FS2002 Pro Douglas B-23 "Dragon" Bomber
The B-23 was a twin engine bomber developed as a replacement for the Douglas B-18. It incorporated many features of the DC-3 but was slimmer and much more powerful. It was much faster than the B-18 and was the first operational US Army bomber to have a tail gun position. However, it was soon out performed by the likes of the North American B-25 and Martin B-26. Consequently only 38 were produced. I always thought the B-23 was one of the best looking airplanes of that time frame. I decided to procede with this project when I found decent 3-views at Bob's Air Docs. This FSDS project was animated with Aircraft Animator and compiled into FS2002 Pro. I have not tried it in any other sim as of this date.
INSTALLATION: Unzip B23.zip into a temporary folder. Copy the folder B-23 Dragon into the Aircraft folder of FS2002. Close everything and fire up FS2002. This plane should show up in the aircraft list as Douglas B-23 under Douglas.
PANEL: There are no dedicated B-23 panels available so I chose to include a DC-3 panel which should not be too far off since the B-23 was derived from the DC-3. There are many DC-3 panels available with varying degrees of complexity. I chose to include a recent release by Samuel Linell because it looks good and is very frame rate friendly. It uses all default gauges so there is no gauge file with this download.
SOUND: I aliased the Cessna 182 sound to save file space, but, again, any DC-3 sound file would be appropriate. I personally chose Mike Hambly's recent R4d file because it does sound a little more powerful than most DC-3 files (just my opinion).
LEGAL: This project is released as freeware. You may modify it, repaint it, etc., upload to another website as long as it is not for profit. You need my written permission to use any of these files for commercial purposes; otherwise just give me credit for the original design. This airplane should not hurt your computer but I am not responsible if it causes problems.
