19 December 2025
In this final part of our 2025 End of Year Round Up we'll take a quick look at two of our aircraft which haven't been in the spotlight very much this year, but that will certainly change as 2026 progresses!
Tornado GR1
We now consider the Tornado artwork to be final, and our livery artist has almost completed the entire selection of high quality, painstakingly researched liveries, featuring every country that operated the GR1. The screenshots below show some of these liveries, including Italian Air Force liveries for the first time.
In recent months our flight model developer has also begun work on the complex flight model for this variable-geometry fighter-bomber. The Tornado features a complex array of flight controls, which include tailerons that are used for pitch and roll control, spoilers used for roll control and deceleration after landing, rudder for yaw control, dual airbrakes for deceleration during all phases of flight, and high lift devices on the forward and aft sides of the wings.
The flight controls are scheduled based on the wing sweep angle, requiring close collaboration between the systems coder and flight model developer to make everything work correctly. We expect progress on the flight model to increase at a rapid pace once we head into 2026.
As some of our development team’s tasks on other products are completed, we are now in a position to better plan our allocation of resources for the new year. In the first half of 2026 we expect to dedicate a full-time systems coder to the Tornado, which should significantly speed up development.
Our internal development team certainly won’t mind taking a break from the constant, intense schedule of developing and updating multiple high-fidelity airliners simultaneously! We're just as enthusiastic about the Tornado as our much-loved Vulcan and we aim to to bring you a true high-fidelity simulation of the Tornado GR1 for Microsoft Flight Simulator. We'll be sure to share more details with you as soon as we can.
(You can click on the screenshots below to see an expanded image.)
LJ45 Professional
Another aircraft that has seemingly taken something of a back seat in 2025 is our LJ45 Professional. Work on the LJ has been ticking along nicely, though and good progress has been made on the modelling and texture work for both the cockpit and the aircraft exterior, with the cockpit artwork now close to completion.
We have been pleasantly overwhelmed by the number of LJ45 experts that have contacted us and provided us with incredible amounts of reference materials and helpful answers to any questions that we have had about the aircraft. We are always on the lookout for pilots and engineers who have hands-on experience with the aircraft types we are developing, so if you fit that bill for the LJ - or for any of our projects - we’d love to hear from you! You can contact us via the Just Flight
Support page and your message will be forwarded to the relevant development team.
As is the case with with the Tornado, a full-time coder working on the LJ45 Professional will really help accelerate its development in the new year, but for now here are a couple of images from the latest aircraft build. We're looking forward to getting stuck into more work on the LJ45 in 2026 and fully expect it to be a special offering once complete.
So that wraps up the final instalment of our End of Year Round Up for 2025 - the busiest and most productive year in the 30-year history of Just Flight, with a constant stream of updates across our product range, our continued commitment to ongoing product support with huge free upgrades for every one of our in-house MSFS products, and a huge amount of development work done on projects scheduled for the coming year.
Many thanks to all of you for continuing to enjoy the ride in 2025. We believe there are exciting times to come, so here’s to 2026!