Although not well known, the two seat Morane Saulnier Type L parasol played a large role in WWI aviation between 1914 and 1916. Some 600 were produced by France for the unglamorous reconnaissance role. But it was also the first operational tractor airplane to be armed with a fixed machine gun firing through the propeller arc and the first aircraft used to destroy a German Zeppelin in flight.
The design dated from August 1913 and first 50 Type L parasols were ordered by Turkey rather than by the France. The Aviation Militaire permitted this but required these were to be powered only by a Gnome 50hp engine as all 80hp engines were reserved for French aircraft. They had the prototype’s wing span of 33ft, 5 1/2in. With war imminent and mobilization ordered, the Turkish Moranes were impressed, apparently re-engined with the 80hp LeRhone 9c, and used to equip two reconnaissance Escadrilles, MS23 and MS26.
At the same time, full production was begun for the Aviation Militaire. With full production, the Type L had an increased wingspan of 36ft, 9in, and wing cutouts to accommodate the observer in the rear seat. Soon design improvements included a lengthened nose section and repositioned landing gear legs among other minor variations. The Aviation Militaire used the Type L extensively throughout 1914, 1915 and early 1916.
In 1914, the British RFC in France accepted 52 Type L Parasols for No.3 Squadron with a few going to No.1 and No,12 Squadrons. Also an order of 25 was placed by the RNAS for No.3 wing at Mudros, Lemnos, Greece and No.1 Wing at Dunkerque. Flying from Dunkerque, on June 7, 1915, Flt Sub Lieutenant R. A. J. Warneford destroyed Zeppelin LZ37, the first in mid air, by bombing it with six 20Lb Hales bombs. He was awarded the Victoria Cross for his success.
Under licenses obtained just prior to hostilities, Pfalz Flugzeugwerks GmbH produced some 60 virtually identical aircraft, powered by Oberursel engines as the Pfalz A.I, A.II and E.III types (carrying a Spandau MG with an interrupter gear). These were flown by the Bavarian flying units up to mid 1916.
Also under license, the Russian companies Duks and Lebed manufactured approximately 450 Type L Parasols for the Czar’s Imperial Russian Air Force.
The model, textures. panel and air files are by Captain Kurt. The pilot figures were developed from Wolfi's freeware Japanese pilot .fsc source file. The prop spinning texture is by Kelticheart.
This project builds on my New Britain scenery for a CFS2 install that uses Rhumbas more accurate new world mesh.This scenery revises New Ireland Island & New Hanover Island. It also reworks Djaul island, the Tabar Group, Lihir, the Tanga Group, Feni Islands, & Anir. Also provided are new representations for Green Island & the Nuguria Island group.
It comprises: New LWM polys to match Rhumbas more accurate world mesh, along with new coastlines (with & without sandy beaches), & a complete set of water textures. Also included are new land & waterclass to give a better impression of the jungle terrain, volcanic soil & coral atolls. In addition, several stock airbases were relocated & redrawn.
Some of Maskriders airbases are affected, these were relocated to match the new mesh & converted to gsl with destroyable objects at the same time. This also includes new gsl work to give detail to the harbour areas as well as the airbases environs.
The textures were designed to display best using Dvslat’s FSX style dark jungle textures, & pacific blue water.
Credits
Thanks to: Jean Bomber for his inspiration, advice & support. He talked me through getting to grips with G2K & more…
Maskrider for all his airbase packages & the blended airbase tutorial. This set the standard for airbase sceneries for the game.
Rhumbaflappy for the new more accurate world mesh – it was a desire to make best use of this development that is the driver for many of my scenery projects. He also developed the vtp1 fixer programme to fix display errors in vtp bgls compiled from Ground2K.
GavinC for his reworking of the stock airbases, making individual base reworking/ revision much easier.
Shessi for his water textures, that were the inspiration for my reworking of Jimkos Pacific Blues, & indirectly lead me to develop this latest set of water textures.
Lindsay Watt for all of his scenery objects & innovations.
Wolfi for his scenery objects.
Xavier for all his scenery objects & airbase sceneries, opening up a larger world for us all to fly in.
Martin Wright for all the various software tools that are so useful!
Russell Dirks for his EZ landclass programme, making large scale land/ water class adjustments possible.
Christian Fumey for his excl8 & Ground2K programmes, making the creation of completely new scenery possible for CFS2.
About 80 new airfields (and ports) for the Spanish Civil War theatre.
Patch 1.1 for the Xavier's Spanish Civil War Airfields to fix the missing "Barracks1" object error when loading the mission in FF, QC or MB. The "Barracks1" objects is replaced in the scenery by the stock Barracks type C.
By Xavier Berdaguer
THIS IS THE CWDT P51D DESIGNED BY A.C. WAI. IT HAS ALL THE BELLS AND WHISTLES SO HERE IS DOWNLOAD 3 OF 4. DOWNLOAD AT YOUR OWN RISK. WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE CAUSED. PUT THESE SEPERATELY INTO FS2004. HAVE FUN
Allows using the CWDT Hellcat in FSX. You still must purchase the Hellcat. Put this folder in the appropriate Hellcat folder replacing those files. This is folder model.5b, 5d, 5n, and 5r
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