FS2004 Screenshots Here!!!

[ian elliot]

CFS2 conversion of Ted Cooks Handley Page Hampden by JDTinballs, but works fine in 9

 

[Desert Rat]

Nice shot Ian. It's nice that it works in FS9, but what kinda idiot goes by that user name?

Don't forget Morton did some repaints for teds model that were adapted to this one by the same conversion dude.

Jamie D Tindall

 

[alain0568]

Hello,

-@Huub,

In your post n ° 3384 you show a Messerschmittt BF 110 D R1, where can I find this model?
THANKS!


Alain

-​

 

[huub vink]

Hi Alain,

The model is a public beta for CFS2 by the former Ground Crew Design Group. You can find the model here: http://www.mrjmaint.com/RegsHanger/Groundcrew/homepage/Garage/Ground Crew Design Garage.php

It is a CFS2 model, but works actually quite well in FS2004 and as it is a beta it isn't completely finished.

Cheers,
Huub

 

[ian elliot]

but what kinda idiot goes by that user name?

All these year's and ive just figured, your both the same guy

 

[alain0568]

Hello Huub,


-Thank you very much for the link!


Alain
-

 

[ian elliot]

Picked up Max Hastings, Bomber Command in a charity shop, so im interested in this period at the moment, esp the first years of the war,

 

[AndyG43]

I love how books can inspire so much, my interest in that period was similarly piqued by reading Guy Gibson's "Enemy Coast Ahead". I really must take time away from tweaking my installs to do some actual flying, so I can post some screenshots here.

 

[ian elliot]

Alpha Halifax, dusk departure.

 

[huub vink]

And the other side reacts.......

Cheers,
Huub

 

[ian elliot]

France, spring 1940, a lesser known element of Bomber command. Aircraft best forgotten, bravery of pilots not

 

[AndyG43]

France, spring 1940, a lesser known element of Bomber command. Aircraft best forgotten, bravery of pilots not

Pilots and crew. My ex father-in-law had joined the RAF pre-war as an air gunner (his first posting saw him manning a Lewis gun in the back of a Hawker Hind). At the beginning of the war his unit were based on the Isle of Man where, early in 1940, all the gunners were assembled and offered their sergeant stripes if they transferred to Fairey Battles. The majority, of course, jumped at the chance but Jim decided not to as he was dating a girl on the island (who eventually became his wife); his colleagues, to a man, were all killed during the Battle of France.

 

[ian elliot]

A flight along the Brittany coast

 

[huub vink]

France, spring 1940, a lesser known element of Bomber command. Aircraft best forgotten, bravery of pilots not

Somehow we are better to tell about our victories than about our defeats. When the Germans invaded France and the Low Countries a lot of French and British pilot were send to aid the Dutch and Belgians.

I never realised how many, until I started to read about the losses over the Netherlands. These were more or less the first big air battles of the war. The RAF didn't any real experience and did send quite some obsolete aircraft like the Battle, Defiant and Blenheim, and lost many, as they were no match for the Germans who already had their practice above Spain.

Huub

 

[huub vink]

SIAI S81 asked me whether I could do this repaint for him. It is the Junkers Ju 160 by Ralf Kreibich in the cplours of the prototype. Ralf's model depicts a D version so the model is slightly different. Luchs is German fro Lynx, and this is not the first German aircraft named Luchs I ever painted.....

It is not really a repaint, but more an extensive edit of the textures by Ralf Kreibich. As I'm quite pleased with the result (and Ralf's Ju160 is a nice model to fly) I might upload the textures.

The real thing (picture not mine, but found on the web)

Cheers,
Huub

 

[SIAI S81]

Thanks Huub,
the airplane is amazing!! For who wants a 2D panel for this beauty, I have one made!

 

[Motormouse]

hearing of enemy activity on the coast

near Mont St Michel, the RAF task a PR Spitfire to take a look



this is followed up a couple of days later by SOE dropping in some agents



ttfn

Pete

 

[Motormouse]

I never realised how many, until I started to read about the losses over the Netherlands. These were more or less the first big air battles of the war. The RAF didn't any real experience and did send quite some obsolete aircraft like the Battle, Defiant and Blenheim, and lost many, as they were no match for the Germans who already had their practice above Spain.

Huub

Hi Huub, none of those types were obsolete at the time,
It's just the senior ranks in RAF, led by a government that was in denial about the German re armament programme
hadn't realised how much more technically superior the Luftwaffe types had become. Indeed, the Defiant squadron had early success in low countries and over Dunkirk, when they employed the Lufbery Circle as in

"On 28 May 1940, shortly after take-off, 10 Defiants were attacked by about 30 Bf 109s – forming a circle, they claimed six German fighters for the loss of three Defiants. The Defiant was initially successful against enemy aircraft and its best day was 29 May 1940, when No. 264 Squadron claimed 37 kills in two sorties: 19 Ju 87 Stukas, mostly picked off as they came out of their dives, nine Messerschmitt Bf 110 twin-engined heavy fighters, eight Bf 109s, and a Ju 88.

Ttfn

Pete

 

[huub vink]

Perhaps "obsolete"isn't the correct work, but they were definitely not up to the tasks given to them.

The Fairey Battle was too slow and didn't have effective defensive armament. As it lacked features like an armoured cockpit and self sealing tanks, I personally consider it "obsolete". Between 10 May and 16 May 99 Battles were lost! I have seen the Fairey Battle in the Royal Military museum in Brussels. Compared with the fighters like the Spitfire and Hurricane equipped with the same engine it is absolutely huge!

During the invasion of the low countries and France the Bristol Blenheim Mk.1F was the only long range fighter from the RAF. On 10 May, 600 squadron RAF was send to attack Waalhaven airport near Rotterdam. From the 6 Blenheims involved in this mission only one managed to return back to England. After this disastrous mission the Blenheim was withdrawn from daylight fighter missions. The Blenheim remained in service, and was reasonably effective as bomber. But its role as fighter wasn't a huge success.

The concept of turret fighter like the Defiant might have worked against large formation of unescorted bombers, for which it was designed. But we now know the bombers didn't arrive unescorted and the heavy turret fighters were no match for the manoeuvrable single engined fighters like the Bf109. Pete, you are correct in your statement that the aircraft wasn't obsolete, as the turret fighter was a completely new concept. However it was designed for a situation which hardly occurred.... It is easy to judge now, but you see nearly all countries developed aircraft for situations which didn't arrive.

For the UK (and most likely many other countries) the statement "the bombers will always get through" by prime minister Stanley Baldwin, will have cause a huge effect on the development of military aircraft in general.

Cheers,
Huub

 

[Motormouse]

Perhaps "obsolete"isn't the correct work, but they were definitely not up to the tasks given to them.



For the UK (and most likely many other countries) the statement "the bombers will always get through" by prime minister Stanley Baldwin, will have cause a huge effect on the development of military aircraft in general.

Cheers,
Huub

Hi Huub, when Baldwin made that speech, (1932
IIRC) the relative performance of Bombers was greater than that of the fighters then available. Thankfully a certain ACM Dowding didn't subscribe to that view, but it certainly coloured progress in USA and Europe until the fighters regained the performance advantage

Ttfn

Pete