F6F-5 HELLCAT - PACIFIC
CFS3 - V2.85.08
AvHistory 1% Aircraft General Statement and Installation Instructions
It is the intention of the AvHistory 1% project to over time build the most accurate aircraft that the CFS3 software can support. The development of a 1% aircraft requires specific and in many cases dramatic changes to the aircraft delivered with the MS game as well as the addition of aircraft built from the ground up by third parties which were never included in the original MS game. We believe that because the AvHistory 1% aircraft are materially different they should not be mixed with "box stock" aircraft in online combat.
All the planes 1% listed for download are qualified for use in our AvHistory William Tell Meet Air Combat Ladder. For information and to get the sign up sheet for the ladder please go to the LINKS section at http://www.avhistory.org
F6F-5 HELLCAT - PACIFIC
This aircraft was built by "SARGE" using version 2.85.07 of the AvHistory 1% Assembly Line process. It is based on the outstanding original F6F Hellcat visual created by GRAMPS.
The Pacific Hellcat has been painted by Brian TEMPEST Hill as F6F white 23 of Lt. James "Red" Shirley, VF-27 "KANGAROOS" flying from the USS PRINCETON, 24 October 1944. Brian has the full story of "Red" & VF-27 in the attached readme
This was the aircraft used by ranking VF-27 ace Shirley to down five fighters in a frenetic dogfight that occurred west of the task force on this date. the Hellcat was destined never to carry his final scoreboard of 12.5 kills as it was lost with Princeton later that day. Rated as an exceptional pilot, Shirley had been 'ploughed back' into the Navy's training programme at Pensacola as an instructor upon earning his wings in early 1942, and had had to fight to get a frontline posting late the following year.
On 24, October 1944 PRINCETON's VF-27 engaged a variety of single engine fighters over Polilo Island in Lamon Bay, off Luzon's east coast. Twelve of Lt. Cdr Fred Bardshar's highly-capable pilots splashed 36 bandits, with Ens T J Conroy (seven in total) claiming six, while Lts J A 'Red' Shirley and C A Brown, Jr, and Lt(jg) E P Townsend, all bagged five apiece- the latter pilot's only kills.
Upon return to TG-38.3 around 0940, the victorious Hellcats pilots were shocked to find their ship aflame. 'SWEET P' had taken two bombs through the flight deck, and fires raged out of control. She was abandoned and scuttled-the first American fast carrier sunk in two years,and the last ever.
Much has been made of the Corsair's 20 mph speed advantage over the Hellcat, thing is late in the war, Grumman was given an F4U to test, and Chance Vought an F6F. Grumman discovered that, in side by side flight, although their airspeeds were identical, the F4U was reading 20 mph faster! The reason? The airspeed sensors were placed differently on the two aircraft.
Grumman came up with an F6F-6 late in the war, which outperformed the Corsair, but it was never put into production because the great F8F "Bearcat" was nearly ready, and it was decided not to change the production line for what would be a very brief run.
Few variants because the standard version was so successful. Grumman produced 7,868 units beginning in April 1944. Credited with 5,156 air-to-air kills (over 75% of all USN).
CFS3 - V2.85.08
AvHistory 1% Aircraft General Statement and Installation Instructions
It is the intention of the AvHistory 1% project to over time build the most accurate aircraft that the CFS3 software can support. The development of a 1% aircraft requires specific and in many cases dramatic changes to the aircraft delivered with the MS game as well as the addition of aircraft built from the ground up by third parties which were never included in the original MS game. We believe that because the AvHistory 1% aircraft are materially different they should not be mixed with "box stock" aircraft in online combat.
All the planes 1% listed for download are qualified for use in our AvHistory William Tell Meet Air Combat Ladder. For information and to get the sign up sheet for the ladder please go to the LINKS section at http://www.avhistory.org
F6F-5 HELLCAT - PACIFIC
This aircraft was built by "SARGE" using version 2.85.07 of the AvHistory 1% Assembly Line process. It is based on the outstanding original F6F Hellcat visual created by GRAMPS.
The Pacific Hellcat has been painted by Brian TEMPEST Hill as F6F white 23 of Lt. James "Red" Shirley, VF-27 "KANGAROOS" flying from the USS PRINCETON, 24 October 1944. Brian has the full story of "Red" & VF-27 in the attached readme
This was the aircraft used by ranking VF-27 ace Shirley to down five fighters in a frenetic dogfight that occurred west of the task force on this date. the Hellcat was destined never to carry his final scoreboard of 12.5 kills as it was lost with Princeton later that day. Rated as an exceptional pilot, Shirley had been 'ploughed back' into the Navy's training programme at Pensacola as an instructor upon earning his wings in early 1942, and had had to fight to get a frontline posting late the following year.
On 24, October 1944 PRINCETON's VF-27 engaged a variety of single engine fighters over Polilo Island in Lamon Bay, off Luzon's east coast. Twelve of Lt. Cdr Fred Bardshar's highly-capable pilots splashed 36 bandits, with Ens T J Conroy (seven in total) claiming six, while Lts J A 'Red' Shirley and C A Brown, Jr, and Lt(jg) E P Townsend, all bagged five apiece- the latter pilot's only kills.
Upon return to TG-38.3 around 0940, the victorious Hellcats pilots were shocked to find their ship aflame. 'SWEET P' had taken two bombs through the flight deck, and fires raged out of control. She was abandoned and scuttled-the first American fast carrier sunk in two years,and the last ever.
Much has been made of the Corsair's 20 mph speed advantage over the Hellcat, thing is late in the war, Grumman was given an F4U to test, and Chance Vought an F6F. Grumman discovered that, in side by side flight, although their airspeeds were identical, the F4U was reading 20 mph faster! The reason? The airspeed sensors were placed differently on the two aircraft.
Grumman came up with an F6F-6 late in the war, which outperformed the Corsair, but it was never put into production because the great F8F "Bearcat" was nearly ready, and it was decided not to change the production line for what would be a very brief run.
Few variants because the standard version was so successful. Grumman produced 7,868 units beginning in April 1944. Credited with 5,156 air-to-air kills (over 75% of all USN).
