DOUGLAS USN JD-1-60 INVADER
CFS3 - V2.83.55
A "what if in '46" Version
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
No AvHistory 1% aircraft maybe provided for download from any site without express written consent of AvHistory. Additionally, direct linking to our download site is forbidden.
DOUGLAS USN JD-1-60 INVADER
This aircraft was built by SARGE using version 2.83.55 of the AvHistory 1% Assembly Line process. The 1% version of this plane is based on Ed Wilson and JP Demmerle's outstanding original A-26 Invader visual. Hermann 'Krazy" Boltz, Charles "Chuck" Dome, Ric Charlebois-GZR "Frenchy", Marv Howell- GZR "Sactargets", Steve Downing-GZR "Ridgerunner" & Jerry SPARKS Beckwith also contributed to this fine aircraft.
In addition, Charles Hinton "POF" and John Harris must be singled out as a Korean War Veterans and A-26 Crewmembers who provided outstanding encouragement, advice, photographs and contact with pilots who flew or do fly the A-26. The following is an excerpt from a message John sent about flying out of Kunsan Korea.
"The runway was asphalt in 1951 when I was there. When Charley Hinton was there in 1952, they closed down operations at K-8, moved to another base, and upgraded it to handle jets. I don't know what material was used but Charley will know.
The seaward end of the runway ended at the mud flats (no rice paddy). There was seawater at high tide and mud flats that went far out at low tide. I'm talking about maybe a couple hundred feet to water. We had a bird come back from a mission with hydraulics shot out. He didn't know but the compressed air bottle he was counting on for brakes, was capped off between the bottle and the system. He rolled out on the mud flats a ways and they brought him back with the old Cletrac.
The whole base was on a hard crust on a soft base. When they rolled the 500 lb bombs off the back of the 6 X 6, it jarred the ground for a ways. Must have given the engineers fits."
In 1945, the US Navy acquired one USAAF A-26B and one A-26C for testing. They were assigned the designation XJD-1 and were given the Bureau of Aeronautics numbers of 57990 (ex A-26B-45-DL 44-34217) and 57991 (ex A-26C-40-DT 44-35467).
Subsequently, in the immediate postwar years the Navy acquired 150 surplus A-26s for use by land-based utility squadrons as target tugs. Some of the early deliveries were from a batch of Invaders that had been ordered by the Royal Air Force but never delivered, but most of the planes were ex-USAAF Invaders from postwar stocks that were now deemed to be surplus to requirements.
The JD-1s were operated well into the 1960s by seven US Navy utility squadrons (VU-1, VU-2, VU-3, VU-4, VU-5, VU-7, and VU-10) as target tugs, drone directors, and general utility aircraft. Those that were modified as drone directors were redesignated JD-1D. Back in the 1950s, they operated from the Chincoteague Naval Air Station on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
We have created a "what if in '46" version of this plane by arming it with the 75mm gun for ship & bunker busting for the invasion on March 1, 1946 - code named Operation Coronet - which would send at least 22 divisions against 1 million Japanese defenders on the main island of Honshu and the Tokyo Plain.
CFS3 - V2.83.55
A "what if in '46" Version
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
No AvHistory 1% aircraft maybe provided for download from any site without express written consent of AvHistory. Additionally, direct linking to our download site is forbidden.
DOUGLAS USN JD-1-60 INVADER
This aircraft was built by SARGE using version 2.83.55 of the AvHistory 1% Assembly Line process. The 1% version of this plane is based on Ed Wilson and JP Demmerle's outstanding original A-26 Invader visual. Hermann 'Krazy" Boltz, Charles "Chuck" Dome, Ric Charlebois-GZR "Frenchy", Marv Howell- GZR "Sactargets", Steve Downing-GZR "Ridgerunner" & Jerry SPARKS Beckwith also contributed to this fine aircraft.
In addition, Charles Hinton "POF" and John Harris must be singled out as a Korean War Veterans and A-26 Crewmembers who provided outstanding encouragement, advice, photographs and contact with pilots who flew or do fly the A-26. The following is an excerpt from a message John sent about flying out of Kunsan Korea.
"The runway was asphalt in 1951 when I was there. When Charley Hinton was there in 1952, they closed down operations at K-8, moved to another base, and upgraded it to handle jets. I don't know what material was used but Charley will know.
The seaward end of the runway ended at the mud flats (no rice paddy). There was seawater at high tide and mud flats that went far out at low tide. I'm talking about maybe a couple hundred feet to water. We had a bird come back from a mission with hydraulics shot out. He didn't know but the compressed air bottle he was counting on for brakes, was capped off between the bottle and the system. He rolled out on the mud flats a ways and they brought him back with the old Cletrac.
The whole base was on a hard crust on a soft base. When they rolled the 500 lb bombs off the back of the 6 X 6, it jarred the ground for a ways. Must have given the engineers fits."
In 1945, the US Navy acquired one USAAF A-26B and one A-26C for testing. They were assigned the designation XJD-1 and were given the Bureau of Aeronautics numbers of 57990 (ex A-26B-45-DL 44-34217) and 57991 (ex A-26C-40-DT 44-35467).
Subsequently, in the immediate postwar years the Navy acquired 150 surplus A-26s for use by land-based utility squadrons as target tugs. Some of the early deliveries were from a batch of Invaders that had been ordered by the Royal Air Force but never delivered, but most of the planes were ex-USAAF Invaders from postwar stocks that were now deemed to be surplus to requirements.
The JD-1s were operated well into the 1960s by seven US Navy utility squadrons (VU-1, VU-2, VU-3, VU-4, VU-5, VU-7, and VU-10) as target tugs, drone directors, and general utility aircraft. Those that were modified as drone directors were redesignated JD-1D. Back in the 1950s, they operated from the Chincoteague Naval Air Station on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
We have created a "what if in '46" version of this plane by arming it with the 75mm gun for ship & bunker busting for the invasion on March 1, 1946 - code named Operation Coronet - which would send at least 22 divisions against 1 million Japanese defenders on the main island of Honshu and the Tokyo Plain.
