Bloch MB210 for CFS2
Original CFS1 Model by Alain Breton
Modified for CFS2 by William Dickens.
About the CFS2 Model: This aircraft is an update of Alain Breton's beautiful CFS1 model. Most of the aircraft reamins unchanged from the original. What has been added are detailed engines, crew members, new landing gear and gear wells, some "eye candy" like air scoops and exhaust. The model also has breaking parts and a first for a "WD" release: a Virtual Cockpit with working gauges!
The real aircraft: The Bloch 210.01 prototype flew for the first time in June 1934. It was intended as a twin-float seaplane bomber for the French Navy. A second prototype was designated Bloch 211 N°1 Verdun. Following tests, the production version was ordered as the Bloch 210. A cantilever low-wing monoplane which retained the angular lines of the high-wing Bloch 200, the Bloch 210 was powered by two 678kW Gnome-Rhone 14N engines and had a retractable landing gear, the main units of which retracted into the engine nacelles. Armament comprised single 7.5mm MAC machine-guns in a nose turret and semi-retractable dorsal and ventral positions. Maximum bomb load was 1,730kg. The first production machine flew on 10 December 1935. A total of 283 were eventually built for the Armee de l'Air, with which they served in the BN5 (five-crew night bomber) category. Final deliveries to the air force were made in February 1939, by which time the aircraft was obsolete.
By September 1939 238 Bloch 210s served with French bomber Groupes, employed on limited night operations including leaflet raids. However all were withdrawn from first-line service by June 1940. Twenty-four Bloch 210s had also been exported to Romania in 1938 and the Spanish Republicans had received several. Ex-Vichy aircraft were supplied by the Germans to Bulgaria in 1942.
Credits
Aircraft:
Original Model:Alain Breton
CFS2 Model, Air File, Paint, DP by William Dickens
Engines, crew figures: Dave Eckert
Panel:
CFS Panel by Michael Vader, see included "Readme" for more details
DVC added by William Dickens.
Disclaimer: This model is freeware, I do not care who downloads or uploads it as long as it is free and the proper credits are given. However, with this model, you will also need to contact Alain Breton for redistribution rights, since it is only with his permission that I was allowed to use this model. This model has been tested on three different computers with no ill effects, but if something happens to your machine don't blame me. It has only been tested in CFS2 because that is the only flight sim I have.
Original CFS1 Model by Alain Breton
Modified for CFS2 by William Dickens.
About the CFS2 Model: This aircraft is an update of Alain Breton's beautiful CFS1 model. Most of the aircraft reamins unchanged from the original. What has been added are detailed engines, crew members, new landing gear and gear wells, some "eye candy" like air scoops and exhaust. The model also has breaking parts and a first for a "WD" release: a Virtual Cockpit with working gauges!
The real aircraft: The Bloch 210.01 prototype flew for the first time in June 1934. It was intended as a twin-float seaplane bomber for the French Navy. A second prototype was designated Bloch 211 N°1 Verdun. Following tests, the production version was ordered as the Bloch 210. A cantilever low-wing monoplane which retained the angular lines of the high-wing Bloch 200, the Bloch 210 was powered by two 678kW Gnome-Rhone 14N engines and had a retractable landing gear, the main units of which retracted into the engine nacelles. Armament comprised single 7.5mm MAC machine-guns in a nose turret and semi-retractable dorsal and ventral positions. Maximum bomb load was 1,730kg. The first production machine flew on 10 December 1935. A total of 283 were eventually built for the Armee de l'Air, with which they served in the BN5 (five-crew night bomber) category. Final deliveries to the air force were made in February 1939, by which time the aircraft was obsolete.
By September 1939 238 Bloch 210s served with French bomber Groupes, employed on limited night operations including leaflet raids. However all were withdrawn from first-line service by June 1940. Twenty-four Bloch 210s had also been exported to Romania in 1938 and the Spanish Republicans had received several. Ex-Vichy aircraft were supplied by the Germans to Bulgaria in 1942.
Credits
Aircraft:
Original Model:Alain Breton
CFS2 Model, Air File, Paint, DP by William Dickens
Engines, crew figures: Dave Eckert
Panel:
CFS Panel by Michael Vader, see included "Readme" for more details
DVC added by William Dickens.
Disclaimer: This model is freeware, I do not care who downloads or uploads it as long as it is free and the proper credits are given. However, with this model, you will also need to contact Alain Breton for redistribution rights, since it is only with his permission that I was allowed to use this model. This model has been tested on three different computers with no ill effects, but if something happens to your machine don't blame me. It has only been tested in CFS2 because that is the only flight sim I have.
