Category: Combat Flight Simulator 1 and 2 - Aircraft
B25-B Mitchell Doolittle's Raiders A/C No. 40-2242 for The B24 Guy's OH

File Description:
B25-B Mitchell Doolittle's Raiders A/C No. 40-2242, April 18, 1942. Painted over The B24 Guy's B25 Mitchell Overhaul Model. This was mission plane # 8. Pilot: Capt. Edward J. (Ski) York, Co-pilot: Lt. Robert G. Emmens, Navigator: Lt. Nolan A. Herndon, Bombardier: S/Sgt Theodore H. Laban, Engineer/Gunner: Sgt. David W. Pohl. The bomb group attacked targets in the Tokyo area. The North American B-25B was not designed or intended for aircraft carrier use, but there they were, sixteen highly modified bombers sitting on the deck of the USS Hornet (CV-8). They were modified to carry bombs to Tokyo.The B-25s are launched from their maximum range, and flew over Tokyo, bombing several installations. The bombs did little damage, but managed to damage the Japanese carrier Ryuho while it is in drydock. Many of the planes then head to wherever they can make it, since the fuel will be empty before they reach a friendly airbase. All of the B-25 bombers are forced to bail out or crash land except one. Eleven crews are forced to bail out over China, 3 crash land, and the last landed safely at Vladivostok. The crew that landed in Russia was interned, along with the plane, for a while. The crews were all volunteer, and had no carrier experience, yet all sixteen of the bombers were successful on take-off. Texture, and Damage Files included. Note the three windows in both port and starboard bulkheads. By revev. Enjoy!

Filename:	B25B_Mitchell_Doolittles_Raiders_AC_No_402242_for_.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	30th July 2006, 20:10:37
Downloads:	105
Author:	Evan G. Butterbrodt
Size:	1.52 MB

Category: Combat Flight Simulator 1 and 2 - Aircraft
B25-B Mitchell Doolittle's Raiders A/C No. 40-2261 for The B24 Guy's OH

File Description:
B25-B Mitchell Doolittle's Raiders A/C No. 40-2261, April 18, 1942. Painted over The B24 Guy's B25 Mitchell Overhaul Model. This was mission plane # 7. Pilot: Lt. Ted W. Lawson, Co-pilot: LT Dean Davenport, Navigator: LT Charles L. McClure, Bombardier: LT Robert S. Clever, Engineer/Gunner: SGT David J. Thatcher. This bomb group attacked targets in the Tokyo area. The North American B-25B was not designed or intended for aircraft carrier use, but there they were, sixteen highly modified bombers sitting on the deck of the USS Hornet (CV-8). They were modified to carry bombs to Tokyo. The B-25s are launched from their maximum range, and flew over Tokyo, bombing several installations. The bombs did little damage, but managed to damage the Japanese carrier Ryuho while it is in drydock. Many of the planes then head to wherever they can make it, since the fuel will be empty before they reach a friendly airbase. All of the B-25 bombers are forced to bail out or crash land except one. Eleven crews are forced to bail out over China, 3 crash land, and the last landed safely at Vladivostok. The crew that landed in Russia was interned, along with the plane, for a while. The crews were all volunteer, and had no carrier experience, yet all sixteen of the bombers were successful on take-off. Texture, and Damage Files included. Note the three windows in both port and starboard bulkheads. By revev. Enjoy!

Filename:	B25B_Mitchell_Doolittles_Raiders_AC_No_402261_for_.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	30th July 2006, 20:10:59
Downloads:	74
Author:	Evan G. Butterbrodt
Size:	1.51 MB

Category: Combat Flight Simulator 1 and 2 - Aircraft
B25-B Mitchell Doolittle's Raiders A/C No. 40-2297 for The B24 Guy's OH

File Description:
B25-B Mitchell Doolittle's Raiders A/C No. 40-2297, April 18, 1942. Painted over The B24 Guy's B25 Mitchell Overhaul Model. This was mission plane #14. Pilot: Maj. John A. Hilger, Co-Pilot: Lt. Jack A. Sims, Navigator/ Bombardier: Lt. James H. Macia, Flight Engineer: S/Sgt. Jacob Eierman, Gunner: S/Sgt: Edwin V. Bain. The bomb group attacked targets in the Tokyo area. The North American B-25B was not designed or intended for aircraft carrier use, but there they were, sixteen highly modified bombers sitting on the deck of the USS Hornet (CV-8). They were modified to carry bombs to Tokyo. The B-25s are launched from their maximum range, and flew over Tokyo, bombing several installations. The bombs did little damage, but managed to damage the Japanese carrier Ryuho while it is in drydock. Many of the planes then head to wherever they can make it, since the fuel will be empty before they reach a friendly airbase. All of the B-25 bombers are forced to bail out or crash land except one. Eleven crews are forced to bail out over China, 3 crash land, and the last landed safely at Vladivostok. The crew that landed in Russia was interned, along with the plane, for a while. The crews were all volunteer, and had no carrier experience, yet all sixteen of the bombers were successful on take-off. Although little physical damage was inflicted on Japan, that day, the Japanese populace was demoralized, as suddenly, the war was brought to their homeland. Enjoy!

