The Westland Wapiti
In 1926 the Air Ministry invited designs for a replacement for the long serving D.H 9A to fill the role of general-perpose aircraft for the RAF, Westland, who had been producing the D.H 9A on a sub-contract basis decided to offer a plane using parts of the D.H 9 although the fuselage was an entirely new design, the wings and interplane struts were from the old 9A. This design, named the Wapiti, met with immediate approval, not only by the Air Ministry but more importantly by those who flew the Wapiti. Ultimately nearly a thousand wapiti’s were built and saw wide spread service. It is interesting to note that on the North West frontier they were used for the same role that was served by Russian Hind Helicopers some fifty years later, namely trying to subdue the local Tribesman.

At the outbreak of WWII several machine were still serving in the Middle East and indeed saw limited active service there.
The Westland Wapiti was a two-seat general-purpose biplane and as requested by the Air Ministry, incorporated in its design, several de Havilland D.H.9A component parts. The prototype Wapiti first flew in March 1927 and was awarded an initial order of 25 production Mk I included one that specially modified with a more luxurious rear cockpit for the Prince of Wales to fly in.

Mk I was powered by a 425hp Bristol Jupiter VI engine, but subsequent Mk II and Mk IIA had 450hp Jupiter VI and 475hp Jupiter VIIIF or similar engines. There were a small number of lengthened Wapiti Mk V and some unarmed Mk VI trainers which brought the total produced for the Royal Air Force to 501. The Westland Wapiti also served the Air Forces of Australia, South Africa (where Wapitis were built under licence), Canada, India and China.

Installation:
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-Unzip " Wapiti" into a temporary file and move the "Wapiti" folder into the main Aircraft directory.
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-Read instructions carefuly when installing the gauges , say YES...when asked if the gauges sources should be trusted. If you say no....most of the gauges are not going to work !
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Put the Hurricane_1.gau into your Flightsim gauges folder or leave them in the Wapiti\panel map.
If having trouble with the cockpit transparencies in FSX acceleration, copy the glass.bmp and prop2blade.bmp from the Acceleration.texture into the Wapiti texture folder.


CREDITS
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Special thanks to :
-GMAX for the drawing program and Microsoft for their makmdls.mdk.


LEGAL:
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The project is released as freeware. You may modify it and repaint it. You may upload this file to another website as long as it is not for profit.
You need the written permission of the original authors to use any of these files for commercial purposes, otherwise a simple credit would be nice. Non commercial repaints-remakes are welcome but I would appreciate very much receiving a copy of your model.
This file should not cause any problems with your computer, but I accept no responsibility if you think it does


Happy Landings!

A.F.Scrub
May 2012
Email: af_scrubbypc@hotmail.com