Germany

AvH_1%_V4/167_GR_Me_262_1a_U4_JV44

BEAR — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:58:59 GMT

Messerschmitt - Me-262a-1a/U4
Pulkzerstorer
SCHWALBE - "Swallow"
AvHistory - Version-4.00.167

John Whelan BRAVO/4 has painted the Swallow as a Pulkzerstorer. It was the presonal aircraft of Pilot Major
Willi Hergat of JV 44 a special fighter unit of top German fighter ace pilots in the spring of 1945 at Munique/Alemanha.

Major Hergat was credited with 72 kills. He was awarded the Knights Cross with Oak Leaves.

This plane uses a custom painted cockpit by Alex Mets' who is better known as Artmag-Reloaded aka artmag.

The was equipped with a 50MM Mauser Mk 214A V3 cannon designed to kill bombers. The entire nose section had been specially constructed to accommodate the Mauser Mk 214A V3-cannon. This gun had a weight of 490 kilos, a rate of fire of 45 rounds/minute and carried 22 projectiles, each weighing 1.54 kilos.

Developed from a 1938 design by the Messerschmitt company, the Me 262 "Schwalbe," ("Swallow") was the worlds first operational turbojet aircraft. First flown as a pure jet on July 18, 1942, it proved much faster than conventional airplanes.

Development problems, Allied bombings, and cautious Luftwaffe leadership contributed to delays in quantity production. In late 1943, Adolf Hitler agreed to mass production, but insisted the aircraft be used primarily as a fighter-bomber.

On July 25, 1944, an Me 262 became the first jet airplane used in combat when it attacked a British photo-reconnaissance Mosquito flying over Munich. As a fighter, the German jet scored heavily against allied bomber formations. The bombers, however, destroyed hundreds of Me 262s on the ground. More than 1,400 Me 262s were produced, but fewer than 300 saw combat.

Most remained on the ground awaiting conversion to bombers, or were unable to fly because of lack of fuel, spare parts, or trained pilots.

AvH_GR_Ju-52_WED

BEAR — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:14:28 GMT

Junkers Ju-52/3m g7e
CN + 4V "Where Eagles Dare"
AvHistory - Version-4.00.165

This outstanding visual version of the Ju-52 was created by Greg Law with information & research provided by Andrzej Fitt. Additionally, The Greg Law Ju-57 Shared folder with the high res cockpit & interior for this aircraft may be downloaded from our AvH files section.

The aircraft light package was installed by Steve Dunn. Greg Law has added a retractable landing light to the aircraft.

John Whelan BRAVO/4 has painted the Ju-52 in a fictional livery, squadron code CN + 4V, of the Special Operations Executive (SOE), sometimes referred to as "the Baker Street Irregulars" after Sherlock Holmes's fictional group of spies.

"Where Eagles Dare"

U.S. Army Brigadier General George Carnaby, enroute to Crete to rendezvous with Russian forces to plan the final details of the invasion of Normandy, is captured by the Germans when his aircraft is shot down.

He is taken to the Schloß Adler (The Castle of the Eagles - hence the story's title), a fortress high in the Alps above the town of Werfen and the headquarters of the German Secret Service in southern Bavaria.

A special team of mainly British commandos is hurriedly assembled and briefed by Colonel Wyatt Turner and Admiral Rolland of MI6, and led by Major John Smith, MC and US Army Ranger Lieutenant Morris Schaffer. Their mission is to parachute into the locality, infiltrate the Schloß Adler, and rescue General Carnaby before the Germans can interrogate him.

However, this mission is entirely a cover for an MI6 operation to disclose the identities of German double agents who have infiltrated British intelligence. Major Smith and Admiral Rolland manage the operation together; they know of some agents but not enough, and so devise a plan to trick known agents into disclosing their contacts, revealing the entire network of infiltrators.

Three of the party on the Bavarian mission, Thomas, Barclay, and Christiansen, are known to be double agents only by Smith and Rolland, and are their targets of the MI6 plan.

