This release contains scenery that depicts the ships of Task Force 16 that delivered the Doolittle Raiders to their launch point on April 18th 1942.
In honor of the 62nd anniversary of the raid, we are pleased to release the ships that were present the day of the launch.
Carriers:
USS Hornet CV-8
USS Enterprise CV-6
Heavy Cruisers:
USS Salt Lake City CA-25
USS Northampton CA-26
USS Vincennes CA-44
Light Cruiser:
USS Nashville CL-43
Task Force Layout of scenery:
CA-44 CL-43
CV-8
CV-6
CA-25 CA-26
Simmers will now be able to land and launch from the carriers. Also an example catapult entry is available for catapult shots from the cruiser Salt Lake City.
There are two airport entries built using AFCAD 2.1 by Lee Swordy.
AF2_CV8 USS Hornet (Airport ID CV8)
AF2_CA25 USS Salt Lake City Catapult (Airport ID VN25)
The position of the Hornet launch was established using coordinates cited by Samuel Eliot Morison in his volume III The Rising Sun in the Pacific 1931-April 1942 pg 394.
TO INSTALL:
Simply unzip the contents of the VN_TF16.zip file into your FS9/Addon Scenery folder... heirarchy should then be as follows
FS9
- Addon Scenery
- VN_TF16
-scenery
-texture
Also, all the ships are included in a library BGL file made possible by using Library Creator XML by Arno Gerretsen.
Listed below are the library GUID's for the individual ships for placement elsewhere by FREEWARE designers.
USS Hornet B5DEE874 9CBD1C54 9016F1AD 5C7F69AD
USS Nashville B5DEE874 9CBD1C54 9016F1AD 5C7F69AE
USS Enterprise B5DEE874 9CBD1C54 9016F1AD 5C7F69AF
USS Vincennes B5DEE874 9CBD1C54 9016F1AD 5C7F69B0
USS Northampton B5DEE874 9CBD1C54 9016F1AD 5C7F69B1
USS Salt Lake City B5DEE874 9CBD1C54 9016F1AD 5C7F69B2
TAKEOFF NOTES:
Highly recommend using the MAAM B-25 "Briefing Time".... let out full flaps... and then full throttle ... release brakes.... a successful takeoff should be in the making.
Of course if one wants to try from a shorter distance...make sure you have wind coming down the bow 344 degrees... FS9 only allows a max wind of 36 kts!
Also would recommend Doug Dawson's excellent carrier_ops_guage_pack.zip ... to allow Catapult launches and tailhook landings. Some panel configuration might be needed depending on the plane.
This release is FREEWARE. Any attempts to sell or upload to a pay site is forbidden.
Scenery developers are encouraged and welcome to include this scenery in their packages. All we ask is you ask for permission from one of the designers.
- James Smith crashaz@hotmail.com
- Bruce Baker bbtbmb@direcway.com
We are not responsible for any computer issues this may cause... real or imaginary. ;^)
