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Bingo! Got it in one Todd.
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Oh dear God it's good... so, very, very good....
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Whoot!
Get DCS: World (1.2.0) here: http://www.digitalco...pos=137&lang=en
then when you've installed that go get the finalised P-51 goodness here: http://www.digitalco...pos=136&lang=en
Note the most awesome changes!:
List of changes since last version:Exit simulation crash fixed.
Canopy crank hung on slow machines. Now fixed.
Removed odd, LOUD sound being emitted from the P-51.
Installer description for "Simplified flight model" -> "Uses simplified flight dynamic calculations that also results in easier flight control" added.
Missions updated.
Added a crashed model for the P-51D.
Updated P-51D splash screen.
Added failures due to engine and oil system failures.
Improvements to aircraft shake effect.
Added trimmer shake.
Slip ball frequency increased to account changes in aircraft shake.
Cockpit gauges descriptions in LUA were made more readable.
Load of the digital filter parameters from LUA was made more convenient.
Adjusted Immortal damage Option.
New damage areas added and existing damage of systems improved.
Tail wheel swiveling tuned.
Corrected textures of the Voodoo skin.
Added adjustments to fuselage shaking by the propeller.
Adjustment of exhaust animation, advanced timing, and the loss of power with retarded ignition have been added/adjusted.
Adjusted the friction parameters of a free gear axis.
Crash at {RCtrl+J} from P-51D cockpit has been fixed.
Unlimited weapons for HVAR missiles now works.
Possible cold start crash is fixed.
Adjusted start-up sequence to be more accurate. See manuals.
Canopy glass adjusted.
Flight and Quick Start manuals updated.
Cockpit model updated.
Added new P-51D skins.
Different helmets depending on skin.
Adjusted trimmers for FFB at low speed, FFB shaking at stall, reworked of physics of free gear.
Air start controls were in the wrong position. Fixed.
Fixed animation pointers update for the canopy crank handle.
Fixed coolant indicator animation.
Sudden switch on landing light when it start in the air is fixed.
Added WWII era helmets.
USAF 485rd FS livery fixed.
Radio frequencies are now restored after return to the ME.
K-14 and gauge panel shaking has been tuned.
New volumes for actuators.
New textures for engine damage model.
The taxi light cone collision with wing has been fixed.
Gauge panel suspension has been tuned.
Oxygen system did not deplete - no Hypoxia possible. Fixed.
The hinge moment influencing to roll rate and rudder has been fixed.
Cockpit shaking at post-stall condition has been added.
The artificial damper for a taxi has been added.
The taxi light animation in LODs has been corrected.
HVAR position on the hard points is fixed.
"SALVO" lever will not return to its original position when reloading. Fixed.
Float fuel sensor has been fixed.
Gunsight range throttle handle was moving erratically when operating from joystick axis. Fixed.
Fixed tooltip typos.
Improved propeller disk.
Engine stops when external tanks are dropped.
Fixed that when the battery is drained, all electrical systems (except starter), are still functional.
Removed Bomb racks and hardpoints when the Civil Aircraft box is checked in the ME.
Landing gear eight wheel rolls too fast compared to left wheel. Fixed.
From a runway start, Mustang's landing light pointed straight down. Fixed.
Oxygen system flow rates at altitude implemented.
Possible client exploding during cold start fixed.
The headgear-depending-on-skin and the ability to lose the hardpoints are bits of eyecandy that made me grin, but it's the presence of FFB that's really got my juices flowing! Whoot!
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Amazing story Rog, thanks for posting!
Some oddities though - if on ops over Tunis, North Africa (as the date quoted and the markings on the Fort would agree) I doubt they were flying back to England! Probably more likely Algeria. Also the P-51 escorts seems unlikely; I think the only Mustang variant operational in North Africa with the USAAF at least was the A-36A, a dive bomber. Not impossible though. P-40s would be a more likely IMHO.
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Who's that then Dave?