The JU52 used in "Where Eagles Dare" was leased from the Swiss Air Force which was still operating 4 or 5 examples at the time the movie was made. They were retired from service shortly afterward.

The Ju 52 trimotor, like the USAF C-47, was first built in the 1930s and remained in service for more than a quarter century. This transport made its maiden flight in April 1931, and three years later, a heavy bomber version appeared. The latter aircraft formed the nucleus of the Luftwaffe’s infant bomber force in the mid-1930s, and it was used during the Spanish Civil War.

The Ju 52 was obsolete as a bomber by 1939, but because of its durability, simplicity of design and handling characteristics, it continued to serve throughout World War II as a versatile workhorse of the German transport fleet. For a period, Adolph Hitler used a Ju 52 as his private transport.

Ju 52s delivered the attacking forces and their supplies during the German invasion of Norway, Denmark, France and the Low Countries in 1940. Almost 500 Ju 52s participated in the historic airborne assault on the island of Crete in May 1941, and Junkers later supplied Rommel’s armored forces in North Africa.

AvH_GR_Me-262a_1a_White_8

BEAR — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:53:30 GMT

Messerschmitt - Me-262a-1a
White 8
SCHWALBE - "Swallow"
AvHistory - Version-4.00.165

John Whelan BRAVO/4 has painted the Swallow in the livery of Major Walter Nowotny's aircraft known as White 8. This plane uses a custom painted cockpit by Alex Mets' who is better known as Artmag-Reloaded aka artmag.

In September 1944, Major Nowotny was put in charge of Kommando Nowotny, equipped with the Me 262 jet fighter. The unit consolidated a number of test units and was tasked with acquiring tactical knowledge and experience of Me 262 operations. The unit was based on two airfields northwest of Osnabruck: Achmer and Hesepe.

Nowotny was besieged with difficulties in operationally testing the jet fighter. In addition to staving off the increasing Allied fighter presence the jets attracted, he was also beset with the technical difficulties a new and immature technology presented. By 7 November 1944, Nowotny had claimed three victories in the new jet fighter.

Nowotny took off on 8 November 1944, flying against USAAF bombers with a fighter escort. The exact circumstances of Nowotnys death remain uncertain. Ground personnel reported hearing combat above the clouds.Nowotny reported he had downed a B-24 four-engine bomber and probably destroyed a P-51 fighter. He then reported an engine failure before making a garbled transmission referring to burning over the radio. His Me 262 A-1a (W.Nr. 110 400)

White 8 was seen to dive vertically out of the clouds and crash at Epe, 2.5 kilometers east of Hesepe. It is generally accepted that he was shot down by 1st Lt Edward Buddy Haydon of the 357th Fighter Group, USAAF and Capt Ernest Feeb Fiebelkorn (9 victories) of the 20th Fighter Group, USAAF whom shared a Me 262 victory at 12:45 over Achmer that day.

Walter Nowotny flew over 442 missions in achieving 258 victories. He recorded 255 of his victories over the Eastern front. Of his three victories recorded over the Western front, 2 were four-engine bombers and all 3 victories were gained while flying the Me 262 jet fighter.

Most remained on the ground awaiting conversion to bombers, or were unable to fly because of lack of fuel, spare parts, or trained pilots.

This aircraft has a very accurate Turbo-Jet engine sound package which is quite large. Since the sound package is so large we have created a separate zip file for it (Twin Turbojet Engine Sound Package) available for download from the 'Engine Sounds" section of our web site.

These sounds were recorded & developed by AEROMUSICA, Benoit Plamondon & Mark Cranston. We thank them for their permission to use them with our jets.

For night flying the Me-262 is equipped with external & instrument panel lights. To activate these lights you must download & install the three "LightEffects" zip files from the AvHistory Files section of our web site.

This package development has been spearheaded by Guy FOX Greenberg, Ed GZR_Groundhog Wilson & Steve O1 Dunn. Also Art MUSTANG Smith who spent a lot of hours testing the package.

