FM-2 WILDCAT - Atlantic Fleet
CFS3 - V2.82.104
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
FM-2 WILDCAT - Atlantic Fleet
This aircraft was built by Gregory SARGE Pierson using version 2.82.104 of the AvHistory 1% Assembly Line process. It is based on the outstanding FM-2 WILDCAT visual created by Anthony GRAMPS Sullenger and his original readme included in this download package has additional information.
Gramps has painted his FM-2 to represent aircraft #20 of VC-36 which flew from the escort carrier USS Core (CVE-13) in the North Atlantic during April 1944.
Grumman had prototyped a new "Wildcat" under the designation XF4F-8, which was to be produced by Eastern Aircraft (General Motors) as the FM-2. With lightened structure and a more powerful Wright R-1820 radial engine, the FM-2 was notably quicker, faster climbing, longer ranged and more maneuverable than its predecessor. To help control the increased power, the new plane had a distinctive, taller vertical tail. All-in-all, it was a great improvement, and more than four-thousand FM-2s were built in 1943-45. Of those, over three-hundred went to the British.
The U.S. Navy FM-2s operated exclusively from escort carriers (CVEs), small ships with notoriously lively flight decks. They were used in the Atlantic, teamed with TBM "Avengers" for anti-submarine work, the escort carriers' original purpose
The CVE-13 USS Core was a Bogue-class Escort Carrier assigned to an anti-submarine hunter killer group.
Such groups, providing cover for the movement of convoys, made a contribution of great significance to winning the Battle of the Atlantic, and the innovation represented by their formation was a marked advance in antisubmarine warfare. Planes from Core worked in coordination with accompanying destroyers scoring a number of successful attacks. Her planes sank U-487 on 13 July and U-67 on 16 July. One of her escorts, George E. Badger (DD-196) sank U-613 on 23 July. The Core returned to Norfolk 31 July from a most successful first patrol.
Core's second hunter-killer patrol, from 16 August to 2 September 1943 netted her planes U-84 on 24 August and U-185 the same day. Putting to sea again 5 October in TG 21.15, Core's planes sank U-378 on 20 October. She returned to Norfolk 19 November.
She sailed from Norfolk 3 April to join a large antisubmarine unit at Guantanamo Bay 7 April. Operating in the central and North Atlantic, the escorts of this group combined to sink U-546 on 24 April after the enemy submarine had torpedoed and sunk Frederick C. Davis (DE-136). Core returned to New York 11 May for repairs and replenishment.
CFS3 - V2.82.104
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
FM-2 WILDCAT - Atlantic Fleet
This aircraft was built by Gregory SARGE Pierson using version 2.82.104 of the AvHistory 1% Assembly Line process. It is based on the outstanding FM-2 WILDCAT visual created by Anthony GRAMPS Sullenger and his original readme included in this download package has additional information.
Gramps has painted his FM-2 to represent aircraft #20 of VC-36 which flew from the escort carrier USS Core (CVE-13) in the North Atlantic during April 1944.
Grumman had prototyped a new "Wildcat" under the designation XF4F-8, which was to be produced by Eastern Aircraft (General Motors) as the FM-2. With lightened structure and a more powerful Wright R-1820 radial engine, the FM-2 was notably quicker, faster climbing, longer ranged and more maneuverable than its predecessor. To help control the increased power, the new plane had a distinctive, taller vertical tail. All-in-all, it was a great improvement, and more than four-thousand FM-2s were built in 1943-45. Of those, over three-hundred went to the British.
The U.S. Navy FM-2s operated exclusively from escort carriers (CVEs), small ships with notoriously lively flight decks. They were used in the Atlantic, teamed with TBM "Avengers" for anti-submarine work, the escort carriers' original purpose
The CVE-13 USS Core was a Bogue-class Escort Carrier assigned to an anti-submarine hunter killer group.
Such groups, providing cover for the movement of convoys, made a contribution of great significance to winning the Battle of the Atlantic, and the innovation represented by their formation was a marked advance in antisubmarine warfare. Planes from Core worked in coordination with accompanying destroyers scoring a number of successful attacks. Her planes sank U-487 on 13 July and U-67 on 16 July. One of her escorts, George E. Badger (DD-196) sank U-613 on 23 July. The Core returned to Norfolk 31 July from a most successful first patrol.
Core's second hunter-killer patrol, from 16 August to 2 September 1943 netted her planes U-84 on 24 August and U-185 the same day. Putting to sea again 5 October in TG 21.15, Core's planes sank U-378 on 20 October. She returned to Norfolk 19 November.
She sailed from Norfolk 3 April to join a large antisubmarine unit at Guantanamo Bay 7 April. Operating in the central and North Atlantic, the escorts of this group combined to sink U-546 on 24 April after the enemy submarine had torpedoed and sunk Frederick C. Davis (DE-136). Core returned to New York 11 May for repairs and replenishment.
