TOW goes in both directions!

Baked

Here is are the aerials. I looked around and found these for the AI MKIII radar. there are two sets of folders pylons and blenhein.... So take the contents of the pylons into pylons and then in the main blen folder save the original xdps and then place these in there. When you choose the plane select loadouts and you'll see AI_MKIII.

Have fun.:wavey:
 

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Thanks Ted.
I assume one cans just change the original xdp's to some thing like "Blen_MkIVF_WM-ZXXX.xdp" and leave them there with the new ones?
 
Thanks Ted, way better than my effort! Now off to chase planes I can barely find and can't catch!
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There won't be when I'm done with the new cockpit lighting effects on the TOW aircraft. I was actually referring to the difficulty of using a real AI MK.III set and the mediocre performance of the Blenheim as an interceptor.
 
Anyone having trouble loading Blenheim_MkIVF_WM-Z? It won't load for me, never mind the radar xdp versions? While I'm at it, can't we do the radar thing for the ETO_Beau-Mk1 NF?


EDIT problem solved! It was in fact an ac Blenheim NFMkIV causing the problem

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Yep, it's already on the model, though I think the skin from your first pic could be applied to the model in your second pic.
 
Blen_AI.rar

Unable to download zip. I am wondering if it is my Windows 7 Professional or my browser?

Can anyone help me?
 
Blen_AI.rar

Thanks fellows.

As usual come to the right place and you will be given the right answer. I used my Firefox browser and was able to download it with no problem.

 
mongoose said:
I note 3gb_Beaufighter_Mk1(NF) has radar so assume easy to put in ETO version
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Hi James,

The ETO version has used the wrong model thats why you dont see the AI aerial's. I've just fixed that, and it will be uploaded later this week with a ETO update pack for aircraft that I have been putting together. about 30 odd planes so far have been updated, fixing all sorts of little inaccuracies. and a couple of new ones to add into ETO as well.


it shows in game this description

Bristol Beaufighter MkI Night Fighter.
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Unit: 604 Squadron RAF (Auxiliary). County of Middlesex
Pilot: John (Cats's Eye's) Cunningham
AI operator: C.F. Rawsley.
Code: NG-R
serial: R2101
Middle Wallop airfield,
England.
May 1941.

In early 1939 the squadron transitioned to the long range fighter variant of the Bristol Blenheim. No. 604 Squadron was activated on 24 August 1939 to operate long-range fighters from RAF North Weald. The squadron spent the first several months of World War II flying defensive patrols in support of coastal convoys.

The squadron was reassigned to a night fighter role in late 1939 and was relocated to RAF Northolt in January 1940. By May 1940, the squadron had moved to RAF Manston. During the squadron's stay at RAF Manston that Flying Officer Alistair Hunter and Sergeant Gordon Thomas shot down a Luftwaffe Heinkel 115 floatplane shortly after midnight on 18 June 1940, during the first major night raid over the United Kingdom. Following the Dunkirk evacuation, the squadron was based at RAF Middle Wallop at the end of July 1940.
In early summer 1940, squadron aircraft were fitted with VHF radiotelephone equipment and Mark III Airborne interception (AI) radar.

The former was part of RAF Fighter Command policy, and greatly improved air to air and air to ground communication. The AI equipment was fitted to assist the night fighter crews in locating German bombers at night. A new technological development, AI was not particularly reliable at this stage, and needed a third crew member to operate. The external antennas slowed down aircraft that were already considered of low performance for their role. Most AI operators were inexperienced and were forced to learn on the job, translating the information provided on the AI screens into instructions to enable their pilot to get close enough to visually locate and shoot down an enemy bomber.

Late in September 1940 the squadron received its first Bristol Beaufighter, equipped with four 20mm Hispano Suiza HS.404 cannon under the nose and improved Mark IV AI radio location equipment. As one of the few squadrons thus equipped, 604 Squadron provided night defence over the UK during the Blitz from late 1940 until mid May 1941, when most Luftwaffe bomber units departed for involvement in the invasion of Russia. By this time 50 air victories had been claimed by the squadron, fourteen by F/L John Cunningham.

In early 1943 the squadron began to switch over to night intruder operations. In February 1944, the squadron was allocated to the 2nd Tactical Air Force and began conversion to the de Havilland Mosquito. Operations from Normandy began in August but the following month the unit returned to the UK, returning to the continent once again in January 1945. They remained there until disbanding at B.51 at Vendeville, near Lille, France on 18 April 1945.

By the war's end in May 1945, the Squadron's score stood at 132 enemy aircraft confirmed as 'destroyed', mostly by night, and had made a number of its pilots and radar operators, such as 'Cats-eyes Cunningham' and 'Jimmy Rawnsley, household names

regards Rob.
 
Possibly, weren't there some other modifications to it as well, not sure if the model is quite right?
 
I think the initial variants had a ventral 20mm cannon pack, but the later variants were effectively G models with AI Radar. Only the initial A models were used in combat I think, and only briefly in the pacific. But it could be a cool addition to TOW though!
 
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