These effects files also contain many effects from the MAW package & we are very grateful to our fellow Desert Rats for permission to use these outstanding effects files.

AvH_GR_Me-262a-1a_Red 2

BEAR — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 02:47:20 GMT

Messerschmitt - Me-262a-1a
Red 2
SCHWALBE - "Swallow"
AvHistory - Version-4.00.165

John Whelan BRAVO/4 has painted the Swallow as Red 2 of 10./NAGr 11. It was the presonal aircraft of Fw (sergeant) Karl Heinz Becker. This plane uses a custom painted cockpit by Alex Mets' who is better known as Artmag-Reloaded aka artmag.

Fw Karl Heinz Becker was a pure jet ace scoring all 7 of his kills while flying the Me-262.

Two skins are included - both Summer & Winter camouflage. The Me-262 will automatically change camouflage patterns based on what season you select for CFS3 to be in.

Most remained on the ground awaiting conversion to bombers, or were unable to fly because of lack of fuel, spare parts, or trained pilots.

NOTES:

These sounds were recorded & developed by AEROMUSICA, Benoit Plamondon & Mark Cranston. We thank them for their permission to use them with our jets.

This package development has been spearheaded by Guy FOX Greenberg, Ed GZR_Groundhog Wilson & Steve O1 Dunn. Also Art MUSTANG Smith who spent a lot of hours testing the package.

These effects files also contain many effects from the MAW package & we are very grateful to our fellow Desert Rats for permission to use these outstanding effects files.

AvH_GR_Do-335A-1_VG+PH

BEAR — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:28:14 GMT

DORNIER Do 335A-1
VG+PH
"PFEIL" (ARROW)
CFS3 - V4.00.164

This aircraft was built by GregoryP using the Version 4.00.164 AvHistory 1% Assembly Line process. The 1% version of this plane is based on the stock MS/CFS3 visual which has been repainted.

John BRAVO/4 Whelan's excellent historical paint represents the Do 335A-O, W.Nr 240102, VG+PH. This aircraft was the second pre-production A series to be completed. It is also the only surviving example of the Do 335. The Arrow VG+PH is currently in storage at the Paul Garber facility of the Smithsonian Institute NASM in the USA. The aircraft, due to its size, has been disassembled for ease of storage due to the limited space available at the facility.

The Dornier Do 335 Arrow was one of the most unusual fighters of the Second World War.

Equipped with two Daimler-Benz V-12 engines, the most powerful available at the time, it was probably the fastest propeller driven aircraft of the period. With one engine mounted conventionally in the nose driving a propeller at the front of the aircraft and one engine buried mid-fuselage driving a rear mounted propeller, it had the aerodynamic characteristics of a single-engine fighter yet the power of a twin.

The prototype Do 335 V1, W.Nr 230001, CP+UA, made its maiden flight from Dornier's Friedrichhafen plant on 26 October 1943. On the fourth flight the Do 335 V1 attained a speed of 600km/h (373mph) at sea level, it was found that the aircraft could fly faster with the forward engine stopped, than with the rear engine stopped. A speed of 560km/h (348mph) was possible in the former condition.

Perfecting the Pfeil proved to be a long and laborious task and was probably delayed by the skepticism of authorities toward its unusual design. Overheating in the rear engine was but one of the early development problems.

The small production run included 3 versions--a single-seat fighter (335A-1); a 2-seat night fighter (335A-6); and "heavy" fighter (335B- series). Toward the end of the war, a night fighter was also produced. Take-off weight was 21,160 pounds, a little less than P-38's 21,600 pounds. First production version A-1 appeared in late 1944, but the course of the war prevented further development.

Do 335s never saw combat service, though operational evaluation of the Do 335A was carried out from autumn 1944 by Erprobungskommando 335.

AvH_GR_Bf-109G_10DC_JG_52

BEAR — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:52:41 GMT

Bf-109G-10DC GUSTAV
CFS3 - V4.00.164

This aircraft was built by Gregory SARGE Pierson using the Version 4.00.164 AvHistory 1% Assembly Line process. It is based on the stock Bf-109.

