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Post by motormouse on Sept 16, 2005 6:43:19 GMT -5
Guy Hulin's Morane-Saulnier 500 (in-line engine) and 505 (radial engine) Storch. File name 'Mora505.zip' at Avsim. Pete Oops! pics didn't work.....back to ye olde drawing board...and......hooray!!
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Post by Admin on Sept 16, 2005 6:47:50 GMT -5
Guy Hulin's Morane-Saulnier 500 (in-line engine) and 505 (radial engine) Storch. File name 'Mora505.zip' at Avsim. Pete Oops! pics didn't work.....back to ye olde drawing board Check the Announcements forum for Roger's tutorial on posting pics from hosting sites
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Post by biplaneflyer on Sept 16, 2005 6:50:05 GMT -5
A very nice plane and extremely good model - unfortunately they produced them after 1939 so miss out on my database -but will be in 1940-1945 section Look for mora505.zip at flightsim.com or the other big sites
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Post by motormouse on Sept 16, 2005 7:05:00 GMT -5
A very nice plane and extremely good model - unfortunately they produced them after 1939 so miss out on my database -but will be in 1940-1945 section Look for mora505.zip at flightsim.com or the other big sites Wikipedia "The first Fi 156A prototype flew in the spring of 1936. It was powered by a V-8 180 kW (240 hp) Argus As 10C engine, which gave the plane a top speed of only 175 km/h (109 mph). But that power was not wasted; the Storch could fly as slow as 50 km/h (32 mph), take off into a light wind in less than 45 m (150 ft), and land in 18 m (60 ft). It was immediately ordered into production by the Luftwaffe with an order for 16 planes, and the first Fi 156As entered service in mid-1937. Fieseler then offered the Fi 156B model which allowed for the retraction of the leading edge slats and a number of minor aerodynamic cleanups, boosting the speed to 208 km/h (130 mph). The Luftwaffe didn't consider such a small difference to be important, and Fieseler instead moved on to the main production version, the C model. The Fi 156C was essentially a "flexible" version of the A model. A small run of C-0s were followed by the C-1 three-seater liaison version, and the C-2 two-seat observation plane with a MG 15 machine gun in the rear for defense. Both models entered service in 1939. In 1941 both were replaced by the C-3 with a "universal cockpit" that could be used in any role. Last of the Cs was the C-5, which was a C-3 model that included a hardpoint under the fuselage for a camera or fuel tank. The Storch could be found on every front throughout the war. It will always be most famous for the rescue of Benito Mussolini from a boulder-strewn mountaintop, surrounded by Italian troops. Otto Skorzeny dropped with 90 paratroopers onto the peak and quickly captured it, but the problem remained of how to get back off. A Fa 223 helicopter was sent, but it broke down en-route. Instead, Walter Gerlach flew in a Storch, landed in 30 m (100 ft), took on Mussolini and Skorzeny, and took back off again in under 80 m (250 ft), even though the plane was overloaded. A total of about 2,900 Fi 156s, mostly Cs, were produced from 1937 to 1945. When the main Fieseler plant switched to building Bf 109s in 1943, Storch production was shifted to the Mráz factory in Czechoslovakia. A large number were also built at the captured Morane-Saulnier factory in France, starting in April 1942, as the MS.500 Criquet. Both factories continued to produce the planes after the war for local civilian markets." Pete
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Post by biplaneflyer on Sept 16, 2005 7:45:58 GMT -5
To qoute ' A large number were also built at the captured Morane-Saulnier factory in France, starting in April 1942, as the MS.500 Criquet '
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Post by p3superbee on Sept 16, 2005 8:00:49 GMT -5
A very nice plane and extremely good model - unfortunately they produced them after 1939 so miss out on my database -but will be in 1940-1945 section Look for mora505.zip at flightsim.com or the other big sites Wikipedia "The first Fi 156A prototype flew in the spring of 1936. Yes the Fi-156a, was first flown in 1936, but the Morane Saulnier 500 as pictured above is the French derivitive and wasn't built till after Fieseler moved from Germany to France in '43 or '45... And there are slight differnences in the aircraft... Tim "Piglet" Conrad has done the Fi-156...
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Post by biplaneflyer on Sept 16, 2005 8:57:15 GMT -5
Now that is on my site! ;D
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Post by motormouse on Sept 16, 2005 9:12:43 GMT -5
hey I didn't want to start a war here! Thought I'd try and edicate peeple on why it was going to be in the 1940-45 section.....
Pete
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Post by p3superbee on Sept 16, 2005 17:44:45 GMT -5
hey I didn't want to start a war here! Thought I'd try and edicate peeple on why it was going to be in the 1940-45 section..... Pete Not a problem... Misread and took it as you were saying it was built prior to '39... In anycase this line of aircraft can be confusing... I know it took me awhile to figure which was which.... ;D
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Post by Kofi on Sept 17, 2005 9:58:54 GMT -5
Thanks for the "heads-up" motormouse!
Kofi
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Post by Kofi on Sept 17, 2005 10:00:45 GMT -5
Thought I'd try and edicate peeple Pete ;D ;D ;D Kofi
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Post by lignite on Sept 19, 2005 0:01:16 GMT -5
Does Tim Conrads Storch have a virtual cockpit? I'm having trouble getting it to work (FS9 crashes when trying to load).
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Post by Kofi on Sept 19, 2005 0:30:33 GMT -5
Does Tim Conrads Storch have a virtual cockpit? I'm having trouble getting it to work (FS9 crashes when trying to load). Yes it does. You must put the GAUGESOUND.DLL file in your root FS directory to stop the crashes
Kofi
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Post by kimber on Sept 19, 2005 11:54:37 GMT -5
These are great for landing and taking off of the default carriers!!
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Post by Roger on Sept 19, 2005 13:29:12 GMT -5
Yeah.
With a reasonable headwind the Storch is so stol it's nearly vtol ;D
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