Filename:	B25B_Mitchell_Doolittles_Raiders_AC_No_402297_for_.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	2nd August 2006, 00:44:29
Downloads:	67
Author:	Evan G. Butterbrodt
Size:	1.57 MB

Category: Combat Flight Simulator 1 and 2 - Aircraft
B25-B Mitchell Doolittle's Raiders A/C No. 40-2298 for The B24 Guy's OH

File Description:
B25-B Mitchell Doolittle's Raiders A/C No. 40-2298, April 18, 1942. Painted over The B24 Guy's B25 Mitchell Overhaul Model. This was mission plane #6. Pilot: Lt. Dean E. Hallmark, Co-Pilot: Lt. Robert J. Meder, Navigator: Lt. Chase J. Nielson, Bombardier: Sgt. William J. Dieter, Flight Engineer/Gunner: Sgt. Donald E. Fitzmaurice. The bomb group attacked targets in the Tokyo area. The North American B-25B was not designed or intended for aircraft carrier use, but there they were, sixteen highly modified bombers sitting on the deck of the USS Hornet (CV-8). They were modified to carry bombs to Tokyo. The B-25s are launched from their maximum range, and flew over Tokyo, bombing several installations. The bombs did little damage, but managed to damage the Japanese carrier Ryuho while it is in drydock. Many of the planes then head to wherever they can make it, since the fuel will be empty before they reach a friendly airbase. All of the B-25 bombers are forced to bail out or crash land except one. Eleven crews are forced to bail out over China, 3 crash land, and the last landed safely at Vladivostok. The crew that landed in Russia was interned, along with the plane, for a while. The crews were all volunteer, and had no carrier experience, yet all sixteen of the bombers were successful on take-off. Although little physical damage was inflicted on Japan, that day, the Japanese populace was demoralized, as suddenly, the war was brought to their homeland. Enjoy!

Filename:	B25B_Mitchell_Doolittles_Raiders_AC_No_402298_for_.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	2nd August 2006, 00:45:45
Downloads:	83
Author:	Evan G. Butterbrodt
Size:	1.54 MB

Category: Flight Simulator X - Aircraft Repaints, Textures and Modifications
De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter CIRPAS #236

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File Description: This folder contains a repaint for the Aerosoft Twin Otter Extended, in the colors of 762256 (c/n 496). Formerly N83NX, this aircraft is registered with the US Navy, but flying for the Center for Interdiciplinary Remotely-Piloted Aircraft Studies (CIRPAS), a research center at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. The CIRPAS Twin Otter is an instrumented twin-engine turboprop aircraft. It supports individual scientists as well as teams of scientists from various Universities and Laboratories who are interested in lower-tropospheric phenomena and air/sea interaction. Payload may be selected from a large suite of state of the art meteorological, aerosol, and cloud particle sensors, while additional equipment collaborating scientists may wish to include can be integrated as well. Twin Otter mission have been sponsored by ONR, NSF, DOE, NOAA, NASA, CARB, and NRL. Instruments may be installed in racks inside the cabin where a well characterized community inlet delivers ambient air samples, or in pods either suspended by wing-mounted pylons or mounted on a hard point on the cabin roof. Optical ports and windows are on the airplane’s belly and in the cabin roof. CIRPAS staff calibrates and maintains the facility payload and provides fully reduced, synchronized, and coherent data sets to the collaborating scientists. The Twin Otter is based at the CIRPAS Marina Facility, but has been deployed to various locations in North, South, and Central America and Asia. Repaint by Jan Kees Blom, based on the paintkit by Aerosoft.

Filename:	De_Havilland_Canada_DHC6_Twin_Otter_CIRPAS_236.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	14th July 2018, 16:51:20
Downloads:	218
Author:	Jan Kees Blom
Size:	16.23 MB

Category: Combat Flight Simulator 1 and 2 - Aircraft
B25-B Mitchell Doolittle's Raiders A/C No. 40-2282 for The B24 Guy's OH

