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North American P-64
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Copyright 1999, Eric C. Johnson.
These is FREEWARE. These files are strictly for your own
personal, non-commercial use and the redistribution, repackaging or
reselling of these files in any form is expressly prohibited without
my written permission.
If you wish to commericially resell these files in any form you
may contact me at the internet address at the bottom of this note to
discuss appropriate fees for the redistribution rights.
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This airplane requires FS2000.
The North American P-64 was a single seat fighter developed from the
ubiquitous AT-6 Texan. North American produced two models of this fighter.
The first was the NA-50A, 7 of which were produced and sold to Peru in
1939 where it was known as the Torito. This version of the plane is the
later NA-68 version produced in 1941. North American marketed this plane
to smaller nations as a simple, low cost fighter with advanced features
such as an enclosed cockpit and retractable gear.
Thailand ordered 6 NA-68's which were in crates on a freighter in Hawaii
when Thailand fell to the Japanese. The U.S. government seized these
planes and returned them to McClellon AFB, near Sacramento, California
where they were christened P-64's and accepted into USAAC service as
advanced combat trainers.
As it turned out, these planes were never used as trainers. Instead,
their armament was removed and they were used as liason hacks at various
airbases throughout California, Arizona and Nevada.
Amazingly, one P-64 still survives in flying condition. The EAA museum
in Oshkosh, Wisconsin has a beautiful blue P-64 that's been re-engined
with a 1,200 hp Cyclone. The placard on this plane claims that it
outperformed a Corsair from 0 to 5,000 ft!
This aircraft represents one of the Thai P-64's shortly after it was
returned to California. It still has its armament and Thailand's tan
and olive camouflage and the Thai Airforce tail color.
This model features a 3D engine opening, 3D air inlets and exhaust stack,
3D cockpit with pilot and 3D wheel wells. All control surfaces, landing
gear and prop are fully animated. The panel layout is speculative but it
is based on the panel layout of an early production Texan. The panel bitmap
is used with the gracious permission of The VIP Group with P-51 and P-47
gauges substituting for the VIP Harvard Mk II gauges. The .air file boasts
an accurately modeled supercharged engine derived from a CFS .air file.
Installation:
If you use a windows zip utility such as Winzip, extract this
entire archive to your FS2000/Aircraft directory. All proper directories
will be created and all files will be installed into the correct
directories.
To manually install these files, create an p-641 sub-directory of
FS2000/Aircraft. In the p-641 directory, create a model, panel, sound and
texture directory. Install aircraft.cfg and p-641.air into the p-641
directory. Install sound.cfg into p-641/sound, model.cfg and p-641.mdl
into p-641/model, panel.cfg and p-64panel.bmp into p-641/panel and all
texture files (p-641___.0-9af) to p-641/texture.