Dan Swart has painted the G-10 as "White 3" in the 81/83/76 scheme with a narrow yellow factory fuselage band flown by II./JG 52 in February 1945. The pilot of White 3 is Leutnant Heinz 'ESAU' Ewald. The logo of the "E" and the pig on the side of the plane was created from his nickname "ESAU"

He joined 5./JG-52 in Russia as a young Unteroffizier in the late summer of 1943 and flew with them for the entire duration of the war. Always regarded as one of the finest of the young pilots of JG-52, he flew as wingman to Major Gerhard Barkhorn, Kommandeur of 11./JG-52 who was the second highest scoring Ace in history.

Heinz Ewald scored his 50th victory on December 29, 1944 when at Veszprem in Hungary. He flew a total of 396 missions and scored 84 victories. He was awarded the Knight's Cross April 1945.

The Bf 109G-10 was the final variant to enter Luftwaffe service. It entered production after the Bf 109K, and was intended to be a lower-cost supplement to the thoroughbred “K” series.

The Messerschmitt Bf 109G-10 series was unusual in that it consisted of new and remanufactured airframes of earlier model G's equipped with the more powerful Daimler Benz DB 605D series engine. As a result, there was little standardization beyond the common use of the Erla-Haube (or "Galland Hood") improved vision canopy. Even so, the G-10 proved to be the fastest G model.

AvH_GR_Fw_190D-9_Red-1 - UPDATED 12/17/07

BEAR — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 22:55:58 GMT

Fw-190D-9 DORA
"Long Nose FW"
Red-1
CFS3 - V4.00.164

This aircraft was built by GregoryP using the Version 4.00.164 AvHistory 1% Assembly Line process. It is based on the FW-190D aircraft designed and built for use in CFS3 by VB Planes' Graham Rollinson.

John BRAVO/4 Whelan painted Dora as Fw190D-9 W. Nr 600424 Red 1. Red 1 was an aircraft assigned to JV-44. It was flown by Lt. Heinz "Heino" Sachsenberg from a base at Munchen-Riemin at the end of the war in April 1945.

The FW-190 was the only completely successful piston-engined fighter introduced by the German air force, the Luftwaffe, after World War II started. The D represents the "second-generation" Fw-190s which followed the Fw-190A into combat.

The Fw-190D interceptor was considered by many German pilots to be the finest piston-engined fighter in Luftwaffe service.

The longer-nosed Fw-190D, with a redesigned tail, was a success with pilots because of increased engine reliability and performance much superior to the Fw-190A-8 in climb, dive and level speed.

Pilots considered it more than a match for the P-51D "Mustang". Armament was two 20mm Mauser MG-151/20 cannon in the wing (with a robust 250 rounds per gun) and two 13mm Rheinmetall MG-131 cannon (with 475 rounds per gun) over the engine.

Small batches of Fw-190D-0 and D-1 preproduction fighters were delivered for service evaluation in Spring and Summer 1943, just as the American 8th Air Force was starting large daylight bombing raids.

Construction started at Marz, Cottbus, and Kassel-Waldau in Summer 1944. This was part of a major expansion in German single-engined fighter production initiated 2 years earlier by Erhard Milch, chief of aircraft procurement and supply. Over 1,000 fighters a month were now entering air defense service.

Figures vary, but approximately 13,250 fighters

AvH_GR-Fw_190D-9_Blue-10

BEAR — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:48:10 GMT

Fw-190D-9 DORA
"Long Nose FW"
Blue-10
CFS3 - V4.00.164

This aircraft was built by GregoryP using the Version 4.00.164 AvHistory 1% Assembly Line process. It is based on the FW-190D aircraft designed and built for use in CFS3 by VB Planes' Graham Rollinson.

John BRAVO/4 Whelan painted Dora as Fw190D-9 W. Nr 210983 Blue 10. Blue 10 was an aircraft assigned to STAB. II/JG26. It was flown by Hauptman Peter-Paul Stiedel during January 1945 in defense of Germany.