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Name: Lockheed P-38G-10 (1943)
Date Added: 23 June 2012 - 20:57 PM
Owner: DD_Fenrir
Short Description: Designed by the renowned Clarence Kelly the innovative P-38 was originally conceived as a long range bomber interceptor. Powered by two Allison V-1710-51/55 V-12 powerplants and run in conjunction with improved General Electric B-13 turbo-superchargers the P-38G-10 was one of the fastest Allied fighters at altitude during it's operational tenure. The -10 was not only was a formidable interceptor but with hardpoints now capable of carrying up to 1600lb bombs or, for the first time, fitted with M10 'Bazooka' tubes (wiring looms having been installed in modified and strengthened wings for this new load carrying capability) could now punch well above it's weight in the ground attack role.Fast and surprisingly manoueverable for it's size - thanks to counter rotating props that minimized torque - and with a heavy forward firepower complemented by excellent forward visibility the P-38s had only two real drawbacks; the first was an aerodynamic flaw inherent to the design that made the aroplane susceptible to compressability earlier than many contemporary fighters. Later marks would have dive flaps to counter this phenomenon. The 2nd was the poor high altitude performance and reliability in the ETO where a combination of climatic conditions (particularly cold & damp), engine coolant system not upgraded with the engines sufficently to cope with the extra heat developed, poor aircrew and groundcrew training on best management & maintainence of the powerplants & a related lack of ultimate ceiling as a result of all these factors took their toll on the apparent usefulness of the machine in that theatre. However, in the Mediterranean and particularly in the PTO the -38 was in much demand and when flown to it's strengths a formidable and dangerous opponent.
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Bloody Nora! Christ that's low!
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I'm looking at around the £150 mark but prepared to go a little higher. Seems like that puts me firmly in GTX 560 territory.
So what do you guys think? Any thing i should also be considering?
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Sorry to hear that Craig. Hoping things get a bit easier for you guys in the near future.
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This is an awesome shot; so rare to even see photos of early Mk.Is, let alone in colour, or in the air, or from another Spit! Lovely.
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.. of laughter! My boss thinks I'm suffering a breakdown but dear god I found this hilarious....
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I found the senstive elevator ok, it was the rudder that surprised me, no quick sudden bootfuls of correction in this Beastie!
Craig, you humilty does you credit sir.
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By Eck lad, you're not wrong! Even now it's fun just doing the start-up, moseying over to the runway and after the inevitably hairy takeoff, having a good ol' barnstorm! And the satisfcation of landing the bugger - should you survive your inevitably low flying antics - is immense.
Oh, and a free Su-25T too for those of you who have a penchent for Soviet jet attack aircraft... Aren't we lucky boys?
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Thought I'd post a few of the 'Usual Suspects' here so you guys don't have to go hunting;
1) Force Feedback - none in game currently, it's WiP
2) Tyre textures going orange - known issue, to do with LoDs, fix is already in next Beta apparently
3) Buffet/shake effects - distinct from the lack of FFB is the fact that the FM does NOT yet include these parameters so you'll get no visual or audible clues yet as to imminent onset of aerodynamic stall.
4) Other heating/radiator elements are unfinished and gauges do not yet work.
Aside from that, I'm really rather liking the old girl - and whilst takeoffs aren't you're usual Il-2 power up and go affairs, it's still crisp and clean in the air, with little in the way of gyroscopic precession; whether that's yet to be modelled properly I can't tell you, but I'm gonna enjoy this new addition very much!
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Me!!!!
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Don't knock it kev, there's even MORE pix in deltas link, ones that weren't in the email my Dad sent including some P-38 goodness!!!
DO CHECK OUT DELTA'S LINK BOYZ!
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I wonder what the causality here is, are they flying so low just to show off they have huge balls, are they unable to achieve higher altitude due the having such big balls?
I suggest it's because of the latter. The former is an added bonus.
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Part 4
http://www.murraymitchell.com/
A low fly-past during the filming of the Steve McQueen-Richard Wagner film, The War Lover. Nothing like a good buzz job to get the juices flowing, in this case one of theWar Lover ex PB-1Ws being flown by John Crewdson for a key scene in the movie. Crewdson reportedly flew the airplane solo for the sequence. Photo by David M. Kay
A particularly heart stopping photo of a Hawker Hunter of the Sultan of Oman 's Air Force beating up the base at Salalah. The Sultan employed mercenary Brit pilots to fly Hunters and Strikemasters to help put down the Dhofar rebels in the south. They clearly were bored from time to time! The rebellion ended in 1976, the same year I visited Oman .
An RAF Phantom II in full burner passes between two hangars at an RAF base. There isn't a Rhino-driver alive who didn't love dropping his locomotive-sized Phantom down to the hard deck and pushing the throttles right past the detents.
A Panavia Tornado spews heat, gas, and vapour as she howls from the runway with her wingtip a few feet off the ground.