File Description:
B25-B Mitchell Doolittle's Raiders A/C No. 40-2282, April 18, 1942. Painted over The B24 Guy's B25 Mitchell Overhaul Model. This was mission plane # 4. Pilot: Lt. Everett W. Holstrom, Jr., Co-pilot: LT Lucian N. Youngblood, Navigator: LT Harry C. McCool, Bombardier: SGT Robert J. Stephens, Engineer/Gunner: CPL Bert M. Jordan. This bomb group attacked targets in the Tokyo area. The North American B-25B was not designed or intended for aircraft carrier use, but there they were, sixteen highly modified bombers sitting on the deck of the USS Hornet (CV-8). They were modified to carry bombs to Tokyo. The B-25s are launched from their maximum range, and flew over Tokyo, bombing several installations. The bombs did little damage, but managed to damage the Japanese carrier Ryuho while it is in drydock. Many of the planes then head to wherever they can make it, since the fuel will be empty before they reach a friendly airbase. All of the B-25 bombers are forced to bail out or crash land except one. Eleven crews are forced to bail out over China, 3 crash land, and the last landed safely at Vladivostok. The crew that landed in Russia was interned, along with the plane, for a while. The crews were all volunteer, and had no carrier experience, yet all sixteen of the bombers were successful on take-off. Texture, and Damage Files included. Note the three windows in both port and starboard bulkheads. By revev. Enjoy!

Filename:	B25B_Mitchell_Doolittles_Raiders_AC_No_402282_for_.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	30th July 2006, 20:11:20
Downloads:	69
Author:	Evan G. Butterbrodt
Size:	1.57 MB

Category: Flight Simulator X - Aircraft Repaints, Textures and Modifications
P-47D 334th FS "Miss Plainfield"

File Description:
This folder contains a repaint for the A2A Wings of Power III P-47D Thunderbolt, representing P-47C 42-7945 flown by Lieutenant Spiros 'the Greek' Pisanos of the 334th FS, 4th FG, Finschhafen, New Guinea, 1944. Born in Athens, Greece, in the suburb of Kolonos, on 10 November 1919, Spiros Nicholas "Steve" Pisanos, the son of a subway motorman, came to America in April 1938, as a crew member on a Greek Merchant ship. Arriving in Baltimore, Maryland and unable to speak English, Steve found his way to New York City, where he worked in bakeries and restaurants. As he earned money he started flying lessons at Floyd Bennett Field. In August 1940, he setled i Plainfield, New Jersey, his adopted home town, and continued flying lessons at Westfield Airport. He earned a private pilot's license and, although still a Greek national, in October 1941 he joined the British Royal Air Force sponsored by the Clayton Knight Committee in New York City. Steve began his military flight training at Polaris Flight Academy in Glendale, California. Upon graduation, Pilot Officer Pisanos was transferred to England where he completed RAF Officers Training School at Cosford, England and OTU (Operational Training Unit) at Old Sarum Aerodrome in Salisbury. Pilot Officer Pisanos was posted to the 268 Fighter Squadron at Snailwell Aerodrome in Newmarket flying P-51A's. He later transferred to the 71 Eagle Squadron, one of the three Eagle squadrons in the RAF, comprised of American volunteers flyin Spitfires at Debden RAF Aerodrome. When the USAAF 4th Fighter Group absorbed the American members of the Eagle Squadrons in September and October 1942, Pilot Officer Pisanos was commissioned a lieutenant in the U.S. Army Air Forces. On 3 May 1943, Lt. Pisanos was naturalized as an American citizen in London, England, becoming the first individual in American history to be naturalized outside the Continental United States. Flying his first mission in his P-47 "Miss Plainfield" out of Debden Aerodrome with the 334th Fighter Squadron, 4th Fighter Group, Lt. Pisanos, "The Flying Greek," scored his first victory on 21 May 1943, when he downed a German FW-190 over Ghent, Belgium. by 1 January 1944 he had become an ace with five confirmed victories. On 5 March 1944, he obtained his 10th victory and while returning from that B-17 escort mission to Limoges and Bordeaux, France, Steve experienced engine failure in his P-51B and crash-landed south of Le Havre. For six months he evaded the Germans and worked with the French Resistance and the American OSS sabotaging the German war machine in occupied France. Lt. Pisanos returned to England on 2 September 1944, following the liberation of Paris. Upon returning to the United States, Captain Pisanos was assigned to the Flight Test Division at Wright Field, Ohio. He attended the USAF Test Pilot School and subsequently served as a test pilot at Wright Field and Muroc Lake, California, testing the YP-80 jet aircraft. During his career in the USAF, Steve graduated from the University of Maryland, attended the Air Command and Staff College and the Air War College. In December 1973, after a distinguished thirty years of service in the United States Air Force, he retired with the rank of Colonel. Repaint by Jan Kees Blom, based on the paintkit by Martin Catney

Filename:	P47D_334th_FS_Miss_Plainfield.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	14th March 2009, 10:55:44
Downloads:	730
Author:	Jan Kees Blom
Size:	7.17 MB

Category: Flight Simulator X - Scenery
RAF Swanton Morley - Norfolk, England

File Description:
Swanton Morley was a new station planned under the RAF expansion scheme but not completed to the same standard before the start of the Second World War. It was part of No. 2 Group in Bomber Command until December 1944 when it was given over to 100 Group - the RAF unit responsible for countering German defences against the British strategic bombing - as they needed another airfield close to their HQ at Bylaugh Hall.

