grinnelli Designs has also included configurable strike and gun cameras, which allow you to record weapons deployment and review the footage later. The cockpit “dash” can be customised, and you can set up your own configuration of gauges, or randomise the layout.

The F-100D includes a fully simulated electrical and hydraulic system, radio navigation equipment, including UHF radio direction finding, ADF, and TACAN, and a thermodynamic engine model that features compressor stalls, surges, oil, gearbox simulation, ignition, and afterburner behaviour.

The F-100D has multiple probe and afterburner configurations, including the J57-P-21 and J57-P-23 afterburner models.

The older J57-P-21 takes longer to light, is more prone to failure, and is more likely to cause compressor stalls.

A full feature list is available below and on the Grinnelli Designs website.

Highly detailed cockpit and external model: Crafted from thousands of photos, photogrammetry, and laser scans of an F-100D museum aircraft.

Extremely accurate flight model (EFM): Tested against actual short- and long-period dynamics reports to achieve exact handling qualities that have also been verified by actual F-100 pilots.

Detailed era-correct F-100D pilot model

Zero-length launch: A rocket-mounted system for launching the aircraft from a standstill with a full combat payload.

Configurable strike and gun cameras: Record weapons fire so that pilots can review in debriefs.

Customizable dash: Set up…