The legendary Ormand Haydon Balllie checks our wheat production at a farm outside of Duxford in 1974 in his T-33 (RCAF 21261) The Black Knight. Born in Devon , England during the Second World War, OHB moved to Canada in 1962, joining the RCAF. He would become a well known warbird collector and pilot after his service.
With speed brakes out, I am not sure whether this is a shot of a pass or a wheels-up landing for this British Electric Lightning
Sometimes, the difference between ground and aircraft is quite literally... inches. A Piper Cub comes as close as possible to a wing strike without damage.
A B-52 slides down the port side of USS Ranger (CV-61) in its typical nose down cruise attitude. Though it looks like it, this is not photoshopped. It happened in early 1990 in the Persian Gulf, while U.S. carriers and B-52s were holding joint exercises. Two B-52s called the carrier Ranger and asked if they could do a fly-by, and the carrier air controller said yes. When the B-52s reported they were 9 kilometers out, the carrier controller said he didn't see them. The B-52s told the carrier folks to look down. The paint job on the B-52 made it hard to see from above, but as it got closer, the sailors could make it out, and the water the B-52's engines were causing to spray out. It's very, very rare for a USAF aircraft to do a fly-by below the flight deck of a carrier. But B-52s had been practicing low level flights for years, to penetrate under Soviet radar. In this case, the B-52 pilots asked the carrier controller if they would like the bombers to come around again. The carrier guys said yes, and a lot more sailors had their cameras out this time. Photo was taken from the plane guard helicopter
The Spitfre MK923, belonging to Hollywood actor Cliff Robertson of Baa Baa Black Sheep fame, and flown by Jerry Billing, does a extreme low pass over a grass strip at his home in Essex County, Ontario. From 1975 through 1994 the Billing air strip was a prime spot to see Jerry practice in MK923. People would line the 5th Concession Road to watch Jerry wring out the Spit. Cliff Robertson, famed for playing JFK in PT 109, died in September of 2011. Photo via Bob Swaddling
The legendary, extraordinary Ray Hanna makes an extreme low level pass in a Spitfire down pit lane at the Goodwood auto racing track in England in 1998. Sadly, with the death of Hanna, we will not see such feats again.
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On a particularly hot day, a Royal Australian Air Force English Electric A84 Canberra bomber drops to within 25 feet as thrill-seeking mechanics get ready for the visceral experience of 13,000 lbs of Rolls Royce Avon power full in the face. RAAF Photo
Ian Coristine inspects the alfalfa in his Quad City Challenger ultralight.
They loved to fly low in World War Two
'One more beat-up, me lads.' Flying Officer Cobber Kain, DFC, a New Zealander and the RAF's first ace of the Second World War, is seen here in France performing a low-level flypast. Kain, it has been said, clipped the ground with the propeller throwing grass into the radiator.
A Douglas A-20G Havoc night fighter of the 417th Night Fighter Squadron does a little daylight low flying down in the weeds possibly near the Orlando , Florida base where they were formed. Their first deployment was to Europe where they immediately re-equipped with Bristol Beaufighters. Today, the unit still trains for a night time job, but flying the F-117 Nighthawk or so-called “Stealth Fighter”.
A P-40 flies down the beach at extreme low level, as Marines practice an amphibious landing somewhere in the Pacific. In order to get this photo, the photographer standing on the beach would have had to have his back to the oncoming P-40 trusting that pilot would do a “buzz job” of the beach and not his hair. Photo via Project 914 Archives, Steve Donacik
Part 2:
A squadron of Luftwaffe Ju-52 Junkers stream low over the Russ ian countryside near Demjansk, south of Leningrad . In February to May of 1942, the Germans were surrounded by the Red Army. Supplying the Germans during and after the "Demjansk Pocket”, was the role of the air force. Here, low flying in the slow transports was more a survival tactic than a joyride. Photo via Akira Takaguchi
Thought to have been taken in the region of Canterbury, New Zealand in 1944, this shot of an Airspeed Oxford scaring the beejeesus out of half the waiting airmen while the other half remain calm, is a beauty. Photo via Joe Hopwood.