On 4 July 1942, American and British airmen took off from this station as part of the first combined bombing raid of World War II. No 226 Squadron had been tutoring the US 15 Bombardment Squadron. Both Winston Churchill and General Eisenhower were at RAF Swanton Morley for this mission, which saw six crews from 15th Bombardment Squadron fly a raid with six crews from the RAF, using Boston light bombers belonging to No. 226 Squadron RAF. The raid was made at low level against German airfields in the Netherlands. During World War II the station was home to the Bomber Support Development Unit (BSDU) of No. 100 Group RAF.

After World War II the station was home to No 1 Air Signaller's School and later to the Central Servicing Development Establishment (CSDE) and the Maintenance Analysis and Computing Establishment (MACE).

From June 1953 to 1995 the station was also used by 611 Volunteer Gliding School, when the station was listed for closure under Options for Change. The station held popular airshows during the 1980s. The station closed in 1995 and was converted to an Army base now known as Robertson Barracks. Source: Wikipedia.

Filename:	RAF_Swanton_Morley__Norfolk_England.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	29th January 2016, 12:26:24
Downloads:	268
Author:	Terry Boissel
Size:	1.06 MB

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery Design
FSDEM 1.1

File Description:
FSDEM is a graphical tool designed to help on the editing and correction of NASA SRTM (Shuttle Radar Topography Mission) terrain elevation meshes, and to create terrain mesh scenery to be used in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2002/2004.

Program main features:

• Can read SRTM-1 and SRTM-3 HGT file types.
• Automatic reading of HGT files from ZIP files (as distributed by USGS), saving disk space. No need for external decompressors.
• Can read binary raster files. Useful to import DEM data from 3rd party GIS applications.
• Easy-to-build mosaic: just select the HGT source folder and the coordinates of the bounding rectangle, and the program will join the appropriate HGT files into a single working mesh, fully editable, on-screen.
• Ability to load adjoining tiles for better interpolation results.
• Graphical editing of elevation data: selective area filling, offseting, clipping, etc.
• Interpolation capability for missing data (voids) - parametric Inverse Distance Weighted Average Interpolation.
• Edit-enabled zoom modes.
• Multi-level "undo" capability.
• Ability to append overlapping bands to the output BGL (useful to avoid visual glitches caused by adjoining BGL areas).
• Creates BGL files with a single click. No need to manually create an INF file. No need to use Microsoft Resample directly.
• Support for user-supplied additional INF files.
• Ability to export the terrain mesh to a binary raster file for further editing in 3rd party GIS tools.
• Can save the terrain mesh to a BMP picture for reference.

Filename:	FSDEM_11.zip
License:	Freeware, limited distribution
Added:	4th August 2004, 20:51:02
Downloads:	5,125
Author:	Emerson de Oliveira
Size:	377.03 KB

Category: Orbiter - Miscellaneous Files
Gusev Crater Scenery

File Description:
Gusev Crater is an impact crater on Mars that looks as though a lake may have once filled it in the distant past. Gusev Crater is about 145 km (90 miles) wide. It is located at 14.6° South latitude and 175.3° East longitude, along the boundary between Mars' southern highlands and its lowland northern plains. The crater is about 3,000 km (1,900 miles) southeast of the volcano Elysium Mons. Scientists believe the Gusev Crater was formed by the impact of an asteroid three to four billion years ago. A valley named Ma'adim Vallis, which is connected to the south side of the crater, looks like it may have been a river channel that poured water into the crater in the past, forming a large lake. If the crater was indeed a lake, scientists expect it to contain layers of sediments as much as 915 meters (3,000 feet) thick that flowed in with the water. There may be other clues to a watery past within the crater, such as deposits of minerals, such as halite and gypsum, that form when water evaporates. Wet environments are the best places to look for life, which is why scientists are so eager to track down places on Mars that were once wet. On the 3rd of January 2004, MER-A Spirit, one of the two Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) had landed within an 81 km by 12 km (50 by 7 miles) oval near the center of Gusev Crater. Once settled into its new "home", Spirit will begin its mission of exploring for geologic evidence of the presence of water in Gusev Crater's past.

Filename:	Gusev_Crater_Scenery.zip
License:	Freeware
Added:	5th January 2004, 17:56:22
Downloads:	1,376
Author:	Robert Stettner (Foxtrot)
Size:	378.72 KB