The Douglas DC-2 was a 14-seat, twin-propeller airliner produced by the Douglas Aircraft Corporation starting in 1934.
In the early 1930s, fears about the safety of wooden aircraft structures (responsible for the crash of a Fokker Trimotor) compelled the American aviation industry to develop all-metal types. With United Airlines having a monopoly on the Boeing 247, rival Transcontinental and Western Air issued a specification for an all-metal trimotor.
The response of the Douglas Aircraft Company was more radical. When it flew on July 1, 1933, the prototype DC-1 had a highly robust tapered wing, a retractable undercarriage, and only two 690 hp (515 kW) Wright radial engines driving variable-pitch propellers. It seated 12 passengers.
TWA accepted the basic design and ordered 20, with more powerful engines and seating for 14 passengers, as DC-2s. The design impressed a number of American and European airlines and further orders followed. Those for European customers as KLM, Swissair and Lufthansa were assembled by Fokker in the Netherlands. 156 DC-2s were built.
Lufthansa purchased its first Doulas DC-2 through Fokker (the European agent for Douglas) in 1934. During WWII, others Douglas DC-2 captured by german forces on countries under military occupation, were delivered to Lufthansa and also to the Luftwaffe as a troop and cargo transport. The germans DC-2 continued in operation until 1945.
General characteristics
Crew: 2-3
Capacity: 14 passengers
Length: 62 ft 6 in (19.1 m)
Wingspan: 85 ft 0 in (25.9 m)
Height: 15 ft 10 in (4.8 m)
Empty weight: 12,455 lb (5,650 kg)
Loaded weight: 18,560 lb (8,420 kg)
Powerplant: 2× Wright Cyclone GR-F53 9-cylinder radial engines, 730 hp (540 kW) each
Performance
Maximum speed: 210 mph at 6,800ft (338 km/h)
Combat radius: 1,085 mi (1,750 km)
Service ceiling: 22,750 ft (6,930 m)
Rate of climb: 1,030 ft/min (310 m/min)
Armament: None in passenger version.
Original FS98 model creator: Harry Follas.
Sound Pack for DC3 Dakota: Mike Hambly, 1998.
Panel: C-47 panel for CFS: Edmundo Abad 2003.
All reworked to FS98/CFS1 with new textures, damage profile and moving parts: Edmundo Abad 2010.
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This virtual model represent the Lufthansa Douglas DC-2 # D-AAIB, 1941.
I have included new textures, moving parts and damage profile for use with CFS1, with ficcional armament of 2 × 7.92 mm (.312 in) MG 15 machine gun in the side windows.
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Installation FS98/CFS
1. Unzip to Temporaly directory "DC2luft.zip".
2. Copy "DC2luft" folder to X:\CFS\aircraft directory.
3. Copy "gauges" folder to X:\CFS\gauges directory.
