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Offline Michael Concannon /OVA5155

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LAND DOWN UNDER 009: WWII Bomber
« on: May 12, 2017, 05:13:25 PM »
I used Milton Shupe's superb Lockheed PV-2 "Harpoon" for this 1000+ nm flight. During WWII in the Pacific, the Navy used these from forward island airstrips as they were defended/held or captured by amphibious assault by Marines in some pretty gruesome warfare.

They conducted surface search, anti-sub patrol and anti-shipping missions against Japanese merchant ships, subs and troop transports. They carried bombs, rockets, depth charges and had cannon in the nose as well. With drop tanks they had a range of about seven hours at 210 kts TAS at 14500 ft, according to my data.

The Harpoon was derived from the well known "Ventura", but a much more capable airplane

See my pic here --
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Offline Marty Barnes / TWVA-KLAX

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Re: LAND DOWN UNDER 009: WWII Bomber
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2017, 08:58:27 AM »
Beautiful plane !!
When you look back at history, just about every available asset during that time was adapted / pressed into some form of military service. 

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Re: LAND DOWN UNDER 009: WWII Bomber
« Reply #2 on: June 03, 2017, 07:01:59 PM »
Going to piggy-back on your post to add my LDU009 and LDU010 WWII era hops.  Both of these were freeware aircraft originally built for FS9.

"B17F coming into Henderson Field, Guadanacanal:"


"The now freeware AlphaSim B24J, on the way to Port Moreby.  Again FS9 and the textures get a little faded in other sim versions:


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Re: LAND DOWN UNDER 009: WWII Bomber
« Reply #3 on: June 04, 2017, 01:01:30 PM »
Lookin' good!
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Offline Charlie Ford/TWVA-CEO

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Re: LAND DOWN UNDER 009: WWII Bomber
« Reply #4 on: June 07, 2017, 11:51:39 PM »
Love the Flying Fortress shot!

 

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