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Warbirdsim's "Mustang Tales" Now Available!

Hi Bone,

That would be the sun shield, of the type seen on the K-14B. If you click on the arm that extends out to the left, as shown below, it slides the sun shield down so that it is out of the way. I've seen on the few warbirds that have the sun shield fitted today, that they often fly with the sun shield up (though perhaps just to show off that it has it).

I'll get a picture or two up of the real thing - it really is just a very dark, feature-less slab of black glass.

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OK, that works so much better! That's probably one of the finer points in the manual, in which case I totally missed it. Also, thanks for the link to the update files.
 
I have to be honest. I was trying to resist getting this pack but knowing how good the warbirdsim products are i gave in and glad i did!

Great work as always Bomber and worth it just for the great manual.
 
Bone, I'm glad it's good to go for you. I should have made it an item that was illustrated visually within the manual, rather than just a brief mention in the K-14 paragraph.

Thank you Barnes, we appreciate it! One of our goals for this project was to make it more of an 'experience' than we've done in the past, so that there is more to it than just having the aircraft alone.

And John, those are some awesome screenshots! I'll have some information posted tonight about that original aircraft.
 
Hi JensOle,

The paintkit is available, which we're handling through Warbirdsim support (just send a quick e-mail with the request and your purchase/order number to the Warbirdsim support e-mail). It's setup differently to those I've made in the past, to both be smaller and easier to manage, but at the same time still provides support for all of the different key variants. Included are .PSD and .PSP files, both with layers that are separated into folders. The repaint that I showed earlier in this thread, was just compiled together within an hour, using the paintkit.

For those that have the paintkit, be sure to read through the guide that is included. The rivets are handled quite a bit differently than in the past, and it's good to know how to use masks.
 
Oh yeah, make sure Jens gets that paint kit pronto, I need some more ANG Mustangs! ;)

BTW, thanks for the update link John. :)
 
:) As an Norwegian I'll start with Mustangs from the "Norwegian states" in the upper midwest (we already have Minnesota in the pack!). Just need to finish my Hungarian Mig-21 paints and the UAE PC-21. I have had a good flow with releasing old work which have been collecting dust in the last week and hopefully I'll get the Mig and PC work out tomorrow... The problem is not making the paints, but to have the motivation do to all the support files..

The post war service of the Mustang sure makes for some very interesting paint scheme.

John, can you help me with confirming it was red which was the color the 178th FS (N-D) used on the nose and leading edge on the tail?
 
I'm very excited about those, JensOle! Yes, the nose and tail color on the North Dakota ANG (178th FS, aka the "Happy Hooligans") Mustangs was red.
 
JensOle, and other repainters, here's a nice study of some of the 1950's era stencils that were common on F-51D's operating during that time. In this particular case, the Mustang happens to be a North Dakota ANG example.

Note that around the fuel cap/fuselage tank ground jack, there are all of the following stencils:

"SERVICE THIS AIRCRAFT
WITH GRADE 100/130 FUEL."

"SUITABLE FOR AROMATIC FUELS."

"RESTRICT TANK
TO 65 GALS."

"BATTERY LOCATION
UNDER COWLING
FWD. OF OIL TANK."

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And another one, this being from Korea, with similar stencils applied around the region of the fuselage filler cap. This is much the same as on "Little Beast II", included. The vast quantity of "NO STEP" and "NO PUSH" stencils were also a post-WWII USAF addition.

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I got it.
Fantastic. Have to go to work soon,will pick up some more flights later. I tried to make a carrier landing, but failed to trap. Could fly on though, luckily there was an empty deck:kilroy:
Lot's more to explore.

I tried the Little Lynn flight, and I noticed a problem with the throttle cable (animation issue) maybe you can look into it.

Will be home later this week, and I will hop into that pit for sure, with the printed manual on my lap.

Cheers, Rob
 
Thank you Rob!

Regarding the throttle cable (and antenna wires), make sure that 'Advanced Animations' is checked, under the Global Options within the FSX Settings-Display menu (yet another item I left out of the user guide by mistake!).
 
John,

That 178th picture popped up together with a few more hi res pics NDAK mustangs on "http://jetpilotoverseas.wordpress.com" when I started to research. They have a nice collection of post war mustang pictures.
 
Well I was thinking no more Mustangs for me and you go and produce these superb ponies.

You have raised the bar yet again.
 
JensOle, those are some excellent resources! I used quite a number of them throughout development of this project.

And thank you Noddy!
 
An amazing fact about the aircraft above, and the others included that have those largest of external tanks, is that with all of the fuel combined (externals, wing tanks, fuselage tank), the total capacity is 599 gallons! So even if you are burning 65 gallons per hour (normal cruise operation (even less when you get down to economy cruise)), that means you can stay in the air, theoretically, for more than 9 hours! You can do a pretty good job of flying just about to anywhere you want, not worrying about a fuel stop - of course getting off the ground will require a bit more runway.
 
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