The FW-190 was the only completely successful piston-engined fighter introduced by the German air force, the Luftwaffe, after World War II started. The D represents the "second-generation" Fw-190s which followed the Fw-190A into combat.

The Fw-190D interceptor was considered by many German pilots to be the finest piston-engined fighter in Luftwaffe service.

The longer-nosed Fw-190D, with a redesigned tail, was a success with pilots because of increased engine reliability and performance much superior to the Fw-190A-8 in climb, dive and level speed.

Pilots considered it more than a match for the P-51D "Mustang". Armament was two 20mm Mauser MG-151/20 cannon in the wing (with a robust 250 rounds per gun) and two 13mm Rheinmetall MG-131 cannon (with 475 rounds per gun) over the engine.

Small batches of Fw-190D-0 and D-1 preproduction fighters were delivered for service evaluation in Spring and Summer 1943, just as the American 8th Air Force was starting large daylight bombing raids.

Construction started at Marz, Cottbus, and Kassel-Waldau in Summer 1944. This was part of a major expansion in German single-engined fighter production initiated 2 years earlier by Erhard Milch, chief of aircraft procurement and supply. Over 1,000 fighters a month were now entering air defense service.

Figures vary, but approximately 13,250 fighters were produced.

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Fw-200C-4 Condor

BEAR — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:23:33 GMT

Focke-Wulf
FW-200C-4
CONDOR
F8+AH
AvHistory - Version-4.00.164

This Condor is a B-grade plane. Cockpits and gunstations are rudimentary implemented, fully functional, but not final state of the art. This plane uses no MOS file due to limitations of the CFS3 engine, thus you will not see bullet holes on this aircraft.

The Version 4.00.164 Flight, Damage & Weapons package was built by Gregory SARGE Pierson using the AvHistory 1% Assembly Line process.

Groundcrew Design Group's Greg Law created this outstanding visual and John (BRAVO/4) Whelan painted it as the maritime patrol craft F8+AH flown the 1st Staffel, Kampfgeschwader 40 based at Bordeaux-Merignac, Western France.

This unit carried out maritime patrols over the Atlantic in the period June-August 1940, under the operational control of Marine Gruppe West, at Lorient.

The Fw200 was developed in the late 1930's as a commercial transport for the German airline Lufthansa. The aircraft set a number of long distance flight records, and based on a Japanese request in 1938, Focke-Wulf modified the aircraft to create a maritime reconnaissance bomber. The first production model, the C-1 version, entered service with the Luftwaffe in June 1940 at Bordeaux-Merignac.

The Fw200 earned its reputation as the "Scourge of the Atlantic" with the sinking of significant numbers of Allied ships as well as coordinating attacks with the German U-Boats.

Typically, Condors flew long missions between France and Norway; a flight would take off from Bordeaux-Merignac on the French coast, loop far out into the Atlantic until well west of Ireland, and then turn north and east before landing at Trondheim-Vaernes in Norway; a fresh crew would fly a return the next day.

Though a Luftwaffe asset, the Condors functioned under the operational control of the U-boat command, locating and radioing the position of convoys to lurking submarines, and then undertaking their own attacks as well. (Occasionally, in a turnabout, U-boats would locate a convoy, report its position, and then shadow it for subsequent air and sub attacks). In one six-month period, the Condors of one maritime patrol bomber wing, Kampfgeschwader 40, assisted by some smaller He 111's, destroyed 85 ships totaling 363,000 tons.

As a rule, Condors were highly successful "ship-busters;" in one attack against a 16-ship convoy off England in February 1941, five FW 200’s singled out five merchant ships and sank all of them, thus sending fully 31% of the entire convoy to the bottom in no more than a few minutes. By cooperating (however imperfectly) with surface craft and U-boats, they added an important force-enhancing factor in Nazi sea control operations.

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AvH 1% Version 4 Fw-200C-4 Condor is released