Northrop P-61 Black Widow Pack

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Northrop P-61 Black Widow Pack

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PLEASE READ THE README FILE INCLUDED !!!!!

 

The Northrop P-61 Black Widow, named for the venomous spider, was the first operational U.S. military aircraft designed specifically for night interception of opposing aircraft, and was the first aircraft specifically designed to use radar. The P-61 had a crew of three: pilot, gunner, and radar operator.

 

Like the original 1stGen Pak, this mod contains 2 complete aircraft:

P-61A

with 2 skins,

Olive Drab/Neutral Gray

and

Overall Black

The Black will become active using the "StartDefaultDate" switch.

P-61B

Overall Black

The P-61A does NOT have the top turret (as is historicaly correct). The P-61B DOES, and it will engage defensively (well, sorta offensively too) any E/A with range.

As a bonus, an 'experimental' version of the P-61A-1, WITH turret (but locked forward), and some engine modifications is included for those End Users with the skills and talents to try and dial in the WEP statements. The WEP is 'best guess', and historically was used on all Black Widow models (yes, the time IS correct! Right from the Pilot's Manual and other technical resources. But don't use it for longer than 5 minutes at a time!)

 

Credits:

Veltro2k for the aircraft

Stary for his Uber-fantastic Black Widow cockpit!

Wolf257s P-38 drop tank repurposed here

GergoryP for the AvHistory Engine sounds

Wrench for the skin, decals, inis, screens* and such like

 

Sources:

Osprey Combat Aircraft #6: P-61 Black Widown Units of WW2

Squad/Signal #1106: Northrup P-61 Black Widow In Action

Schiffer: 421st NFS in WW2

Warbird Tech #15: P-61 Black Widow

Nightfighter: The Battle for the Night Skies by Ken Delve (a SUPERB reference from WW1 to the 1990s)

USAAF Pilot Training Manual for the P-61 Aircraft (c.1945)

 

 

THIS MODEL IS ONLY TO BE DISTRIBUTED AS FREEWARE AND IN NO OTHER CIRCUMSTANCE SHALL IT BE USED, EVEN IN PART OF ANYTHING THAT IS PAYWARE. IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE COMBAT ACE MODDERS AGREEMENT

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• Submitter
  Veltro2k
• Submitted
  04/16/2014
• Category
  Other

 

[+Coupi 4,388]

Fantastic!!!! WW2 SF2 actions are better and better thanks to your accurate job!!!

 

Thousand "merci"

 

Coupi.

[bubu 38]

the 'pit also works in the A-20/Boston series quite effectively! Remove the radar box, adjust the canopy frames, and it would be quite perfect there, too!

Edited April 17, 2014 by bubu

[future_tuskegee_airman 13]

Thank you so much for you and everyone who worked on creating this aircraft!

[Gatling20 753]

Great model and cockpit, thanks guys, but is this a beta release or the final thing? The skins seems fairly primitive, and the folders are cluttered with a whole lot of TGA files which aren't needed, like SlowProp.TGA, FastProp.TGA and ClearCanopyGlass.TGA, and there is a longer-distance low-poly LOD but it isn't used by the main INI file.

[Wrench 9,846]

405k takes up too much room on your hard drive? (that's the total size of those tga files. some may be leftovers from the original 2009 version.)

 

the LP lod callout was a text edit I simply forgot to make. You all can make that adjustment, methinks

Edited April 21, 2014 by Wrench