A USAAF P-47 Thunderbolt at extreme low level. Note that the sweep of the camera's pan has bent the buildings in the background
Another shot that has the same effect of bending the buildings in the background (see previous photo). Like our own Spitfire XIV RM873, Griffon-powered PR Spitfire XIX PS890 was sold to the Royal Thai Air Force after the war. She is seen here with 81 Squadron markings and being put through her paces down low at RAF Seletar , Singapore in the summer of 1954 just before her sale. In 1961, PS890 was donated to the Planes Of Fame Museum in California . It was eventually restored and took to the skies again in 2000, albeit with clipped wings and contra-rotating props. It was then purchased by Frenchman Christophe Jacquard and taken to Duxford for the wingtips to be added and a single 5-bladed propeller installed.
While researching images for our P-40 stories over the past year I came across a massive collection of marvelous wartime photos - mostly of P-40s collected by Steve Reno. This P-40 pilot is risking his life only a little less than the man taking the photo of this ridiculously low level pass across the runway. He’s not much higher than he would be if he was standing on his landing gear! If you trace the invisible line of his prop arc, this skilled numbskull’s tips are only about 4 feet off the ground. Photo via Project 914 Archives, Steve Donacik
For many attacking aircraft, safety lay down low in the wave tops beneath enemy radar coverage. Here, a squadron of Douglas A-20 Boston bombers of the RAF's 88 Squadron head to the target over the North Sea
There is often a price to pay.
Some aircraft, such as this Spitfire, reach that fine line between crashing and flying low... About 12 inches too low in the case of this 64 Squadron Spitfire with shattered wooden blades. The aircraft, no doubt shaking badly was nursed back to the safety of an Allied base.
Part 3
An Allied pilot flying a Macchi 200 buzzing Taranto , Italy . It sadly proved that these kind of stunts aren't without danger as the pilot hit a member of the ground crew and more or less decapitated him. The pilot hadn't noticed a thing and after landing was confronted with a dent in his wing's leading edge, containing skull fragments.
I didn't want to include any shots of an aircraft landing or taking off, just low level flight, But this shot of a Lockheed Harpoon/Ventura dragging its wing in the turnout is interesting enough to include
A P-47 of the 64th Fighter Squadron, while on a mission to Milan , struck the ground during a low level strafing run. Despite the bent props and crushed chin, the pilot nursed the Jug 150 miles home to Grosseto . Photo via Hebb Russ ell
The strange end of Donald Scratch
Not an extreme low level shot, but this image of a P-40 chasing a B-25 Mitchell over buildings in the Vancouver area is worth a lengthy explanation. Jack Cook of the Warbird Information Exchange describes the background and the event pictured here:
"Sgt. Scratch was born in Saskatchewan , July 7, 1919, and enlisted in the RCAF in Edmonton , as R60973 AC2 on July 20, 1940. He earned his wings as a Sergeant Pilot and flew with that rank for a long time. He flew Liberators from Gander , Newfoundland , as a co-pilot on anti-submarine patrols. Scratch was good at his job and was eventually raised to commissioned rank.
As a Flying Officer and with many hours to his credit, Scratch wanted to fly as aircrfaft commander, however, RCAF officials considered that, as he was slight in build, and had suffered ankle injuries in the past, he would not have the strength to control a Liberator in an emergency.
Sgt. Scratch wanted more action but was unsuccessful in getting an overseas posting. He became very depressed. One evening, June 19. 1944, in the mess, he entered into a debate about one man being able to take off, fly, and land, a Liberator. Scratch left the mess, went down to the hangar, fired up a Liberator, and took off. He shot up the American base at Argentia, and the base at Gander . When some fighters approached him to order him to land, they found him occupying, and rotating the mid-upper gun turret, with the aircraft on autopilot. The guns were fully armed and operational. When he returned to base he was placed under arrest, later court marshalled, and dishonorably discharged.
Mr. Scratch returned to Edmonton , Alberta , and went directly to the RCAF recruiting office where he was accepted back into the RCAF as a Sergeant Pilot. He was posted to No. 5 OTU, Boundary Bay . 5 OTU was training aircrew on Liberators for service against Japan . The British Commonwealth Air Training Plan was winding down and many of the pilots were senior aircrew from Training Command. Again Sgt. Scratch found himself flying second pilot to officers with far less experience than himself. The training started on B-25 Mitchell aircraft and advanced to Liberators. When his experience and flying skills were not recognized, Sgt. Scratch again became frustrated.
On December 5, 1944, Sgt. Scratch attempted to take off, unauthorized, in a Liberator, Due to the fact that there was no official flying that night, the field was in darkness and the control tower un-manned, Scratch mistook a roadway for the runway and crashed into a wooden bridge wiping out the undercarriage. Undaunted, he returned to the hangar and signed out a B-25 Mitchell and took off.
