New Freeware: Messerschmitt ME-264!

I think at this point lazarus made about Virtavia is kind of a beat subject. Mainly it comes down to there are MANY developers out there and they all have a following for different reasons. There are developers who are attempting to recreate and aircraft as if you were jumping into the real thing and there are developers who are building and selling to those who just want to fly and enjoy flying a certain plane type. I love'm all.......I like Virtavia as a model I can jump in and just go flying.......I love my MilViz or VRS when I want super realistic. Its all in taste and I thank all the developers taking the time to contribute to the FSX community.
 
Anyone not getting any instruments displaying? I suppose one could protrude a machine gun through a pressurized glazing with a flexible mount with balls or seals. Bomb aimer position, or was NYC considered big enough to not need one?

Cheers: T
 
fliger747 said:
Anyone not getting any instruments displaying?
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Tom did you:

move the tomME264 folder as it is into your FSX/gauges folder.
move the tom_ME264, the tom_ME264V2 and the tom_ME264V3 folders as they are into your FSX/simobjects/aircrafts folder.
move both .fx files into your FSX/effects folder.
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stovall said:
Looks like the USAF thought the use of steroids was something they could not put up with. From reading a little history about the Me 264 or Americas Bomber, the only prototype was destroyed on the ground before it could be put into operation. Boy am I glad of that.
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Wouldn't have made it over the pond anyway. Too much allied shipping and aircraft in the way.



Stickshaker said:
Does the machine gun in the nose mean that the cabin was not pressurized?
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The presence of oxygen suppliers for each crewmember says "yes".



PHo17 said:
Is there any good sound set for this monster? I didn't find anything for BMW 801 engines.
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Jumo: lncsnd1.zip (Avsim)
BMW801: [FONT=verdana, sans-serif][FONT=verdana, sans-serif]dc-4snds.zip[/FONT][/FONT] (Avsim)
 
Bjoern said:
Wouldn't have made it over the pond anyway. Too much allied shipping and aircraft in the way.
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I could be wrong, but I think I remember reading that the plan was to fly north over the ice as much as fuel would allow. That negates the shipping and offers the defensive aircraft less warning. A staggered force would have stood at least a slim chance at getting a kreisbombe or two through.
 
Killbilly said:
I could be wrong, but I think I remember reading that the plan was to fly north over the ice as much as fuel would allow. That negates the shipping and offers the defensive aircraft less warning. A staggered force would have stood at least a slim chance at getting a kreisbombe or two through.
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Over the pole is the shortest route, but to get to anything large enough to bomb, you'd still have to cover a lot of defended airspace.

Also, what's the "kreisbombe"? The non-existant german nuke?
 
"Kreisbombe"...sounds like a bad translation or a really stupid code name. :icon_lol:

Thanks for the info. Wikipedia wasn't as insightful on a quick scan.
 
Kreisbombe means literally in English "Circel Bomb" meaning a large circular area to be destroyed.

Cheers,
Hank
 
Is this a great model,or what.
No slur against Virtavias'. I love Virtavia's work, get in and fly, great frames, not having to do 2 weeks of type training to get it started. I was, however ,looking at the functionality of the VC, one area where Virtavia some times goes a bit too lean. The 264 is a nice example of functionality and 'simulating complexity' without sacrificing the enjoyment factor, or requiring 3 weeks of conversion training. PDMG, for instance, Wow, for systems modeling, but; (FOR MY SELF. just me, and me alone!) Yawn. I flight sim for fun, and (FOR MY SELF. just me, and me alone!) by the end of the week I am so fed up with weather, gremlins, regulations, ATC, unservicability, managers and bean counters (I guess I AM a manager, now; but I 'manage' ;usually, to forget that) that I keep my sim on "Dreamworld" settings. Blue skies, no ATC, weather or unservicability, and no proceedures more complicated than starting a Harvard. Real world aviation- if you were dumb enough to take it up as a career now a days-frankly sucks. (I've left and came back 3 times in the past 10 years, simply because I'm too old to do anything different, and simple poverty is a little better than starving!)
Back to the 264. Here we have a freeware model that would come out in the top 10 percentile of payware. Terrific work, Mr Ruth!
 
Man, that is one Awesome looking bird. Why haven't I known about this one (the actual one). Very nice looking design and nice looking model workmanship.

:applause: :medals:
 
Although mostly associated with the "Amerika Bomber" program, that was more a late though. It was designed as a maritime patrol aircraft similar to the FW-200 and that's reflected in it's range and payload. It would have taken time to turn it into a useful strategic bomber.

An interesting aircraft and in this case, an excellent FSX model.
 
I don't come over to the darkside very often but couldn't resist on this subject. If anyone is interested just finished reading a very good book on this subject called "Luftwaffe over America" by Manfred Griehl. He says " The Me-264 V-1 made eleven flights totaling twelve hours in the air between 23 December 1942 and March 1943." Many issues were identified such as problems with the twin-fin tailplane, exhaust gas in the cabin, too-powerful aileron and rudders, and a lot of faulty flight instruments. On two subsequent flight tests with Karl Baur at the controls an airspeed of 600 km/hr was attained. Although Messerschmitt projected a range of 11,500 km; most expected no more than 10,000 km. Two major problems dogged the whole project from the start; "Initial production was set for 30 aircraft but, no manufacturer in Germany not Blohm & Voss, Seibel, Focke-Wulf, Messerschmitt, or Wesser Flugzeugwerke none had the industrial capacity to produce an aircraft of this size, let alone the raw materials (for example: the skin on the wings was made from steel plate in order to conserve aluminum. The other issue was take-off the Me-264 required 2,400 metres of paved runway to get up and at least 1,200 metres if assisted by six rockets. This being said remember this was during 1943 to 1944 time frame, that's a lot of concrete to hide along with 30 aircraft with a wingspan of 141 ft from an enemy that's bombing you 24-7. There wasn't even a hangar in Germany large enough to hold one.
 
As to development, look at the growing pains of the B-29! Winkle Brown was quoted on the Corsair (not his favorite plane) " When needs must, the Devil drives".

T
 
TheGrunt said:
I haven't yet installed Me 264, but I already decided to use this soundset from Simviation for the engines, it is the newest sound set there:
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Sure, it is from B-24 and engines aren't as powerful, but it is four engine radial sound and different from R-3350 sound sets that I have with some other aircraft that uses R-3350 for real. R-1830 soundset is also of high quality.
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Thanks for the HU on this. Does the job quite nicely.
 
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