This folder contains a repaint for the A2A/Shockwave World War II Fighters P-51D Mustang, representing 44-14888, the last P-51 flown by Capt Charles E. Yeager. He flew an extended combat tour with the 363rd FS/ 357th FG, finishing the war with 11.5 enemy aircraft shot down. He had gained one victory before he was shot down over France on his eighth mission, on March 5, 1944.[4] He escaped to Spain on March 30 with the help of the Maquis (French Resistance) and returned to England on May 15, 1944. During his stay with the Maquis, Yeager assisted the guerrillas in duties that did not involve direct combat, though he did help to construct bombs for the group, a skill that he had learned from his father. Despite a regulation that "evaders" (escaped pilots) could not fly over enemy territory again to avoid compromising Resistance allies, Yeager was reinstated to flying combat. Yeager had joined a bomber pilot evader, Capt. Fred Glover, in speaking directly to the Allied Supreme Commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower, on June 12, 1944. With Glover pleading their case, arguing that because the Allies had invaded France, the Maquis resistance movement was by then openly fighting the Nazis alongside Allied troops, so there was little or nothing they could reveal if shot down again to expose those who had helped them evade capture. Eisenhower, after gaining permission from the War Department to decide the requests, concurred with Yeager and Glover. Yeager remained in the Air Force after the war, becoming a test pilot at Muroc Army Air Field (now Edwards Air Force Base) and became the first man to fly faster than the sound barrier on October 14, 1947, flying the experimental X-1. Repaint by Jan Kees Blom, based on the repaint kit by John Terrell. It should work in both FSX and FS9.
Originally submitted by jankees (2009-01-31 02:12:24)
Submitted by jankees
Originally submitted by jankees (2009-01-31 02:12:24)
Submitted by jankees
