KD Manila 2025-04-01

[kdriver]

Thanks Dominique, the PatWing 10 Catalinas were evacuated from Cavite, first to the Dutch East Indies, then to Australia. Three Cats were destroyed during the Darwin air raid and another two in Broome.

They were PBY-4 variants. The VB Cat looks like a PBY-5A.

Just for information, the P-35A in the download screenshot can be found here: http://www.rbdesign.se/flygplan.html while its 17th PS skin is here: https://sim-outhouse.org/sohforums/resources/17th-ps-p-35-repaint-zip.18413/

Although the aircraft was made for FS2004, it flies well in CFS2. I added a modified DP from the Chuck Selby CFS2 version of Paul Clawson's FS2002 P-35A to suit the extra machine guns in the wings.

 

[UncleTgt]

Yes Kev,

I'm guessing why you used the VP22 skin for Shessis PBY-2 (passable as a PBY-4)...

Shessi early PBY Patwing 10 JAN42 UT.zip

Shessi early PBY Catalina Patwing 10 JAN42 by UncleTgt. This is a repaint for Shessi's early PBY Catalina for CFS2. The dp file makes use of kelticheart's exhaust effects. The aircraft.cfg C of G height has been adjusted to facilitate Free...

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[kdriver]

Yes Kev,

I'm guessing why you used the VP22 skin for Shessis PBY-2 (passable as a PBY-4)...

Shessi early PBY Patwing 10 JAN42 UT.zip

Shessi early PBY Catalina Patwing 10 JAN42 by UncleTgt. This is a repaint for Shessi's early PBY Catalina for CFS2. The dp file makes use of kelticheart's exhaust effects. The aircraft.cfg C of G height has been adjusted to facilitate Free...

sim-outhouse.org

Yes John, Shessi's PBY-2 is a beauty.

I wasn't sure exactly when VP-21/VP-101's Cats were repainted with the camouflage scheme or if they were all repainted. In the article on the Pacific Neutrality Patrol which you provided with the VP-101 skin, there is a picture showing one camouflaged aircraft with the old wing diagonal stripes showing through.