kelticheart
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Quai's & D'Attomo's Fiat CR.32 conversion pack uploaded!!!
Long awaited, several times announced, I finally uploaded Capt. Giovanni Quai's and Capt. Italo D'Attomo's Fiat CR.32 Ter (Third version) for FS2004, converted to CFS2.
The Fiat CR.32, designed by Fiat chief engineer Celestino Rosatelli and first flown on April 28th, 1933, will be always considered one of the most nimble and manoeuverable fighter planes ever built.
It was the aircraft which induced the wrong Regia Aeronautica idea that fighter plane manoeuvrability was more important than speed and heavy armament. Just because Spanish Nationalist 'Aviación del Tercio' Fiat CR.32 units, flown by Italian military pilots, routinely beat during the Spanish Civil War the Russian-built Polikarpov I-16 Ishak, a monoplane 60 mph faster, with a better rate of climb and better armed than the CR.32.
After WWII such supremacy was correctly attributed by aviation historians to the superior training of the Italian pilots. In the hands of better trained Spanish Republican pilots, the I-16 Ishak would have shown all of the Fiat CR.32 weaknesses, due to its obsolete design for the late 1930's.
Unfortunately for Italy, Fiat CR.32 successes in SCW strengthened the Regia Aeronautica conviction to keep pursuing the biplane manoeuvrability formula in its front-line fighter units, resulting in the development of the CR.42. Another biplane already surpassed in its project and design stage by monoplanes like the Spitfire, the Hurricane and the Bf109 which, at the time, were already in service.
Actually, early Bf109-D and E versions flew in combat during the SCW, but their blistering performance went unnoticed by Royal Italian Air Force top brass, blinded by their arrogance in believing the Fiat CR.42 biplane the best fighter of the world. In reality, hopelessly obsolete even before leaving the design table.
CR.42 pilots had a rude awakening when they first faced French monoplane fighters in June 1940, immediately after Italy joined WWII. When CR.42 units were sent to join the Battle of Britain in November of 1940, the crude reality of an under-equipped, ridicolously unprepared and riddled with wrong concepts air force was evident to everybody involved.
The Fiat CR.32, nicknamed 'Chirri' by the Spanish nationalist air force or Aviaciòn del Tercio, still equipped Regia Aeronautica units when Italy joined WWII in June 1940.
Fiat CR.32 units fought in Lybia, in Abyssinia, then called Africa Orientale Italiana or Eastern Italian Africa, and flew ground-attack missions during the invasion of Greece.
Gius' splendid repaints depict these deployment theatres with four splendid skins, respectively attached below:
Besides, Gius painted a painstakingly detailed, historical, wide-screen 2d panel, enclosed here with my adaptation of Corporal Jacko's 2001 Fiat CR.32 2d panel, for those computer elders like me, who still fly a 4:3 format pc screen.
I did the conversion work, replaced the prop disc, assembled a gauge-controlled exhaust effect and adapted IS4G's Flight Model and Damage Profile of their 2001 Fiat CR.32 to this one.
Blood_Hawk23's WWII Italian pilot figure scans the skies in search for opponents with his animated head.
Again, Blood_Hawk23's development of Manuele Villa's Italian payloads equip this CR.32. Sorry for not asking your permission to re-upload the pack John, I was too lazy (and busy, I forgot!) to do it.
Finally, Lawdog2360's Fiat AR.30 RA bis, inline V-12 engine soundset, the CR.32 powerplant, completes the pack. I replaced in it the stock wind sound with a very nice open cockpit whistling wind sound created by Pcmeneg.
Enjoy!
KH
HAPPY EASTER TO EVERYBODY! 
Long awaited, several times announced, I finally uploaded Capt. Giovanni Quai's and Capt. Italo D'Attomo's Fiat CR.32 Ter (Third version) for FS2004, converted to CFS2.
The Fiat CR.32, designed by Fiat chief engineer Celestino Rosatelli and first flown on April 28th, 1933, will be always considered one of the most nimble and manoeuverable fighter planes ever built.
It was the aircraft which induced the wrong Regia Aeronautica idea that fighter plane manoeuvrability was more important than speed and heavy armament. Just because Spanish Nationalist 'Aviación del Tercio' Fiat CR.32 units, flown by Italian military pilots, routinely beat during the Spanish Civil War the Russian-built Polikarpov I-16 Ishak, a monoplane 60 mph faster, with a better rate of climb and better armed than the CR.32.
After WWII such supremacy was correctly attributed by aviation historians to the superior training of the Italian pilots. In the hands of better trained Spanish Republican pilots, the I-16 Ishak would have shown all of the Fiat CR.32 weaknesses, due to its obsolete design for the late 1930's.
Unfortunately for Italy, Fiat CR.32 successes in SCW strengthened the Regia Aeronautica conviction to keep pursuing the biplane manoeuvrability formula in its front-line fighter units, resulting in the development of the CR.42. Another biplane already surpassed in its project and design stage by monoplanes like the Spitfire, the Hurricane and the Bf109 which, at the time, were already in service.
Actually, early Bf109-D and E versions flew in combat during the SCW, but their blistering performance went unnoticed by Royal Italian Air Force top brass, blinded by their arrogance in believing the Fiat CR.42 biplane the best fighter of the world. In reality, hopelessly obsolete even before leaving the design table.
CR.42 pilots had a rude awakening when they first faced French monoplane fighters in June 1940, immediately after Italy joined WWII. When CR.42 units were sent to join the Battle of Britain in November of 1940, the crude reality of an under-equipped, ridicolously unprepared and riddled with wrong concepts air force was evident to everybody involved.
The Fiat CR.32, nicknamed 'Chirri' by the Spanish nationalist air force or Aviaciòn del Tercio, still equipped Regia Aeronautica units when Italy joined WWII in June 1940.
Fiat CR.32 units fought in Lybia, in Abyssinia, then called Africa Orientale Italiana or Eastern Italian Africa, and flew ground-attack missions during the invasion of Greece.
Gius' splendid repaints depict these deployment theatres with four splendid skins, respectively attached below:
- Aviaciòn del Tercio, Spain 1936-39
- 4th Stormo (Wing), Italy 1939
- Addis Ababa, Abyssinia, 1940
- 160th Squadriglia, Lybia 1940
Besides, Gius painted a painstakingly detailed, historical, wide-screen 2d panel, enclosed here with my adaptation of Corporal Jacko's 2001 Fiat CR.32 2d panel, for those computer elders like me, who still fly a 4:3 format pc screen.
I did the conversion work, replaced the prop disc, assembled a gauge-controlled exhaust effect and adapted IS4G's Flight Model and Damage Profile of their 2001 Fiat CR.32 to this one.
Blood_Hawk23's WWII Italian pilot figure scans the skies in search for opponents with his animated head.
Again, Blood_Hawk23's development of Manuele Villa's Italian payloads equip this CR.32. Sorry for not asking your permission to re-upload the pack John, I was too lazy (and busy, I forgot!) to do it.
Finally, Lawdog2360's Fiat AR.30 RA bis, inline V-12 engine soundset, the CR.32 powerplant, completes the pack. I replaced in it the stock wind sound with a very nice open cockpit whistling wind sound created by Pcmeneg.
Enjoy!
KH
- and will assist us with this problem. I will hold the new gauges until I'll be able to upload a definitive Flight Model correction pack which will include both.
especially for a lumbering Hurricane.
