The Focke-Wulf Fw 58 Weihe ("Harrier") was a German aircraft, built to fill a request of the Luftwaffe for a multi-role aircraft to be used as advanced trainer for pilots, gunners and radio operators.
The Focke-Wulf Fw 58 was built to fill a request of the Luftwaffe for a multi-role aircraft to be used as advanced trainer for pilots, gunners and radio operators. It was also used as VIP transport, ambulance, feeder airliner, photo-recon, and weather research aircraft. It was built under license in Bulgaria and Brazil. It was also exported to and operated by several countries such as the Netherlands, Argentina, Bulgaria, China, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Sweden and Turkey.
The version "C" was the civil version built as passenger and military liaison aircraft. Powered by two 240 Hp Argus As 10C engines, or 2 x 260 Hp Hirt HM508D, for six passengers and three crew members, also used by Lufthansa between 1938 and 1939. Within this series, an ambulance version was developed for casualty transport, being the Fw58 G-1 and Fw58 G-3. During the war it was used widely as ambulance for casualty transport, and crop spraying. Some units were build in Brazil by the Fabrica Galleao for gunner training.
An additional characteritis common to all models without transparent nose, is the hump in the roof behind the flight deck. In the passenger version, this hump has been moved further back to allow for more headroom for the six passengers it could transport.
Lufthansa employed eight FW58 version "C" in 1938-39 as commercial transports, and three were used by Focke-Wulf as staff transports.
(Extracted from original FS98 Readme by Stephan Scholz, and other web sources).
General characteristics
Crew: 4
Length: 14 m (45ft 11 in)
Wingspan: 21 m (68 ft 10 in)
Height: 4.3 m (14 ft 1 in)
Empty weight: 1,900 kg (4,200 lb)
Loaded weight: 2,810 kg (6,200 lb)
Powerplant: 2× Argus As 10 air-cooled inverted V8 piston engines, 180 kW (240 hp) each
Performance
Maximum speed: 256 km/h (159 mph)
Range: 676 km (420 mi)
Armament
Armament: None in passenger version.
3 × 7.92 mm (.312 in) MG 15 machine guns in trainer version.
Original FS98 model creators: Christoph Ruhtenberg and Stephan Scholz.
Panel: Stephan Scholz.
Adapted to CFS1 with new textures and damage profile: Edmundo Abad 2010.
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This virtual model represent the Lufthansa Focke-Wulf FW58 # D-OVXE, "Elbe", 1939.
I have included new textures, moving parts and damage profile for use with CFS1 but without armament.
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Installation FS98/CFS
1. Unzip to Temporaly directory "FW58Lufthansa.zip".
2. Copy "FW58Lufthansa" folder to X:\CFS\aircraft directory.
3. Unzip "Gauges.zip" into the CFS gauges directory.
