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TWVA/OVA Open Forums => GALLERY => Topic started by: Michael Concannon /OVA5155 on May 12, 2017, 05:13:25 PM
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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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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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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:"
(http://www.fsfiles.org/flightsimshotsv2/images/2017/06/03/B17Front.jpg)
"The now freeware AlphaSim B24J, on the way to Port Moreby. Again FS9 and the textures get a little faded in other sim versions:
(http://www.fsfiles.org/flightsimshotsv2/images/2017/06/03/24-1.jpg)
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Lookin' good!
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Love the Flying Fortress shot!