Scratch flew down to Seattle, Washington, area and beat up the Seattle airport causing many aborted take offs. The Americans sent up fighter aircraft to bring the Mitchell down however, Scratch returned to Canada , disrupting and grounding flights at the Vancouver airport. He then flew around the Hotel Vancouver, well below the roof level and down Granville Street .
The following is an eye witness report by Norman Green. “7:00 hrs. December 6, 1944, while it was still dark, I was in the mess hall when it was shaken, and dishes fell to the floor as a result of an aeroplane flying low overhead. The same pass shook WDs out of their bunks.
As usual that morning at 8:00 hrs., 1200 airmen and airwomen, all ranks (I among them), formed up on the tarmac in front of the control tower for CO’s inspection. Just as the parade was about to be called to attention a B-25 Mitchell bomber came across the field at zero altitude, and pulled up sharply in a steep climb over the heads of the assembled airmen, just clearing the tower. Within seconds, 1,200 men and women were flat on the ground. The Mitchell then made several 25 ft. passes over the field. Group Captain Bradshaw dismissed the parade and ordered everyone to quarters.
Over the next two hours we witnessed an almost unbelievable demonstration of flying, much of it with the B-25’s wings vertical to the ground, below roof top level, defying gravity. We were continually diving into ditches to avoid being hit by a wingtip coming down a station road. He flew it straight and level, vertically with the wing tip only six feet above the ground without losing altitude, defying all logic, and the law of physics.”
After an hour of this, three P-40 Kittyhawks from Pat Bay Station arrived on the scene, fully armed, with orders to shoot the B25 down if it left the area of the station. They tried to get on his tail but could not stay with him in his tight turns below rooftop level. After two hours of this, Sgt. Scratch flew over a corner of the field and circled one spot vertically, with the Kittyhawks joining in like may pole dancers.
Sgt Scratch then climbed to 2,000 feet and wagged his wings as he crossed the field, boxed in by the fighters. When they were clear of the station, the Kittyhawks signaled Sgt. Scratch to land. He nodded his head, gave them the thumbs down sign, rolled over, pulled back on his controls, and, aiming at an uninhabited spot on Tillbury Island in the Fraser River , dived into it. The shattered red taillight lens was later located dead centre between the points of impact of the engines.”
Film makers love low level flying!
Not actually a scene from the Second World War, but rather the opening scene in the great film A Bridge Too Far. A school boy watches over his shoulder as a recce Spitfire rips up a cobbled road in Normandy .
Modern day photographer Murray Mitchell captured this action shot super low B-17 Flying Fortress performing for a film crew and followed by a P-51D Mustang and a P-47 Thunderbolt. Photo via
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I'll have one of these if anyone's needing ideas for my Birthday present this year:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QjpikTn2qAk
Ta in advance. x
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Could the Net Over Power be the trouble Chris? If you wanna isolate it or just remove it as a variable then feel free to borrow the 15m Cat6 of mine.
Sorry you're havin trouble chum.
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Great series on iPlayer, particularly the Mustang episode. Highlights? Don Blakeslee commenting on the story where his guns jammed whlst on escort to Berlin.
Apologies to those who can't watch this due to nationality; I won't tease you by saying about the Sea Harrier and Katana episodes also available....
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Nice link, thanks Trib.
Anyone else raise an eyebrow at:
I was astonished with its performance. Turn characteristics were splendid, almost the same as the Ki-84 in a horizontal turn.!
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And the final part here:
New Here, New To Online Play, So I'm A Fresh Target ?
in IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946
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Welcome Stryker,
As a long time Il-2 offliner (and to some regard still to this day) I can say without equivoction that the multi-player aspect of this sim takes a great game an takes it by a quantum leap into new levels of entertainment - and not just going up against a breather in a dogfight, tho I confess my pulse quickens far more when i know or suspect the other machine has an organic brain behind the stick; more the fact that the chaps round these parts are the finest collection of misfits, bounders and just plain idiots (of which I definitively count myself one) you are likely to find on the net. I challenge any other squad to have has much ribald laughter, 'oh crap!' moments and so many double-entendres packed into one evenings flying!
I hope you have many happy flying hours to come with us and please forgive some of our more peculiar tendancies (of which there are many - Painless being one); for sure once you catch the bug from hanging round these parts you find it damn hard to keep away!
Sincerest regards
Fenrir