Mosquito FBs and others in CFS3/TOW

[mongoose]

I have been looking at what is available WRT Fighter Bombers and NFs, and frankly not much WRT FBs and some dubious NF mk.IIs. First, what we do have which is excellent, are the SJT_Mosquito_NFII_AI and Mosquito_NFXII, both of which I believe are Steve's work, with maybe some of Ted's.
Then we have acceptable MkIVs, such as Mossie-IV-PFF/TOW_Mossie-IV-PFF, TOW_Mosquito_path, TOW_mosquito_FBvi and other Mkvi's.
I also have a dubious one labelled as "Mosquito N.F. Mk. II, RX-X, 456 Squadron RAA." although no radar or anything, and is in fact ModelName="3gb_mosquito_456x.m3d"

What I come to is the issue of the later war replacement for the MKiv, which was the Mk. ix. ModelName="mosquito_mkix.m3d", textured as "Mosquito MkIX EG-F HX422. was operated by 487 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force during 1943." I now believe that this was from a pw Mosquito add on, which complicatesatters especially if I can't find the add on!

 

[mongoose]

After all that I found from a 2020 post via chatgpt that it was abacus and they have folded and sunk out of site! I guess I try and work on the specs myself with chatgpt

 

[flashgordon]

Have looked through the Operations Records of 487 Sqn which shows they flew only the Mosquito Mk.VIs from their first with the new type on October 3rd 1943 until their last mission on May 2/3 1945 and no EG-F is recorded on any mission from that first until LR332 is recorded as EG-F on June 5/6 1944 as having bombed a road in the Cherbourg-Caen area at 0200hrs. E and G appear multiple times but no F and no Mk.IXs. Strange. The Australian & New Zealand Military Aircraft Serials & History website does not record an HX422. The MK. IX was used for Pathfinder, high altitude bombing and photo reconaisance. 487 Sqn specialised in low altitude and high risk precision attacks on airfields, roads, railways and special missions like Operation Jerico.

 

[flashgordon]

Something eventually twigged about Abacus in my aged brain so I did a search in my archive and found that I do have the Abacus CFS3 Addon Mosquito Combat. Attach pics of the texture files for the Mk.IX, Mk.XVIII and MK.XIX it included. Not sure about the depicted skins. The original program only runs on Windows x32 but I had run and saved the included files at some point in the distant past. The Mk. IX isn't a 487 Sqn Code - not quite sure what it represents whilst Google says the serial NT432 for the Mk.XIX is actually from a Mk.XXX which served with No. 29 Squadron, which operated out of bases in the UK and Western Europe during the latter half of the war.
The XVIII represents an aircraft of No. 248 Squadron RAF, Coastal Command (based primarily at RAF Portreath in Cornwall).
Amazon has a Used Copy at £19.99.

 

[mongoose]

Interesting. My xix is TH-M NS860, my xviii is just a code "O", and my ix is an EG-F and your one. My main ? is if the air file/performance specs are correct so that I can use it for 1944/45 missions.

I don't really need to repurchase it as have all relevant stuff on one of my old installs, just need accurate flight specs.